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Welcome to Recipes of Yesteryear.com

Lucille
We may live without poetry, music and art;
We may live without conscience, and live without heart;
We may live without friends; we may live without books;
But civilized man cannot live without cooks.
Edward Lord Lytton

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Next update 8 - 2 - 2010

oldlady.jpg (4402 bytes)Putting this web site together has been a labor of love.I remember back to my childhood and how daily life was then. A great many wood stoves were still being used. Ice boxes and ice men were still around. You canned all the food from your garden and fruit trees. The recipes for the family meals have changed so much.To much salt was used in some and most dishes were cooked to long, vegetables in particular. Some of these old recipes are wonderful and update well, so give a few of them a try.

If there is an old family recipe that has been lost, let me know. Send the name , decade and some of the ingredients, I might have it. If you have some thing you'd like to share, an old wives tale, a remedy, or an old recipe, please join in the fun and send it along via e - mail or to:

Recipes of Yesteryear
904 So. Grant Ave.
Tacoma, WA.
98405

leeann@harbornet.com

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Old Weather Saying:

July

"A shower in July when the corn begins to fill

Is worth a plow of oxen, and all belongs there still."

 

Remedies Of Old:
Dandruff Cure

Boracic acid , 1 dram; lavender water, 2 1/2 ounces. Mix, and massage into the scalp every other night. From 1901


Old Wives Tale
Cat Brings Visit

Watch the cat that is washing on your door step, for this means you will get a visit from the Pastor. If that same cat washes over the right ear that will let you know the Pastor will also be happy to be your dinner guest. Circa - 1810.


What do they mean???
Old Sayings

I thought I would start printing these old sayings I've heard all my life. A great many don't make much sense while others make perfect sense. But I need your help. Please send me your favorites, with your help we can continue to enjoy "Yesteryear "

Like a dose of salts thru a widow women
Birds of a feather flock together
That's food that will stick to your ribs

 

Home Economics:
To Make Coffee

Put a coffee-cup full into a pot that will hold three pints of water; add the white of an egg, or a few shavings of isinglass, or a well cleansed and dried bit of fish skin of the size of a ninepence. Pour upon it boiling water and boil it ten minutes. Then pour out a little from the spout, in order to remove the grains that may have boiled into it, and pour it back into the pot. Let it stand eight or ten minutes where it will keep hot, but not boil; boiling coffee a great while makes it strong, but not so lively or agreeable. Circa - 1859

 

Oven Temperatures - 2000
The recipes on this web site will be old. They will date from 1859 to 1969. You will see how recipes have evolved through the years. The very old recipes will have been cooked on wood stoves that did not have temperature controls, so this chart will be posted to help with those recipes.

250 - 275 -   Very Slow
300 - 325 -   Slow
350 - 375 -   Moderate
400 - 425 -   Quick or Hot
450 - 475 -   Very Hot

Oven Temperature - 1885
The heat should be tested before the cake is put in, which can be done by throwing on the floor of the oven a tablespoonful of new flour. If the flour takes fire, or assumes a dark brown color, the temperature is to high and the oven must be allowed to cool; if the flour remains white after the lapse of a few seconds, the temperature is to low. When the oven is of the proper temperature the flour will slightly brown and look slightly scorched.   Great care is requisite in heating an oven for baking pastry. If you can hold your hand in the heated oven while you count twenty, the oven has just the proper temperature and it should be kept at this temperature as long as the pastry is in.


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