November 07, 2005
Welcome
Hi Everybody!We are now well into our fall weather here in central Ontario. The multicolored leaves on the trees are almost all fallen to the ground, and the early morning frosts have claimed any garden vegetables that were left unharvested. One of these mornings, we can expect to wake up to a fresh, white carpet of snow covering the ground. In the meantime, we are enjoying beautiful, sunny fall weather with daytime highs of around 14°C. It is an awesome time of the year.
While we enjoyed our Canadian Thanksgiving last month, our American friends to the south will be celebrating their Thanksgiving Day near the end of November. (I am trying to convince my wife to celebrate the American Thanksgiving too this year, but so far I have been unsuccessful; she said there is no way she will cook another turkey dinner with all the trimmings this close to Christmas. Oh well.)
If you plan to serve a traditional Thanksgiving Day meal, or any celebration meal, be sure to check out the delicious seasonal desserts I feature on my website. You too can enjoy a big slice of warm, fresh-from-the-oven pumpkin pie smothered in thick whipped cream. Am I making you hungry?
Enjoy reading November's newsletter and thanks for visiting my website.
Sincerely,
Don
Click here to visit homemade-dessert-recipes.com
Website Updates
This month I have 2 new pages, plus several updates.Let's have a look at the new web pages...
Lighting Antique Oil Lamps
Now that old-fashioned oil lamps are being increasingly used for mood lighting, they should be used safely, otherwise, they can be very dangerous. No one wishes to risk one's property or life. This page provides vintage instructions on the practical, safe way to operate and maintain these old-fashioned light sources.Click here to visit the Lighting Oil Lamps page.
Old Time Weather Folklore
You have probably heard old-time weather folklore sayings like "Red sky at night, sailor's delight; red sky in morning, sailors take warning." Now, you can forecast short range weather simply by observing the elements and using old-time weather folklore. Give it a try. Strengthen your powers of weather observation. You will be amazed.Click here to visit the Weather Folklore page.
This month I also made additions to several pages:
Grandma's Household Tips
Several more old-time household tips have been added to make your life easier.Click here to visit the Household Tips page.
Authentic Victorian Crafts
There are two new additions to this page. Have fun making old-fashioned wax candles, or how about an Aeolian wind harp?Click here to visit the Victorian Crafts page.
Grandma's Christmas Gift Recipes
True, this new addition isn't a Christmas gift "recipe," but it is a wonderful little Christmas craft idea you can make for yourself when the festivities have ended: A Christmas tree pine pillow.Click here to visit the Christmas Gift Recipes page.
My SBI! Recipe
This is a new information page I put up to answer people's frequently asked question about why and how I built my website. Here, you will get to read about my background, as I explain how I went about creating the Easy Dessert Recipes website. I hope you find it interesting. Why not start your own website on a topic you love?Click here to visit the My SBI! Recipe page.
Old Fashioned Recipe
Charity Cake Recipe
This old-fashioned recipe is taken from the book "Dr. Chase's Third, Last and Complete Receipt Book, Memorial Edition" by Dr. Alvin Wood Chase, M.D., published by F. B. Dickerson Company, Detroit and Windsor, in 1891.Sugar, 1 cup; butter the size of an egg; 1 egg; stir to a cream; add sweet milk, 1 cup; flour, 2 cups; cream of tartar, 2 teaspoonfuls; soda, 1 teaspoonful. --Emily A. Hammond
Remarks. -- No other place so appropriate for a poor man's cake recipe, as to let it follow charity cake, for who needs charity any more than a poor man is likely to.
Poor Man's Cake Recipe
One cup of sugar, 1 cup of milk, 1 tablespoonful of butter, 1 teaspoonful cream of tartar, 1/2 teaspoonful of soda dissolved in the milk, 1 egg, a little cinnamon, and enough flour to make it as stiff as pound cake.More Old-Fashioned Dessert Recipes
You will find more old-fashioned recipes published in past issues of the Easy Dessert Recipes Ezine.Click here to access Old Fashioned Recipes from past issues.
Featured Resource
I would like to thank every subscriber who has purchased one or more of my dessert cookbooks. I greatly appreciate it, and I am so pleased to hear that you enjoy reading them and trying the many old-time recipes.
Your eBook purchases make it possible for me to continue providing this website. If you have not had a chance to download your eBook yet, please do so now, and enjoy a season of classic desserts. I would really appreciate your support.
These old-time recipe cookbooks make great presents for birthdays and Christmas. Simply download the eBook and burn the PDF file onto a CD. I include a color CD cover image within each eBook. Just print it out, then cut and insert it into the CD's plastic case for gift giving.
Click here to download your dessert cookbooks.
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Thought For The Day
"It's so beautifully arranged on the plate -- you know someone's fingers have been all over it."--Julia Child on nouvelle cuisine
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