Schwenkfelder's 12 Days of Christmas

Recipe 1 Lebkuchen

Combine in a bowl:

31⁄2 c flour

2 t ginger

1⁄2 t cloves

/1⁄2t nutmeg

1⁄4t allspice

11⁄2 t salt

Combine in a 2 c measure and stir until foamy:

1 c molasses

1 t baking soda

X4

14 c flour

8 t ginger

2 t cloves

2 t nutmeg

1 t allspice

6 t salt

4 c molasses

4 t soda

Cream fat and sugar in bowl. Add molasses and then water, alternating with dry ingredients:

1⁄2 c fat

1⁄2 c water

1 c sugar

2 c fat

2 c H2O

4 c sugar

Bake at 375 for 10-12 minutes, depending on size.

Recipe 2: Soft Leb Cakes

1⁄2 pt sour or buttermilk

1⁄2 pt molasses

1 teacup butter or salted lard

1 large teaspoonful baking soda

2 well-beaten eggs

1/2 nutmeg

1 tsp cinnamon

1 soup spoonful ginger

flour

Recipe 1 of Rice Pudding

Cook:

1/2 с rісе

21/2 с H20

3/4 tsalt



Add:

3 eggs

1/2 с sugar

2 t vanilla

1/2 с raisins

31/2 c mik

1 t nutmeg

2 T butter

Set dish in pan of hot H2O. Bake 300 for 1/2 hour-stir. Let bake another hour.

Recipe 2 of Rice Puddling (ca. 1887-1939)

1⁄2 c rice and a little water

Cook until dry (until done).

1 egg-pinch of salt-pinch of flour

1 T sugar

Beat all of the above together with egg beater.

Add 3/4 c - 1 c sugar, 1 quart milk.

Beat this and sugar into egg mix. Add rice.

Bake at 375 about 25 minutes. Bake in large flat pan until it puffs up. Take out before it falls.

Recipe 1 of Sand Tarts

1 lb sugar

4 lb butter

4 eggs

11/2 lb flour

Mix first four ingredients with a spoon, first softening the butter. Then knead and work in the flour with the hand. It will make a fairly stiff dough. This is best if mixed in the evening and allowed to stand in a cool place overnight.

In the morning roll as thin as possible. Cut with cookie cutters after sprinkling with granulated sugar. Put cookies on cookie sheet or cookie pan. Brush center with eggs. Press chopped nut meats in center and sprinkle with a little cinnamon. Bake to a golden brown.

Recipe 2 of Sand Tarts (Aunt Mary cut these quite thin, maybe 4")

1 c granulated sugar

1⁄2 c butter

2 c flour

1 egg

11 milk

1⁄2 t soda

Place sugar, egg and melted butter in bowl and mix thoroughly. Add milk and sifted flour with soda. Shape into desired mold and chill. Cut w/ sharp knife very thin-dip tarts in granulated sugar on one side. Place on greased pan sugar side up, place nut meats on top and bake about 8 minutes.

Recipe 1 of Mincemeat makes 6-7 quarts

Add suet to cooked mincemeat when it has cooled. Do not cook with other ingredients. - NR

1 lb suet (ground)

6 c ground cooked beef (tongue or heart)

12 c chopped apple

3 c brown sugar

3 c cider

1 c chopped watermelon preserves with juice

2 boxes raisins (15 oz each)

1 box currants (11 oz)

6 T molasses

3 t salt

3 t cinnamon

1 1⁄2 t cloves

11⁄2 t nutmeg

1 t mace

Simmer about 1 hour. c ground candied orange rind. When cooked, add suet.

Recipe 2 of Mince Pie without meat or apples

Take a cup of molasses, 1 cup of sugar, 1 cup of vinegar, 1 cup of water, a piece of butter the size of an egg, 1 teaspoon of ground cloves, cinnamon. Thicken with crumbled bread, simmer about 10 minutes. Add a few raisins. 2% bread crumbs.

