A collection of Halloween party menus and recipes (1904-1959).
Category: Food
Recipes from The Woman Suffrage Cookbook, 1886
Three recipes from The Woman Suffrage Cookbook: Waterlily Eggs, Baked Tomatoes, and Salmon Hash.
An Update + Summer Recipes from the Archive
Check out these summer recipes from the History Dollop archive.
WWII Food Rationing: Eggs in Rice Nests & Cheese Muffins (1943)
From “The Victory Cook Book,” brought to you by Lysol Disinfectant.
Historic Cookbooks Digital Collection
Introducing the digitized primary resource companion to A Dollop of History.
Macrows: Medieval Mac & Cheese
A circa 1390 dish of pasta layered with cheese and butter.
Two Hundred Years of Thanksgiving Food (1740-1940)
A collection of recipes and materials from primary sources dated 1742-1940.
Solaet van pastinaken (Parsnip Salad), 1560
This Dutch parsnip salad is based on an earlier recipe by Bartolomeo Platina, circa 1475.
Orange Ice Cream, 1910
This deliciously simple vintage ice cream recipe is made only with orange juice, cream and sugar.
Coffee Cream Jello, 1978
Originally posted on Molded Memories:
Today’s jello creation comes from another recipe book on loan from my mom, which, like the last one, is held together with a rubber band. Without a cover I can’t tell you exactly what it’s called or how old it is but I can guess with 99.5% accuracy that it…