• Cream Fritters Recipe from 1923

    This is an interesting dessert from the 1920s, from a church recipe book called Reliable Recipes. It looks like it’d be fairly fast to make, though you do have to wait a bit for it to set up before frying the fritters. Would be good to have it prepped before dinner, and then fry it right before eating. 👉 More Desserts / All Recipes / More from Reliable Recipes (1923) Original Recipe Here’s the original recipe text: CREAM FRITTERS1 pint milk1/2 cup sugar2 tablespoons corn-starch1 large tablespoon flourYolks of 4 eggs14 cup sweet creamPinch of cinnamon Warm the milk in…

  • Grandma’s Apple Pie Recipe from 1907

    This recipe comes from Best Recipes for Baking (1907), which has some classic homestyle recipes. An apple pie is just about as classic as you can get, so I definitely wanted to include it here! A caveat: I’m not a baking (or cooking) expert and I’m not obsessive enough to bake something 50 times to get it perfectly. This isn’t that type of blog. Rather, think of this recipe more like an historical artifact, an experiment! You get to see the old fashioned apple pie recipe, and the (hopefully coherent) updated version I put together, with notes on how I…