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
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:
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.
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.
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.
