Cooking with the Home Front Housewife
This recipe is next in the "Baking without...Sugar" series. It's difficult to make sweet desserts and treats without sugar, but home front housewives did their best using the resources they had at hand. These spicy raisin cookies are from a December 1944 Woman's Day Kitchen recipe. The recipe would have cost 27 cents and it…
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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