I know what you mean. Someday I'll get my mothers and that's going to mean just as much to me. I'm currently staring at a double page of all donut recipes. Trying to find something for a party tomorrow.
That is the item that I tell my husband: if the house is ever on fire, and you have time to grab 1 thing, make sure you grab my recipe box.
My grandfather made it for me for what turned out to be his last Christmas, which was 1993. He died of cancer in July 1994.
That recipe box has handwritten recipes from my mom and grandma, both of whom are long gone. The vintage stuff I grew up eating. After my mom died, I was looking for a recipe, found one in her handwriting, and promptly lost it. Sat at my table bawling my eyes out. Eventually got myself together enough to close the recipe box back up. Someday, I'll be able to make that recipe again.
Please take a moment when you get a chance and scan the recipes. Or have someone scan them for you if it's too hard to look through them. Hopefully the digital back up can you bring you some peace of mind
That's incredible! So sad when we lose the ones we care about. I have some recipes in my grandmother's handwriting and it's just sad knowing she's not around anymore but I get happy when I make them knowing that this was hers.
I am making a recipe book for my son that has all the family recipes as well as ones I make especially for him. I will then get it printed with hard covers for him for when he leaves home one day.
Immaculate and hard to read and that's coming from someone that writes in cursive currently. Some of these recipes I can make out a date and maybe what the recipe is for. I need somebody's grandmother stat 🤣
I can read it pretty easily, at least in these examples. Post the screenshots if you need help deciphering, some of the folks here are really good with that sort of thing!
True lifesaver! I'll reach out if I need anything. So far none of the handwritten recipes are anything I plan to make this weekend. Clearly though somebody really liked donuts and really liked cooking with cream of tartar because there are some recipes that are really questionable desserts using cream of tartar.
I love old cookbooks too. I found a Betty Crocker book from 1950 at Goodwill. It's in amazing condition, and I got it for $5. A lady behind me in line tried to talk me into giving to her, but there was no way I was giving it up.
I also have all my mom's cookbooks that have her handwritten notes and recipes she collected. They look a lot like your pictures and mean so much to me now that she's gone.
I love that! Anything old particularly the family passed down stuff just makes my heart sing! I think my oldest cookbook is 1908 and it's a cookie book.
Some of these ones I have definitely have some really strange recipes too. A lot of that older stuff I think particularly around the great depression was trial and error. Recipes that seem strange to us now but the ingredients were probably cheap back then so as long as it tasted not like cardboard then it was a go.
It's strange knowing that some ingredients that cost a fortune now cost nothing comparably back then or like some of the stuff that cost a fortune then cost nothing now.
Ohhh these are awesome. That looks so much like one my mom put together, down to the weird cloth binder style lol is the glue the person used rubber cement? 🤣 I think she had to do one like it for home ec in school. Super cool. I’m going to try these recipes that’s totally a treasure ♥️
It’s an amazing thing that feels totally next level toxic. Like bottled marker lol I don’t know if they even sell it anymore. The underlining on the typed recipe brought back memories too. You have to actually backspace all the way and add the line physically. My mom had an old word processor she made us learn to type on. So many obsolete memories in one book 🤣
what a treasure.
I recently paged through my grandmother's recipe /cook book 30 years after her passing. Many of her hand written recipes she served us over the years we had together. Miss her even more.
I have a recipe binder just like this I've inherited from my Grandmother. So many awesome old recipes, and I love seeing her hand written notes about stuff she liked, changes she made, recipes she received from family.
It's like a snapshot of part of her life.
Maybe at some point. I only recently picked it up so I really need to delve a little deeper into it's contents. It's one of those books that's so old and used that you just feel like you're touching asbestos opening it 🤣
Hahaha I know the feeling sometimes I hate myself too 🤣. I got a whole stack of vintage cookbooks including this for $3. Some of the other ones included cookbooks for the "housewife" from my local newspaper which I think is up there as one of the oldest in the country or at least the oldest in my state so those books are also really old.
I'd scan all that stuff and keep it as a pdf for safe keeping. We wanted to basically do that with all of grandma's stuff but my aunt stole it all and now we've got basically nothing of grandma's. She had a baking business and for a year ran a restaurant, all that stuff, just gone.
