Historic Recipes

This Peanut Butter Bread recipe was plucked from the Settlement Cook Book written by Lizzie Black Kander. A middle class woman and a figure in the Progressive Era reform movements, Kander wrote the cookbook in 1901 to help fund the Milwaukee Settlement House. The Settlement House movement was driven by established US citizens to help …

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This particular apple fritter recipe came from the 1828 classic, Mrs. Mary Randolph’s “The Virginia Housewife”. Randolph came from a rich and politically prominent family in Virginia. Her family connections included the Jeffersons among others. Her brother would go on to marry Thomas Jefferson’s daughter Martha and eventually become the Governor of Virginia. Randolph’s own …

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