Just for fun , sorting recipe clippings
We got married in February 1971. I had never cooked a meal in my life. Went from living at home to ” keeping house”. My Mom and Grandmothers and Aunts were all wonderful down home country farm cooks. Pot roast, scalloped potatoes , jello fruit salads . Our Methodist Church in a small Ohio town had great pot luck dinners in the church basement.
I started clipping magazine pictures and recipes . Most of these were never tried but I loved looking through them. I still do, truth be known.
Now 54 years later I bake every week and make almost everything we eat from scratch. My DH is an amazing cook and does all the stir fry outside on his 100,000 btu propane burner he also does all the biscotti and pasta making.
Here is a sampling of some clippings. Note the date . 😊
I have Momma’s Betty Crocker cookbooks and her and my Aunt Bess’s Boston cookbooks with clippings tucked inside. And this gem…
What do you have ? And it’s ok to shed some tears. c ( trailrunner )
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7 months agolast modified: 7 months agoI'm so sorry about your bowl! My mother used an 8 qt. stainless steel bowl (of which she had two) for three large challot. She gave me the five quart one when I was first off campus, but I use it for things like meatballs. Here are the new bowl (Rosti, it was on sale and an impulse buy) next to the big one (it was in the KA catalog before ”Polish pottery” became popular). Trick of the eye. I've measured. The stoneware really does hold twice the white one. The shape of the new bowl is just perfect for kneading. Not magazine nostalgia, but still lots of beautiful memories. :)
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More fun finds. Remember the Fleishmans recipes 1977-78 i used these all the time and saved my favorites.
And for 8 years I ran our local food coop out of my garage. We had an extra fridge/ freezer special long two handled cheese knives to cut the big blocks of cheese . A honey gate to use to portion out the honey from the 60# cans. scales to weigh everything. At our largest we had 100 members. We compiled our orders at a meeting every month where we helped each other by sharing the large amounts to save more. Check the prices. 😳
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