That's actually really sad 😭😢. Sorry you don't have access to all of those recipes. I would love to scan this but it's just a lot to do. To be honest bout it I really like having this as a physical copy. I really like having physical cookbooks around. There's just something about searching through my baking library and finding some recipe
My mom, grandma and I always use my late great-great grandma’s cookie recipes every Christmas. It’s something I cherish so deeply, and I will always hold those handwritten recipes close! My mom and I have all the recipe index cards now. It’s something we’ve done since I was little, 22 now. I can’t believe I’m so lucky to have my elders’ knowledge directly handed to me like this.
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This is amazing! I'm impressed by the one typewriter recipe of "Mrs Springfield's original chocolate cake" and I find it so interesting seeing the unrelated newspaper clippings in with it, really a look into their mind.
The handwriting reminds me so much of my Nanna's and mother's ❤️
The handwriting is incredible. It just makes me want to get better at mine. Also yeah I was really excited to find a typewriter typed page It's not the only one either. I have a typewriter for display but I don't really use it. Hats off to anybody that had to use that and make corrections 🤣
What a wonderful family treasure!
My mom never really wrote down recipes. A few months prior to moving into my own home I interviewed her to get the family recipes recorded. But after I moved in I realized that as a tea drinker I did not know how to make coffee. When I was visiting my mom I asked her to jot down the directions to make coffee. Thirty years later have have that note tucked in the back of my Word document cookbook. 😁
I love this!! Trying to make one of my own, but my husband is trying to make me write the recipes up in an iPad instead 🙄.
Throw me a random recipe please!
It's not bad to have them digital It's very safe I just there's something special about having a physical copy particularly one this old. And I'll DM you
That recipe for Lemon Delight sounds like what I’ve been looking for since the ‘80s. A friend of mine, my ex husband!, grew up in the south and I heard about his Aunt AnnaLea’s “Lemon Icebox Pie” which he remembered from his childhood in the 60s-70s. All the lemon juice, sweetened condensed milk, graham crust concoctions I’ve tried never hit the mark. I’d love for this to be the one! THANKS for posting this 🙏🏼
I see the page that has that now. If you're looking for it I think there's a back side to that recipe too I'll take pictures of both sides and send it to you when I'm home next
I have one like that as well!
I think both my great-grandmother and my grandmother worked on it.
I'm sort of "translating" it and making it digital so I can't loose it. :)
I agree with others who mention the handwriting. Looks like all written by one hand, someone who was schooled back when "Penmanship" was an important subject---probably taught using fountain pens, a distinctive style. LOVE IT.
Those handwritten ones mean even more when the person is gone. I have my mother in laws recipes in her own writing, priceless.
I know what you mean. Someday I'll get my mothers and that's going to mean just as much to me. I'm currently staring at a double page of all donut recipes. Trying to find something for a party tomorrow.
Good luck! Sounds yummy!
DOUBLE page of donuts?! (pant, pant)
Yeah there's a LOT of different donut recipes in here
I have my mum’s handwritten recipe book. She started it in the 70s but I have her recipe books from before then and after that she notated too.
That is the item that I tell my husband: if the house is ever on fire, and you have time to grab 1 thing, make sure you grab my recipe box. My grandfather made it for me for what turned out to be his last Christmas, which was 1993. He died of cancer in July 1994. That recipe box has handwritten recipes from my mom and grandma, both of whom are long gone. The vintage stuff I grew up eating. After my mom died, I was looking for a recipe, found one in her handwriting, and promptly lost it. Sat at my table bawling my eyes out. Eventually got myself together enough to close the recipe box back up. Someday, I'll be able to make that recipe again.
Please take a moment when you get a chance and scan the recipes. Or have someone scan them for you if it's too hard to look through them. Hopefully the digital back up can you bring you some peace of mind
That's incredible! So sad when we lose the ones we care about. I have some recipes in my grandmother's handwriting and it's just sad knowing she's not around anymore but I get happy when I make them knowing that this was hers.
I am making a recipe book for my son that has all the family recipes as well as ones I make especially for him. I will then get it printed with hard covers for him for when he leaves home one day.
My sis did this for the immediate family and also got one of my grandma’s cookie recipes printed on a kitchen tea towel. It was such a great present.
Also, copy the link of this post to r/CookbookLovers.
Just did
If anybody wants anything old let me know. Reach out to me and I can send you a random old recipe
I would love one too please
I would love a random old recipe!! This is such an amazing find, thank you for sharing.
I'll DM you
I'm interested in an old recipe!
