Grandma's Recipe Box (revisited) Post 7 in the series... old vintage recipes straight from the recipe cards from her, her family, friends and coworkers

For those just stopping in, this is a series of old, vintage recipes straight from my grandmother's gray, metal recipe box.  A few years ago I started this series in a much more organized, professional, typed out way with photos, some background stories, etc. but life is just far too busy and I didn't have any time to commit so I let it go.

Wanting to be sure I got the recipes saved for my kids and grandchildren, I'm posting them "quick and sloppy" by taking photos of the cards.  I keep my blog public so others can find and enjoy them as well. 

I inherited her recipe box (along with her huge collection of Wilton cake decorating magazines and boxes of old, vintage community, church, organization cookbooks) and although she passed away almost a decade ago, her recipes live on.

I am putting these here for her grandchildren (and great grandchildren) as I don't know who will inherit the old, gray, metal recipe box.  these recipes are from about 1945-1980.  Dream Bars
Uncooked Fruit Cake
Refrigerator Cuke (cucumber) Salad
Fruit Pizza
Strawberry Pie
Strawberry Swirl
Cherry Dessert (Dump Cake)




 

 

 

 

 

 

Grandma's Recipe Box - revisited (post 6 in the series)

While my original "Grandma's Recipe Box" series idea a couple years ago got side-lined by some major life craziness and never finished, doing the posts this way make it super quick and I've found I'm more likely to post them since just doing it 'fast and sloppy'!   

The idea of course is I really want to make sure the recipes are saved for my kids and grandkids use (but I keep my website public to help everyone, even though it's my personal site).   Great-Grandma's recipe (and in the case of MY grandkids will be their "Great-Great Grandma's recipes) are easily shared when they can look them up here - no matter who might inherit or want her original old gray, metal recipe box.

When I originally started this series a few years ago, I also posted some of her recipes from really old pamplets and booklets she had.  You can still find those on my site - it's easiest to just click on the label in the right hand side bar that says "Grandmother's recipe box" - this will bring up pages of old recipes of hers including booklets like: 

Vintage Cookie and Candy Recipes: by Karo Syrup and Mazola Corn Oil "Fancy Cookies - Festive Candies - Delicious Goodies For Giving" circa 1956

and

Vintage Candy Recipes from the 1941 Candy Booklet: "The Candy Book"

 

 

Here is today's QUICK post of a few more recipe cards from her box.
These recipes came from soooo many different people back then and you can tell as there are a variety of handwriting, spelling, ways of writing them out that are personal to whomever the original friend was who shared them.  

Today we have:

Dried Beef Casserole
Cracker Jacks
Crank Ice Cream
Carrot Cake and Frosting
Corned Beef Casserole
Fluffy Lemon Cake 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Grandmother's Recipe Box - revisited (post 5 of the series )

Jelly Roll
Coconut Cake
Hamburger Hot Dish
Waffle Cookies
Devil's Food Cake
Rice and Raisins
Jell-O Pistachio Pudding Cake

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grandma's Vintage Recipes - (revisiting her recipe box post 4)

From Great Grandma's recipe box....

Root Beer
Cranberry Nut Bread
Dump Salad
Watergate Salad
Fudge Scotch Ring
Jelly (looks like it uses beet juice and Kool-Aid!)
Peanut Brittle

From Great Grandma's Recipe Box (revisited... post 3 in series)

From Grandma's recipe box....  vintage recipes she collected from 1945-1980-ish

Rhubarb Orange Slice Jam
Brown Sugar Cup Cakes
Sprit Bakeles
Rhubarb Conserve
7 Minute Icing
Bakeless Fruitcake
Granny's Fudge