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| Great Grandma Scott's recipes for Cinnamon and Coconut Biscuits |
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| Great Grandma's Cinnamon Biscuits |
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| Agnes Scott's Coco-nut biscuits |
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| 1956 - Waterfall Gully Road Sisters: Agnes Scott and May Telfer Note the aprons |
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Those biscuits/cookies look & sound like they are delicious. I can almost smell them baking! Sad story on how she came to open a tea shop.
ReplyDeleteYes, very sad.
DeleteThe biscuits were very delicious..........especially the cinnamon bickies :)
Another lucky person with a "cookery book" with handwritten recipes! I'm a cinnamon AND coconut fan, so...
ReplyDeleteMy cousin has the original but I have copied it for my records :)
DeleteWhat a treasure that book is. Biscuits look great.
ReplyDeleteI have a goal of cooking it all and making a recipe book............One day!
DeleteWonderful story! Which recipes have you tried more than once? I like how neat Agnes' handwriting is, as if to aid another baker, but she leaves out instructions for temperature and time that modern cooks would expect.
ReplyDeleteYes some of the method is not very clear in many of them. I have worked out most of them (but I had some jam that failed). The jam rolly polly is amazing and we have had several times!
DeleteNeat cookie recipes, still delicious today. How lovely the ladies in their aprons. I wear an apron when I am cooking. An old recipe book is always a treasure, because some one took the time to write the recipes down, guessing cookery books were not so freely available as they are today.
ReplyDeleteMy grandmother wore an apron too, but I don't remember my mother ever wearing an apron.
DeleteLove the biccies and the tea sets...so much if the era. I have some family books too....but I haven't made the biscuits,
ReplyDeleteYes, I love the old tea sets too. So much nicer than our modern day crockery.
DeleteA treasured recipe book. Lovely handwriting. We don't teach kids to write like that anymore - more's the pity. My mother's recipe book had all the rquired ingredients, but rarely the method, which was OK because she knew what to do next, but I don't !!!
ReplyDeleteYes, the hand writing is lovely and easy to read. The method not so good and a few spelling errors too :)
DeleteThose biscuits look delicious. How wonderful to have the recipes and her book.
ReplyDeleteI would think that the recipes in her were the items that sold best in the tea house? I haven't found anything that I haven't enjoyed.
DeleteMy mother had a handwritten cookbook that had belonged to her mother. I wish I had it, but it wasn't saved after my mother died.
ReplyDeleteSomewhere I have recipes from my Nanna too. I will need to try and find them.
DeleteYou must have had to guess the rest of the cinnamon biscuit recipe but looks like it worked well, and I love your photographs of the results on the pretty plates with their matching teacups. Great Grandma Scott would be proud of you!
ReplyDeleteWe have made them several times as they are wonderful! Tasty and crisp! We find that rolling the mixture out and cutting with a glass seems to give the best result but I have no idea how Great Grandma did it, as she was not very clear in her method.
DeleteNothing like home-made biscuits! Thanks for the recipes.
ReplyDeleteI was a bit skeptical about the tomato jam but it was amazing!
DeleteYour great grandmother had such beautifully neat handwriting. The biscuits look delicious and the teasets so pretty.
ReplyDeleteIt appears to be written in ink and there is hardly a smear!
DeleteI love old recipes like this when they make feel completely ignorant with things like bake in "quick oven." I haven't a clue.
ReplyDeleteIt must have been difficult cooking with an oven heated by fire, it would have been very irregular heat.
DeleteSharon your post so reminds me of my maternal grandmother in her apron, making my grandfather a cup of tea and baking :)
ReplyDeleteThank you Kerryn. Thinking that when I am a grandma, I might wear an apron and cook biscuits and cakes......as it is such a nice memory that I have about my grandmothers.
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