My paternal grandmother, Mary Alta Hendricks’ recipe box. No fewer than five recipes for rolls. Lots of baking cakes. There are Crisp Pickle Chips, a few prize winners clipped from a newspaper one from 1950. I’ve posted some before but I like to touch and read them, find her friends’ names in pencil- Lucille Roberts, Ruth Kiest, Vesta.
Four years ago I posted about my friend Kristin’s husband Rick baking bread and showed her recipe box with a poem in the lid.
Today I’m sharing more of the contents as my friend Vincie suggested recipe cards after a post a couple of months asking if you still use cookbooks
I plan to bake the Orange Cake.
This is awesome. I have some of my mom’s recipes. I bet the orange cake will be very good.
I’m counting on it! Thank you.
A veritable treasure trove
Absolutely a treasure. Thanks Sheree.
I love the recipes with the comments. I do it all the time.
You love to bake.
Ah, Vincie again. Perhaps I’ve discovered how she solves a mystery. Her love of recipes! She collects all the ingredients/evidence and pieces them together gently, one at a time. Like the bread poem, she takes nothing for granted and her search for truth/loaf of bread is a patient toil. Finally, she is able to enjoy the loaf of bread/solving of the mystery by following the recipe/clues to conclusion. Maybe her next mystery will be called Footprints in Flour, A Vincie Novel. dc
You are so creative dc.
What a great collection of recipes, definitely a keepsake item. Love the poem on the lid. Enjoy the orange cake, it will be delicious.
Thank you Carrie.
I have my mom’s recipes in a binder. I love to look at them and see her beautiful handwriting.
I know it. A real connection.
I love seeing the handwriting. A true treasure gcr
I love seeing it too ❤️
I love looking at old handwritten recipes. You have a treasure. I have my mom’s recipe box and there are some from my grandmother in there too.
Wonderful to have. Thanks for writing.
I love looking at old recipes, I wonder if anyone will ever go through my recipes with the same amount of love.
Aww I hope so, Leanne. I notice there are no meat dishes in the box. Primarily baking , preserves and pickles, vegetable salads (beets, sauerkraut)
Handwriting looks just like my Gam’s!!
Probably the Palmer Method of Cursive writing