America’s Housekeeping
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I love old books…love how they feel and smell…love wondering about the hands that turned the pages before me… I saw a passage in a magazine recently that spoke to this feeling:
” I don’t even really like new books…I want books to be old and to have this weird talismanic property where they’ve had different owners and they convey a sense of history…”
I jotted down that quote, I sure did!
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That is an awesome quote.
OH see I love thos kinds of things too. They had the best homemade cleaner recipes which is green and a whole lot healthier for your family and the environment. I have cookbooks that were my memaw’s and i love flipping through the pages and seeing her handwriting..
Wow, what an amazing find!! My mom has my grandmother’s original yellow cookbook (I forget the name) and it is amazing. I can’t wait to inherit it. When Ben had his food allergies, I was able to search through and find awesome dairy/soy free food that was *supposed* to be that way….not modified to be that way. Depression Cake remains a favorite in our house!!
I called my mom and asked her and she said it is the Culinary Art Institute’s Quick Reference Index: Encyclopedic Cookbook. Circa 1948. It tells you how to kill/pluck a chicken. LOL
I love it.
I just ordered a copy from Amazon! :D
I love vintage cookbooks and homemaking guides. While the recipes are sometimes harder to source ingredients for, I find that they tend to contain recipes for “simple” food where the true tastes of quality ingredients can shine through. I am in Canada and have a great Laura Secord historic cookbook that has some YUMMY recipes! Some of them sound pretty exotic to today’s tastes (like some of the recipes for wild game) but I also like the connection to women who came before. I have frequently thought that someday, down the road, I would like to do some vintage cookbook collecting. Thanks for sharing!
I just love reading The American Housekeeping book. I got one a couple years ago and it is a treasure. I, too, think about the hands that turned the pages when the book was first new.
The American Housekeeping books sounds great. We have an old 1950′s version of the Betty Crocker cookbook. The binding is falling apart, but it is our first go-to book when we want to make a “classic” recipe. Waffles and banana cream pie (including the pie crust) are just two examples of our favorites.
I love older homemaking books and cookbooks I love to look at the variety of pictures, check out the wonderful ideas they shared and the difference that we do today
I love older books! I too am a fan of the older Betty Crocker cookbooks. My mother had one from the 50′s but she gave it to my niece. Squeaky wheel gets the grease in that instance! But its so neat to look at the older ones and see how things have changed, and sometimes, see how much simpler life seemed during that time.
I am cracking up at seeing “this cover is washable” embossed into the binding! That book looks so cool, though. :)
That looks like a wonderful book. I too love older books and I often use the old church cookbooks to find new recipes to fix for my family.