Food Friday: Pork Fruit Cake

I could spend hours looking at this short community cookbook I'm highlighting today. Interesting advertisements and recipes from a different time. Oh and the occasional malt tonic ad for nursing mothers.



Yes, it would seem that the 1898 work, Marshall Ladies' Choicest and Best compiled by the Ladies of St. Cecelia Guild in Marshall, Minnesota has it all. Though my guess is that you won't think much of today's Food Friday recipe.

Sure, the recipe submitted by Mrs. Will Rogers isn't appealing to us today. But the advertisements are a great look at social history. Consider this one advertising for young women.

Or even this one with the approval of Dr. Mary Green.

Oh, the good old days.