1920s Good Southern Cookie Recipe

Here's a recipe for 'Good Southern Cookies' from 1923

Ingredients:
1 cup butter
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 egg
1/2 cup sweet milk (or water)
1 tsp. grated nutmeg
2 'heaping' tsp's baking powder sifted with flour and enough flour to roll soft
*currants, raisins or shredded coconut may be added if desired

Cream butter and sugar

Add egg, milk nutmeg and baking powder (sifted with flour) to butter/sugar mixture ~ mix well

Add currants, raisins or coconut if desired ~ bake until done **I never put my oven over 350 degrees, so just keep checking until done

1920s Lyonnaise Potatoes Recipe

This is actually a very good recipe for potatoes! It's easy to make and adds a side dish to your meals that is a welcome difference from the usual - 1923 recipe.

One quart cold boiled potatoes ~ boil and allow to cool off and cut into 'dice' or small squares
3 Tbsp. butter
1/4 of a chopped onion
1 Tbsp. chopped parsley
Salt & Pepper

Saute the onions in the butter until they brown ~ then remove onions
Add the potatoes to the butter
Stir potatoes with a fork, being careful not to break them
When potatoes are hot, add the parsley and put the onions back in with potatoes and cook two minutes longer (parsley can be omitted)

1920s Birthday Cake Recipe

Here is a recipe for birthday cake from 1923

Ingredients:
1 cup sifted pastry flour
1 tsp. cream of tartar
1 1/2 cups sugar
12 egg whites
1 tsp. vanilla

Sift pastry flour six times with cream of tarter

Sift sugar six times

Beat the 12 egg whites until stiff and dry ~ add the vanilla

Fold egg whites into sugar and then fold that into flour ~ do not beat, but use the folding motion until smooth

Bake in a "slow" oven for 45 minutes

1920s Hunter's Pudding Recipe

Here's a recipe for Hunter's Pudding from 1922

One cup chopped suet
One cup molasses
One cup stoned raisins
One cup milk
Three cups flour
One level tsp. baking soda

Mix together and steam for 3 or 4 hours
Serve with foam or hard sauce

1920s Plain Cake Recipe

Here's a recipe for a plain cake from 1922

1 cup sugar
1 1/2 cup sifted flour
3 level tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
2 eggs
milk
5 Tbsp. well softened butter (but not melted)

Sift together sugar, flour, baking powder and salt

Break two eggs into one cup measure and finish filling measuring cup with milk (will have 2 eggs and however much milk to fill to one cup)

Add milk/egg mixture to dry ingredients ~ add butter

Beat hard until smooth and creamy

Bake at 350 until done (**springs back when touched or toothpick inserted in middle comes out clean**)

1920s Sweet Potato Pie Recipe

Here's a recipe for sweet  potato pie from 1922

Cook 6 large sweet potatoes with a little salt

When cooked, remove from fire, peel and mash smooth.

In a separate dish, beat three eggs ~ add to the eggs, three tablespoons corn starch and a quart of good rich milk and a piece of butter the size of a walnut.

Mix well with the mashed potatoes and put in crust and bake.

A meriungue may be added if desired.