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Carrot Pudding
1 cup carrots ground
1 " raw potatoes
1 " raisins
orange peel
ground together
½ c sugar
1 " flour
1 tsp soda
1 t. cinnamon
+ allspices salt.
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# Carrot Pudding (or Cookie) Recipe
## Ingredients
- 1 cup carrots, ground
- 1 cup raw potatoes, ground
- 1 cup raisins, ground
- Orange peel, ground together with above
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 cup flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- Allspice
- Salt
## Instructions
1. Grind together the carrots, raw potatoes, raisins, and orange peel.
2. Mix in the sugar, flour, baking soda, cinnamon, allspice, and salt. -
Hermits
Hermits
1 ½ cup sugar
2/3 cup shortning cream
together
2 eggs
1 cup of choppted raisins
1 teaspoon soda
little salt dissolved
in 3 tablespoons of milk
all kinds of spice.
Hermits.
1 cup sugar
2/3 cup shortning cream
together x
1 egg.
¾ cup of sour milk
1/3 cups chopped raisins
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Mrs. Jorko
Custom House and Post Office, Rockland, Me.
1 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon nutmeg
.. cinnamon
" cloves
little salt.
Hermits.
2 cups sugar.
1 cup butter or lard or half
and half and cream togeth
1 cup raisins, 1 cups currants
chopped 2 eggs 1 half cup
of sour milk, salt, teaspoon
soda teaspoon cloves, nutmeg
cinnamon, flour to roll sti
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# Hermits (Three Versions)
## Version 1 — Drop Hermits (Inferred)
### Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 2/3 cup shortening
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup raisins, chopped
- 1 tsp baking soda
- Pinch salt dissolved in 3 Tbsp milk
- Spices to taste (see Editor's Notes)
- 2–2 1/2 cups flour (see Editor's Notes)
### Instructions
1. Cream sugar and shortening together until light and fluffy.
2. Beat in eggs one at a time.
3. Stir in chopped raisins.
4. Dissolve baking soda and salt in 3 Tbsp milk; add to mixture.
5. Add spices and flour gradually until a soft drop cookie dough forms.
6. Drop by spoonfuls onto a greased baking sheet.
7. Bake at 375°F for 10–12 minutes until set and lightly browned at edges.
8. Cool on pan for a few minutes before removing.
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## Version 2 — Sour Milk Drop Hermits (Inferred)
*(Incomplete — see Editor's Notes)*
### Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 2/3 cup shortening
- 1 egg
- 3/4 cup sour milk
- 1/3 cup raisins, chopped
- Spices to taste (see Editor's Notes)
- Flour to make a soft drop dough (approximately 2 cups — see Editor's Notes)
### Instructions
1. Cream sugar and shortening together until light and fluffy.
2. Beat in egg.
3. Stir in sour milk and chopped raisins.
4. Add spices and flour gradually until a soft drop cookie dough forms.
5. Drop by spoonfuls onto a greased baking sheet.
6. Bake at 375°F for 10–12 minutes until set and lightly browned at edges.
7. Cool on pan for a few minutes before removing.
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## Version 3 — Rolled Hermits (Traditional) (Inferred)
### Ingredients
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 cup butter, lard, or half butter and half lard
- 1 cup raisins
- 1 cup currants, chopped
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup sour milk
- Pinch salt
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp cloves
- 1 tsp nutmeg
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- Flour to roll stiff (approximately 4–5 cups — see Editor's Notes)
### Instructions
1. Cream sugar and butter or lard together until light and fluffy.
2. Beat in eggs one at a time.
3. Stir in raisins, currants, and sour milk.
4. Add salt, baking soda, cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon; mix well.
5. Add flour gradually until dough is stiff enough to roll without sticking.
6. On a floured board, roll dough to approximately ¼" thickness.
7. Cut into rectangles or squares.
8. Place on a greased baking sheet.
9. Bake at 375°F for 10–12 minutes until set and lightly browned at edges.
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## Editor's Notes
**What are Hermits?**
Hermits are a classic American spiced drop or rolled cookie dating to at least the 1870s, particularly associated with New England. Dense, chewy, and heavily spiced with dried fruit, they were prized for keeping well in a tin for several weeks — a practical virtue for farmhouse baking.
**Baking instructions missing from all versions:**
All three versions end at the mixing stage; baking was assumed knowledge. Baking details inferred from standard period Hermit recipes.
**"All kinds of spice" (Version 1):**
Deliberately vague — Version 3 gives the likely intended blend: cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon. Recommended starting point: 1/2–1 tsp each. Allspice and ginger are also period-appropriate additions.
