The wonderful thing with buying vintage cookbook is finding all the handwritten, newspaper and product leaflets filled with vintage recipes that have been stored, used as page markers and saved between the pages of these cookbooks. I always imagine the delicately written handwritten recipes notated on everything from war lumber recipes to invoices were those handed down from mother and daughter for generations or just quickly notated out in pencil while baking, piles of flour, sugar and butter all over the kitchen table as they remember a recipe of old. Many of the booklet tear outs date from the 1930's and earlier and I don't have the heart to throw them aside.
Perhaps I should sell them with the books they come from, while sometimes I keep them logged between the pages, more often I selfishly keep them for myself which brings the issue on how to preserve them. For now they are all just loose and stored in poly-wallets, but with many of them being double sided I wonder how to store them proper to admire them in the future (I'd love your ideas if you have them!).
Aren't you intrigued by the crazy cake and the cheddar apple bread recipes?!! I know I am!
Aren't you intrigued by the crazy cake and the cheddar apple bread recipes?!! I know I am!