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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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@Still trailing, sadly, they were my grandmother's relatives, not mine, so I never really had a relationship with any of them. They are probably all dead by now. This was decades ago.

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Fun2BHere
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One of my regrets is that I let a family member take all of my step-grandmother's hand-written recipes without copying them.
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plllog
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I did have tear sheets, but they weren't the kind you pour over—just recipes. After moving to the forever home, I was frustrated with them being hard to use and not fitting well in page protectors in binders. Many were from the newspaper, as well, and deteriorating. So I took a few afternoons and typed them all into my computer. Joy!!

Nowadays, I save ”tear sheets” in a file in my iPad photos. A lot of them are from CF, including hand written recipe cards. Others are pix out of books or online magazines. Useful, but none of the nostalgia from your BHGs.

C, I love seeing those BHG sheets that fill the white space and expect you to read the whole thing in italics. :) Being that all that text is useful, and the photos are actually illustrative. I have a new melamine bread bowl to rival Shug's! So far, I've just been using it for the rise of single loaves, mixer kneaded. but it's good for a triple batch by hand. It's over 6 qt. and 14” diameter on top, weighted bottom, and has a pour spout and handle, and a non-slip ring on the bottom, batter bowl style. Whereas my beloved old Bunzlauer bread bowl, is 13 qt., heavy, too tall to knead in, and cold—but it does have an all over design that makes it easy to measure the rise. Which is all off topic, but I love the Shug page, especially her smile as she poses sitting with a teacup surrounded by her produce (I bet that woman wasn't much for sitting still!), and I love my new bowl!
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I had a beautiful huge heavy hand made pottery bowl I got in Chapel Hill in the mid 70’s. We were there for my DH / Graduate School. It got chipped a few times but was still fine. I used it for all my bread rising. It got broken in the 80’s in Auburn AL. . I have 2 13qt metal bowls and then all the ones that nest inside. No more breaking! I bet yours is a beauty.
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I'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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@Fun2BHere is it possible to get the relative to make copies of the recipes or let you do so?

@plllog those are great bowls!
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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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Most of my family recipes were lost in our last move. BUT most of them I had made several times and can recreate! I have way older sisters asking me for recipes! That means I have to make lasagna (gee darn!) step by step and write it down! Most of them from the 60s aren't that healthy, but every once in awhile........
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