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Retro Recipe 20

Hi everyone this will be our final recipe for the season. This recipe is brought to us by The American Woman’s Cook Book published in 1948. It is called Black Bean Soup, which we all can enjoy now that the weather is cold. 

Ingredients: 

1 Cup of Black Beans 

1 ½ Quart of Water

1 Onion

2 Celery Stalks

1 Lemon

2 Hard-Boiled Eggs

2 Tablespoons of Butter

2 Tablespoons of Flour

1 Tablespoon of Fat from Sautein 

½ Teaspoon of Mustard, Pepper, Salt and Paprika

Instructions:

Soak Beans overnight.

In the morning, drain them and cover them with Cold Water.

Slice and brown the Onion with the Fat.

Add Sliced Onion and the Celery (broken into inch-sized pieces).

Simmer until the Beans are soft and add water from time to time.

Press through a Sieve and Boil the mixture.

Add the Mustard, Salt, Pepper, and Paprika.

Bind the mixture with a Roux (Mixture of Butter and Flour).

Cut Eggs and Lemon into thin slices and add when the soup is ready to serve. 

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Retro Recipe 19

Hi everyone. This recipe is brought to us by The American Woman’s Cook Book published in 1948. This recipe is called Paprika Cream Schnitzel. This will serve 6 people and can be served with boiled or fried noodles. 

Ingredients: 

4 Slices of Bacon, cut fine

1 ½ Pound of Veal Steak

1 Cup of Sour Cream

½ Cup of Tomato Sauce

2 Tablespoons of chopped Onion

1 Tablespoon Paprika

Instructions: 

Fry Bacon till crisp.

Add the Veal (cut into serving portions) and brown in Bacon Fat.

Add Onions and brown.

Add the Paprika and Salt.

Stir in Sour Cream and Tomato Sauce.

Cover pan and cook for at least 30 minutes.

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Retro Recipe 18

Hi Everyone! Here is this week’s Retro Recipe! Another fall staple, it’s time for some Pumpkin Pie. This recipe comes from the Whitehouse Cookbook that was made in 1887. 

Ingredients 

3 Cups of Boiled and Strained Pumpkin (Can substitute Pumpkin for Boston Marrow or Hubbard Squash)

1 Quart of Milk

1 ½ Cups of Sugar

½ Cup of Molasses

4 Eggs

1 Tablespoon of Ginger

1 Tablespoon of Cinnamon

An Under Crust (Can be store-bought or used with any recipe)

Pinch of Salt

Instructions:

Place Pie Crust in a pie tin.

Beat Egg Yolks

Beat Egg Whites Beat all the ingredients together and place in Pie Crust (No Heating Instructions Available)

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Retro Recipe 16

Hi everyone! Here is this week’s Retro Recipe. With autumn on the horizon, this week’s feature a fall staple, sweet potatoes. These sweet tubers will be used in a Sweet Potato Souffle. This recipe comes to us from “Canada’s Prize Recipes” 1930 edition. 

Ingredients: 

2 Cups of Mashed Sweet Potatoes

1 Cup of Milk

3 Beaten Egg Yolks. Keep Egg Whites

2 Tablespoons of Mazola Oil

Pepper and Salt to taste

Instructions: 

Beat Egg Yolk in the Mashed Sweet Potatoes with the Milk.

Beat Egg Whites till stiff peaks

Add Egg white gradually into the Mashed Sweet Potatoes 

Bake in a moderate oven for 40 minutes or until well puffed

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Retro Recipe 15

Good morning and happy Friday everyone! Todays recipe is from the Harmsworth Community Cook Book! The chocolate roll!

Chocolate Roll

Ingredients:

5 eggs beaten separately,

½ cup powdered sugar,

4 tablespoons cocoa,

1 pinch of salt,

1 level tablespoon sifted flour,

1 teaspoon vanilla compound.

Recipe:

Sift flour, sugar and cocoa together.

Beat egg yolks and whites separately, then beat together.

Stir in dry ingredients.

Pour in greased square pan.

Bake 20 minutes in moderate oven.

Place between clean wet cloth wrung dry.

Roll.

Before serving, spread with whipped cream, adding a little powdered sugar and vanilla compound to taste. Roll like jelly roll and serve with chocolate sauce.

