Recipes From Mrs. Sanders Cookbook In Montana History
A Montana cookbook compiled in Mrs. Wilbur F. Sanders’s own handwriting survives from the 1860s. It reveals how households endured the 1864-65 flour shortage and Helena apple prices, drawing on recipes from early frontier life. The manuscript was loaned by Mrs. Busha to The Montana Newspaper Association.
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Busha
Wilbur F. Sanders
Sanders
Plains
Montana
Sidney Edgerton
Territorial
Congress
Helena
Montana Newspaper Association
Favorite Recipes Out of the Past
Mrs. Sanders stood as a top cook in the territory when eggs were scarce and delicacies rare. The article recalls how Montana cooks managed in early territorial days and credits Mrs. C. T. Busha of Great Falls with providing insights into enduring food tricks and preserved goods.
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Montana
C. T. Busha
Great Falls
Loaf Cake Recipe From Mrs Sanders Vintage Note
A family recipe titled Loaf Cake Without Yeast or Eggs attributed to Mrs Sanders. The method lists 6 tumblers flour 3 tumblers milk 2 tumblers sugar 1 tumbler butter 1 tumbler raisins 2 teaspoons soda 4 teaspoons cream of tartar with cinnamon and nutmeg. Makes two large loaves.
Recipe fragment for boiled eggs in wine sauce
A historical cooking fragment describes boiling water then thickening with paste, cooling, beating six eggs with salt, dropping into hot lard, and serving with a wine sauce. The directions suggest a simple fried egg dish with a wine accompaniment.
Gingerbread and Gingersnap Recipe From Mrs Sanders
Gingerbread and ginger snaps featured in Mrs Sanders cookbook with a “gingered” recipe for gingersnaps. The concise method lists sugar molasses butter sour milk soda ginger and flour to make a stiff batter rolled very thin.
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Fes
Wine jelly recipe with lemons and gelatin
A recipe item describes combining gelatin with cold water for 20 minutes then mixing with boiling water, wine, lemon juice and rind, and sugar. The mixture is strained to finish the jelly.
Spiced Currants Bake Recipe From Old Cookbook
A historical recipe details making spiced currants with cinnamon cloves sugar and vinegar. It guides slow boiling for hours and a large bread or cake batter with flour butter sugar eggs milk and yeast, then rising in a warm crock overnight before baking.
Historic baking directions for butter and flour dough
The text describes rubbing butter with flour and milk into a sticky dough, then kneading for about an hour until it cleaves from the crock. It instructs filling pans halfway and baking the mixture.
Prune Pudding Cup Stewed Prunes and Spiced Mix
A fruit pudding recipe uses prunes suet flour spices and raisins. The mixture includes bread crumbs milk soda and chopped nuts finished by steaming for three hours and served with hard sauce or foam sauce.
Veal Loaf Recipe With Savory Seasoning and Garnish
Veal loaf made from 234 lbs. raw veal and 4 lbs. salt pork with butter milk cracker crumbs salt and pepper sage and eggs. Press into bread pan bake with intermittent basting and serve garnished with lemon and parsley.
Tomato Sauce for Steaks and Chops
A recipe fragment lists stewed tomatoes, a tablespoon flour, a small onion, and a sprig of parsley as components for a tomato sauce to accompany steaks and chops.
Pattern 865 Princess Frock For Youthful Evening Wear
Describes pattern 865 a princess line dress by Claire Tilden with sliming waist seams and novel center notch neckline. Details sizes junior and misses 10 to 18, fabric yardage for size 14, and cost fifteen cents pattern order to M N Pattern Dept. Also includes a frosting tip advising to add yogurt and avoid overcooking.
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Claire Tilden
Pattern Dept
M. N
Fifth Avenue
New York
N. Y
Detailed Tomato Simmer and Roux Preparation
Simmer tomatoes onion bay leaf parsley and mace for ten minutes. Melt butter and stir in flour to form a smooth paste. Press the tomato mixture through a sieve and add to the butter and flour, stirring constantly until it boils. Season with salt and pepper.
Sumptuous Parties Dinner Menus From Mrs Sanders Journal
A collection of eighteenth to nineteenth century dinner menus from Mrs. Sanders includes April 1883 lunches at Mrs Botkins and Mrs Chuma sero with courses like bouillon croquettes roast duck and tropical desserts, and February 1883 dinner featuring mock turtle soup boiled fish with egg sauce and assorted accompaniments.
Holiday Sandwich Fillings and Glazes From Old Recipes
A collection of holiday kitchen ideas includes Fruit Sandwich Filling with walnuts raisins dates currant jelly and orange juice. a Spiced Jam Nut Glaze for cakes. and a method for making tender fruit paste jelly with fruit pulp peel and pectin.
Reception cake remembered in grandmother days
The writer recalls receptions with white nut loaf cake as a symbol of grandmothers gatherings. A recipe for White Nut Loaf Cake and White Boiled Icing accompanies nostalgic reflections on dainty slices, silver trays, and elegant, quiet hospitality.
Menu fragments from an old lunch listing
Readable lines show a meal plan with roast turkey mashed potatoes peas cranberry sauce celery shrimp salad crackers olives geere fruit finger bowls and coffee indicating a simple service sequence rather than a full menu.
Sale of Montana Jubilee Stamps a Successful Event
The one day sale in Helena on November 8 to mark Montana statehood produced 5 413.94 in income. Acting Postmaster Fred W Mayer announced 213 708 stamps and 273 covers were canceled by the special postmark machine sent to Helena for the occasion. Mayer prepared a sheet of stamps for the historical library noting this as the great sheet of Statehood Anniversary Commemorative stamps issued November 8 1939.
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Montana
Statehood
Helena
Fred W. Mayer
Feither
Sen T H Elena
Mayer
Sta Historical Library
Aeon Low
W. Mayer
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