Scraps and Clippings

Is it THE Lemon Meringue pie?!

Handwritten in the back of science in the kitchen:

Lemon Pie
2 cups boiling water
1/2 cup corn starch
1/3 cup lemon juice
1 cup sugar
3 eggs beaten separately
1or, ??? of flour(?)
Dissolve corn starch in a little water, then pour in boiling water. Cook until clean. Add lemon and sugar, set aside and cool. Beat up eggs, saving the whites for meringue. Add to lemon mixture and pour on curd. One pie.

Mammy's Notes from "Science In the Kitchen"

This looks like the most used cook book of Mammy's we found in the kitchen.

Handwritten in the inside cover: (sorry for all the ?s; it is quite faded)



Black Cake:
8 Eggs
6 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1 cup molasses
1 cup sour cream
1 1/2 cups butter
2 cups blackberry jam
1 cup whisky
2 lbs figs
2 lbs rasins
2 lbs dates
1 lbs citron
2 tbsp ginger
2 tbsp cinnamon
1/2 tbsp spice
1 nutmeg
1 tsp soda
1 tsp cream tartar

Steam? 2 hours
Bake 2 hours

Some blank pages seems to have been uses as a scrap paper where she did some arithmetic, I'm guessing for cooking measurements. They're neat:




On a very faded, handwritten note between pages 190-191:



French Cream Cake
3 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 cup flour
2 tablespoons cold water
1 teaspoon baking powder
This is enough for two cakes. Bake in pie pans to be split(?) while hot-with custard between.
For custard
Boil ??arly(?) one pint of sweet-milk, 2 tablespoons of corn starch, with half cup of milk. Add two well-beaten eggs ????? (into the?) milk has(?) boiled one cup of sugar add gradually the starch and eggs, stirring briskly add one half cup butter.
[Then, on the backside]
Stir until dissolved fl???r and spoon between cakes

Between pages 222-223 there are a few newspaper clippings. One has "Reliable Cooking Receipts" on one side, which just describes some dish ideas for different occasions. The other side has a December, 1904 almanac, which is super cool.




Another has "The Farm Journal" Oct., 1920 table of contents, with a big Firestone add on the other side:



There's also a partial newspaper clipping on pork curing.




Then, another handwritten recipe on a sheet of paper:



Black Cake:
1 cup of butter
1 cups of brown sugar
1 cup of molasses
6 cups of flour
1 cup sour cream
3 eggs
1 teaspoon soda
1 pound of raisins
1 pound of currents
1/4 pound citron
2 pounds ????gs grated
1 tablespoon cloves and cinnamon
Mrs. Ed Sledd

Between 300-301 on a handwritten note:



Cream Chowchow
1 qt large cucumbers cut in thick slices then cut in half again and peeled
1 qt gherkins or small cucumbers
1 qt green tomatoes sliced, measure after cutting
1 large head cauliflower
4 green peppers cut into small bits
Lay in brine made of 1 cup of salt to 1 gal water. Let lay over 24 hours, sealed in sc????e brine and drain well.
Make a past of 1 cup of ?l???s.

Between 302-303 on handwritten note:



Good Friday
Yolks of 4 eggs
1 qt fresh milk
1 1/2 teacups of sugar
3 rounding tablespoons grated chocolate
3 tablespoons of corn starch
Put milk and chocolate to boil, mix eggs, sugar and cornstarch together and stir in the boiling milk. Cook until very thick. When cold beat whites of eggs and one teacup of sugar together and mix into ???? with whipped cream.

Between pages 350-351 on a handwritten note:



Dressing for sponge cake roll
Take the pulp of three lemons and the rind of one, either grated or chopped very fine, two tablespoonfuls ofbutter, six eggs beaten separately, sugar to taste, three fourths of a teacup of col water. Put on the fire and stir constantly, until thick. Do not let it boil. Let it get cold and use in place of jelly.
Ora Mae Hart

Between 354-355:

A newspaper clipping with Pineapple Sherbet, Velvet cream Sherbet, Milk Sherbet, Orange Bon Bon, and Mousse:



A folded piece of paper on the outside reads "Dear Sister wrote these off Jan. 1878."


Inside the note:



Rolled Jelly Cake
1 cupful sugar
1 " flour
4 eggs-whites and yolks beaten separately
2 teaspoonfuls baking powder
Bake in a dripping pan; when done turn the cake out upside down on a towel. Spread with jelly as icing and roll up carefully. It will not break.




