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I just bought this cookbook this weekend. "Old-Fashioned Celebrations , Recipes & Traditions from Conner Prairie Museum" is published by Bear Wallow Books. It has facts and recipes on the different celebrations by families in early America.
The cookbook is divided into chapters on New Year's, Valentine's Day, Easter, Funerals, Weddings, Independence Day, Work Frolics, Camp Meetings, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
As to All Hallows Eve (Halloween), "The custom of celebrating Halloween was brought to America in the 1840's by the Irish. In their native country, they had used turnips to make Jack-O-Lanterns, but in America they discovered that pumpkins were far more plentiful. The day has been celebrated with carved pumpkins ever since." page 24.
"Halloween was a time for pranks in early America. Favorites were tipping over out-houses and unhinging fence gates." page 24
There were also special foods prepared, such as Doughnuts or Wonders, Lemon Sponge Cake, Cider Cake and Cider.
Cider Cake
3 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/3 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 cup butter
1 1/2 cup brown sugar
2 eggs, well beaten
1/2 cup cider
Sift together flour, baking soda, salt and nutmeg. Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and blend well. Add flour mixture and cider alternately to butter mixture. Stirring well after each addition. Pour into two greased loaf pans. Bake 50 minutes at 350 degrees.
From: "Old-Fashioned Celebrations", Bear Wallow Books, Conner Prairie Press, Inc. 2001, pages 24-25.
The cookbook is divided into chapters on New Year's, Valentine's Day, Easter, Funerals, Weddings, Independence Day, Work Frolics, Camp Meetings, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
As to All Hallows Eve (Halloween), "The custom of celebrating Halloween was brought to America in the 1840's by the Irish. In their native country, they had used turnips to make Jack-O-Lanterns, but in America they discovered that pumpkins were far more plentiful. The day has been celebrated with carved pumpkins ever since." page 24.
"Halloween was a time for pranks in early America. Favorites were tipping over out-houses and unhinging fence gates." page 24
There were also special foods prepared, such as Doughnuts or Wonders, Lemon Sponge Cake, Cider Cake and Cider.
Cider Cake
3 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/3 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 cup butter
1 1/2 cup brown sugar
2 eggs, well beaten
1/2 cup cider
Sift together flour, baking soda, salt and nutmeg. Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and blend well. Add flour mixture and cider alternately to butter mixture. Stirring well after each addition. Pour into two greased loaf pans. Bake 50 minutes at 350 degrees.
From: "Old-Fashioned Celebrations", Bear Wallow Books, Conner Prairie Press, Inc. 2001, pages 24-25.
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