Old Recipes

[Mama Mangia]

HONEY CANDY RECIPE

1 cup plain or chunky peanut butter
1 cup instant dry milk
1 cup honey
1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Mix together.
shape into balls.
refrigerate
app~ 24 balls

[Mama Mangia]

CIVIL WAR MILK PIE RECIPE
(updated)

Unbaked pie shell
1 cup white sugar
Milk
1/4 cup flour Butter
1/4 tsp. salt
Cinnamon or nutmeg (optional)

Mix the dry ingredients lightly
Pour Whole milk over the dry ingredients.
Adding a little at a time until
ingredients resemble thick pudding.
Mix well and pour into shell.
Dot the top with butter,

Bake for 15 minutes at 400 degrees then
Turn oven down to 350 and continue baking
an additional 35 - 40 minutes.

Top should be slightly browned.

[Mama Mangia]

KENTUCKY PUDDING RECIPE
Recipe from 1903



One cup of molasses
1 cup new milk
1 cup chopped suet
1 cup raisins
1 cup currants
2½ cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder

Mix well,
put in bag and steam 2 hours.
Serve with rich sauce, flavored with brandy.

[Mama Mangia]

Very Old Recipe for Small Layer Cake

1/3 cup butter
1 cup granulated sugar
1-1/2 cups sifted flour
2 teaspoons Magic Baking Powder
1/2 cup milk
2 eggs, beaten

Cream butter and sugar, add beaten eggs, beat together till light. Sift the flour and baking powder together and add to the creamed ingredients, adding milk
as you go along mixing. Mix till smooth. Put in two small buttered and floured layer cake pans and bake in moderate oven for 15 minutes

[ChileFarmer]

Mama, I like the candy and the cake recipe. Gonna try them. Here is an oldie I grew up with. These things were hard as rocks, but tasty. You could carry them in your pocket all day and never get a crumb. CF

1873 Tea Cakes
Little Mama Bradshaw

1 cup of butter = ½ pound
2 cups sugar
3 eggs beaten lightly
6 table spoon buttermilk
1 scant teaspoon soda
½ teaspoon cinnamon (ground)
½ teaspoon nutmeg (ground)
¼ teaspoon cardamom (ground)
5 cups flour

Preheat oven to 400 deg….
Mix butter and sugar until light. Add eggs, cinnamon, nutmeg and cardamom. Mix soda with buttermilk and add to mixture. Add flour small amount at a time.
May be rolled out or dropped by teaspoon full. Bake in quick oven about 10 min. or until just brown. Makes about 91/2 doz.
This recipe comes from the Bradshaw, Laird, and Herrington Family. 1873 Hardin Co. Texas (Little Mama Bradshaw)
My Grandmother:

[Mama Mangia]

DUNKERS! OMG - I love them!