The recipe box I found.

[polkanut]

At the house I helped get ready for the estate sale in October I found this Ohio Art recipe box in excellent condition, and chock full of lots of great vintage recipes.  I've been trying them out occasionally, and have found a couple of keepers so far.  One is for Special K Bars, and a great pumpkin nut bread. I'll post the recipes if anyone is interested.

 

[chachp]

Pumpkin Nut Bread

<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">That sounds good.   I'd love to see that recipe.  Thank you!!</span>

 

<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Cute recipe box.  I can just see someone sitting at an old kitchen table going through that box looking for some special old recipe.</span>

 

[kevin313]

I'll bet there's a lot of great old recipes in there - it's like a treasure chest of recipes! Fun find!!

 

[polkanut]

I made the Special K® Bars but substituted Rice Krispies® to make them gluten-free for a recent German club board meeting.  One of my fellow board members has Celiac disease and was so happy to be able to eat a snack that someone brought.  Otherwise, Tom usually has to refrain from having any of the snacks.  

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[polkanut]

Pumpkin Nut Bread

Here you are Chach, exactly as written,

 

2 2/3 cups sugar

1 cup Wesson oil

16 ounce can pumpkin

4 eggs

1 cup water or cold coffee

1 cup chopped dates or raisins (can omit)

1 cup nuts, chopped

1 tsp. cinnamon

4 tsp. pumpkin pie spice

1 ½ tsp. salt

2 tsps. baking soda

½ tsp. baking powder

3 ½ cups all-purpose flour, sifted

 

Preheat oven to 350°.  Mix all dry ingredients together thoroughly.  Add chopped nuts, and coat completely with flour mixture.  Mix all remaining ingredients in large mixing bowl.  Beat on medium speed until completely mixed.  Add flour mixture a little at a time until well mixed.  Grease & flour 2 large or 4 small loaf pans.  Bake 1 hour or until toothpick comes out clean.   

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[chachp]

Thank you!!

<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Thank you for posting this Tim.  I am going to try this over the holidays.</span>

 

[appnut]

I'll have to leave out the nuts.  Special K bars please.

 

[polkanut]

Special K Bars recipe.

6 cups Special K cereal (can substitute Rice Krispies)

1 cup white sugar

1 cup light corn syrup

1 cup peanut butter (creamy or chunky)

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1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

1 cup butterscotch chips

 

Measure cereal into a large "buttered" bowl.

Combine sugar and syrup in a medium saucepan.  Cook over moderate heat, stirring frequently, until mixture bubbles around the edge of the pan.  Remove from heat.  Stir in peanut butter; mix well.  Pour peanut butter mixture over cereal; mix until well-blended.  Press mixture into a buttered 9 x 13-inch pan.  Let stand in cool place to harden.

 

Melt chocolate and butterscotch chips together over hot but not boiling water, stirring until well-blended.  Remove from heat; spread evenly over cereal mixture.  Cool until firm.  Cut into bars.

 

Yield: 48 bars 2 x 1 inches. 

 

[chachp]

I made the Pumpkin Nut Bread

<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">It sure smells good in the house right about now.  I can't wait to cut into it.  I figured a Vintage recipe deserves a Vintage Mixer!!  Thank you again for sharing the recipe Tim.</span>

 

[polkanut]

I like it while it's still slightly warm and just a light smear of butter so that it melts into the bread.  Soooo good!

 

Hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

 

[chachp]

Ha! That is exactly what we did!

<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 12pt;">One half of one is gone already.  I thought it would have also been good with some cream cheese on it.  This loaf is so light though it would be difficult to spread.</span>

 

<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 12pt;">This really is a great recipe.  I like the texture and the taste is great.</span>

 

[polkanut]

Glad you're enjoying it!

 

[polkanut]

Here's today's "golden oldie" recipe.

My sister called that her rhubarb bush was prime for picking so I went over the other day and pulled some nice stalks for baking purposes.  After it was all peeled and chopped I ended up with about 6 cups or so.  So I decided to dig into the recipe box and see what I could find, and this is what I came up with.  It's from a woman by the name of Cora De Jong (of Dutch descent).  I'm typing it just as written.

 

Rhubarb Cake

1 ½ cups firmly packed brown sugar

½ cup shortening or "oleo"

1 egg

1 cup sour milk or buttermilk

1 tsp. baking soda

½ tsp. baking powder

½ tsp. salt

2 level cups sifted flour

1 ½ cups chopped raw rhubarb

Topping:

½ cup white sugar

½ cup chopped nuts

½ tsp. cinnamon

 

Preheat oven to 350°.  Mix first 8 ingredients together, and fold in rhubarb last.  Pour batter into a greased & floured 9"x13"x2" pan.  Mix topping ingredients together and sprinkle evenly over cake batter.  Bake for 45 minutes.  Cool completely before cutting.

 

Note: To make sour milk measure 4 tsps. white vinegar into a 1 cup measure and add milk or ½ & ½ to equal 1 cup.  Let stand 5 minutes or more before using.

 

[revvinkevin]

Rhubarb Cake

 

 

I was able to try it when I met Tim and his wife in Wausau.  His rhubarb cake is really delicious!   YUM!

 

Thank you again for your hospitality Tim!

 

Kevin

 

 

[polkanut]

You're welcome Kevin!

The cake I made when you were here is my Grandma Wilde's recipe.  This is a different recipe that I tried today for the first time.  This one is probably just as old as Grandma's recipe though.

 

[revvinkevin]

OK, Grandma Wilde's recipe was delicious!

 

 

 

OK so how does this recipe stand up to Grandma Wilde's recipe?

 

[polkanut]

The only difference is the topping on each one.  Grandma's consists of brown sugar & nuts.  This one is white sugar, cinnamon, and nuts.

 

[polkanut]

Another recipe from the box.

I'm planning on making this recipe next weekend.  I will be stopping at the farmers market on Weds after work to get some fresh apples for the cake.  I will post pics and a review later.

 

[twintubdexter]

That recipe box is very cool. I wonder if anyone collects vintage boxes like that? I like collections, especially the kind that don't take up a lot of room. Massed together they'd make a very nice presentation, filled or not.

 

I've seen a few of these Westinghouse Range recipe boxes on ebay for very little $. 

 

[polkanut]

My wife was at an estate sale this last Friday and there was a small collection of recipe boxes that the lady of the house had acquired over the years.  There was even one like mine she noticed.

 

There's a group I belong to on Facebook called Mid-Century Modern Kitsch, and the posters on it have all types of collections.  One woman in the group found a vintage Ohio Art recipe box similar to mine and decided it needed a good cleaning.  So, she put it in the dishwasher.  All of the paint came off.  What an idiot!  I cleaned mine by spraying a paper towel with Windex and just lightly wiping it down.  Live & learn I guess.