I have been collecting recipes and cookbooks since 8th grade Home Economics.
Our project for that class was to create a collection of recipes. I did a box, which I still have and every blue moon I pull it out and look through it.
I have a million clippings out of magazines and newspapers.
Even did a cookbook subscription one year that would send one or two books each month.
I would pick up cooking magazines every time I went to the grocery store as a young bride.
Every one of them have turned down corners, pieces of toilet paper, paper towels
or a paper clip marking a recipe that I couldn't wait to try!
Local community cookbooks are my favorite.
I love thumbing through and seeing someone I knows name along with a recipe I remember them making.
And let's not even talk about when the internet came along and I started saving them in emails and bookmarking websites. I have recipes stashed everywhere!
Do we even mention Pinterest and Instagram!
My favorite cookbook find was after my mother-in-law passed, I found her mother's collection of recipes that she had put into a scrapbook some are handwritten, typed or just clippings that she placed in it. I have tried to find a date on it, but I can't. The closes I can come is a Ball recipe dated 1942 tucked inside of the scraped book.
Over the years I have given away a lot of books, and I am now down to the ones that have more of a sentimental value. Every year I think I am going to go through them and try some of the recipes that I have flagged over the years, but I don't seem to ever do it.
Maybe this year I will try some and share them here.
enjoy, Cherry
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