Welcome to Recipes of Yesteryear

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 9 - 1 - 2011

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

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Old Weather Saying:

August

Dry August and warm

Doth harvest no harm.

 

Remedies Of Old:
Fainting

One in a faint should be laid flat on his back, then loosen his clothes and let him alone.
Circa - 1882.


Old Wives Tale
To Destroy cockroaches

Half fill an earthenware basin or deep pie dish with sweetened beer. They will enter
the basin or dish, drink the beer, and, in their efforts to climb the glazed surface of the
earthenware, will fall back and be drowned. From - 1872


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 "

The closer to the bone the sweeter the meat

They pet the cow to get the calf

So dumb he couldn't pound sand in a rat hole

 

Home Economics:
Hunter's Pills

These pills can be manufactured at home and are truly reliable, having been sold and used for than fifty years in Europe. The ingredients may be procured at almost any druggist's.The articles should be all in powder; Saffron one grain, rue one grain, Scot aloes two grains, savin one grain, cayenne pepper one grain. Mix all into a very thick mass by adding sufficient syrup. Rub some fine starch on the surface of a platter or large dinner plate, then with your forefinger and thumb nip off a small piece of the mass the size of a pill and roll it in pill form, first dipping your fingers in the starch. Place them as fast as made on the platter, set where they will dry slowly. Put them into a dry bottle or paper box. Dose, one every night and morning as long as occasion requires.This recipe is worth ten times the price of this book to any female requiring the need of these regulating pills. Circa - 1880.

 

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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