The Recipe Library

Privately held collection of antiquarian cook books, vintage recipes, and handwritten treasures. 🌈📚

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Inquiring minds want to know, what are your all time favorite recipes?
#recipes

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Potato Cake
Grand Union Cook Book 1902

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Spruce Beer
Ladies Guide, or Skillful Housewife 1852

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Aristos Butter Scotch Rolls
-Aristos Flour Cook Book 1911

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Four Hour Bread
-Hecker's Household Hints Series 2 1925

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Wide Open Sandwich
-Sarah Field Splint's Selected Recipes 1927

Things are fairly quiet here so I have made the jump to bluesky.
Recipes can also be found on Instagram and tumblr.

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Lemon Coconut Cookies
-Golden Rule Foods Cookbook

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Burger Stuffed Pancakes
-Ground Beef Cookbook 1967

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Sweet Clover Honey Taffy and Lemonade
-Rawleighs Good Health Guide and Cook Book 1929

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@stefenenick Is it something you usually make or order from a restaurant?

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Carrot Pie
F.W. McNess Cook Book 1933

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@stefenenick I have not, I do love carrots baked in maple syrup so I would probably enjoy.

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Lemon Crumb Pie
-The Bride’s Cookbook 1918

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Here is one from my mother in law's collection:
Peanut Butter Chip Orange Cookie
-From Hershey 1975

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So apparently, 8 long years ago, I must have sent a submission on the @TillamookDairy website suggesting they carry havarti. I of course had forgotten.
They did not.
And have blessed me with four packets of free havarti cheese.
Cheese heaven!
And yes, it is delicious!

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Meat Patties
-Edmeston M.E. Society Cook Book 1897
Sometimes I can't tell if they marked the recipe because they loved it or shorthand for never again.

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Pickled String Beans
-The Worcester Cook Book, circa 1910

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Flour Muffins
-Egg Baking Powder early 1900s

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Mapleine Potato Nut Cake
-The Mapleine Cook Book 1910s

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Catskill Milk Potatoes
-Ransom's Family Receipt Book 1879