These vintage cookbook pages include an illustration and recipe for Coconut Layer Cake. Both pages are from the “Butter cakes” section of the booklet. The first page below includes an illustration of three large slices of bright yellow coconut cake with fluffy white icing, to which appears coconut has been added. The cake pieces are…
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Carrot Pudding with Lemon Sauce
Carrot pudding with lemon sauce was a special dessert my maternal grandma would make for Christmas Day. I wasn’t sure if I correctly remembered the names of the recipes, but I recently ask one of my aunts. She confirmed the Christmas dessert my grandma made was carrot pudding with lemon sauce. I went in search…
Old-Fashioned Bread Recipes
Here are four shabby, aged, and well-used cookbook pages of old-fashioned bread recipes. Included on the pages are recipes for Bread Raised Twice, Bread Raised Three Times and Bread in Summer or Winter. There are also two recipes for Salt-Rising Bread and a recipe for Boston Brown Bread.I scanned the pages from The Dixie Cook-Book….
Antique Cookbook Title Page
Here is a shabby and naturally yellowed antique cookbook title page. The writing on the page is: The Snow Flake Cook Book, embracing One Thousand Recipes for Every Branch of the Culinary Art.Published by R. O. Evans & Company, Chicago.1892. Here is a black and white clip art version of the page: I printed the…
Old Fashioned Gingerbread Recipes
These two shabby and aged antique cookbook pages feature old fashioned gingerbread recipes. Included on the pages are recipes for: Gingerbread Nuts, Gingerbread Pudding, Gingerbread Pudding (Another Method), Thick Gingerbread, and White Gingerbread. Recipes for Ginger Toffee, Ginger Water Ice, Ginger Wine, and Glazed Apples are also included on the two pages. I scanned the…
Old Fashioned Christmas Recipes
These two shabby and aged antique cookbook pages feature old fashioned Christmas recipes. Included on the pages are two recipes for Christmas cake and three recipes for Christmas pudding. The titles of the Christmas cake recipes are: Christmas Cake and Christmas Cake (Another way). The titles of the Christmas Puddings are: Christmas Pudding (Rich), Christmas…
Baking Powder Label Vintage Ephemera
Here is a vintage food label for Wood’s baking powder. The center portion of the label includes the Net Contents and the name of the product: Wood’s Baking Powder. The following information is also included on the center portion of the label: PURITY AND WHOLESOMENESS GUARANTEEDThis Baking Powder is made strictly in accord with U….
Vintage Tart and Tartlet Recipes
These cookbook pages, naturally yellowed with age, feature a variety of vintage tart and tartlet recipes. Included on the pages are old-fashioned sweet recipes for: Almond Cheesecakes, Apple Cheesecakes, Apple Tarts, Bakewell Tarts, Cherry Tartlets, Chocolate Tartlets, Coffee Eclairs, Custard Tartlets, Damson Tarts and Flan of Apples. More of the recipes included on the pages…
Vintage Hot Bread Recipes
This vintage cookbook page includes recipes for: popovers (with alterations for rye popovers and whole wheat popovers), surprise muffins, Georgia Sally Lunn, and butterscotch curls. An illustration of the baked food on a serving platter is included to the left of each recipe on the page. The platter to the left of the Butterscotch Curls…
Vintage Jelly Roll Recipe
This vintage cookbook page features a recipe for a Ryzon Jelly Roll. The page includes a picture of a baked jelly roll, with four slices cut, on a serving platter. I scanned the original cookbook page from the Ryzon Baking Book by Marion Harris Neil. The book was published in 1917.
Vintage Pastry Clip Art
Here is a display of six vintage pastry clip art illustrations. My original scan is from the puddings and pastry section of Mrs. Beeton’s Household Management, circa 1888.
Child Chef Vintage Illustration
This vintage postcard features an illustration of a child immersed in playing chef on the kitchen floor. This little chef, dressed only in an apron and chef’s hat, is using a top hat as a mixing bowl for the food he or she is preparing. The greeting on the postcard is a single word, “Kuchenchef”….
