How fun is this find?! Before the advent of computers and the internet, many food and appliance companies would offer pamphlets and books highlighting their products in recipes for the consumer. I found a treasure trove of these Retro Recipe Booklets, which belonged to my mother and grandmother. Among the metal recipe card holders, books […]
Retro Recipe Card Files: Cough Medicine
Yes, I know that cough medicine is not the kind of recipe you come to this blog for. But I could not resist posting this because I love the way my grandmother Thelma Lee wrote it. There is nothing special in the way she wrote it, as you will find all sorts of styles of […]
Retro Recipe Card Files
Retro Recipe Card Files: Tea Cake This is lost and recovered family recipe. This is my grandmother’s tea cake recipe. This is a treasure chest filled with memories of tastes, smells and textures. This is both history and the future. I’m a procrastinator. Going through papers and such gives me an anxiety attack. In […]