Recently I’ve come to the realization that I’m a recipe hoarder. One day I was looking at my Recipes board on Pinterest and saw that I have collected close to 800 pins. How many of these have I actually made? Nowhere near 800, that’s for sure. I also have a cabinet full of cook books, and […]
My assignment: make some cookies for the annual Christmas Bazaar at church, where the cookie table is very popular. Don’t you get sick of making the same chocolate chip cookie all of the time? Plus, when you go to a bazaar, chances are the table is filled with – what else- chocolate chip cookies. […]
The Victory Binding of the American Woman’s Cook Book Wartime Edition 1943I picked up this cookbook at an estate sale over the weekend. I’d never seen one like it before, so I grabbed it. This edition was published in 1943. After I’ve gone through it some more, it’ll most likely end up for sale at Aunt […]
I made pumpkin cake for my Mother’s birthday. I wanted to try something different, so I searched through my collection of community cookbooks. I found an interesting recipe in a cookbook entitled, Something Special A collection of Ideas and Recipes for the Creative Hostess. It was compiled by the Professional Members of the Junior […]
A very small sampling of my community cookbooks. I absolutely LOVE community cookbooks. They’re the cookbooks put out by churches, schools, and other groups, usually as a fundraiser. They’re also called regional cookbooks. If they’re vintage, I like them even more. Oh yeah, if they’re cheap that’s a plus, too. I look for them […]
