Newspaper clippings

I have spent most of the day baking and browsing through the cookbooks again.  It is amazing that there are still quite a few newspaper clippings still in these books. Some I believe from the 1960"s and maybe even earlier possibly as far back as the late 40's and early 50's. Most of the recipes came from the social pages and extoll the virtues of being a good mother and housewife. Fewer women worked for wages back then, and indeed were the mothers of the "Baby Boomers".

 I think I will try some of these recipes out as well, but today I made Everest biscuits, flavoured with cinnamon, and Wheatmeal and Date Nut Roll. (Bit of a misnomer, that as it has no nuts in it at all. I guess it is called that because it is baked in a couple of Nut Roll tins. Both worked out really well, so here is a small sample (photos first this time)

Wheatmeal and Date Roll

Everest Biscuits