Forgotten Recipes - Let's Give Them a Try!

 Hello all.  Another cool morn here - it is 58*F at the moment - going up to 80's today.  Yesterday was so nice - the sky was a beautiful blue, hardly a cloud to be seen until later in the day.  It was breezy and just lovely.  I keep AC off until late afternoon (if at all).

Saw a bunny running down the alley yesterday morning!  Mr. 'Hog' has decided this is not the place to be now.  He can't seem to get under the shed to hide now (after I fixed) so I haven't seen him since.

I just came in from feeding the critters and Licorice.  There is a stray showing up now and then (very nice), so I gave it a little food.  It acts starved but then just eats a little.  I see it mousing outside a lot!!!  Good kitty!

I was going through some recipe books yesterday and came across one I had forgotten I had.  It is called Forgotten Recipes.  They are recipes that were in magazines way back in the day.

I am going to share a couple of them - because they sound yummy to me.

Some I would not be challenged to try - but others sounded yummy.  These are all from the time of the depression and before when there wasn't a lot of money.

1927 PEANUT BUTTER BREAD

2 C flour

4 tsp. baking powder

1 tsp. salt

1/3 C sugar

1/2 C peanut butter

1 1/2 C milk

Sift all the dry ingredients together, then add peanut butter.  Beat the mixture well.  Now add milk; beat well.  Pour batter into a well greased bread pan and bake at 350* for one hour.  Makes one large loaf or 2 small ones.

 

I am going to try this one for sure!  I can imagine slicing, toasting and topping with butter and jelly!!!

1944 GREEN TOMATO PIE

"On the 'home front' women were trying to cope with the meat shortage with recipes like this one."

Double crust - for 9" pie

1/2 C sugar

2 Tbsp. flour

Grated rind of 1 lemon

1/4 tsp. ground allspice

1/4 tsp. salt

4 C sliced green tomatoes

1 Tbsp. lemon juice

3 Tbsp. butter

Line a pie pan with one crust.

Mix sugar, flour, lemon rind, allspice and salt together.  Sprinkle a little in the bottom of pie crust.

Arrange tomato slices, a layer at a time, as you cover each layer with the sugar mixture, lemon juice and a dot of butter on each slice.

Cover with a latticed top (2nd crust) and bake at 350* for 45 minutes.

Sounds good to me!  Definitely something I would try at the end of the season.  Great way to use up those end of season green tomatoes.

1943 BAKED BEAN SANDWICH

I have done baked beans on toasted bread before (sort of a sandwich) - but this is different! 

1 C baked beans

1/4 C chopped walnuts

1/4 C chopped celery

2 Tbsp. minced onion

1/4 tsp. salt

1 Tbsp. chopped pickle

2 Tbsp. ketchup

Serve on buttered whole wheat bread

Combine everything, except bread.  Mix well.  Spread on buttered bread.  Makes about 1 1/2 C.

Folks used what they had to get creative and make food and meals stretch.  They HAD to.  

I know mom did a lot of different things to stretch the dollars and the ingredients.  There wasn't much that she made that I didn't like (except cooked oatmeal!).

As people today try and navigate through the supplies they have - it is always fun to take a trick or two from those that came before us.

I will post more later on.

Make everything into something.  Don't waste.  THRIVE!

Do you remember or have any fun things that was off the norm?  I bet you do.

Have a wonderful day on this first day of October!  

Make this the month of being creative and using it all up!