Recipe 3 of Mince Pie (1867)

3 eggs

3 cups water

Recipe 3 of Mince Pie (1867)

3 eggs

3 cups water

1 sugar

1 molasses

1 vinegar

1 flower or bread

1 teaspoon cloves

1" cinnamon

1 nutmeg

1 cream of tartar

1 soda

Recipe 1 of Homemade Candy-Yellow Chalk (also called yellow jack, belly guts, molasses taffy)

2 c molasses

1 c brown sugar

2 T butter

1⁄3 c water

1 T vinegar

1/3 t soda

1⁄2 t vanilla (optional)

Combine and heat molasses, sugar, butter, vinegar, and water in heavy saucepan until sugar is dissolved. Cook, stirring occasionally to 260 degrees. Add soda and vanilla. Pour into well- greased shallow pan. When cool enough to handle, butter hands and pull candy into long ropes. Cut into pieces.

Recipe 2 of homemade candy-Clear Toy Candy (Christ Kindlin)

2 c granulated sugar

2/3 c white corn syrup

1 c H20

Bring to boil over medium heat. Stir to dissolve sugar. When sugar is dissolved, increase heat and boil rapidly to 290 degrees (do not stir).

Remove from heat and quickly stir in 10-12 drops of red food coloring or 8 drops green. Yellow is the natural color. Pour into greased molds.

Recipe 3 of homemade candy-Puffy Peanut Taffy Brittle (2 lbs)

2 c sugar

1/4 tsalt

1 c It corn syrup

1 c H20

3 c shelled peanuts

2 T butter

2 T vanilla

2 t baking soda

1-Butter a 15X10X1" pan.

2-Blend sugar, salt, syrup and H2O in Ig, heavy saucepan, cover, bring to a boil, uncover

3-Cook over high heat to 234 degrees.

4-Add peanuts slowly-keep mixture bubbling-cook 8 mins.

5-Stir in butter, cook to 300 degrees or about 2 min.

6-Quickly sprinkle soda over surface. Stir thoroughly and vigorously until puffy (15 sec). Pour into prepared pan immediately.

Recipe 1 of Chow Chow

3 c. sugar (3%)

5 c. vinegar

3 c. H2O

2T salt

1⁄2t pepper

1 T celery seed

1 T mustard seed

This amount of juice will make about 5-6 quarts of chow chow.

Recipe 2 of Chow Chow

1 head cabbage chopped, 2 qt string beans, 1 qt lima beans (both cooked), 2 qt sweet com, 1 qt green tomatoes, 1⁄2 doz cucumbers (both salted), 1⁄2 doz green peppers, 1 bunch celery. Each ingredient to be prepared separately. Put all together in a preserving kettle, add 1 c sugar, hand full of salt and vinegar to cover. Let cook till done. Add 5 cents worth of ground mustard. Boil a few minutes.

Recipe 3 of Chow Chow

1/4 peck green tomatoes, 1/4 peck white onions, 1/4 peck string beans, 1 doz green cucumbers, 1 lb sugar, 1 doz red and green peppers. Season with salt, white mustard seed and celery. Cover them with cider vinegar and let them simmer over a slow fire for 2 hrs.

Recipe 4 of Corn Chow Chow

6 qt ch. cabbage, 4 qt corn boiled, 3 c sugar, 3 T salt, 1⁄2 lb gr mustard, 1 T yellow mustard seed, 2 T dk mustard seed, 2 T celery, 3 qt vinegar.

Recipe 5 of Chow Chow

2 small heads of cabbage, 1 qt small onions, 1 qt small pickles, 1 qt nasturtiums, 2 qt corn, 1 qt lima beans, 1 qt green tomatoes, 2 heads cauliflower, 5 or 6 ch pepper, 1 qt string beans, 2 bunches celery, 1⁄4 lb yellow mustard seed, 1⁄4 lb dark mustard seed, 2 or 3 T celery seed, 2 tea cups sugar, 1⁄4 lb ground mustard, 2 qt vinegar or as much as will be required to cover the vegetables. Salt to taste.

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Recipe 1 of Fruit Cake

1 ½ cups of sugar, 1 ½ of eggs, 7 lbs of fruit-raisins, currants, citron. 1 ½ cup of flour, spice to your taste.

Recipe 2 of Black Fruit Cake

½ lb butter, ½ lb sugar, 5 eggs, ½ c molasses, ½ lb flour, 1 ½ lb raisins, 1 ½ lb currants, ½ lb citron, 1 nutmeg, 2 t cloves, 2 t cinnamon, 1 c brandy

Recipe 3 of Cheap Fruit Cake

1 c butter, 1 c brown sugar, 1 c molasses, 1 c milk, 3 c flour, 4 eggs, 2 lb raisins, ½ lb currants, 1 nutmeg, some citron, 3 small t baking powder

Recipe 4 of English Fruit Cake

1 lb white sugar, ¾ lb butter, 1 lb flour, 12 eggs, 2 lb raisins chopped, 2 lb currants washed and dried, ½ lb citron, cinnamon, nutmeg, + cloves, ¼ oz each. Rub butter and sugar together, then yolks of eggs, part of flour, the spice and white of eggs, the rest of flour, wine, and brandy. Mix all thoroughly, add fruit last. Put paper on bottom and sides of pan. Bake 4 hours in slow oven.

