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No. 2 Gingerbread

    Beat, to a cream, one pound of sugar and one and a half pounds of butter; add two table-spoons of ginger, a little salt, and one and a half pounds of sifted flour; mix this well, and add half a tea-spoonful of supercarbonate of soda dissolved in half a pint of new milk; bake immediately in buttered tins. Enjoy, Pat Earnest October 29, 2015 Delaware

Taken from The Practical Cook Book; Containing Upwards of One Thousand Receipts: Consisting of Directions for Selecting, Preparing and Cooking all Kinds of Meats, Fish, Poultry, and Game, Soups, Breads, Vegetables and Salads. Also for the Making of all Kinds of Plain and Fancy Breads, Pastries, Puddings, Cakes, Creams, Ices, Jellies, Preserves, Marmalades, etc. etc. etc. Together with Various Miscellaneous Receipts, and Numerous Preparations for Invalids. By Mrs. Bliss, Philadephia, E. Claxton and Company, 920 Market Street, 1882. page. 191

No. 1. Gingerbread

    This is the first in a series of ten gingerbread recipes that I'll post through the holidays. Please share, but credit Passed Time if you would..the more readers we have, the more information we can put out there for you. To answer "why bother putting up old recipes?" Well, food was food then and not GMO, chemical-laced processed, bleep. It is our hope that our readers can make real food if they can find the ingredients. Enjoy, Pat Earnest October 29, 2015 Delaware

     Dissolve one tea-cup of butter in one pint of molasses; add two eggs well beaten, one table-spoonul of ginger, and seven tea-cups of sifted flour; mix well, and add two teaspoonfuls of supercarbonate of soda, dissolved in a tumbler of new milk; bake immedieately in buttered tins. This, as well as the six succeeding [recipes] is a soft gingerbread.

Taken from The Practical Cook Book; Containing Upwards of One Thousand Receipts: Consisting of Directions for Selecting, Preparing and Cooking all Kinds of Meats, Fish, Poultry, and Game, Soups, Breads, Vegetables and Salads. Also for the Making of all Kinds of Plain and Fancy Breads, Pastries, Puddings, Cakes, Creams, Ices, Jellies, Preserves, Marmalades, etc. etc. etc. Together with Various Miscellaneous Receipts, and Numerous Preparations for Invalids. By Mrs. Bliss, Philadephia, E. Claxton and Company, 920 Market Street, 1882. page 190

  I was recently contacted by a contributor who wanted to run a segment on Passed Time involving The Illustrated London News. Considering the Great War was ongoing 100 years ago today, his idea was to match the corresponding TILN with its modern date to illustrate global events.

  The folks here at Passed Time thought this was a great idea and nearly ran with it, thinking The Illustrated London News was out of copyright. Whoa. It is not. It ceased publication in 2003 (after beginning in 1842), but it is still owned by Illustrated London News, LTD. Furthermore, someone else already had this idea. 

   Although it is never the intent here at Passed Time to take other's ideas, we do want to recognize those who have the ideas. Furthermore, it seems many are not aware of the existence of The Illustrated London News. I showed the copy I had been sent to a group of computer operators and everyone thought it was an impressive piece of work. So check it out, at The Illustrated First World War

   The entire run of The Illustrated London News is available through subscription at Gale Digital Collections

ALBANY, N.Y. — The wreck site of one of the earliest propeller-driven steamships to sail the Great Lakes has been found in Lake Ontario more than 150 years after it sank in a storm, killing everyone on board, a team of New York-based shipwreck hunters said Tuesday.

Jim Kennard and Roger Pawlowski, both of the Rochester area, said the wreck of the Bay State is in water hundreds of feet deep, about seven miles off Fair Haven in central New York, 155 miles west of Albany....Read More

The Salute, Bloomfield High School New Jersey, 1932

   It seems one "Jimmie" Wheelan had a real thing for Eleanor Menne. As I stated in part one, I prefer to remember them as kids, and kids in love, so have done no further research. However, if you can share any information, readers always enjoy hearing about it. Personally, I'd love to know if Jimmie got the girl. Enjoy, Pat Earnest, Delaware 16 October 2015.

Inks for Writing 1865

From the Independence?

