A few recipes from 1927:

The Vintage Vendeuse

The Vintage Vendeuse

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I was at a fabulous estate sale today, full of antique dolls, magazines, books, glass, the list goes on. There were literally hundreds of Delineator, Pictorial Review, ladies home journal, etc. magazines from the teens and 20s at only two dollars apiece. But I resisted temptation and only purchased two Butterick Quarterly fashion catalogs from the 1920s and one McCall's pattern catalog from the early 50s. Oh, and this notebook with recipes dated from 1927. There are over 100 pages of handwritten recipes. It's my most prized purchase. Thought I would share two pages with you:

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Oh wow, I would have stayed the whole weekend! Love the recipes, I have a huge weakness for old cookbooks and adore when the columns have updated notes and comments. I find the ingredients so intriguing! Sweet milk, that's called of quite a bit in those old recipes. And those ads are beautiful!
 
glamoursurf said:
Oh wow, I would have stayed the whole weekend! Love the recipes, I have a huge weakness for old cookbooks and adore when the columns have updated notes and comments. I find the ingredients so intriguing! Sweet milk, that's called of quite a bit in those old recipes. And those ads are beautiful!
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I just know that if I'd bought all the magazines they would have ended up sitting in a box somewhere, taking up space in my small home, after I'd flipped through them. (Though I would have enjoyed flipping through them!) I just don't have the time or inclination to list and sell each one, especially since the job I took earlier this year keeps me busy with lots of overtime. Anyway, I AM enjoying the 50+ that I went back to purchase for 50% off (therefore, $1 each). I simply couldn't justify buying 200+ magazines for a total cost of $400+ just to flip through them and put them away. The magazines I got when I went back Sunday (first visit to this sale was Thursday), were Delineators from the '20s, LHJ from late 1800s-1910s, and Needlework (one of my passions) from the '10s-'20s.
I, too, love old cookbooks with handwritten notations! It feels like I'm getting a personal peek into a kitchen of yesteryear. This completely handwritten book is a treasure to me, something I know I'll look at again and again.
 
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