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Retro Recipe #14

Hi Everyone! Here is this week’s Retro Recipe. Oyster Rarebit and Croustades (or known as Bread Boxes). These recipes come from the “Specially Selected Recipes from National Home Monthly.” This cookbook was edited by Miss Gertrude Dutton and was from Winnipeg, Manitoba. 

Recipe for the Croustades

Ingredients:

Stale Bread (if pre-sliced, make sure to cut thick)

Melted Butter

Instructions: 

Cut the Bread into thick slices (cubed if wanting smaller portions) and cut the crusts off.

Scoop out the center with ¼-inch walls.

Brush with Melted Butter inside and out.

Brown the Bread in a hot oven. 

Recipe for Oyster Rarebit 

Ingredients:

1 Cup of Oysters

1 Cup of Grated Cheese

2 Eggs

2 Tablespoons of Butter

1 Tablespoon of Milk

Salt and Pepper

Instructions:

Pick over the Oysters and strain the Liquor (the liquid) into a pot. 

Heat the Liquor to the boiling point.

Add the Oysters and heat till the edges curl, then strain from the juice, reserving the Oysters for later. 

Beat Eggs.

Melt the Butter, and add the Cheese as soon as it melts.

Then add the Oyster Liquor, Milk, and Beaten Eggs.

Cook over hot water till the Eggs are done.

Season and Add the Oysters

When heated through, serve in Croustades. 

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Retro Recipe #13

TGIF, right?! This week’s retro recipe is my favourite one so far! From the Russwin Cook Book (specialized for the Russwin meat grinder and food cutters), published in 1903, here is… Baked Eggplant!!

1 eggplant

6 tomatoes

4 crabs or 1 lobster

2 tablespoons breadcrumbs

2 eggs

2 tablespoons butter

Salt and pepper

Boil the eggplant. Scald and peel the tomatoes, cut in halves, and remove the seeds and juice. Chop the lobster or crab meat, also the eggplant and tomato, with the ten-tooth cutter. Mix them with the breadcrumbs, add the beaten egg, melted butter and seasoning. Bake in the crab or lobster shells, or in a shallow dish. Cover with buttered cracker crumbs and bake until brown.

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The Virden Pioneer Home Museum would like to thank all the wonderful volunteers and visitors who helped make this Museum Day a success!

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Retro Recipe #12

This recipe comes from the Favourite Recipes for Home Cooking, which was published by The Daughters of The Kirk in Virden, Manitoba.

The ingredients are:

Macaroni with Sausage

1 pound sausage

2 cups macaroni, cooked

¼ cup chopped onion

3 tablespoons flour

2 ½ cups canned tomatoes

⅛ teaspoon pepper

½ teaspoon mustard

½ teaspoon salt

½ teaspoon worcester sauce

½ cup sliced green pepper

The steps are:

Fry onions in small amount of fat in pan, add flour, stir until smooth, add tomatoes and seasoning, stir until thick, add cooked macaroni and green pepper, add sausage and bake till sausage are cooked and browned in oven.

Happy Friday everyone!

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Retro Recipe

Hi Everyone! Here is this week’s eggcellent Retro Recipe! It comes from the 1924 edition of the Harmsworth Community Cook Book. Profits from this cookbook went to the Virden Hospital. The recipe comes to us from Mrs. Gellie and is called Refreshing Egg Drink. 

Ingredients:

1 Egg

1 Tea Cupful of Milk 

(This term was a British measurement and is believed to have started with apothecaries, who were those tasked with making medicine, in 1824. The conversion for a Tea Cupful is around three fluid ounces (is close to ⅓ cup). 

1 Teaspoon of Sugar

Steps:

Boil the Milk

Beat the Egg and Sugar 

Pour the Boiling Milk with the Egg and Sugar

Flavour as desired (Not mentioned what to use)

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The Bennett Family

Isaac and Ada Bennett

Isaac J. Bennett worked as a horse dealer and owner and volunteered his time to the hospital and school boards (Ada was a part of the Women’s Hospital Aid) and the Red Cross. As you can see, when the Bennetts owned the home (the museum), the property underwent some changes. There were fewer trees (compared to when the Frames owned the land), and the gardens were extensive. He would then sell the home to the H. V. Nichol family.

