Monday, April 18, 2011

POTD - Vintage Recipes


POTD - Vintage Recipes
©2011 Kristin Corlett

I bought this recipe box at an antique store. It was an exciting find.  I like to see what people saved, what recipes were splattered and used more than others. I love looking at the handwriting, too. One of my grandmother's recipes had as an ingredient, 25¢ worth of hamburger. I think it was for meatloaf! Recipe boxes are usually pretty inexpensive so it's a big bang for the buck.

7 comments:

Tony Payne said...

Hoe cool is that. I love old recipes. One of these days I would like to publish my Mom's old recipes. I have her cookery book somewhere.

Keetha Broyles said...

$.25 worth of hamburger! LOL

Let's see - - - - "Can you SEE your meatloaf on your plate dear?? It was a real bargain, I only had to pay 25 cents for the meat!"

Adoption of Jane said...

Adorable

Leovi said...

Very interesting, My wife has a fairly full but by her, collecting family recipes and the region.

Lisa said...

LOVE IT!!! LOVE IT!!! LOVE IT!!!

Debby@Just Breathe said...

I haven't really looked through other peoples recipe boxes. I know that my cards have splatters on them from use. Now I have many papers from the computer that look like that but they certainly are not as unique as a recipe card.

Mrs4444 said...

I have one, too. I like the reference to an "egg" of shortening (or something like that.