If you’ve ever bought a pricey bottle of flavoring, you may have wondered: How can you make your own homemade extracts for less? It’s probably a lot easier than you think.
A perfect way to preserve summer fruits for year-round enjoyment is to do as your ancestors did and make some tutti-frutti. What’s that? Find out!
Here are 20 classic mincemeat recipes (used to make the holiday favorite, mince pie) – as remembered through the decades by chefs, cookbook authors, in newspapers and family cookbooks.
Meat is the foundation of a dinner, and vegetables, sauces, jellies, preserves and relishes help to make the whole complete. Here are several traditional sauces and sides to serve with meats.
Old-fashioned eggnog recipes come in many varieties, so here are more than a dozen – though definitely take a look at the traditional Southern egg nog how-to, which will apparently allow the spirit of Christmas to descend upon you.
It seems that there are almost as many old-fashioned mint julep recipes as there are people who enjoy the cocktails. Take a look at a century of the best how-tos!
Iced Nesselrode Pudding, a chestnut-based chilled sweet, was considered to be very expensive, very fancy, very tasty — and was, consequently, very popular during the Victorian era.
From the era before electricity, automobiles and radio come these very old-fashioned recipes for Christmas side dishes. Get a taste of the holidays, Victorian style!
Today, many of the great desserts of old are being rediscovered and enjoyed – luxurious offerings like the Victorian classic Charlotte Russe.
You never heard of frog lemonade? Probably not — it’s a Southern drink that is perfectly delicious, invented back in New Orleans, Louisiana around 1894.
A Tom Collins isn’t a drink just named after some guy, somewhere. It’s a drink named after nobody, nowhere. Ah, but there’s a story to go along with it all. Find out the backstory of “Have you seen Tom Collins?” — and get recipes for four original, old-fashioned versions of the Tom Collins cocktail!
Ellice Serena Prescribes a Dinner Suited to Stomachs Tried by the Thanksgiving and Christmas Festivities — How to Make and Serve the Various Dishes. The stomach is
You can think of these Victorian chocolate and coffee frappe recipes as precursors to Starbucks’ Frappuccino. You can even combine a couple and make an icy mocha frap of your own, courtesy of these recipes from the 19th century!
Dessert recipes made with oranges Orange pie Grate the rind of two oranges and squeeze the juice. Cream one-fourth of a pound of butter and
What would Christmas be to the children — or even the grownups — without some of the special candies and good things appropriate to the
Quality counts Nice homemade candies and bonbons depend on using the nicest materials. Pure powdered sugar from the high-priced grocers, the finest arrowroot in place
A dessert favorite in Reconstruction Days “I was a child half a century ago, we couldn’t get canned fruits, and we had to depend on
Fishbox A Lenten dainty particularly suited to the home luncheon table For a simple home lunch, an attractive dish is made in the following way:
Easter pudding recipe for spring Take a package of gelatine and cover it with hot water. Keep it warm on the range. Next, put one
Sweet potatoes One dozen new ways of preparing them for epicures Certainly God might have made a tuber better for savor and sustenance than the
An old-time recipe for lemon pie President-General of the TSS [Tribune Sunshine Society]: Twenty-five years ago, the accompanying recipe was found in a Sunday Tribune. It was
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