Wheatless baking recipes (1918)
WWI made it necessary for people to conserve wheat flour -- bringing about what amounted to an early gluten-free movement. Here's a look at a few of t... Read more...
WWI food rationing posters (1917-1919)
Your sugar ration is 2 lbs. per month (1917)
We must confine our consumption of Sugar to not more than 2 lbs. per person per month in order to provid... Read more...
Hostess Fruit Pies & Wonder Bread (1961)
Make the most of their "Wonder Years"
During the "Wonder Years" -- one through twelve -- your children develop in many ways -- actually grow to... Read more...
Cranberry-Nut Coffee Cake (1974)
Cranberry-Nut Coffee Cake recipe
Ingredients
1/4 cup brown sugar (packed)
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
2 cups Bisquick baking ... Read more...
23 ways to dress up toast (1912)
Judging by the quantity of meals involving toast, I would imagine that the browned bread played a fairly substantial role on the tables of Americans i... Read more...
How to make a “fishbox” for lunch (1898)
Fishbox
A Lenten dainty particularly suited to the home luncheon table
For a simple home lunch, an attractive dish is made in the following wa... Read more...
Lillian Gish’s Cheese fingers recipe (1915)
Favorite recipes of movie players
Cheese fingers
by Lillian Gish
My mother taught both her daughters, Dorothy and myself, many use ful little fir... Read more...
Cinnamon buns & currant ring recipes (1919)
Mrs Wilson's recipe for cinnamon buns
Currant rings are made by the same recipe with a slight difference in baking
by Mrs M A Wilson
Sticky cinna... Read more...
Yorkshire pudding recipe (1918)
Yorkshire pudding
This is a famous Christmas dish in England, and always accompanies the lordly "holiday roast."
Fifteen or twenty minutes before ... Read more...
Near-wheatless bread recipe (1918)
Near-wheatless bread recipe
Try this on your range
Potatoes, oatmeal flour and barley flour ingredients
Mrs. Frank Creasey of Bisbee was awarded... Read more...
Wheatless recipes (1918)
The following recipes were given by M. Edouard Panchard, of the McAlpin; M. de Dooven, head pastry cook of the Vanderbilt, with permission of M. Lecro... Read more...
Hints for the baking day: Roll & cake recipes (1911)
Perfect Parker House rolls
At night, pour one pint of lukewarm milk over two tablespoons of sugar, and two of lard. Add a little salt, one quart of... Read more...
Recipes: Chicken Terrapin, Deviled Crab, Boston Brown Bread & more (1911)
"A Variety of Recipes" from Maybelle Halladay, 514 Sixteenth Street, Oakland
Chicken terrapin
Roast whole chicken in "Dutch oven" or roaster until t... Read more...
