Here is a vintage illustration of a cocoa cake that has been finished with white frosting. The cake has three slices cut from the center and displayed in the foreground with the two remaining portions of the cake set out behind the slices. The image is from a booklet titled Choice Recipes by Miss Parloa and Other Noted…
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Strawberry Shortcake ~ Free Vintage Food Image
Here is a vintage cookbook page that includes recipes for Ryzon Strawberry Shortcake and Ryzon Currant Shortcakes. The page also includes a colorful and delicious looking illustration of a strawberry shortcake. In case you want to try baking either of these recipes and you’re wondering what Ryzon is, it was a brand of baking powder….
Yellow Layer Cake ~ Free Vintage Food Graphic
Here is a vintage image of a delicious looking four-layer yellow cake on a white serving plate. A piece of the cake has been cut and is set out on a small dish, ready to be served. The image is from the Ryzon Baking Book by Marion Harris Neil, 1917. Edited to add the recipe (by request). Click…
Man Eating Pie Clip Art
Here is a vintage magazine advertisement for Atmore’s Mince Meat Genuine English Plum Pudding. The ad features a man (the father of the pie family) seated at a table, enjoying a piece of pie. I scanned the ad from the January 1896 issue of The Delineator magazine. Here is a black and white clip art version of the image from…
Maple Syrup Cake ~ Free Vintage Clip Art
Here is a vintage cookbook page that includes an illustration of maple syrup cake and recipes for Maple Syrup Cake, Cocoanut Cake and Lemon Nut Cake. The page is from Igleheart’s Cake Secrets, 1922. And a cleaner version of the maple syrup cake image. Click on images to enlarge.
Old Fashioned Chocolate Sweets ~ Free Digital Recipes
By request, here are some recipes from Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes and Home Made Candy Recipes by Miss Parloa and Janet McKenzie Hill, a recipe booklet that was published in 1911. Some of the recipes on these pages include: chocolate caramel walnuts, chocolate peanut clusters, chocolate oysterettes, fudge hearts or rounds, marshmallow fudge, chocolate divinity, fondant, chocolate peppermints, chocolate…
Old Fashioned Chocolate Sweets ~ Free Vintage Cookbook Page
This page of old fashioned chocolate desserts includes: chocolate caramel walnuts, chocolate marshmallows, fudge hearts or rounds, chocolate peanut clusters, chocolate divinity, chocolate peppermints and chocolate oysterettes. The page is from Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes and Home Made Candy Recipes by Miss Parloa and Janet McKenzie Hill, a recipe booklet that was published in 1911. Click on image to enlarge.
Woman Carrying Pie ~ Free Vintage Clip Art
Here is a vintage clip art image of a woman carrying a warm pie. She is using a potholder that appears to be one of two attached to the front of her apron by long narrow strips of fabric. The image is from the December 1919 issue of The Modern Priscilla magazine. Click on…
Atmore’s Mince Meat Victorian Trade Card ~ Free Graphic
Here is a Victorian trade card advertising Atmore’s Mince Meat and Genuine English Plum Pudding. The image on this card is of a woman carrying a platter of plum pudding with one hand and a tea towel in her other hand. She is wearing a white blouse, red skirt and blue and white apron. Her hair is…
Clapsaddle Girl in Red Dress Postcard
In a blog post I wrote in December 2011, I mentioned that I was looking for a particular vintage Ellen Clapsaddle Thanksgiving postcard. That postcard includes an adorable young girl, in a red dress and white pinafore, holding a wooden spoon. On shelving behind her are two large pies, a covered sugar bowl, a pitcher and a…
Homemade Loaf of Raisin Bread
This delicious looking loaf of homemade raisin bread is cooling on a round, flat, decorated stone. Half of the loaf has been sliced; half remains unsliced. The image is from Balanced Daily Diet, a small cookbook by Janet McKenzie Hill, 1921. Click on image to enlarge.
Christmas Plum Pudding ~ Vintage Recipe and Clip Art
This grungy, aged and yellowed vintage cookbook page includes an old fashioned recipe for Christmas Plum Pudding. I scanned the page from Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management, circa 1888. Here is a black and white clip art version of the image of plum pudding from the page. Click on images to enlarge.
