Vintage Recipe: Strawberry Sponge Pie The Vintage Recipe Project One of the reasons I started the Vintage Recipe Project was because I longed for my own family recipes handed down from generation to generation. Sadly my mother and grandmother never handed any recipes down to me and the ones I remember my Nanny cooking were [...]
Musings from the Vintage Recipe Project
March 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Vintage Ad from one of my cook books Today I am working on another recipe for the Vintage Recipe Project. For the moment all I am saying is that it has strawberries in it. What a surprise huh? The strawberries are still looking beautiful at the grocery store and they are some of the sweetest [...]
Vintage Recipe Project: Vanilla Bean Blanc Mange or a Custard Mouse
March 12, 2011 By 5 Comments
Vintage Recipe Project: Vanilla Bean Blanc Mange or Custard Mouse This recipe was adapted from The Lily Wallace New American Cook Book Circa 1946 Recipe #2442 page-523 With my recent purchase of vanilla beans I knew I would have some beans left over from making my homemade vanilla extract. The extract is steeping so I [...]
Vintage Recipe Project: Zserbo Szelet A Hungarian Dessert
February 27, 2011 By 19 Comments
Tweet In one of the vintage recipe binders I own I found a lovely piece of parchment paper with a recipe written on it. The name of the recipe was not written in English ( and I doubt there is an English translation for it because I never came across one.) Sad as it makes [...]
Kitchen Collections
July 25, 2010 By 5 Comments
Kitchen Collectibles One of the many kitchen collectibles I like to collect is old recipe card files and cook books. I love to look through them and think about the woman who, long ago made these recipes. I love it when the cook herself writes little notes on the pieces of scrap paper or index [...]
