Archive for April, 2007

Expectations of a 1920’s Housewife

A MODEL HOUSEWIFE.
In the first place she is the most thoroughly cheerful and happy-looking woman you will meet in a day’s travel; and although she is thirty-five years old she does not look thirty. This is because she never allows the petty cares of housekeeping to worry and plow lines across her face. She does [...]

1920’s Housekeeping Method

THE HOUSEKEEPER.
A woman who is at the head of a household has vast power and responsibility placed in her hands. It rests with her to make the home a place where there shall be gained rest and strength for the battle of life; a place inexpressibly dear to each member of the family, where all [...]

Grape Growing During Prohibition

When prohibition was announced it had a marked effect on American grape growers. Doom and gloom pervaded the grape growing industry as growers reflected on the negative effect this would have on their incomes. Grape growers considered all their options and the general view was that the industry was finished and new sources of income [...]

Popover Recipes from 1924

POPOVERS
A delightful change from the puffs, muffins, and biscuits that are usually served for breakfast or luncheon is afforded by means of popovers.
Popovers are not difficult to make. For them is required a thin batter in equal proportions of liquid and flour. In giving the method for mixing popovers, some of the older cook books [...]

Corn-Cake Recipes from 1924

CORN-CAKE RECIPES

Corn cakes were amongÂ the first breads made of cereal foods in America, being at first often made of only corn meal, water, and salt. These cakes of corn meal were prepared and carried on long journeys made by people when there were no means of rapid transportation. The cakes did not spoil, were not [...]

Free Biscuit Recipes from 1924

PINWHEEL BISCUIT RECIPE
To create variety, a baking-powder biscuit mixture may be made into pinwheel biscuits, a kind of hot bread that is always pleasing to children. Such biscuits, which are illustrated in Fig. 14, differ from cinnamon rolls only in the leavening agent used, cinnamon rolls being made with yeast and pinwheel biscuits with baking [...]