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Wright Family

John and Mary Wright had six children, Evelyn, Dorothy, Venita, Charles, Eleanor, and Lelia while living here at the museum. John was an accomplished farmer and worked as a member of the school board, John was noted as being one of the oldest citizens in the 1950s and possibly the last pioneer from the 1880s. The home was then owned by the Bennetts. 

If you would like to learn more about the Wright family, you can stop by the museum or check out our “First Families” page on our website at https://virdenpioneerhome.wixsite.com/museum/wright-family 

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Frame Family

If you would like to learn more about the Frame family, you can stop by the museum or check out our “First Families” page on our website at https://virdenpioneerhome.wixsite.com/museum/frame-family.

James Frame built the house in 1888 when he married Abbie Mary Layton. The original house did not have a kitchen, but rather a “lean to kitchen”. The kitchen, the tower, and the bay window were added in 1890. The couple had three children, George, Elanor, and William who all lived in the house. Like many of Virden’s early settlers, the Frames decided to move west to British Columbia in 1911. They sold it to the family, we will discuss next, the Wrights. 

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Retro Recipe 10

Hi Everyone! Here is this week’s Retro Recipe. It comes from the Woman’s World Cookery Calendar. It’s a cool dessert for those hot summer days and serves about 6 to 8 people.

Ingredients:

1 Cup of Grape Juice (Can be substituted for Grape Jelly) 

2 Egg Whites

1 Tablespoon of Gelatin 

½ Cup of Cream

½ Cup of Sugar

1 Tablespoon of Sugar (keep separate from Cup)

½ Teaspoon of Vanilla 

Steps: 

Heat Grape Juice in Double Boiler with the Sugar. 

In a bowl, Soak Gelatin in Cold Water for 5 Minutes, then dissolve in the Grape Juice.

Strain the mixture and let cool until it begins to thicken.

Beat Egg Whites till stiff peaks.

Beat thickened Grape mixture and gradually add the beaten Egg Whites.

Nearly fill sherbet glasses with the Grape/Egg mixture.

Beat Cream, 1 Tablespoon of Sugar, and the Vanilla stiff and top the sherbet glasses. 

Decorate with a skinned and seeded white grape or a Maraschino cherry 

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Home Owners of the Past

Hi Everyone! Tomorrow is the start of Historic Place Days! This year the museum will be focusing on digital content focusing on stories relating to the museum. This first week (July 8th to 17th) we will be exploring some of the residents who once called the museum their home. #virden #museum #historicplaces #historicplacesday

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Retro Recipes 9

Today is Friday! Our recipe for today is Quick Corn Fritters from the Woman’s World Cookery Calendar! Have a great Friday everyone, and a great weekend!

Quick Corn Fritters

1 cup flour

1 ½ teaspoons baking powder

½ teaspoon salt

1 egg

1 cup canned or fresh corn pulp

Sift together the flour, salt and baking powder, add the corn pulp and the egg, well-beaten. Drop by spoonfuls into a frying pan containing two tablespoons of hot fat and fry golden brown on both sides.

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Retro Recipes 8

Its Friday!! Hope everyone is excited for the weekend! Cause its Friday we all know what time it is! Its time for Retro Recipes! This weeks recipe is Killarney Jelly from the Woman’s World Cookery Calendar!

6 tart green apples

3 ½ cups water

1 envelope gelatine

½ cup cream or 1 egg white

½ cup lemon juice

1 cup sugar, granulated

2 tablespoons powdered sugar

½ nut meats

Soak gelatine in ½ cup of cold water and after cutting up apples without paring or coring, cook them in the rest of the water until pulpy. Strain off apple juice without squeezing bag, in it dissolve the softened gelatine. Add the granulated sugar and stir until dissolved, then add strained lemon juice and enough vegetable coloring to make the liquid a sparking green. Strain again into a shallow mold wet with ice and let harden in a cold place for several hours or over night. When ready to serve lift up jelly in irregular pieces with a fork to look like rippled water. Pile nuts, which may be almonds, pistachio, or peanuts, at regular intervals and decorate with sweetened whipped cream or meringue made with egg white.

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