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Humboldt
County Cookbook Submitters
Circa
1930s from Susan Coleman
First
Lutheran and Our Savior's Lutheran Churches
Reprint
from the late 1940s.
Thank you Connie Wallukait!
Recipes
from the 1871 Blaisdell Diary
The entries that follow were found in the back of the diary: recipes, accounts,
and notes. It appears to be in a
different handwriting.
Cream Pies:
1 large tablespoon butter
3 of sugar
2 of flour
2 eggs
a little more than 1 pt of milk. Beat sugar and butter to a cream. Beat eggs
well, add milk,
stir in the flour.
Cream Pie:
1 cup cream
2 tablespoons sugar
1 egg
Cracker Pie: 2 large crackers pour over 1 cup boiling. When soft, add 1
teaspoonful tartaric acid. 1 teacup sugar, spice to taste.
Mix thoroughly.
Cracker Pudding: Take 2 qts sour milk, put in a pan over a kettle of
boiling water and when hot stir in 5 well beaten eggs. Then have ready a dozen
crackers split and ready buttered (?). Drop in
with a handful of raisins, flavor with lemon.
Cocoanut Pie: Soak 1 cup cocoanut a few hours before baking in 1/3 cup of
milk. When ready to bake take two tablespoonsful of flour, mix with 3/4 cup milk
or water. Place on the stove and stir 'till it thickens. Add butter the size of
a walnut. When cool, add a little salt, the yolks of two eggs, sweeten to taste.
Add the cocoanut, beating well. Fill the crust and
bake.
Cocoanut Cake:
3 eggs
2 cups sugar
1 cup milk
2 Tablespoonsful melted butter Mix together. 3 cups flour, 2 teaspoonsful baking
powder.
Bake in sheets.
Filling:
1 egg
1/2 pt milk
1/2 cup sugar
1 Tablespoonful cornstarch
Scald together. Make thick with grated cocoanut or 2/3 cup
of dessicated cocoanut soaked in the milk.
Everlasting F Cake:
2 cupsful brown sugar
1 cupful butter
2 eggs
1 cupful water
2 cupsful chopped raisins
1 teaspoon of soda in water
1 nutmeg
1 Tablespoon each of cinnamon and cloves
*Added 20 Oct 2025
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