July 31, 2009
Publication Date: July 2009
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Welcome
Hi,Sorry that this month's newsletter is a bit late, but holiday time intervened. Although building a website is one of the best jobs/hobbies you could ever have, you still need to take some time off now and then to take stock and recharge the old batteries. I now feel refreshed and excited about some new ideas I have in the works for the website.
We are well into summer now, and although the weather has been a bit unseasonable at times, it's great to get outdoors, even if it is to cut the grass.
Have you taken time off to enjoy the warm weather yet?
Round up your family or a few special friends and surprise them with an impromptu old-fashioned picnic. All you need are some sandwiches and several old-time desserts. Perhaps a homemade pie, a frosted dessert cake, and a tin of cookies. They'll love it.
Thank you for visiting.
Till next time,
Don
P.S. Here's something special for you:
Grandma McIlmoyle's Little Dessert Book (depicted above) features 23 old-fashioned dessert recipes that Grandma collected in a little notebook and wrote in her own handwriting. She began her little recipe book while homesteading on the Alberta prairie in the early 1900s.
You'll not only view the recipes as Grandma wrote them in her little book, but I have also included a transcript of the recipes for easier reading. It's my little tribute to Grandma and her recipes, and the ebook is yours for the downloading.
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As time goes on, I plan to offer other complimentary ebooks to my newsletter subscribers only, so keep watching in future newsletters.
Website Updates
Welcome to this month's updates:No new pages, but have fun poking around the site and finding new recipes that I've added to existing pages.
Have you visited the "Party Line Fun" page yet?
There, you'll discover vintage dessert recipes and interesting tidbits of nostalgia. You can even create your very own web pages and add comments. So grab a coffee and spend some time.
Add your family's favorite old-time dessert recipe as a tribute to your Mom or Grandma. Everyone would love to see it.
Visit the Party Line Fun page.
Sometimes, visitors arrive at my site looking for recipes for cakes, pastries, pies, and cookies, and they don't realize that there's a wide variety of such recipes from different countries in the International Dessert Recipes category. Spend time poking through its pages, and you'll find some real gems.
Visit the International Dessert Recipes page.
Also, the holiday categories contain many wonderful cake, pie, and cookie recipes that can be adapted for use throughout the year.
Visit the Holiday Dessert Recipes page.
Warm weather getting you down? Try a refreshing beverage from Grandma's day. These old-time soft drink recipes are economical, delicious, and very easy to make.
Visit the Old-Time Soft Drink Recipes page.
And More New Pages To Come
See the next edition of this newsletter for additional new recipe pages.Old Fashioned Recipe
This month features a classic recipe for ladyfingers.History of Ladyfingers:
Ladyfingers are also known in various places as Savoy biscuits, savory biscuits, Naples biscuits, sponge biscuits and sponge cookies. The basic lady finger cookie recipe has changed little since the 11th century, when they were first made by a chef for the House of Savoy in France. Ladyfingers were given as gifts to distinguished visitors, and their popularity quickly spread throughout the royal houses of Europe.
Besides being eaten on their own, the small oval sponge cakes shaped like fat fingers are popular as a dessert component, especially in English trifles (old-time trifle recipes can be found on the website). They can be soaked in syrup, layered with custard, smothered in whipped cream, or fancily decorated with icing and served with fruit preserves. But, they are delicious whatever way you serve them.
This old-fashioned cookie recipe is taken from Mrs. Beeton's Household Management, circa 1865.
Classic Lady Finger Cookie Recipe
Ingredients: 4 eggs, 6 oz of pounded sugar, the rind of 1 lemon, 6 oz of flour.Mode: Break the eggs into a basin, separating the whites from the yolks; beat the yolks well, mix with them the pounded sugar and grated lemon rind, and beat these ingredients together for 1/4 hour. Then dredge in the flour gradually, and when the whites of the eggs have been whisked to a solid froth, stir them to the flour, &c.; beat the mixture well for another 5 minutes, then draw it along in strips upon thick cartridge paper to the proper size of the biscuit, and bake them in rather a hot oven; but let them be carefully watched, as they are soon done, and a few seconds over the proper time will scorch and spoil them.
These biscuits, or ladyfingers, as they are often called, are used for making Charlotte russes, and for a variety of fancy sweet dishes.
Enjoy!
More Old-Fashioned Dessert Recipes
You will find more old-fashioned recipes published in past issues of the Easy Dessert Recipes Ezine.Here, you can access Old Fashioned Recipes from past issues.
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