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Showing posts with label Doughnuts. Show all posts

Saturday, July 5, 2025

GRANDMA RIGBY'S RECIPES SAVED And PASTED ON A STUDEBAKER CATOLOG

 


My Grandmother Sarah Pritchett Rigby of Fairview was born  in Fairview   in  1884 .   Her mother died when Grandma was only seven years old.  She married Charles Martin Rigby and gave birth to seven children.  In 1920, her husband Charles Martin was in an accident in the coal mine.  He was crushed against the wall of the mine by a train car.  He was taken to Salt Lake in a horse and buggy, where he died.  Grandma Rigby seen many hard times in her life.  I found this scrapbook among her things.  She had pasted recipes clipped out of newspapers and pasted them into a catalog of Studebaker motor vehicles.

The recipes represent that time period (about 1928), But also, the way she had chosen to save them was ingenious and very resourceful.  Perhaps it was nothing out of the ordinary for that time period.





Monday, March 20, 2017

Recipes From the Early 1900s

Sponge Cake ~~~~~Bertha Tanner

1 Cup sugar
6 eggs
1 Tbs lemon
3 Tbs cold water
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 teacup of flour
1/2 teacup of potato starch

Separate  eggs, beat egg yolks with sugar,
mix with other ingredients
Mix whites, blend into other mixture
Sugar the pan.   No temperature given.

Sponge Cake ~~~~~~~Mrs. Paxman

4 Egg yolks
3 Tbs cold water
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 Tbs cornstarch in cup and fill cup with flour
1  1/4 tsp of baking powder
Whites of 4 eggs

Beat yolks with water til thickened
Add additional ingredients
Add egg whites beaten
No temperature given
(filling below)

Filling~~~~~~~~Mrs. Paxman

7/8 cup of sugar
1/8 cup flour
2 eggs
2 cups scalded milk
1/2 tsp butter cream
add powder sugar until thick
add warm dressing???

Doughnuts~~~~~Bertha Tanner

2 teacups of buttermilk
1 teacup of cream  (sweet or sour)
3 eggs
nutmeg
1 tsp soda
1 teacup of sugar
1 tsp of baking powder
Blend to make a soft dough  and fry.

Baker's Gingersnaps ~~~~~~~~Mina Peterson

1 Cup each of sugar, molasses and butter
1 tsp soda
1 Tbs ginger
1/2 tsp of black pepper
Nearly 1 cup of lukewarm water

Dissolve the soda in lukewarm water.
Mix all together; add flour to make a soft dough.
Punch of pieces the size of marbles.
Place in pan with space between to allow for spreading.
 Bake

Hot Water Cake  ~~~~~~Mrs. Paxman

Cream 1/2 cup sugar with 1/2 cup lard
Add 1/2 cup molasses
2 1/2 cups of flour with a scant tsp of soda
Add  1 tsp each of nutmeg, cinnamon, allspice and cloves.
Last of All, Add 1 cup of boiling hot water.