Family Recipes
Mary Wade, Bartholomew's wife.
Grandma Smith's Cake
1 lb. sugar
8 oz butter
4 eggs
1 lbs flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
Add sweet milk to right the mixture.
Cherries cut up as desired.
Bake 1 hour in moderate oven.
Edna's Oat Meal Cookies
(Edna Wade Kessell)
1 cup butter or lard
1 cup sugar
5 tablespoons of butter milk
1 teaspoon soda
2 eggs
2 cups of oatmeal
2 cups of flour
1 cup of raisins
1 teaspoon vanilla
Drop in teaspoonfuls and bake.
Dumplings
Beatrice Wade Sipher
2 cups flour
2 heaping teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
Sift altogether and add 1 cup sweet milk.
Drop by spoonfuls into kettle; boil moderately
for 15 minutes without covering,
then put on cover and boil 5 minutes longer.
Fish
Myrtle Annie Sipher, 1931
15 gal. jar
52 fish
2 gal. vinegar
3 gal. water
2 boxes spices, boiled in water.
12 lemons
10 lbs onions
2 cups of salt
Editor's Note: The above recipes were taken from an area cookbook dating back to the early 1900s. Women from the DeSmet and Bancroft areas submitted recipes. Some recipes were handwritten within the blank pages of this cookbook. I have not tried any of these recipes, but would love to hear from you if you do!
