My Grandma’s Vintage Recipes: Old Standards for a New Age
By Tracy Falbe
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About this ebook
In 2012 I discovered my Grandma's handwritten recipe notebook from 1926 and developed this cookbook.
While updating the directions for modern cooks, I maintained the vintage charm of her original notes. Generations ago people did not have a bunch of fancy ingredients, but they still came up with a variety of yummy quick breads, cakes, desserts, pies, salads, main dishes, canning recipes, and fruitcakes. This cookbook has a special emphasis on fruitcakes. I share my mood-altering experiences with her fruitcake recipes. Bakers who love the holidays should definitely add a classic Christmas fruitcake to their list. All jokes aside, fruitcake deserves a place among elite holiday desserts.
And people into urban farming and homesteading can harvest delicious value from these vintage recipes meant to use up all the dried fruit and nuts you can pick. Plus find a variety of classic uses for all the tomatoes, cucumbers, and apples you can grow with marvelous canning recipes for sauces, pickles, and chutneys.
My Grandma’s name was Edna Oldershaw Irwin and her recipes reflect the character of the food in 1920s Canada where she grew up in Chatham, Ontario. After months of effort, I’ve prepared 64 of her recipes for publication. I no longer have my Grandma, but I still have her cookbook and now you can read it too.
Tracy Falbe
I have been hooked on fantasy and science fiction since preschool when I watched Star Trek the Original Series with my family on TV. Then came Star Wars at the theater when I was 5, and a few years later, I discovered the joys of reading fantasy with the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings.The elements I like most about the genres are the high stakes (save the world, overthrow the empire, etc.), the diversity of characters, and how magic or extraordinary technology allows plots to expand in interesting ways. The ability of fantasy and sci fi to include analysis and criticisms of social conditions like religion and politics is especially fascinating as well. When this is done in conventional fiction, people and readers descend into arguments about whether an opinion is valid or the historical information is accurate instead of assessing the concepts themselves.Of course, fantasy and sci fi can just be fun as well. I love a good hero or heroine and villains can be the best of all. And there is something therapeutic about picking up a sword or blaster and solving the problems of the world.My taste in genre has inevitably married itself to my love of writing. For some reason I am a person capable of writing novels. The act of creating thousands of pages of fiction does not overwhelm me. Making it a good work of fiction is the hard part that requires countless hours of editing and rewriting and lots of daydreaming too.When I'm not writing, my other passions include cooking, growing food, reducing my plastic waste, raising rabbits, spinning wool, and reading.
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My Grandma’s Vintage Recipes - Tracy Falbe
My Grandma’s Vintage Recipes: Old Standards for a New Age
Tracy Falbe
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Dedication
To my ancestors who worked hard with their thoughts on the future.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1. Quick Breads and Rolls
Graham Muffins
Rice Muffins
Rich Corn Cake
Short Cake
Bran Muffins
Banana Bread
Nut Loaf
Breakfast Muffins
Waffles
Sweet Refrigerator Rolls
Chapter 2. Cookies
Oatmeal Cookies
Peanut Cookies
Ginger Drop Cookies
Caramel Cookies
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chapter 3. Cakes and Pies
Plain Cake
Chocolate Cake
Plain Pastry
Apple Pie
Tomato Cake
Pie
Marble Cake
Orange Cake
Molasses Cake
Mince Pie
Pineapple Upside Down Cake
Fudge Cake
Old Fashioned Cream Pie
Chapter 4. Desserts
Apple Dumplings
Fruit Marshmallow
Carrot Pudding
Date Loaf
Apple Pudding
Butterscotch Sauce
Chapter 5. Salads and Sides
Tomato Jelly Salad
Salad Dressing by Mrs. Tape
Salad Dressing by Mrs. Jackson
Cooked Cranberry Jelly
Mayonnaise Dressing
Jellied Beet Salad
Nippy Relish
Green Bean Salad
Chapter 6. Main Dishes
Swiss Steak
Chili con Carne
Breaded Veal Cutlets
Beef Pasties
Salmon and Vegetables
Barbeque Spare Ribs
Spaghetti and Meat Balls
Chapter 7. Canning Recipes
Tomato Soup
Chilysauce
Cucumber Crisps
Chilli Sauce
Apple Chutney
Dixie Relish
Corn and Cabbage Relish
Indian Relish
Tomato Catsup
Green Tomato Pickle
Gherkin Pickles
Chapter 8. Fruitcakes
Grandma’s Delicious Fruitcake
White Fruitcake
Fruitcake
Christmas Cake
Photograph of Edna Oldershaw Irwin
A page from my Grandma’s original notebook
References Cited
Appendix. General Tips for Home Canning
About the Author
Other Titles by Tracy Falbe
Foreword
Please be aware that there are some recipe notes marked with an * that repeat throughout the cookbook. Some recipes required the same special note and repetition of information resulted. I did this so that a note pertinent to a recipe was always next to it. This arrangement is meant to be convenient within the medium of an electronic book. Any repetition you notice will be minimal and unobtrusive.
Introduction
This cookbook restores recipes I recovered from Edna Oldershaw Irwin’s handwritten notebook that she started in vocational school in 1926. She added recipes to it over the many years of her life.
What are vintage recipes?
At a minimum a vintage recipe is obviously something from at least a few decades in the past, if not longer. But I feel a vintage recipe also needs to show the character of the time in which it was written. The recipes presented in this collection came from my Grandma’s school