Those boxes and recipe cards look very familiar. Your grandmother's generation had them, and I'm sure your mother's generation did as well. In fact, I just parted with my recipe box less than five years ago. The index cards and old font from the typewriters were all part of the nostalgia.
There were some excellent recipes in those boxes. However, our cooking habits have changed since our grandmothers were in the kitchen. For example, many of the older recipes contained lard. This is not a typical ingredient in my kitchen.
It is interesting to see how home cooking has changed since then. Back then virtually everything was from scratch and yes, there are definite ingredient differences, there were more rendered animals fats and heavy cream for sure.
Those old cookbooks and recipe cards are sure a wealth of information when I want to make something from scratch. It's amazing how much better things taste when they are made from scratch! Sometimes it really makes me realize how much my pallet has become accustomed to processed and prepared foods.
I figure I will try to find what looks like the oldest recipe in that box, source ingredients as accurately as I can, and bring that food back to life. And it's gotta be something that I would actually want to eat. I could do kind of a series on that sort of thing.
Yes! You could probably make it video and picture-rich, too - like embed a short video of part of the cooking, just like a 5 or 10 second clip, and some photos. IMO, that's a home run.
That's what I was thinking, get some good pics of the old-school ingredients and finished product along with a short video of the cooking process, maybe some history of the dish and of course my opinion of the vintage flavors.
Oh, man this brings me back to a wonderful time and place. I'm seventy five years old. I can tell you, a lot of staple ingredients have changed since I was young and feasted at my mother's table. One example in particular was her " melt in your mouth " sour cream cookies. At some point in time, shortening and butter changed. She even made changes in her recipe to try to accommodate the difference. Unfortunately, those cookies were never the same again. They were still good, but never measured up to what they once were. Those were really "the good old days".
Those boxes and recipe cards look very familiar. Your grandmother's generation had them, and I'm sure your mother's generation did as well. In fact, I just parted with my recipe box less than five years ago. The index cards and old font from the typewriters were all part of the nostalgia.
There were some excellent recipes in those boxes. However, our cooking habits have changed since our grandmothers were in the kitchen. For example, many of the older recipes contained lard. This is not a typical ingredient in my kitchen.
It is interesting to see how home cooking has changed since then. Back then virtually everything was from scratch and yes, there are definite ingredient differences, there were more rendered animals fats and heavy cream for sure.
Those old cookbooks and recipe cards are sure a wealth of information when I want to make something from scratch. It's amazing how much better things taste when they are made from scratch! Sometimes it really makes me realize how much my pallet has become accustomed to processed and prepared foods.
These are great. You've got to try following one of the old recipes!
I figure I will try to find what looks like the oldest recipe in that box, source ingredients as accurately as I can, and bring that food back to life. And it's gotta be something that I would actually want to eat. I could do kind of a series on that sort of thing.
Yes! You could probably make it video and picture-rich, too - like embed a short video of part of the cooking, just like a 5 or 10 second clip, and some photos. IMO, that's a home run.
That's what I was thinking, get some good pics of the old-school ingredients and finished product along with a short video of the cooking process, maybe some history of the dish and of course my opinion of the vintage flavors.
I'm in!
I love trying old family recipes.
What a treasure trove!
I still haven’t gone through all of them but I plan on making some of them soon.
Oh, man this brings me back to a wonderful time and place. I'm seventy five years old. I can tell you, a lot of staple ingredients have changed since I was young and feasted at my mother's table. One example in particular was her " melt in your mouth " sour cream cookies. At some point in time, shortening and butter changed. She even made changes in her recipe to try to accommodate the difference. Unfortunately, those cookies were never the same again. They were still good, but never measured up to what they once were. Those were really "the good old days".