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Christmas fruit cake
A page-cited historical dessert recipe from Marion Harland, transcribed with its original method.
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Rhubarb pudding
Rhubarb pudding, preserved from Marion Harland’s 1903 cookbook with ingredient cues including grease a pudding-dish and put into it a layer of bread-crumbs that have been soaked .
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Corn bread made of northern meal
Corn bread made of northern meal, preserved from Marion Harland’s 1903 cookbook with ingredient cues including two cupfuls of corn-meal.
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Potato sponge bread (No. 1)
Potato sponge bread (No. 1), preserved from Marion Harland’s 1903 cookbook with ingredient cues including boil and mash, while hot, four potatoes of fair size, beating into them a tablespoon.
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Crumb pie
A page-cited historical dessert recipe from Marion Harland, transcribed with its original method.
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A bread omelet (baked)
A bread omelet (baked), preserved from Marion Harland’s 1903 cookbook with ingredient cues including soak three tablespoonfuls of stale crumbs in a cupful of milk for two hours.
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Creamed peach pie (No. 2)
Creamed peach pie (No. 2), preserved from Marion Harland’s 1903 cookbook with ingredient cues including bake as above, stoning the peaches and cutting each in half.
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Breakfast rolls (No. 2)
Breakfast rolls (No. 2), preserved from Marion Harland’s 1903 cookbook with ingredient cues including sift a quart of flour and stir into it a saltspoonful of salt, a teaspoonful of suga.
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Squash Biscuits
A measured 1910 bake built around squash (steamed and sifted), preserved with its original method and page citation.
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Green corn pudding (No. 3)
Green corn pudding (No. 3), preserved from Marion Harland’s 1903 cookbook with ingredient cues including grate the kernels from twelve ears of corn and stir into them the beaten yolks of si.
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Cinnamon-Syrup Baked Apples
Whole sour apples filled with cinnamon sugar, baked in a shallow water bath, and basted with their own amber syrup.
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Currant pie (No. 1)
Currant pie (No. 1), preserved from Marion Harland’s 1903 cookbook with ingredient cues including ripe and stemmed currants with one cupful of sugar to two of currants, and bake betw.
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Orange layer cake
Orange layer cake, preserved from Marion Harland’s 1903 cookbook with ingredient cues including cream three tablespoonfuls of butter with two cupfuls of sugar, add the beaten yolks.
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Alma’s drop cakes
Marion Harland’s original method for Alma’s drop cakes, retained as a source transcription for modern discovery.
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Hot Water Sponge Cake
A classic 1910 sweet built around yolks 2 eggs, with Farmer’s original method and page citation.
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Quick buckwheat cakes
A page-cited historical dinner recipe from Marion Harland, transcribed with its original method.
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Hominy Gems
Start the day with Farmer’s original Hominy Gems method, preserved as a source transcription.
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Fruit cake (No. 3)
Marion Harland’s original method for Fruit cake (No. 3), retained as a source transcription for modern discovery.
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Cauliflower au gratin
Marion Harland’s original method for Cauliflower au gratin, retained as a source transcription for modern discovery.
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Pfeffernüsse
Marion Harland’s original method for Pfeffernüsse, retained as a source transcription for modern discovery.
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Pineapple pudding
Marion Harland’s original method for Pineapple pudding, retained as a source transcription for modern discovery.
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Dutch Apple Cake
A measured 1910 bake built around scalded milk, preserved with its original method and page citation.
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Peach scallop
A page-cited historical dinner recipe from Marion Harland, transcribed with its original method.
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A good cup sponge cake
Marion Harland’s original method for A good cup sponge cake, retained as a source transcription for modern discovery.
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