**Flour missing from Versions 1 and 2:**
Neither version specifies flour quantity. Estimated from fat/sugar/egg ratios: approximately 2–2 1/2 cups for Versions 1 and 2 (drop cookies); approximately 4–5 cups for Version 3 (rolled cookie).
**Version 2 is a fragment:**
Original card instructions end after "Cream sugar and shortening together" — all subsequent steps inferred from Versions 1 and 3. Spices and flour entirely absent from original. Flag as significantly incomplete.
**"Sour milk" (Versions 2 and 3):**
Period term for naturally soured whole milk, similar to buttermilk. Modern substitution: add 1 Tbsp white vinegar or lemon juice per cup of whole milk and let stand 5 minutes.
**Version 3 has duplicate nutmeg:**
Original card lists nutmeg twice (likely a transcription error on the card itself). One tsp nutmeg intended.
**Drop vs. rolled:**
Versions 1 and 2 are soft drop cookies; Version 3 is the older, more traditional rolled-and-cut style. The three versions together suggest the recipe evolved in this household from rolled to drop over time, or reflect different sources.
**Three versions on one card:**
Unusual and archivally significant — suggests the contributor was actively comparing or consolidating recipes rather than copying a single trusted source. -
Rice Indian Pudding
RICE INDIAN PUDDING
Put two tablespoons of rice to soak in ½ cup
of milk over night.
½ cup molasses
½ " Sugar
½ teas. salt
½ " ginger
½ " cinnamon
1 qt. scalded milk
Put in buttered dish and bake in moderate 350°
oven three hours. Stir several times the
first hour.
Mrs. Ethel Rickee
Sunday Nov-27-1960
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Pine Needle Club
Pine Street Congregational Church
Lewiston, Maine
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# Rice Indian Pudding
## Ingredients
- 2 Tbsp rice
- 1/2 cup milk (for soaking overnight)
- 1/2 cup molasses
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp ginger
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 qt scalded milk
## Instructions
1. Put two tablespoons of rice to soak in 1/2 cup of milk overnight.
2. Combine soaked rice with molasses, sugar, salt, ginger, cinnamon, and scalded milk.
3. Put in a buttered dish and bake in a moderate oven (350°) for three hours.
4. Stir several times during the first hour. -
Easy Dessert
- Easy Dessert - Churche
1 can Lucky Leaf apple pie filling
1 package Betty Crockett "Butter Brickle" or Yellow Cake Mix
Spread apple mix on bottom of pan, sprinkle cake mix over the top
Beat 2 eggs well - add 2/3 cup veg. oil - 1 teaspoon vanilla - beat
Pour over cake mix in pan - stir all till well blended
Sprinkle cinnamon or nutmeg on top
Bake in 350 degree oven 35 or 40 minutes
Serve with whipped cream or ice cream
Serves 10 people
from 14
1964
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# Easy Dessert
## Ingredients
- 1 can Lucky Leaf apple pie filling
- 1 package Betty Crocker "Butter Brickle" or Yellow Cake Mix
- 2 eggs
- 2/3 cup vegetable oil
- 1 tsp vanilla
- Cinnamon or nutmeg, to taste
## Instructions
1. Spread apple pie filling on the bottom of the pan.
2. Sprinkle cake mix over the top.
3. Beat 2 eggs well, then add 2/3 cup vegetable oil and 1 tsp vanilla; beat well.
4. Pour egg mixture over cake mix in pan; stir all together until well blended.
5. Sprinkle cinnamon or nutmeg on top.
6. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 35 to 40 minutes.
