- 1 package yellow cake mix
- 1/2 cup softened butter
- 1 egg, slightly beaten
- 1 1/3 cups sugar
- 1/2 cup cornstarch
- 1/4 tspn salt
- 1 3/4 cups water
- 4 eggs, separated
- 2 tbspns butter
- 1 tbspn grated lemon rind
- 1/2 fresh lemon juice
- 1/4 tspn cream of tartar
- 1/2 cup sugar
Sunday, June 9, 2024
Farmer's Lemon Meringue Cake (1981)
Tuesday, September 5, 2023
Farmer's Caramel Pumpkin Ring Dessert (1976)
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 cup canned pumpkin
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 tspn salt
- 1/2 tspn ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tspn ground ginger
- 1/4 tspn ground nutmeg
- 5 eggs, slightly beaten
- 1 can (14 1/2 oz) evaporated milk
- 1 tspn vanilla
- Whipped cream
Thursday, May 25, 2023
Farmer's Butterscotch - Oatmeal Cookies (1979)
- 3/4 cup sifted flour
- 3/4 tspn baking soda
- 1/8 tspn salt
- 1/4 tspn ground cinnamon
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 cup quick-cooking oats
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Farmer's Pumpkin Chiffon Pie (1979)
- 1 envelope unflavored gelatin
- 1/3 cup brown sugar, packed
- 1/4 tspn salt
- 1 tspn ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tspn ground allspice
- 2 eggs, separated
- 3/4 cup evaporated milk
- 1/4 cup water
- 3/4 cup mashed pumpkin
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 9-inch baked pie shell
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 2 tbspns sugar
- 1 tspn vanilla
Gradually add 1/4 cup sugar, beating until stiff, glossy peaks form. Fold pumpkin mixture into egg white mixture. our into baked pie shell. Chill in refrigerator until set.
Farm Journal Food Editor, 1979.)
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Farmers' Pumpkin Pecan Cupcakes (1984)
- 2 cups sifted flour
- 4 tspns baking powder
- 1/2 tspn salt
- 1/2 tspn pumpkin pie spice
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 2/3 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1 cup mashed, cooked pumpkin
- 1/4 cup milk
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup chopped pecans
Thursday, October 13, 2022
Farmers' Caramel Chocolate Cake Squares (1978)
- 14 oz bag caramels
- 2/3 cup evaporated milk
- 18 oz package Swiss chocolate cake mix
- 3/4 cup melted butter
- 6 oz package semisweet chocolate pieces
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
Wednesday, October 5, 2022
Farmer's Butternut Squash Bread (1984)
- 3 1/2 cups sifted flour
- 3 cups sugar
- 1 1/2 tspns salt
- 1 1/2 tspns baking soda
- 1 tspn ground cinnamon
- 1 tspn ground nutmeg
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 4 eggs
- 2 cups mashed, cooked butternut squash
- 2/3 cup water
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
Farmer's Yellow Caramel Cake (1981)
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup butter
- 3 egg yolks
- 1 1/2 cups unsifted flour
- 2 tspns baking powder
- 1 tspn salt
- 3/4 cup water
- 1 tspn vanilla extract
- Caramel syrup (see below)
- 3 egg whites, stiffly beaten
Friday, April 8, 2022
Tomato Mince-Meat (1923)
"Chop one peck green tomatoes or put them through food-chopper using coarse cutter, drain off juice, and add as much water as there was juice. Also add five pounds brown sugar and two pounds chopped raisins.
"Cook slowly until the tomatoes are tender, then add two tablespoons each of Larkin cloves, cinnamon, allspice, and salt, and one cup vinegar.
"Boil about five minutes, stir frequently, then add six large sour apples that have been peeled, cored, and chopped.
"When the apples are done, the mince-meat is ready for jars. Seal while hot. You will find this very delicious for pies."
