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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1924
Page
5
A home recipe lists ingredients for a large fruit cake including sugar, molasses, soda, baking powder, candied citron and cherries, citrus peels, nuts, butter, eggs and currants. It notes the yield of about ten pounds, aging improvements, and baking instructions to grease pans, use paper, and bake three hours in a very slow oven.
The fragment shows a vintage recipe for Coffee Fruit Cake with shortening, brown sugar, eggs, coffee, milk, flour, Royal Baking Powder, raisins, citron, figs and beaten egg whites then baked in a leaf pan. It also includes a Fruit Salad mixing pineapple orange banana and grape with mandarin dressing.
A historic home cook’s step by step on preparing a Christmas feast with oysters roast turkey and vegetables. It covers oyster handling light cooking, roasting versus baking, oven temperature, moisture in pans, proper potato onion and squash prep, cornmeal cooking, pie pastry tips, and two salad recipes Waldorf and Pineapple Salad with dressing and finishing touches.
A group of girls plan a traditional New England Christmas dinner with a simple menu. They discuss dishes from oyster soup to chestnut stuffing, roasted turkey, cranberry sauce, onions, and a Philadelphia ice cream dessert. Recipes for Indian pudding and date banana salad are shared, and a Vanderbilt salad is proposed.
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