Delicious Soft Raisin Cookies
Soft raisin cookies made with brown sugar, warm spices, nuts, and raisins simmered until tender. A simple handwritten recipe with a homey feel.
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Marge’s Applesauce Drop Cookies
A typed 1951 recipe for Marge’s Applesauce Drop Cookies, made with sweetened applesauce, raisins, bran, and warm spices, and passed along through Ann.
Apple Sauce Cake
A handwritten recipe for Apple Sauce Cake made with applesauce, warm spices and chopped fruit, with no baking directions written down — it was a given the cook would know the rest.
Applesauce Cookies
A simple old-fashioned applesauce cookie recipe with raisins and nuts, saved on a well-worn handwritten scrap from the recipe box.
Fruit Cake
Forget the fruit cake that has to sit around for weeks—this typed recipe says to dig in while it’s still new, with raisins, dates, figs, citron and plenty of nuts packed into every slice.
Banana Bread
A handwritten Banana Bread recipe for two loaves, made with mashed bananas and sour milk, with optional nuts and a handwritten suggestion to add raisins.
Butter Milk Soup & Lemon Soup
A typewritten page preserves two separate sweet soup recipes. Buttermilk Soup combines oatmeal, raisins, and lemon peel in a creamy, tangy base, while Lemon Soup features tapioca, raisins, and fresh lemon. Both are enriched with egg yolks and sugar, creating comforting dishes that could be enjoyed as light meals or desserts.
Apple Sauce Cookies
A typed recipe for spiced Apple Sauce Cookies made with applesauce, raisins, and chopped nuts, yielding about six dozen cookies.
C&H Applesauce Cake
A C&H Sugar applesauce cake made with brown sugar, raisins, walnuts, and warm spices.
Rhubarb Conserve
A typed recipe for Rhubarb Conserve—rhubarb, citrus, raisins, and almonds come together in a preserve that’s anything but ordinary.
Pumpkin Cake
A 1969 typed recipe for Pumpkin Cake—three warmly spiced little loaves, plenty of pumpkin, and your choice of nuts or raisins.