More "Lost" Tomato Recipes(Origin - " Larkin Housewives' Cook Book - Good Things to Eat and How to Prepare Them" by Larkin Co., Inc. Recipe by Mrs. J.A. Harvey of Strawberry Point, Iowa, 1923.)
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
Farmer's Sweet Corn Salsa (1959)
- 10 cups fresh, frozen, or canned whole kernel corn
- 7 cups shredded cabbage
- 2 cups shredded onions
- 3/4 cup chopped green pepper
- 3/4 cup chopped sweet red pepper
- 2 tbspns dry mustard
- 1 1/2 tspns flour
- 1/2 tspn ground turmeric
- 4 cups cider vinegar
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 tbspns salt
Monday, April 26, 2021
Yankee Farmers' Cornmeal Dumplings (1963)
- 1 cup flour
- 1 1/4 tspn salt
- 2 tspns baking powder
- 1 cup cornmeal
- 1 egg, beaten
- 3/4 cup milk
Thursday, March 4, 2021
New England Farmers' Maple Syrup Pie (1983)
- 1 cup maple syrup ("only the real thing is any good")
- 1 cup water
- 1/4 tspn salt
- 1 tbspn butter
- 1 tbspns cornstarch
- 2 eggs, separated
- Baked 8-inch pie shell
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Farmer's Chocolate Candy Turtles (1970)
- 1/2 lb soft caramels (25)
- 2 tbspns heavy cream
- 1 1/4 lbs pecan halves
- 4 squares semisweet chocolate
Thursday, January 28, 2021
Farmer's Potato Chocolate Cake (1959)
- 1/2 cup milk
- 3 squares unsweetened chocolate
- 1 cup shortening
- 1 3/4 cups sugar
- 1 cup hot, unseasoned mashed potatoes
- 4 eggs, separated
- 2 cups sifted flour
- 1 tbspn baking powder
- 1/8 tspn salt
- 1 tspn vanilla
- 1/4 cup sugar
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
Farmer's Poppy Seed Layer Cake (1959)
- 1/4 cup black poppy seeds
- 1 cup milk
- 2/3 cup shortening
- 1 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 tbspn baking powder
- 3 cups sifted flour
- 1 tspn salt
- 4 egg whites, stiffly beaten
- Custard Filling (see below)
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 2 tbspns flour
- 1/8 tspn salt
- 1 egg, slightly beaten
- 3/4 cup scalded milk
- 1/2 tspn vanilla
- 1/4 tspn almond extract (optional)
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
Thursday, October 22, 2020
Farmer's Pumpkin Cake (1959)
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1 cup cooked, mashed pumpkin
- 3 cups sifted cake flour
- 4 tspns baking powder
- 1/4 tspn baking soda
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
- 1 tspn maple flavoring
- Harvest Moon frosting (see below)
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Farmer's Sweet Potato Coffee Bread (1959)
- 1/2 soft butter
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 2-2/3 cups sugar
- 4 eggs
- 2 cups cold mashed sweet potatoes
- 3-1/2 cups sifted flour
- 1 tspn salt
- 1 tspn cinnamon
- 1-1/2 tspns nutmeg
- 2 tspns baking soda
- 1 cup shopped walnuts
- 2/3 cup cold, strong black coffee
Tuesday, September 1, 2020
Old-Time Tomato Cookies (1926)
- 3/4 cup butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tspn vanilla
- 1 tspn baking powder
- 2-1/2 cups flour
- 1/2 cup tomato sauce
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup raisins
- Juice of 1/2 lemon
- Pinch of salt
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Fresh Peach Crumb Cake (1976)
- 1-1/2 sticks butter
- 1-1/2 cups sugar
- 4 eggs
- 3 cups flour
- 3 tspns baking powder
- 1-1/2 tspns vanilla
- 1/2 tspn cinnamon
- 1/2 tspn nutmeg
- 8 to 10 sliced fresh peaches
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 tspn cinnamon
- 1/2 cup flour
- 1/2 stick butter
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 tspn cinnamon
- 1/4 tspn nutmeg







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