Introduction to Family Recipes.

3.5.3 Ernstine Selma Arnold A selection of recipes from Selma’s Recipe Book May 9th 1913, South Kilkerran Yorke Peninsula

My mother, Fay Kinsley nee Arnold, gave me her aunt Selma Arnold’s hand written recipe book when I was a young woman. Selma was the third child of Johann August and Ernestine Louise Pauline Arnold. She suffered from epileptic fits and had a very restricted life and died, aged thirty nine years. This recipe book gives a lovely insight into her young life. She was nineteen when she wrote this recipe book.

Christine Gates 14.08.2022

I have copied a number of recipes from her book.

Cakes:

Pages 6 & 7        Dolly Parton cake, Queen cake, Jelly cake, Pound cake, Yankee cake & Canterbury cake

Pages 10 & 11    German cake, Coffee cake, Egg cake, Small cake, Alber cake, Tea cake, cakes, Lyer cake, Cakes.

Pages 12 & 13    Cream Puffs, Louch cake, Pound cake Puff cake, Rock cake, Queen cake

Pages 16 & 17    Grandmothers cake, Short cake, Roller cake, French cake, Silver cake, Tip Tap cake, Syrup cake, Orange cake

Pages 18 & 19    Coffee cake, Biscuits, Noce biscuits, Pound cake, Batchlor Buttons, Ribbon cake, Coconut biscuits

Pages 26 & 27    Matchles cake, buttermilk cake, Spong cake, Tarts, Rock cakes Snap gingerbread, Currant cake

Pages 30 & 31    Nice Plain cake, Apple cake, Kisses, Lemon cheese, Unknown cake

Pages 34 & 35    Kisses, Rock buns, Ginger bread, Coffee cake, Biscuits, Spong cake

Pages 42 & 43    Albert cake, Sponge cake, Custard, Biscuits without eggs, Dumplins, ie crust, Cream puffs

Pages 46 & 47    Biscuits, Butter sponge, Orange cake

Pages 48 & 49    Filling for above, Coffee cake, Date Cake, Spong cake

Pages 50 & 51    Lamington cake, Cocoanut icing, Ribbon cake, Spong cake

Pickles & sauces:

Pages 54 & 55    Green tomato pickles, Tomato sauce, Pickles, Bloater paste

Pages 56 & 57    Pickles Cauliflower, Pickle Grapes, Grape Pickles, Pickled Figs

Pages 58 & 59    Green Tomato Pickles, Green tomato relish, Anchovie Past

Page 60                Tomato Sauce

Puddings:

Pages 64 & 65    Plum Pudding, Plum Pudding No 2, High church Pudding, Roller Pudding, Ginger Pudding, Raspberry Pudding, Jam Pudding

Pages 66 & 67    Louise Pudding (Selma had a sister called Louise), Hannah Pudding, Pudding, Xmas Pudding, Golden Pudding, Spong Pudding, German Pudding, Brwon Pudding

Page 68                Steam Pudding, Broken Hill Pudding, Blance Mange

Drinks:

Pages 78 & 79    Lemonade, Sugar Beer, Hop Beer, Raspberry Vinegar, Peppermint, Lemon Syrup, Ginger Beer

Pages 80 & 81    No 2 Ginger Beer, Sugar Beer No 2, Lemon Syrup, Herb Beer, Cider, Lemonade

Pages 82 & 83    Yeast, *German recipe (This is the only recipe written in German, and suggest Selma spoke and wrote in German), To make Sauerkraut

Cakes:

Pages 84- & 85-Pound cake, Ginger cake, Cockles, Seed cake

Pages 88 & 89    Grace cake, Spong cake, Orange cake, Saltana cake, Date cake

Pages 90 & 91    Plain cake, Black Fruit cake, Cakes for lemon Honey, Honey cake, Yeast buns

Pages 92 & 93    Brwon sponge, Sausages, Ginger cake, Lemon cheese

Page 94                Lemon cheese cont

Starch:

Page 96                Starch for starching stiff shirts from Mrs. F Yonkin