This lovely vintage Thanksgiving postcard features an illustration of a colorful turkey between a bowl of cranberry sauce and a pumpkin pie. The message on the postcard is: Wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving. Click on image to enlarge.
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Strawberry Meringue Cake ~ Free Vintage Graphics
This vintage cookbook page includes an illustration of a Strawberry Meringue Cake and the recipe to make it. Here is a cleaner version of the cake from the page. My original scan is from Cake Secrets, by Igleheart Brothers Inc., 1928 P. Co., Inc. (copyright was not renewed). Click on images to enlarge.
Cake Fillings and Frostings
Here are four vintage cookbook pages that include several recipes for cake filling and frosting. Some of the recipes on the pages are: Peach Filling, Cream Filling for Cream Puffs, Tutti-Frutti Filling, Confectioner’s Icing, Marshmallow Icing, Maple Icing, Chocolate Fudge Frosting, Pineapple Frosting, Caramel Icing and Mocha Frosting. The final page includes an article titled…
Cookies ~ Free Vintage Cookbook Pages
Featured on these two vintage cookbook page are recipes for Ryzon cookies, including: Sugar Cookies, Spice Cookies, Fancy Cookies for Tea, Fig Cookies, Peanut Cookies, Chocolate Delights and Walnut Macaroons. The first page also includes an illustration of heart-shaped cookies on a serving platter. Ryzon was a brand of baking powder. The pages are from the Ryzon…
French Pastry Clip Art
Here is an open two-page vintage cookbook layout that features illustrations of two platters of dainty desserts and French Pastry recipes. The recipes on the pages include: Puff-Paste, Patty Cases, Tarts, Chou-Paste for Eclairs and Cream Puffs and a Strawberry Tart recipe. The pages are from Igleheart’s Cake Secrets, 1922. Here is a cleaner version of the…
Fruitcake Recipes
This vintage cookbook page includes an illustration of a White Fruit Cake and recipes for Date Nut Bars and Chocolate Fruit Patties. Here is a cleaner version of the illustration of White Fruit Cake. Here is a second page that includes the recipe for the White Fruit Cake pictured on the page posted above. The…
Christmas Baking Recipes
This vintage cookbook page includes an illustration of Christmas baking and recipes for Lebkuchen and Orange Tea Cakes. The page is from Cake Secrets, by Igleheart Brothers Inc., 1928 P. Co., Inc. (copyright was not renewed). Here is a cleaner version of the illustration of baked goods from the page. Click on images to enlarge.
Plum Pudding Recipes
These three shabby and aged vintage cookbook pages include a variety of ways to make plum pudding. The recipes are: Baked Plum Pudding, An Excellent Plum Pudding Made Without Eggs, An Unrivalled Plum Pudding, Plum Pudding (John Bull’s Own) and A Plain Christmas Pudding for Children. The pages are from Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household…
Helping Mom Bake
Here is an aged and shabby page from a vintage school reader. The featured words on the pages are: take, some, help, find and want. The lesson is about a girl who wants to help her mother bake a cake. Her mother asks the girl to bring her three eggs from the barn. The illustration…
Desserts and Baked Goods ~ Free Vintage Image
This vintage book plate features five varieties of desserts and baked goods. Included on the page are: Open Jelly with whipped cream, Yorkshire Pie and Aspic Jelly, Trifle, Ices and Jellies around, Christmas pudding and Jelly of two colours. In the first version, I’ve restored the illustrations of the desserts but left the background aged…
Christmas Feast ~ Free Vintage Graphics
“Bounce, Buckram!Velvet’s dear!Christmas comes but once a year,When it comes it brings good cheer,BEEF, PLUM-PUDDING, MINCE-PIES, AND BEER!” This wonderful image of a Christmas feast illustrates the last sentence from the vintage storybook, Tom Tucker and Little Bo Peep, by Thomas Hood, illustrated by Alice Wheaton Adams, published in 1891. The illustration is repeated on the well worn back…
Baking Powder Clip Art ~ Free Vintage Graphics
Here is an aged and shabby vintage advertisement for Mrs. Lincoln’s baking powder. The image is from the back cover of the August-September 1910 issue of Cooking School Magazine. And here is a black and white clip art version of a can of baking powder from the ad. Click on images to enlarge.
