Recipe from 1886

This was on the Balling history page. The clipping came from one of the area newspapers from June of 1886.

I had to go look up saleratus ... commonly referred to as baking powder these days it seem???

My momma cooked with molasses when I was growing up. We grew our own sorghum.

I also had to look it up.



I sent this recipe to my sister, she also said that she remembered mom and our grandma using molasses in a lot of baking.

yep, my mom & both grandmothers used a lot of molasses ... my dad always called it black strap ... seems like it can in a gallon metal can like paint if memory serves me??? We ate it on pancakes/waffles too.

That would make sense as sugar was more expensive and therefore harder to come by when most you guys were coming up through the Great Depression.

I have this cookbook which was originally printed in 1901 and read it quite a bit. Some of it makes sense and some of it is hard to make sense out of without the side notes because they did and used a lot of different things back then.

Its interesting to see what has changed and what is still the same.


https://www.amazon.com/Picayunes-Cr...mp;psc=1&refRID=EZJRWPYY5E1JWZ37PK5R

This is worth the time spent reading it.The Story of the Great Molasses Flood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood