From a 19th century recipe for cheese straws
Ingredients:
- 1 cup flour
- 2 cups grated cheese
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- Water
Preparation:
One cup of flour, two cups of grated cheese, one teaspoon of salt, one teaspoon of baking powder, and water enough to roll out like pie dough; roll thin, and cut with pastry wheel in long, narrow strips. Bake in quick oven.
MRS. FRED. SCHAEFFER.
Recipes 1894 Style |Cheese 1894 Style
Adapted from Recipes Tried and True, compiled by the Ladies' Aid Society of the First Presbyterian Church, Marion, Ohio, 1894, a source in the public domain.
The recipes in this collection are representative of cooking in America in the late 19th century, and the compilation of a cookbook shows the ways in which women were beginning to organize and act both within their traditional roles and outside of traditional expectations. The recipes are presented exactly as written in 1894, and may not conform to current nutritional or food preparation standards. Try at your own risk.