Cocoanut Cake
1/2 cupful butter
1 " sugar
1/2 " sweet milk
2 " flour
2 teaspoonfuls baking powder
salt
3 eggs, whites of 2 taken out for icing
Frosting--whites of 2 eggs beaten to a stiff froth; then a teaspoonful at a time, add twenty teaspoonfuls powdered sugar, stirring it with a knife. Bake cake in jelly tins, spread each cake with icing, and sprinkle each ??????ly and ????ly ith desected cocoanut.

On another handwritten sheet:



Nut Cake
? cups flour
? cups sugar
1 cups ground nuts
2 cups sweet milk
5 teaspoons of baking powder
2 eggs
1 teaspoonful of salt
1 tablespoonful of butter
Put in pan and let rise and bake in moderate oven.

On a sheet between 544-545:



Chocolate Sandwiches
Two cakes
10 t sweet chocolate
4 tablespoons butter
One cup chopped nuts
Melt butter and chocolate together. Add nuts, cool and spread liberally between butter thins.

It looks like a child drew a person/monster in one of the random pages here, which I just love:





Millionaires' Fudge
2 lbs pulverized sugar
1/2 pint rich cream
1/2 lb of bitter chocolate
1 tablespoonful butter
1 teaspoonful of vanilla
1/2 lb pecan nuts
? lb marshmallows (absolutely fresh)
Boil sugar, cream, and chocolate together until done; then add butter and vanilla and beat until it begins to thicken. Then add nuts and marshmallows (nuts must be chopped and marshmallows cut into quarters) and beat until ready to cour on buttere plate. The fudge must be beaten and stirred continuously from time it is put on the stove until it is poured out.

Between 560-561 on a newspaper clipping:



Glued on 591, a newspaper clipping:



Some more newspaper clippings:




Handwritten and pinned on a page 594 with a needle:





Spiced Grapes
8 lbs of fruit allow
4 lbs of sugar, 1 pt vinegar, 2 tablespoons ground cinnamon, 1 tablespoon cloves, 1 tablespoon black pepper, 1 tablespoon salt.
Remove the skins from the grapes. Put them in a kettle with enough water to cover them and juice and pulp in another.
Stand both over the fire. Let skins boil slowly, until tender. When juice and pulp reach boil, remove from fire and press through colander. Return to fire and add sugar, spice, and vinegar. When the skins are tender and thin, add the water in which they were boiled to the juice. Cook slowly until thickens. When ??hin cooled, pack in jelly glasses.

Handwritten and pinned on a page 596 with a needle:



Brown Stone Front

1/2 cup of butter
1/2 cup of sweet milk
1 cup of brown sugar
2 cups of flour (heaping)
yolks of 3 eggs
1/2 spoons of vanilla
1 level teaspoon of soda dissolved in 1 teaspoon of warm water

1 cup of sweet milk
1 cup of brown sugar
1 cup of grated chocolate
put on stove and stir until thoroughly dissolved but do not let boil. When cool, add to batter.

Handwritten notes in the back of the book:



Pumpkin Pie
3 cups pumpkin
5 eggs
1 cup butter
2 cups sugar
milk, enough to make thin enough
---four pies



Soft Ginger Bread
1 cup brown sugar
1cup of molasses
1/2 cup butter
1 cup milk
3 cups flour
3 eggs
1/2 small teacup ground ginger
1 teaspoon of allspice
1 teaspoonful of ground cloves
Beat the eggs, without separating them, add the sugar, then the molasses, flour, the milk, 1/2 teaspoon of soda, spices. Then butter. Bake in a greased bread pan.



Tomato Soup
2 can tomatoes
1 pint water
a little pepper
1 half bay leaf
4 cloves
a little mace
strain
add teaspoon salt
1 dessert spoon sugar
Thicken with two spoons (table) butter and white flour.

Handwritten on a sheet of paper at the end of the book:



Candy Pudding
4 cups sugar
1 teaspoon salt
soda size of pea
1 tablespoon of butter
Add water and cook until done enough to pull white. Knead 1 crated cocoanut. 1/2 cup of all kind of nuts into candy. Mould thoroughly in dish or pan. Roll in towel.
By Mrs I. M. Jones

The inside back covers had a few newspaper clippings:








If anyone wants more detailed pictures of things, please let me know as soon as possible.

Also, I think I might have found a handwritten recipe for mammy's famous lemon meringue pie! Stay tuned.