This chocolate sauce from the 1940s was used to make a chocolate milkshake, but not the kind of milkshake you would get today. A milkshake in the ‘40s is exactly as it says — pour milk into a jar, add chocolate sauce, put the lid on and shake vigorously. Voila, a milk “shake”!! This chocolate…
Caramel Sauce
This scrumptious caramel sauce is simply delicious. It’s amazing as ice cream topping, atop pancakes, a dip for fruit, drizzled in coffee or even eaten off the spoon (don’t ask me how I might know this!! Haha). Joking aside, this caramel sauce is smooth, creamy and decadent and so much better than store bought! Just…
Peanut Butter Triple Chip Cookies
These cookies are delightful – especially because we turned peanut butter triple chip cookies into a nut-free version which is delectable! We are using crunchy Wow Butter (made of soy) because I find it tastes similar to peanut butter and it can easily be substituted in place of peanut butter. These cookies have that nut…
Pizza Meatloaf
We love meatloaf and different variations of meatloaf! I like changing seasonings and toppings to create yummy flavors. This is a really good meal and now that I’ve made it, I would change it up a bit. These pizza meatloaves are delicious but taste more like spaghetti and meatballs than pizza! Adding bell pepper to…
Happy 5th Anniversary to Our City Homestead! Recipe Entry
Happy April!! And 🥳 🎉Happy 5th Anniversary to Our City Homestead! 🎉🥳 I started Our City Homestead as a way to share my love of cooking, baking, history and gardening with you. When I heard others expressing how they wish they knew how to bake bread or cook a meal from scratch or even how…
A Month of Following Wartime Rations
I enjoy learning about history, especially food history. The 1940’s was quite a challenging time from coming out of the Great Depression and into World War 2, people dealt with food insecurities and going from little to no food, to foods then being rationed. It was a trying time. I read and researched wartime rations…
Week Four of our 1940s Days
“A recipe is a story that ends with a goodmeal.” — Pat Conroy Day 25 My hair is so crazy curly and puffy again, so I pinned part of it up and wore a hairnet. I wore a white long sleeve shirt with my beige vest and black skirt with beige polkadots. I wore earrings…
Poor Man’s Pie (Milk Pie)
This poor man’s pie, also called milk pie, flapper pie (a Canadian classic often topped with a meringue) or make-do pie dates back to the 1920s. It contains ingredients that were affordable of the time — only milk, sugar, flour and vanilla. The custard is sweet and took us nearly a month of saving our…
