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Cooking & Baking

JustAnotherGen

(35,678 posts)

9. A few years back

Reply to chowmama (Original post)

Sun Jan 26, 2025, 08:55 PM

Jan 2025

My mom gave me her mom's cookbooks and recipe tins. I'm.still working through the first tin. I get the biggest kick out of her 1940's ones. Rationing and substitutions!

Her recipe baking cards she has different altitudes time in the oven, baking powder etc etc. So from Denver, to La Jolla, to Lake Tahoe. She would experiment then write it down.

Have fun with it!

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Semi-historic food question [View all] chowmama Jan 2025 OP

Surely AI knows how to bake! bucolic_frolic Jan 2025 #1

So it's the all-purpose flour that wasn't available chowmama Jan 2025 #5

Most people would use general purpose flour... Lithos Jan 2025 #2

That JoC should probably also moniss Jan 2025 #3

Lard for pastry is usually leaf lard dhol82 Jan 2025 #4

Additionally for fruit pies moniss Jan 2025 #7

I have lard from my Mexican grocery in the freezer. chowmama Jan 2025 #6

LOL!! and I remember the coffee can moniss Jan 2025 #8

A few years back JustAnotherGen Jan 2025 #9

Interesting. surrealAmerican Jan 2025 #10