7. Serve with whipped cream or ice cream.
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Applesauce Puff
Applesauce Puff martha
July 4th
1971
4 slices bread or plain cake
good
2 tablesp butter or margarine
1½ cups applesauce
1 teasp cinnamon
⅓ cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 cup milk
1/4 teasp salt
Spread bread or cake slices with
butter or margarine, and
arrange in the bottom of greased
dish. Cover with applesauce then
sprinkle with cinnamon and about
half the sugar. Beat egg, milk, salt
and rest of sugar set in pan of hot
water and bake 350 degree 40
4 large servings minutes
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Nonnie 1963
Oatmeal
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Ruth Morrell
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# Applesauce Puff
## Ingredients
- 4 slices bread or plain cake
- 2 Tbsp butter or margarine
- 1 1/2 cups applesauce
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 cup milk
- 1/4 tsp salt
## Instructions
1. Spread bread or cake slices with butter or margarine and arrange in the bottom of a greased dish.
2. Cover with applesauce, then sprinkle with cinnamon and about half the sugar.
3. Beat egg, milk, salt, and rest of sugar together.
4. Pour over bread and applesauce mixture.
5. Set dish in a pan of hot water and bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes.
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Ernestine's Cookies
Ernestine Cookies
Dec 27, 1953
1 cup shortening Spry and butter
3/4 " Sugar cup this
Cream sugar & shortening mixture
Add 1 unbeaten egg not stir
Beat well —
Sift —
2 1/4 cup flour
1/2. teasp Baking Powder
Dash Salt Vanilla or
almond flavor
Use 2 sq chocolate and
add to above and
nuts — or —
larger cookies —
When you add egg add
3/4 cup molasses
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1 teasp cinnamon
1 " ginger
1/3 " cloves
1/2 " soda
For other change
add Peanut butter
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# Ernestine's Cookies
*Dec 27, 1953*
## Ingredients
- 1 cup shortening (Spry and butter)
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 unbeaten egg
- 2 1/4 cups flour
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Dash salt
- Vanilla or almond flavoring
## Variations
- 2 squares chocolate, added to above
- Nuts
- For larger cookies: when you add egg, also add 3/4 cup molasses
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp ginger
- 1/3 tsp cloves
- 1/2 tsp soda
- For another change: add peanut butter
## Instructions
1. Cream sugar and shortening together.
2. Add 1 unbeaten egg; beat well. Do not stir.
3. Sift together flour, baking powder, salt, and spices (if using).
4. Combine wet and dry ingredients.
5. Add vanilla or almond flavoring.
6. If using chocolate variation, add 2 squares chocolate and nuts to above mixture.
7. If making larger cookies, add 3/4 cup molasses when adding the egg.
8. For peanut butter variation, add peanut butter to mixture. -
Ginger Cookies
Ginger Cookies
1 cup Granulated Sugar
3/4 " Brown Sugar
V2 " Crisco
salt
3 cups pastry flour
1½ tbls. molasses
1 teaspoon ginger
3 eggs
1 tsp. cinnamon
1¼ tsp. soda
Scale all ingredients in
mixing Bowl & mix to
a smooth dough.
Bake 350.° degrees - These
will puff up then fall
flat - that means all done
So says Richard.
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# Ginger Cookies
## Ingredients
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup Crisco
- salt
- 3 cups pastry flour
- 1 1/2 Tbsp molasses
- 1 tsp ginger
- 3 eggs
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 1/4 tsp baking soda
## Instructions
1. Scale all ingredients in mixing bowl and mix to a smooth dough.
2. Bake at 350°F.
3. These will puff up then fall flat — that means all done, says Richard. -
Oatmeal Cake
1C oatmeal
1 1/2 C boiling water
set aside
1 C. brown sugar
1 C white sugar
1/2 C oleo
2 eggs.
add 1 cups 2 1/2 Tbs flour.
1 teas soda 1 teas cinnamon 1/2 teas
salt
add oat mix 350°
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# Oatmeal Cake
## Ingredients
- 1 cup oatmeal
- 1½ cups boiling water
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup white sugar
- ½ cup butter or margarine (oleo)
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup + 2½ Tbsp all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp salt
## Instructions (Inferred)
1. Pour boiling water over oatmeal and stir to combine. Set aside to cool and absorb, approximately 20 minutes.
2. Cream butter with brown sugar and white sugar until light and fluffy.
3. Beat in eggs one at a time.
4. Whisk together flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt.
5. Add dry ingredients to the creamed mixture and mix until combined.
6. Fold in the cooled oatmeal mixture.
7. Pour into a greased and floured 9×13 baking dish.
8. Bake at 350°F for 30–35 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. -
Mincemeat Coffee Cake
Mincemeat Coffee Cake
(Mercedes Bates)
1 c. all-purpose biscuit ½ c. mincemeat
mix ¼ c. packed brown sugar
⅓ c. granulated sugar ¼ c. flour
⅓ c. milk ¼ tsp. cinnamon
1 egg 2 tbsp. melted butter or
¼ c. melted butter or margarine
margarine
Heat oven to 375 degrees (moderately hot). Mix
first five ingredients into smooth batter. Spread into
greased and floured 9-inch round layer pan. Spread
mincemeat evenly over batter.
Mix last four ingredients together and sprinkle over
top. Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until nicely browned.
Delightful served warm.
