Orange Mallobet

I've decided to share with you all another recipe from the Grunow Refrigeration Recipe book. Unfortunately for me, the front cover has completely fallen off, but I am sure that the recipes still work! For today's recipe, I've decided to share with all how to make Orange Mallobet, 1930s style. Now, before I read this recipe, I wasn't quite sure what Mallobet was, so a google search was necessary. According to the Food Resource Glossary at Oregon State University, mallobet is "a frozen dessert, on the order of a sherbet containing marshmallows." Sounds interesting, doesn't it?

Orange Mallobet
Ingredients-
20 marshmallows
1 1/4 cup orange juice
1/4 cup egg whites
1/4 cup water
2 tablespoons lemon juice
3 tablespoons sugar
Orange coloring if desired

Directions-

This first part is a little bit confusing for me, so I'll type it out exactly as the recipe calls for. I hope that you understand it better than I do!

"Put the marshmallows over hot water with the water and 3/4 cup of the orange juice; add 2 tablespoons of sugar, and set aside until slightly jellied. Add remaining sugar to egg whites and whip stiff. Combine as directed above and freeze without stirring"

If you would like more information about Grunow please check out my earlier blog post here- Grunow Refrigeration Recipe Book

Boston Brown Bread

I've only ever had Boston Brown Bread once, but it has always fascinated me. I can't rightly say why, probably because it is old-fashioned sounding and I love old-fashioned things. However, when I had it, I didn't like it. Maybe I'd like it better if I had it fresh instead of from a can. (Did you know that it came in a can? I guess you can get anything in a can-- even socks!). This recipe comes from "Aunt Sammy's Radio Recipes Revised", which was published in 1931 but came from the radio show which aired in the 1920s. Good luck and if any of you try it, let me know how it turns out!

Boston Brown Bread-

Ingredients:
1 cup corn meal and 1 cup rye meal OR 2 cups corn meal.
1 cup Graham flour. (I'm sure that any all-purpose flour would work here)
1 teaspoon salt.
3/4 cup molasses
2 cups sour milk, and 1 1/2 teaspoons soda, OR 2 cups sweet milk, 1/4 teaspoon soda, and 4 teaspoons baking powder

Mix the dry ingredients and add the molasses along with the milk. Beat the mixture thoroughly, then pour into greased molds until they are about three quarters filled. Cover loosely to keep out the moisture and steam for 3 1/2 hours. Remove the covers and bake the bread in a moderate oven for about 10 minutes to dry off. If the bread is crumbly, use a string to cut slices rather than a knife.

Notes: A moderate oven, according to the same book, would be somewhere between 325 to 375 degrees F.

Burnt Almond Ice Cream

This recipe comes from the "Grunow Refrigeration Recipe Book" by Dorothy Ayers Loudon, which I believe to have been published sometime in the 1930's. It is a very simple recipe. In fact, you don't need anything special besides the ingredients for this one other than a freezer! Which you would have if you had purchased a Grunow Electric Refrigerator.

Burnt Almond Ice Cream:
Ingredients-
1 quart thin cream
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 pound browned and sugared almonds
1 teaspoon of vanilla

Directions- Mix well and freeze.

Now, when you have two steps of directions like that, I am not sure that it can get easier. Anyway, I wasn't quite sure what 'thin cream' was, so I looked it up and from what I found out at the World Wide Words website, it is another term for 'light cream' or 'single cream'.

Good luck and let me know how it turns out!

Grunow Refrigeration Recipe Book

Another of the more recent cookbooks that my grandmother sent me is the "Grunow Refrigeration Recipe Book" by Dorothy Ayers Loudon. Now, I had never heard of Grunow before this, but as far as I can tell, Grunow started out as the Grigsby-Grunow Co. and they first manufactured radios. However, due to the economic trouble in the late twenties, they switched to refrigerator production. If you would like to read about them, please look at this Time magazine article that I found that was written in 1930, it really is interesting.

Dating the cookbook is proving to be an interesting matter, since the cookbook has no date that I can find (although it is rapidly falling apart. The front cover is completely off, but luckily I have it, and the back cover is gone where only back covers go, so I have no idea if there was a date on it). My grandmother seems to think that she got the book in 1944, which she very well might have, however, since I don't believe the Grisgby-Grunow company lasted much longer than the mid-1930s, I am doubtful that they would have continued to produce a recipe book for a defunct refrigerator. However, I did find another refrigerator cookbook for the Grunow refrigerator by the same authoress dated 1931, you can view it here, I wonder if this was an updated version. The book does have some very interesting recipes which I will be sharing with you, but if any of you know anymore than what I was able to find about Grunow please comment!