     I apologize for the fuzz, but the article is in a scrapbook and I did not want to crack the spine. This article about inks was taken from the Independence (if I am reading it correctly). Feel free to share, but please credit Passed Time with your find. Enjoy! Pat Earnest, In Their Own Words for Passed Time. Dover, Delaware 8 October 2015

We're back with Part II in "The Salute" series. If you are a Garriga family member, you will be pleased to note that your father/grandfather was noted as a "nice guy" by at least one of his fellow Bloomfield High School classmates in 1932. Next to Garriga and Gorsline, someone took the time to write "miler." As the prior owner of this yearbook (possibly Andrew Tymon), was a sports fan, I suspect "miler" has something to do with track and field. Enjoy, Pat Earnest for Passed Time, Dover, DE. 6 October 2015

  One thing becomes apparent when going through old school yearbooks*--our parents and grandparents were as lost and confused as we were in high school!  I'd like to remember these kids from 1932 as they were in 1932, so I did no further research on them. If Russell Fischer was nineteen at the time of this yearbook, as the entry indicates, he and his fellow classmates were at a prime age to march off to war in '41.** Let's enjoy their moments when they dreamed of "studying art in yale" or were enjoying their moment in the sun via sports. Enjoy! Pat Earnest--In Their Own Words for Passed Time 5 October 2015, Dover, Delaware

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* Why not scan the entire yearbook? I considered doing so, and time-permitting (or enough people making the request) and I might attempt it. For now, other sites scan yearbooks, such as Old-Yearbooks.com. (I don't know if they charge or not). In Their Own Words, however, is my feeble attempt to flesh out people from the past and present them as, well...people. They were far more than a birth and death date. They had their own trials or, like Fischer, their own moments of glory. Through their words, the past becomes accessible and enjoyable. 

**Although I did no further research, our readers love extra information. If you know anything about Andy Tymon or Russell Fischer, please share. 

I remember Momma telling me family stories from the time I was very young. My favorite stories were about Granny, who I was named after, Emily. She was the strong heroine who placed the responsibility of her orphaned younger sisters before her own chance at a college education. My grandmother died when I was five years old.  I remember her a little.  My great aunts however, her orphaned younger sisters, were an integral part of my upbringing. I visited them with my mother every year. They were all tough and lovely. I heard of their hardships and triumphs growing up.  Their Southern heritage was a source of pride; family meant everything to them.  Their father was Francis Laurens Glover.  I heard how he was shot in the face as a boy when he went hunting with his brothers.  He was walking behind and the gun slung over the shoulder of one of the boys in front accidentally shot him.  I always thought he must have been very charasmatic with only half of a face to catch the eye of my beautiful great-grandmother Lily Ruth Hudson.  They had seven children, five girls and two boys.  One boy died very young and I will share that powerful story in another post.  The other brother I know little about.  But the five Glover Girls have a marvelous dramatic history that I wish to preserve.  The frailty of this oral history struck me three years ago when my last surviving great-aunt Doney died.  No longer could my mother and I go to her for forgotten details.  I grieved for the death of a generation and the possible death of these great stories.  I have the privilege and dream to gather these stories from my mother, aunt, and their cousins and preserve them in writing.  My grandmother and her sisters were not really famous.  They did not change the course of history.  But they lived and struggled.  They were remarkable and ordinary.   They were my family and are still alive in the wonderful stories I share with you.  

    Now that you've read about the St. John's Bible here on Passed Time, you realize you would love the opportunity to see this wonderful work of art. The organization that commissioned the St. John's Bible, Saint John's Abbey and University in Collegeville, Minnesota knew it would be a draw (even though they were somewhat surprised at the momentum the St. John's Bible has enjoyed). They wisely left the Bible unbound, in order for it to tour around the globe. 

    The Biggs Museum of American Art in Dover, Delaware will exhibit 35 leaves from the Bible. The exhibition, Illuminating the Word, will begin on December 4, 2015.* Check back on Passed Time for developments regarding this exhibition. Best, Pat Earnest 21 September 2015 

*Passed Time's goal is to eventually go global. Okay, some of our readers and contributors are from Europe, so even more global. As such, it is not my intent to focus only on Delaware or the mid-Atlantic region. I just happened to know about  this particular exhibit for very obvious reasons.