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# Mincemeat Coffee Cake
## Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose biscuit mix
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1/3 cup milk
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup melted butter or margarine
## Topping
- 1/2 cup mincemeat
- 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/4 cup flour
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon
- 2 Tbsp melted butter or margarine
## Instructions
1. Heat oven to 375 degrees (moderately hot).
2. Mix first five ingredients into a smooth batter.
3. Spread batter into a greased and floured 9-inch round layer pan.
4. Spread mincemeat evenly over batter.
5. Mix last four topping ingredients together and sprinkle over top.
6. Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until nicely browned.
7. Delightful served warm. -
Pumpkin Bread
Pumpkin Bread
3c sugar
1/2 t B.P.
2 " soda 325°
1 1/2 " salt 2 lg. loaf pans
1 " cloves 4 small 1 hr.
1 " cinnamon
1 "nutmeg
3 1/2 c. flour
1c. salad oil
2c. pumpkin
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Pumpkin-Bread
1 1/2 c sugar - 1 t salt
1/2 c cooking oil - 1/2 t cloves -
2 eggs 1/2 t cinnamon
1c pumpkin - 1/2 t nutmeg
1 3/4 c flour - 1/2 t allspice
1/4 t baking powder 1/3 c water
1 t soda - 1/2 c raisens
on hour 350°
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# Pumpkin Bread
## Ingredients (Large Batch — Front of Card)
- 3 cups sugar
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 1 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp cloves
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp nutmeg
- 3 1/2 cups flour
- 1 cup salad oil
- 2 cups pumpkin
## Ingredients (Smaller Batch — Back of Card)
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1/2 cup cooking oil
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup pumpkin
- 1 3/4 cups flour
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp cloves
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp allspice
- 1/3 cup water
- 1/2 cup raisins
## Instructions
1. Combine all dry ingredients.
2. Mix in oil, pumpkin, and remaining wet ingredients until combined.
3. Pour into loaf pans. Large batch: bake at 325°, 2 large loaves approx. 1 hr or 4 small loaves 1 hr.
4. Smaller batch: bake at 350° for one hour. -
Rhubarb Cake
(Barb Webber)
Rhubarb Cake
Put following ingredients together
in mixing bowl:
2 c. sugar 1/2 tsp. salt
2/3 c. shortening 2 tsp. soda
2 tsp. cinnamon 2 eggs
1 tsp. cloves 3 c. flour
1/2 tsp. nutmeg 1 c. cold coffee
Mix all this together - Then add:
1c. raisins, 2c. raw rhubarb & 1c. nuts.
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Bake 1 hr. 350° in 9x13 greased &
floured pan.
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# Rhubarb Cake
## Ingredients
- 2 cups sugar
- 2/3 cup shortening
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp cloves
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 2 eggs
- 3 cups flour
- 1 cup cold coffee
- 1 cup raisins
- 2 cups raw rhubarb
- 1 cup nuts
## Instructions
1. Put all ingredients (sugar, shortening, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, salt, soda, eggs, flour, and cold coffee) together in mixing bowl and mix together.
2. Then add raisins, raw rhubarb, and nuts.
3. Bake 1 hour at 350° in a greased and floured 9x13 pan. -
Rhubarb Dessert Cake
RHUBARB DESSERT
CAKE
¼ c. butter
1 c. sugar
1 egg
2 tbsp. hot water
1 tsp. vanilla
¼ tsp. salt
1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 scant tsp. nutmeg
1 c. flour
2½ c. cut-up rhubarb
½ c. chopped walnuts
Cream butter and sugar. Add egg, water and vanilla. Sift dry ingredients together and mix into first mixture. Fold in rhubarb and nuts. Bake in a pie pan in a moderate oven (350 degrees) 45 minutes.
Serve with caramel sauce made by mixing together ½ cup butter, ½ cup brown sugar, ½ cup granulated sugar, 1 tablespoon flour and ½ cup cream. Boil to desired thickness and add 1 teaspoon of vanilla.
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# Rhubarb Dessert Cake
## Ingredients
- 1/4 c. butter
- 1 c. sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 Tbsp. hot water
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. soda
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- 1 scant tsp. nutmeg
- 1 c. flour
- 2 1/2 c. cut-up rhubarb
- 1/2 c. chopped walnuts
## Instructions
1. Cream butter and sugar.
2. Add egg, water, and vanilla.
3. Sift dry ingredients together and mix into first mixture.
4. Fold in rhubarb and nuts.
5. Bake in a pie pan in a moderate oven (350 degrees) for 45 minutes.
## Caramel Sauce
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 Tbsp. flour
- 1/2 cup cream
- 1 tsp. vanilla
## Caramel Sauce Instructions
1. Mix together butter, brown sugar, granulated sugar, flour, and cream.
2. Boil to desired thickness.
3. Add vanilla.
4. Serve over cake.