About Artisan in the Woods
If you love to create, to sew, to cook, to garden, or wish you knew how, if you are inspired by the beautiful outdoors, if you want to live simply, live passionately, and find the art in every day, then you have found the right place! Welcome!Subscribe
Shop
-
Find me on Facebook!
Artisan in the Woods
Categories
Archives
Tags
art blogs Books breakfast business Christmas Cooking crafts cranberries create-a-creature crochet environment Fabric family food frugality Gardening garden produce gifts giveaway Gran's Fabric Project handmade holidays herbs kids life menu Nana's Recipes nature organizing patterns quilts recipes recycling renos sewing simplicity snow summer teaching tomato tutorial upcycle vegan vegetarian zucchini
Category Archives: Nana's Recipe project
Gram’s Slaw – A Special Guest Post!
As I mentioned on Tuesday, Jeannie from Life on the Clothesline is visiting today to share one of her favourite old-fashioned recipes (with a bonus recipe for chicken strips thrown in too!) This is the second post in her series on … Continue reading
Honey Cakes – Cake or Cookie?
Recipe: Honey Drop Cakes Source: New Royal Cook Book Date: 1922 I decided to take a break from the 1940s and explore some of the other cookbooks my great-grandmother left behind. She has many books that were put out by … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking/Recipes, Nana's Recipe project
Tagged Cooking, cranberries, Nana's Recipes
1 Comment
1940s Bran and ‘Lasses Muffins
Source: Victory Economy Bulletin No. 10 Date: 1940s Here is another no-sugar war-time recipe. One of the reasons I am enjoying these recipes so much is the absence of refined sugars. I decided last year to try to use natural … Continue reading
Victory Economy Jam Roly-Poly
Source: Victory Economy Bulletin No. 10 Date: WW2 It’s been a while since I have done one of these posts. If you are unfamiliar with this project, you can find out more here. With the war putting restrictions on sugar, … Continue reading
Pineapple Cheese Cake
Recipe: Juliet’s Pineapple Cheesecake Source: Nana’s Handwritten Recipes Date: unknown Some of you might remember me mentioning my failed attempt at my great-grandmother’s cheesecake recipe. We will call this “Exhibit A.” As you can see, Exhibit A does not really resemble … Continue reading
Ginger Cookies
Wow! I was surprised by all the kind comments after the muffins didn’t work out. I’m really not that upset – I knew going into this project that I couldn’t possibly like all of the recipes (remember the Ox head?) In the … Continue reading
1940s Orange Honey Muffins
Recipe: Orange Honey Muffins Date: WW II Source: Economy Bulletin#7 After the success of the date bread I decided to try another sugar-saving recipe from the “Lakeside Home Services Bureau” victory economy bulletins. I was excited about this one because … Continue reading
1940s Honey Wholewheat Bread
Recipe: Honey Wholewheat Bread Source: Victory Economy Bulletin No. 3 Date: 1940s – World War II One of the reasons that I was so excited to find my great-grandmother’s recipes was that I was sure they would be a good … Continue reading
WW2 Oatmeal Fruit Bars
Recipe: Oatmeal Fruit Bars Source: The Toronto Star Date: 1943 I have started to sift through some of the many recipes my great-grandmother clipped out of newspapers. I am finding the newspapers not only great for finding recipes, but also … Continue reading
Coconut Macaroons
Recipe: Coconut Macaroons Source: Nana’s handwritten recipes Hubby and I were craving something sweet last night but there was absolutely nothing in the house that met that description (I offered to make hubby a smoothie but he turned me down - … Continue reading
