From Great Grandma's recipe box:
Watermelon Pickles
Drop Donuts
Rhubarb Pie
Cafe' Pie Crust
Banana Bread
Bread Pudding
Vintage recipes:
Grape Nuts
Pinwheel Date Cookies
Drop Doughnuts
Rice Krispie Treats
Orange Drop Donuts
Chicken Casserole
Watermelon Pickles
A couple years ago I started a series of posting the recipes from my grandmothers recipe box, which I inherited from her before she passed away. I would include a photo and then painstakingly (sometimes) have to try to read the faint writing to type it out. It was time consuming, and I loved posting them but... I just didn't have TIME. Not when this page is just for personal use and I have ZERO income from it.
Slowly it died out... I didn't post those, or much of anything. This site faded.
I have been searching (FOR YEARS) for a certain frosting/icing recipe I remember from childhood and the hundreds and hundreds of icing recipes I've read or tried haven't been "it". Even though I knew (KNEW) the icing recipe I am always searching for isn't in 'her' old box, I took the box out of the back of storage anyway and decided to flip through it.
I realized that although I don't have time to re-type her old recipes, I could take photos and just post them - for my use - but also for my (adult) kids use... since they are Great Grandma's recipes collected from 1945 to about 1980. The last one in the box I could find any date on was a recipe she clipped out of a newspaper or magazine that had a coupon on the back showing it was from 1979 and the coupon expired in 1980.
Most of the recipes from Great Grandma's recipe box are from 1945-1960.
She had a sweet tooth so most of them are desserts, along with a crazy amount of recipes for pickles. LOL. I don't have a sweet tooth so I haven't made most of them, but I DO remember HER and my Aunts that lived at home making them. I remember eating some of them as a child, and seeing others they would eat that I didn't want.
I know she had far more recipes than these... but these are the only ones that survived the years and made their way to me. I suspect she had another recipe box (I think she had a white metal one...) but I only have the gray metal one.
So... for my kids and grandkids... these are Great Grandma's recipes..... I'll try to post a few recipe cards on each post as there are quite a few of them. It may end up being about 20 posts.
I was going to open a little peanut caramel snack 'candy' bar from Atkins, the first out of a brand new box I had just bought.
I noticed it felt like it was mostly air so I laid it down and marked with a pen where the end of the food product was. You can see it is literally only half the size of the wrapper it comes in.
