Cooking with the Home Front Housewife
Here they are! This is the original recipe for chocolate chip cookies. You can find the history of this recipe in my last blog post: Ruth Wakefield’s Toll House Tried and True Recipes. I'm pretty sure this is the chocolate chip cookie recipe I grew up with. These cookies are the perfect blend of cookie, chocolate,…
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Ruth Wakefield's Toll House Tried and True Recipes is a fairly recent addition to my vintage cookbook collection. I have the 1941 edition. I used an included menu as this month's First Monday Menu. After researching a bit, I thought the cookbook and its author deserved its own post. Ruth Graves Wakefield (1903-1977) was an American chef,…
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For the first Monday of August, we went with something light as the main dish. This menu is from Ruth Wakefield's Toll House Tried and True Recipes (1941). It was listed in the "inexpensive everyday meals" section. This recipe book deserves a post of its own, so I'll have that ready for you later this week. The…
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The August 1943 issue of Woman's Day included an article called "The Small Summer Fruits" in the war food section. The article included a selection of recipes for berries, cherries, currants, and other small fruits. I thought this would be a great time to try these 75-year-old recipes since fruits and berries are plentiful right now. We…
This prune cake is the final recipe in the "Baking without...Eggs" series. I wasn't quite sure what to expect from a prune cake, so I was excited to bake this one. If you missed the first two recipes, you can find them here: Baking without…Eggs: Cocoa Cake with Chocolate Glaze Baking without…Eggs: Crumb Cake Prune…
The second recipe in the "Baking without...Eggs" series is a crumb cake. If you missed the first in the series, you can find it here: Cocoa Cake. The final post in the series can be found here: Prune Cake. Let's jump right to today's recipe. Ingredients 1 c evaporated milk 1 tbsp vinegar 1 1/2 c…
By 1945, rationing and shortages had created challenges for home front housewives. Cooking practices changed due to the lack of ingredients needed for certain recipes or meals. It was difficult for families that were used to eating meat and potato […]
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