A Stash of Vintage Recipes

One of my favorite yard-sale finds this summer so far has been this stash of vintage recipes. An elderly man was selling gallon bags stuffed full of recipes - he told me to take two for $1. Upon rooting through them at home, I realized that the little recipe books, clipped recipes and handwritten notecards were probably his late wife's collection. Going through them makes me feel as if I'm looking through the contents of a 1950's housewife's kitchen drawer of recipes. So far, I've found a carbon, typed copy of Lillian's pickle recipe; a food advertisement from a 1939 issue of Good Housekeeping; a faded, scrawled copy of a chocolate chip recipe with "happy eating" written at the bottom; a booklet from 1954 called Casual Cooking with recipes to make on your Reynolds Wrap Sportsmans Grill; a soft ginger cookie recipe clipped from a newspaper the year I graduated from highschool; and a 1964 booklet entitled Cooking with Coffee. As I go I'm keeping a list of recipes to try: Maritime Macaroni, Cheese 'N Frank Bean Bake, Peanut Butter Pancakes and Hot Cheese-Onion Bread. I can't wait to see what else I discover!