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    My Grandma’s Vintage Recipes: Old Standards for a New Age
    My Grandma’s Vintage Recipes: Old Standards for a New Age
    My Grandma’s Vintage Recipes: Old Standards for a New Age
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    My Grandma’s Vintage Recipes: Old Standards for a New Age

    By Tracy Falbe

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    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTracy Falbe
    Release dateJun 10, 2013
    ISBN9781301070831
    My Grandma’s Vintage Recipes: Old Standards for a New Age
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    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

      Copyright 2013 Tracy Falbe, all rights reserved.

      Published by Tracy Falbe at Smashwords.

      Browse more titles by Tracy Falbe at Smashwords.

      Every effort has been made by the author to present accurate information in this guide, but the author does not claim to present an exhaustive or complete description of the subject. The information presented herein describes the direct experience of the author and presents her research on the subject. The author makes no guaranty of success in pursuit of the projects described in this guide and accepts no liability for the results of any projects described herein as performed by any individual.

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Unless otherwise specified, the images used in the content and cover of this guide are the author's photographs and copyrighted to the author.

      Cover image licensed by Fotolia.com.

      All other images in this publication are copyrighted to Tracy Falbe.

      To contact the author please visit http://www.falbepublishing.com.

      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

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