Butter and flour two 4 1/2" x 8 1/2" (11 x 22 cm) loaf pans and preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). You can use a single larger loaf pan if you'd like, but you may need to bake it for longer ...

2. Minced Salt Fish Trust the Gorton's fisherman-he brought his fish sticks recipe all the way from the 1800s. The Young Housekeeper's Friend cookbook by Mary Hooker Cornelius has a recipe for ...

Plain Raisin Cake Take three cups of flour, a cup of milk, a cup and a half of sugar, half a cup of molasses, half cup of butter, and a half pound of chopped raisins, 3 eggs, a teaspoon of ...

Based on a grocery ledger with prices from Lott Brothers in Twin Bridges in 1862, the “Civil War” cake likely cost $10 to make. In today’s prices, that’s a whopping $240.