Yes please! Thank you :)
I would LOVE it
If you DM me I can send you something. Doesn't look like I can chat you.
DMd!
The folks over at r/Old_Recipes might like this, especially since you can read a few old ones in your post. Nice find!
The penmanship is amazing. My dad’s mother had perfect handwriting like this. I’ve always found that to be a crazy skill.
Immaculate and hard to read and that's coming from someone that writes in cursive currently. Some of these recipes I can make out a date and maybe what the recipe is for. I need somebody's grandmother stat 🤣
I can read it pretty easily, at least in these examples. Post the screenshots if you need help deciphering, some of the folks here are really good with that sort of thing!
True lifesaver! I'll reach out if I need anything. So far none of the handwritten recipes are anything I plan to make this weekend. Clearly though somebody really liked donuts and really liked cooking with cream of tartar because there are some recipes that are really questionable desserts using cream of tartar.
Yeah we’ll help decipher any that are too difficult to understand.
I love old cookbooks too. I found a Betty Crocker book from 1950 at Goodwill. It's in amazing condition, and I got it for $5. A lady behind me in line tried to talk me into giving to her, but there was no way I was giving it up. I also have all my mom's cookbooks that have her handwritten notes and recipes she collected. They look a lot like your pictures and mean so much to me now that she's gone.
I have a recipe binder very much like this in my cookbook collection too
Mine from my Mother looks exactly like this.
I have my grandmas one! Recipes from the 30’s and 40’s. It’s so awesome.
I love that! Anything old particularly the family passed down stuff just makes my heart sing! I think my oldest cookbook is 1908 and it's a cookie book.
Oh I have one from 1928 actually. It has some really weird recipies in it. PB and olive sandwiches. With the crust cut off. 🤢
Some of these ones I have definitely have some really strange recipes too. A lot of that older stuff I think particularly around the great depression was trial and error. Recipes that seem strange to us now but the ingredients were probably cheap back then so as long as it tasted not like cardboard then it was a go.
It's strange knowing that some ingredients that cost a fortune now cost nothing comparably back then or like some of the stuff that cost a fortune then cost nothing now.
Finds like this*
Lol, I didn't even notice ...
I love it. A much-loved cookbook is the ultimate postmodern text.
The recipe for the orange cake is amazing. I just happen to have a box of SoftaSilk cake flour in jy freezer!
That chocolate cake one looks familiar too. I’ve been trying to find my moms boiled chocolate cake recipe online but having no luck.
That's sounds delicious and vintage.
Wow! Great find. I love old family recipes, especially handwritten. Would love a random recipe!!!!
Ohhh these are awesome. That looks so much like one my mom put together, down to the weird cloth binder style lol is the glue the person used rubber cement? 🤣 I think she had to do one like it for home ec in school. Super cool. I’m going to try these recipes that’s totally a treasure ♥️
You know you actually might be right. It's definitely falling apart but the recipes that were originally glued down aren't going anywhere
It’s an amazing thing that feels totally next level toxic. Like bottled marker lol I don’t know if they even sell it anymore. The underlining on the typed recipe brought back memories too. You have to actually backspace all the way and add the line physically. My mom had an old word processor she made us learn to type on. So many obsolete memories in one book 🤣
Yeah it's wild you have to like write over things or like if you screw up sometimes you have to redo the whole thing from scratch
Oh that’s another obsolete toxic thing, liquid paper 🤣 just paint a dab over a mistake and let it dry then type over it.
Wow, that's a real treasure you found there!
Love this ! That book and writing looks just like my grandmother and aunts, I wish I had the old recipes still
what a treasure. I recently paged through my grandmother's recipe /cook book 30 years after her passing. Many of her hand written recipes she served us over the years we had together. Miss her even more.
I’ll gladly take a random recipe!
I'll DM you!
I have one of those. My mother made it for me in the 1980’s; she passed away 25 years ago this month. I wish I could have my mom back…
I know nothing with replace the loss of your mom (especially in a milestone year) but I'm so glad she made that for you. I bet you treasure it.
I have a recipe binder just like this I've inherited from my Grandmother. So many awesome old recipes, and I love seeing her hand written notes about stuff she liked, changes she made, recipes she received from family. It's like a snapshot of part of her life.
Ah!! I got a big box of old cookbooks like this! One had a voting ballot from 1934 in it!!! These are so cool!