Recipe 5 of Fruit Cake

5 eggs, 5 c flour, 3 c sugar, 1 c butter, ½ c milk, ½ lb raisins, ½ lb currants, ½ lb citron, chopped fine. Cream the butter and sugar add egg well beaten. Then flour with 3 t Royal baking powder then add fruit beating thoroughly. Bake in a moderate oven 2 hours over.

Recipe 6 of Eva Fruit Cake

1 ½ lb dark brown sugar, 1 lb butter, 4# currants, 4 lb raisins, 1# citron, 1 ½ lb flour, 1 doz eggs, 1 c molasses, ½ c brandy, 1 t soda, 2 T cinnamon, ½ T cloves, 3 nutmeg, rind of 2 lemons. Flour fruit well and bake 5 hours. This makes 2 large cakes. Put spices on fruit.

Recipe 1 of Ginger Bread

½ c molasses, ½ c sugar, 2 c flour, small lump butter, ½ c milk, 1 t soda, ½ t cream tartar. Ginger, cinnamon.

Recipe 2 of New York Gingerbread

1 tea cup of butter, 1 tea cup of sugar, 1 c molasses, 1 c milk, 3 c flour, 2 eggs, 3 t ginger, ½ t cloves, 1 t saleratus [baking powder] dissolved in the milk, if convenient add raisins or currants.

Recipe 3 of Ginger Bread

2 lb flour, 1 lb sugar, 1 pt molasses, ½ lb butter, 1 oz ginger.

Recipe 4 of Soft Ginger Bread

2½ lb flour, ¾ lb butter, 1 lb sugar, 1 pt molasses, ½ pt milk, 5 t pearl ash.

Recipe 5 of Ginger Cake

1 c granulated sugar, ½ c molasses, ½ c butter and lard, 1 egg, 2½ c flour, 1 t ginger, 1 t cinnamon, 1 t soda dissolved in a cup of boiling water. Bake in a medium oven. PS Do not add any more flour.

Recipe 6 of Soft Ginger Bread

¾ c sugar, 1 c molasses, ½ c butter, 1 t ginger, cinnamon, cloves, 2 t soda dissolved in 1 c boiling water, 2½ c flour. Add 2 well beaten eggs the last thing.

Recipe 1 of Grammy’s Apeas Cake

2–8" greased pie plates — 375 degrees 30 min.

1 egg

½ c milk

1 t soda combined with 1 T H2O, add to egg and milk.

Stir into the following:

3 c flour

1 t cream of tartar

1 t B.P.

1¼ c sugar

½ c fat

½ t salt

Recipe 2 of A.P. Cake (from Mabel Hunsicker)

4 c flour

½ t salt

1 c shortening

1 lb lt brown sugar

Mix ingredients like pie dough. Add milk and soda.

1½ c soured milk (use vinegar)

1 t baking soda

Bake 350 – 35 minutes.

Recipe 3 of Marie Jacobs Apeas Cake

2 c brown sugar

¾ c molasses

1¾ t soda

Recipe 3 of Marie Jacobs Apeas Cake (continued)

1 T cream of tartar

1 c lard

1 c milk

6 c flour

Makes about 2-9" or 2-8" cakes. Put into flat cakes ½" thick to fit pie plates. 375 degrees 30-40 min.

Recipe 4 of A.P. Cakes

2 c light B. sugar

4 c flour

1 c margarine

1 egg and pinch of salt

1 T B. soda

¾ c sweet milk

Mix dry ingredients. Add shortening. Put B. soda in a cup. Moisten soda with a little vinegar. 1 egg, beaten lightly. Add sweet milk, too, soda and egg mix with dry ingredients to a dough. Roll/shape into cakes.

Recipe 5 of Apeas

1 lb sugar, 1 lb butter, 2 eggs, one gill of rose water, 2 lbs of flour (c 1833)