RECIPE: Rec: Mrs. Tresvick's Spiced Puffs (1939)

RECIPE:
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dawnnys

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1/2 cup shortening

1/2 cup sugar

1 beaten egg

1/2 cup light molasses

1 3/4 cups flour

1/4 t salt

1 t baking powder

1/2 t baking soda

1 t ginger

1/2 t nutmeg

1/2 t cinnamon

3/4 cup buttermilk

Cream shortening and sugar. Add egg and molasses and beat well. Add flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, and spices alternatively

with buttermilk.

Fill greased muffin pans half full and bake in a 350-degree oven for 20 minutes. When cool, top with whipped cream or softened cream cheese.

Makes 18 small (by today's standards!) muffins

 
Someone who submitted a recipe and won...... $1! (from a newspaper archive site I like)

I love how some of these old recipes are worded, and actually some of them sound very good! I was going to make molasses cookies tonight, but am making these instead.

 
I'm with you on old recipes, I have purchase some antique cook books, the oldest one is 1887 called

White House Cook book~ purchased it from ebay.

Recipes from all the current past and present (at that time) US President's Wives best recipes

It also has instructions to keeping house and making household cleaners, how to clean a house and so on. And illustrations on how to carve meat, proper manners for special occasions, its a real show piece and it is quite fragile.

Most of the recipes are for cooking over a fire place hearth... it is so interesting

I have others I purchased at antique stores

 
I have something similar too, but not that old. It's called "Congressional Wives' Recipes"

or something like that. Up through till Carter I think, which I'm SURE was probably something "peanut". I haven't looked at it in ages though. I bought it at a book sale for 25 cents or something ridiculous like that.

 
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