1918 Mass. Board of Food Admin. Gluten Free Recipes

I made the Rolled Oats Cookies the other day, they kind of tasted like breakfast. I also didn't have a meat chopper to get the real authentic, 1918 feel. 

Drop Sugar Cookies

Raised Sweet Rolls, Refrigerator Rolls, Whole Wheat Sweet Rolls

Whole Wheat Date Coffee Ring

Bread Pudding

Bread & Butter Pickles

Square Waffles

Baked Pork Chops with Tomato Sauce

Custard Pie & Macaroons

Lemon Tart with an Egg Tart Crust

Egg Tart Crust

4 eggs, beaten

1 tablespoon flour

½ cup sugar

Mix the flour and the sugar. Add the eggs. Add the milk, slowly.  

Lemon Filling

4 ½ lemons

1 ½ cup water

1 ½ cup sugar

5 tablespoon cornstarch put in boiling water. Cook and thickening

yolk of 2 eggs

piece butter

egg whites (I'm assuming this means separate the whites & yolks from 2 eggs?)

2 tablespoon meringue

This recipe for a lemon tart may help fill in the gaps in Nana's the lemon filling recipe: 

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/lemon-tart-231349

Grape Nut Pudding & Corn Flake Pudding

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Grape Nut Pudding

½ pint whipped cream

1 cup grape nuts

2 tablespoons sugar

½ tablespoon vanilla

½ cup milk

Corn Flakes pudding

Can also make with 2 slices of oranges, 2 ½ cups corn flakes, 1 pint whipped cream

1 can pineapple

1 cherry

½ ground nuts

2 ground apples

2 oranges, ground

½ cup marshmellows (ground)

1 pint whipped cream

1 envelope gelatin, cooled for a couple of hours

Germany Cake... Little help plz?

Germany cake

2 eggs well beaten

2 room temp. cup of milk

½ cup melted butter

1 yeast cake of the same size (of ??)

put the flour in one

½ cup sugar

1 teaspoon salt

# flour

1 cup  white raisin (small)

1 cup of walnut

Mix everything, add cup of raisin, walnuts, then roll it out and let it sit

This recipe clearly has some gaps in the ingredients and the lack of baking instructions. 

This recipe for a German Coffee Cake may be helpful: 

http://www.cooks.com/recipe/ee7wj0qv/german-coffee-cake.html

Molasses Cake

Some help needed on this 3-for page: Boston Cream Pie, Quick Rice Pudding, Butterscotch Sauce,

Cherry Cake

Cherry Cake

½ cup melted butter

1 cup sugar

½ cup skim milk

2 cup whole wheat flour

2 ½ teaspoons baking powder

½ teaspoon vanilla

½ teaspoon lemon salt?

3 tablespoon cherry juice

3 egg whites, well beaten

½ cup of walnut

10 chopped cherries

cook slowly

Pudding

I hate pudding.... and parfaits. My dislike for pudding is twofold. The texture bothers me, but mostly, I hate the word. I've been fooled too many times by the [mis]use of calling something "pudding," it just encompasses far too much. Ex:

Pudding. 

Pudding.

Pudding.

Pudding.
Although, this bread pudding is addmittedly not-immediately-offputting like the others.
I still wouldn't trust a menu serving bread pudding. It probably contains snout meat. 

Layer Cake

The weird cropping is because this recipe shared the page with the previous recipe (Wiggle!)

Shrimp Wiggle

Wiggle! Jeremy, my French friend helping me translate Nana's books, and I stared at this one for a while, wondering if it really says, "Wiggle," because, wtf is a wiggle? 

Surely this isn't what Nana meant....

Welsh Rabbit with Worcestershire Sauce

Contrary to the title, this recipe contains no rabbit. It's basically cheesy bread. See here for a food history & etymology lesson.

And, you'll notice that I have taken the liberty of renaming this recipe. I hope the new title is more helpful (in both spelling & informativeness) and not too astray from what I think Nana B would have called this herself. In fact, this is the first of several different variants of Welsh Rabbit appearing in her cookbooks.

A face full of cheese is not everyone's dream come true.

Brownies

Upside Down Cake

 I'm not entirely sure if this recipe is titled "Upside Down Cake," spelled correctly (as opposed to the previous recipe entry for "Calumet Cup Kakes") or if the title says "Upside Down bake." Either way, it's probably delicious. I love me some upside down cake.

Calumet Cup Kakes

Yes, it says "Kake." Here is an example of Nana's phonetic English, having taught herself how to read and write in English and having had to quit school (in French-speaking Quebec) at a young age. 

Fun Facts from Wikipedia: "Calumet" is a French-derived word for a Native American peace pipe.

Butterscotch Parfait -- This recipe needs your help!

There are MANY blanks to be filled in this one. Please comment with suggestions, links to similar recipes, or tales of your own attempts at duplicating this! It doesn't help that I've also never made a parfait and don't particularly like parfaits. 

Lies. 

Delicious Ginger Bread & Lemon Sponge Pie

Yes, this ginger bread is, in fact, delicious. I know, because I made it today. 

Delicious Ginger bread

2 beaten eggs 

1 cup sugar

½ cup molasses

½ cup shortening

1 teaspoon cinnamon

½ teaspoon ginger
2 cups of flour, sifted

2 level teaspoons baking soda, sifted with the flour

1 cup boiling water

Mix ingredients in the order given. Bake about 20 minutes.

Melasse (Molasses) Cookies

Molasses Cookies

1 cup shortening

2 teaspoon cinnamon

1 cup sugar

½ teaspoon cloves

1 teaspoon nutmeg

1 cup molasses 

4 (?) teaspoon baking soda (I used 2)

1 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoon ginger

2 cups flour (I used 4 and 2/3 cups)

1 cup sour milk (buttermilk?)

Cream shortening with sugar. Add molasses. Sift 2 cups of the flour with the dry ingredients. Pour the milk over the flour. Form balls. Sprinkle a little sugar on top. Cook for 10 minutes. Makes 5 dozen.

Hanky is my co-author. 

This batter was WAY too watery, as is. In looking at other recipes for molasses cookies, I think nana's proportions of liquids to solids is way off. There's no way you can form her batter into balls. Other recipes seem to call for only 1/4 cup of molasses (this one calls for 1 cup). So, I added an additional 2.66 cups of (unsifted) flour until the batter reached a consistency that could hold its shape. Wet your hands to form balls with the dough. Or just plop a tablespoon of dough on a cookie sheet for each cookie, using a wet finger to get the dough off the spoon. I baked for 12 minutes. 

So many spices!

This is what happened to three "cookies" I tried to spatula off the tray with my first batch, before adding more flour. 

Ice Box Cookies

This recipe for Ice Box Cookies starts in English, switches to French for a few words, and then returns to English! I made these already and cut up and served one of the 2.5 logs of dough to my coworkers. I think tomorrow, I'm going to try baking these cookies after letting the frozen log soften enough to slice. They tasted like eating sugar cookie dough, but with nuts & brown sugar.

Peanut Drop Cookies

More dessert recipes! 

In fact, most of the recipes in Nana's cookbooks are for dessert items. I'm guessing she did this in light of the fact that portions matter a bit more in baking than regular cooking, because science. Recipes below. 

Science happening.