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!
Wow, I'd be over the moon if I found something like this! xx
ReplyDeleteThey are secret little treasures!
DeleteSometimes what we find inside books is more interesting than the books themselves! I love finding old hand-written recipes. Understand your dilemma about how to keep them, though.
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Very true! I've found some wonderful pieces of paper - especially the ones such as the war lumber receipts, they really are priceless to me. Still working out how to keep them though, they seem a little wasted in plastic wallets but I fear about gluing them into any books.
DeleteOh I just love finding that hidden treasure in any vintage piece.......like the old postcard long forgotten as a bookmark.....or the love letter secretly stored in that old novel never seeing the light of day till you flicked through the pages at a garage sale.......ahhhh fabulous.
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So true and it certainly makes them filled with such memories and social history especially for cookbooks which may even have been passed between mother and daughters and their own little pencil notations beside recipes or adding in their own. I really cherish those!
DeleteI love the idea of cheddar apple bread! I've made cheddar apple scones that were amazing.
ReplyDeleteI love these old recipes that are hand written. I keep notebooks filled with hand written recipes because I think they're much nicer memories that print outs or computer screened book marks.
These are amazing! I always look out for old postcards at flea markets.
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