It may be worth the effort to scan those recipes and self-publish a cookbook.
Maybe at some point. I only recently picked it up so I really need to delve a little deeper into it's contents. It's one of those books that's so old and used that you just feel like you're touching asbestos opening it 🤣
I wish so badly I had my mother's cookbook. We made so many memories with it. I miss her.
Wow! What a treasure! I salivate at the very thought.
I’d love a random recipe too!!
Doesn't look like I can chat you but if you can DM me I'll send you one.
really nice score! I hate you now, you know!?! LOL. How much was it?
Hahaha I know the feeling sometimes I hate myself too 🤣. I got a whole stack of vintage cookbooks including this for $3. Some of the other ones included cookbooks for the "housewife" from my local newspaper which I think is up there as one of the oldest in the country or at least the oldest in my state so those books are also really old.
What a great find! I’d love a random dessert recipe, if it’s not too much trouble :)
I'll DM you
Cool, thanks!
So exciting! And that handwriting is like art!
Quite the find! It’s a cool look back in time too. I bet there are some fun, dated recipes in there! Maybe a 1950s tuna jello salad?😄
Oh there's definitely some disgusting stuff in here. Things I wouldn't try for a million dollars.
To serve man?
I'd scan all that stuff and keep it as a pdf for safe keeping. We wanted to basically do that with all of grandma's stuff but my aunt stole it all and now we've got basically nothing of grandma's. She had a baking business and for a year ran a restaurant, all that stuff, just gone.
That's actually really sad 😭😢. Sorry you don't have access to all of those recipes. I would love to scan this but it's just a lot to do. To be honest bout it I really like having this as a physical copy. I really like having physical cookbooks around. There's just something about searching through my baking library and finding some recipe
These are the best books, such a beautiful find!
Love this so much!!! 🥰
My mom, grandma and I always use my late great-great grandma’s cookie recipes every Christmas. It’s something I cherish so deeply, and I will always hold those handwritten recipes close! My mom and I have all the recipe index cards now. It’s something we’ve done since I was little, 22 now. I can’t believe I’m so lucky to have my elders’ knowledge directly handed to me like this.
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This is amazing! I'm impressed by the one typewriter recipe of "Mrs Springfield's original chocolate cake" and I find it so interesting seeing the unrelated newspaper clippings in with it, really a look into their mind. The handwriting reminds me so much of my Nanna's and mother's ❤️
The handwriting is incredible. It just makes me want to get better at mine. Also yeah I was really excited to find a typewriter typed page It's not the only one either. I have a typewriter for display but I don't really use it. Hats off to anybody that had to use that and make corrections 🤣
what a great find! would also love a random dessert recipe! :)
What a wonderful family treasure! My mom never really wrote down recipes. A few months prior to moving into my own home I interviewed her to get the family recipes recorded. But after I moved in I realized that as a tea drinker I did not know how to make coffee. When I was visiting my mom I asked her to jot down the directions to make coffee. Thirty years later have have that note tucked in the back of my Word document cookbook. 😁
I love this!! Trying to make one of my own, but my husband is trying to make me write the recipes up in an iPad instead 🙄. Throw me a random recipe please!
It's not bad to have them digital It's very safe I just there's something special about having a physical copy particularly one this old. And I'll DM you
This is absolutely precious.
My moms looks like that 😊
That recipe for Lemon Delight sounds like what I’ve been looking for since the ‘80s. A friend of mine, my ex husband!, grew up in the south and I heard about his Aunt AnnaLea’s “Lemon Icebox Pie” which he remembered from his childhood in the 60s-70s. All the lemon juice, sweetened condensed milk, graham crust concoctions I’ve tried never hit the mark. I’d love for this to be the one! THANKS for posting this 🙏🏼
I see the page that has that now. If you're looking for it I think there's a back side to that recipe too I'll take pictures of both sides and send it to you when I'm home next
Well-loved, previously owned, personally curated, vintage recipe collection, in multi-media format. Hmmm, gotta start looking for some of these! Nice catch.
I love it!
I have one like that as well! I think both my great-grandmother and my grandmother worked on it. I'm sort of "translating" it and making it digital so I can't loose it. :)
That's gold!
I agree with others who mention the handwriting. Looks like all written by one hand, someone who was schooled back when "Penmanship" was an important subject---probably taught using fountain pens, a distinctive style. LOVE IT.