Days Gone By

Fruit Biscuits from 1900 recipe (Transcribed from The Centreville Press April 5, 1900, Centreville, Alabama) FRUIT BISCUITS Take five cold baking powder or soda biscuits, cut each into three slices and butter each slice. Place bottom slice of each biscuit in a separate dish, pour over it any juicy small fruit, boiling hot and sweetened. […]

Onion Bouillon from 1900 recipe (Transcribed from The Centreville Press April 5, 1900, Centreville, Alabama) ONION BOUILLON One cup each of finely chopped cracklings, onions and cooked dried apples or peaches, one-half cup rice, tea-spoonful of salt and one-half teaspoon pepper. Boil in three pints of water until it can be pressed through a sieve; […]

Mush sticks from 1900 recipe (Transcribed from The Centreville Press April 5, 1900, Centreville, Alabama) MUSH STICKS Make stiff cornmeal mush, season a pint with a saltspoon of pepper and half-teaspoonful of salt and pour into a mold. When cold, cut into sticks one inch thick and six inches long, roll in melted butter, place […]

(Transcribed from The Centreville Press April 5, 1900, Centreville, Alabama) BERNAISE SAUCE Stir in a saucepan over the fire until jellylike the yolks of two eggs, two tablespoonfuls each of stock and oil; take from the fire; add slowly half a tablespoonful of tarragon vinegar, one chopped olive and half a tablespoonful each of finely […]

Green Corn Pudding recipe from 1879 (Transcribed from the Evergreen Star, Evergreen, Alabama, September 18, 1879) GREEN CORN PUDDING Take six ears of corn and with a sharp knife cut off the corn and chop fine. To this add three pints of milk, three eggs, three dessert-spoonsful of butter, the same amount of sugar and […]

Taste from the past Pancake recipe from 1879 newspaper Take three eggs and stir them into a pint of milk; add a good pinch of salt and enough prepared flour to make it into a thick, smooth batter. Fry in boiling fat till nearly done; roll over on the other side; drain, and serve very […]