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Halloween Fruit Cakes.
Photo: Elizabeth Urbach |
I realized, as I was going through my past food history posts, that while I have made various recipes from the 1920s (like cheese straws and Club sandwiches), I had never written them up or taken photos. While I will have to re-create the cheese straws and Club sandwiches at another time, I recently discovered a cookbook on VintageRecipes.net:
Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book published in 1920. It has a lot of interesting recipes, but none, as far as I can discover, that contain alcohol any stronger than cider; this is a recipe book for the frugal, teatotal household, not one headed by a "flapper". It does, however, contain recipes named after various holidays, and since Halloween just happened, I couldn't resist making the recipe called
Halloween Fruit Cake.
