Vintage Recipe - Cocoa Sponge Cake

Today's vintage recipe comes from the cookbook, Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes by Miss Parloa

COCOA SPONGE CAKE

3 eggs,

1 ½ cups of sugar
½ a cup of cold water
1 teaspoonful of vanilla
1 ¾ cups of flour
¼ a cup of Baker's Cocoa
2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder
1 teaspoonful of cinnamon.

Beat yolks of eggs light, add water, vanilla and sugar; beat again thoroughly; then add the flour, with which the baking powder, cocoa and cinnamon have been sifted. Fold in the stiffly beaten whites of the eggs. Bake in a rather quick oven for twenty-five or thirty minutes.

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California Tossed Salad

California Tossed Salad is a beauty to behold. 

According to my recipe book, EVEN MORE RECIPES FROM THE BACKS OF BOXES, BOTTLES, CANS, AND JARS by Ceil Dyer, it was first served many years ago in the executive restaurant at MGM Studios in Hollywood.  Later, it was adapted for a national ad by the Diamond Walnut Company.

I've been known to make substitutions based on my family's likes and dislikes and it always comes out good.

Ingredients

1/2 cup large walnut pieces
1/3 cup salad oil
1 teaspoon seasoned salt
3 tablespoons lemon juice
1 teaspoon granulated sugar
1/4 teaspoon marjoram, crumbled
1/4 teaspoon dill weed
1 1/2 quarts torn mixed salad greens
6 ounces cooked shrimp (or one 5 ounce can drained)
1 large tomato cut in wedges
1/4 cup radish slices
2 tablespoons chipped chives or green onion
1 tin manadarin slices drained
1/4 cup cheese cubes

Toast walnuts lightly in a small skillet over low heat with 1 teaspoon oil, stirring frequently, about 5 minutes.  Remove from heat; sprinkle with 1/4 tsp seasoned salt.  Cool.  Beat together remaining oil, salt, lemon juice, sugar, marjoram, and dill weed.  In a large bowl, combine greens, shrimp, tomato, radishes, olives, and chives.  Stir dressing; pour over salad.  Toss until evenly coated.  Add walnuts and mandarins; toss again.  Sprinkle with cheese.  Serve at once. 

I've been known to substitute peas for the shrimp and strawberries for the mandarin orange slices.  Have fun with this recipe.  It's very good. 

Sunmaid Raisin Oaties

If you were to see my recipe card for this cookie, it's badly stained and barely legible.  It's been made so often that I'm surprised it's still intact.  I remember taking the recipe from the back of a bag of Sunmaid raisins.  It's a huge family favourite!

Sunmaid Raisin Oaties

1 1/2 cups butter
3/4 cup white sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 cups oats
1 cup raisins

Cream together butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla.  Stir in flour, salt, baking soda, and oats.  Mix well.  Stir in raisins.  Drop by tablespoon onto lightly greased baking sheets.  Bake above the oven center at 350 for 10 to 12 minutes  Cookies should be chewy.  Makes about 36 cookies.

Vintage Recipe - Perfect Corn Bread

Today's recipe comes from the 1905 cookbook, A Little Cook Book for a Little Girl by Caroline French Benton.

Perfect Corn Bread

1 large cup of yellow corn-meal.

1 small cup of flour.
1/2 cup of sugar.
2 eggs.
2 teaspoonfuls of baking-powder.
3 tablespoonfuls of butter.
1 teaspoonful of salt.
Flour to a thin batter.

Mix the sugar and butter and rub to a cream; add the yolks of the eggs, well beaten, and then half a cup of milk; then put in the baking-powder mixed in the flour and the salt, and then part of the corn-meal, and a little more milk; next fold in the beaten whites of the eggs, and if it still is not like ``a thin batter,'' put in a little more milk. Then bake in a buttered biscuit-tin till brown, cut in squares and serve hot. This is particularly good eaten with hot maple syrup.

Meatloaf - Martha's Stewart's Mothers

Years ago, I was watching Martha Stewart.  She had her lovely mother on tv that day and together they made a traditional meatloaf. 

I quickly scribbled out the recipe and made it the next day.  We've enjoyed it ever since.  It's quite easy if you can chop the ingredients in a food processor, but if you're like me and don't have one, then you can chop everything finely by hand. 

It's great served with mashed potatoes.

MarthaStewart's Mother's Meatloaf

2 onions
2 sticks of celery
2 carrots
parsley
2 cloves garlic
4 slices white bread torn into pieces or 1/2 cup breadcrumbs
1/2 cup ketchup
1 egg
2 teaspoons dry mustard
1 tablespoon salt
2 teaspoons black pepper
2 1/2 lbs ground beef

Mix all ingredients and bake in a 9 x 6 loaf pan at 350 for an hour and a half.

Halfway through the cooking, pour glaze over it.

Glaze

2 tablespoons brown sugar
1/2 cup ketchup
1/2 teaspoon dry mustard