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Sweet potatoes au gratin archival citation card
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Est. 15 min prepEst. serves 6

Sweet potatoes au gratin

A page-cited historical dessert recipe from Marion Harland, transcribed with its original method.

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Caramel cake archival citation card
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Est. 20 min prepEst. serves 6

Caramel cake

A page-cited historical dessert recipe from Marion Harland, transcribed with its original method.

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Silver cake archival citation card
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Est. 10 min prepEst. serves 6

Silver cake

A page-cited historical dessert recipe from Marion Harland, transcribed with its original method.

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Minnehaha cake archival citation card
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Est. 10 min prepEst. serves 6

Minnehaha cake

A page-cited historical dessert recipe from Marion Harland, transcribed with its original method.

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Fig pudding (No. 1) archival citation card
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Est. 20 min prepEst. serves 6

Fig pudding (No. 1)

A page-cited historical dessert recipe from Marion Harland, transcribed with its original method.

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Currant Cake, an original illustrative image based on the cited recipe
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Est. 20 min prepEst. serves 6

Currant Cake

A classic 1910 sweet built around butter, with Farmer’s original method and page citation.

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Bride’s cake archival citation card
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Est. 10 min prepEst. serves 6

Bride’s cake

A page-cited historical dessert recipe from Marion Harland, transcribed with its original method.

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Currant pie (No. 2) archival citation card
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Est. 15 min prepEst. serves 6

Currant pie (No. 2)

A page-cited historical dessert recipe from Marion Harland, transcribed with its original method.

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Cocoanut pie archival citation card
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Est. 15 min prepEst. serves 6

Cocoanut pie

Cocoanut pie, preserved from Marion Harland’s 1903 cookbook with ingredient cues including cream a half-cupful of butter with two scant cupfuls of powdered sugar, and when ver.

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Plum pudding (No. 2) archival citation card
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Est. 25 min prepEst. serves 6

Plum pudding (No. 2)

A page-cited historical dessert recipe from Marion Harland, transcribed with its original method.

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Rice pudding as a vegetable archival citation card
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Est. 10 min prepEst. serves 6

Rice pudding as a vegetable

Rice pudding as a vegetable, preserved from Marion Harland’s 1903 cookbook with ingredient cues including boil one cupful of raw rice twenty minutes, or until soft, but not broken.

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Boiled orange pudding (2) archival citation card
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Est. 25 min prepEst. serves 6

Boiled orange pudding (2)

Boiled orange pudding (2), preserved from Marion Harland’s 1903 cookbook with ingredient cues including make a light paste of a pint of flour and three-quarters of a cupful of shortening—h.

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Cream sauce archival citation card
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Est. 10 min prepEst. serves 2

Cream sauce

Cream sauce, preserved from Marion Harland’s 1903 cookbook with ingredient cues including work two tablespoonfuls of butter into a half cupful of sugar, then the beaten yolks.

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Combination berry pie archival citation card
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Est. 15 min prepEst. serves 6

Combination berry pie

Combination berry pie, preserved from Marion Harland’s 1903 cookbook with ingredient cues including have ready a mixture of equal quantities of elderberries and huckleberries with one-.

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Hickory nut candy archival citation card
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Est. 10 min prepEst. serves 6

Hickory nut candy

Hickory nut candy, preserved from Marion Harland’s 1903 cookbook with ingredient cues including prepare half a cupful of hickory nut kernels by chopping them.

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Quail pie archival citation card
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Est. 10 min prepEst. serves 6

Quail pie

Quail pie, preserved from Marion Harland’s 1903 cookbook with ingredient cues including joint as you would a chicken for fricassee, cover the baking-dish bottom with thin s.

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Lemon pie with crust archival citation card
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Est. 15 min prepEst. serves 2

Lemon pie with crust

Lemon pie with crust, preserved from Marion Harland’s 1903 cookbook with ingredient cues including two eggs light and stir into them two cupfuls of sugar.

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Bread-crumb pudding archival citation card
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Est. 15 min prepEst. serves 2

Bread-crumb pudding

Bread-crumb pudding, preserved from Marion Harland’s 1903 cookbook with ingredient cues including soak a pint of fine dry bread-crumbs for two hours in a quart of milk, then beat in .

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Green corn pudding (No. 2) archival citation card
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Est. 10 min prepEst. serves 6

Green corn pudding (No. 2)

Green corn pudding (No. 2), preserved from Marion Harland’s 1903 cookbook with ingredient cues including together two cupfuls of grated corn, two beaten eggs, a half pint of milk, a pinch o.

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