Snow Cake and Other Cake Recipes by Miss McConnell
Miss McConnell's Cake Recipes This Snow Cake recipe and the others in this post that include Bermuda Cake, Lemon Cake and Ginger Crisps are by Miss McConnell. They come from…
Sugar Cookies by Mrs. Clement
Mrs. Clement's Sugar Cookies A first prize sugar cookies recipe from 1911. This recipe is from Mrs. Margaret Clement. This recipe took first prize in a recipe contest in The…
Ginger Cookies Recipes from 1913
When I think of ginger cookies, I think of winter. There is something about ginger that goes so nicely with winter. I want to snuggle up in a blanket with…
Scotch Shortbread Recipes from 1920
Mrs. Bailes' Scotch Shortbread One pound butter, three tablespoonfuls (heaping) brown sugar, two tablespoonfuls corn starch, with lard, cream, butter and sugar; add enough flour and the corn starch until…
Mrs. Almoney’s Soft Cookies – Sugar Cookies
I am playing catch-up on the recipes I made over the holiday season. This recipe for soft cookies by Mrs. Harry Almoney is one that I made on Christmas Eve…
Without milk added
Ms. Ruth’s Jumbles – Old Fashioned Sugar Cookies
I will admit up front that when I made this old fashioned sugar cookies recipe the first time, I messed it up. I wrote the ingredients on a piece of paper, but…
Nut Drop Cakes
I found this recipe in the Boston Post printed March 6, 1904. The name Nut Drop Cakes alone was interesting and after reading the ingredients, I've never heard of anything…