This aged cookbook page includes a recipe for Thanksgiving Cake. It’s from Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management, 1907. Click on image to enlarge.
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Atmore’s Plum Pudding Trade Card
Here is a Victorian trade card advertising Atmore’s Mince Meat and Genuine English Plum Pudding. The man serving the flaming plum pudding is dressed in a bright yellow and red vest and jacket. Click on image to enlarge.
Free Vintage Image ~ Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes Book Page
This vintage page of chocolate sweets includes: chocolate dipped peppermints, marshmallow fudge, chocolate caramels, cocoa fudge, maple fondant acorns and surprise chocolate creams. The page is from Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes and Home Made Candy Recipes by Miss Parloa and Janet McKenzie Hill, a recipe booklet that was published in 1911. Click on image to…
Free Vintage Image ~ Grungy Cookbook Pages
Here are five well-used, aged, grungy cookbook pages. Some of the recipes on the pages include: Tea-Cakes, Vanilla Cake, Wedding Cake, Almond Icing for Cakes, Coffee Icing, Gingerbread, Crumpets, Muffins, and Hot Rolls. The pages are from Mrs. Beeton’s Cookery Book, 1910. Click on images to enlarge.
Clapsaddle Postcard Thanksgiving Table
Here is a beautiful vintage Thanksgiving postcard by Ellen Clapsaddle. A fabric cloth covers the table that is set for a roast turkey dinner, including a homemade pie for dessert. A bouquet of flowers decorates the center of the table. Here is a version without the writing. Click on images to enlarge.
Free Vintage Image ~ Apple Pie and Pastry Recipes
Here is a well-used vintage cookbook page that includes an illustration of apple pie and recipes for pie crust, prune pie and apple pie filling. The page is from Igleheart’s Cake Secrets, 1922. And a cleaner version of the apple pie image. Click on images to enlarge.
Vintage Christmas Cake Recipes
Here are two vintage cookbook pages that include three recipes for Christmas Cake. These recipes are from Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management, 1907. Click on images to enlarge.
Baking Equipment Clip Art
This vintage clipart features some baking equipment: a mixing bowl, flour sifter and stirring spoon. Also included are two eggs and a stick of butter. This image is from the book, Any one can Bake, 1929, published by the Royal Baking Powder Co. The copyright was not renewed and this book has lapsed into the public domain. Click…
Free Vintage Image ~ Jolly Santa Postcard
Here is a jolly vintage Santa, serving up a platter of Christmas pudding. My original of this delightful antique postcard was postmarked in 1908. Click on image to enlarge.
Mrs. Beeton’s Recipes for Pastry
With an abundance of pumpkins available at this time of year, it would be the perfect time to make an old fashioned pumpkin pie! I enjoy baking but I don’t bake pies often and the pumpkin pies I have made start with pureed pumpkin from the can and I simply follow the instructions on the label. I’ve…
Chocolate Iced Layer Cake
Cake, anyone? This yummy looking Chocolate Iced Layer Cake is from Cake Secrets, 1922. Click on image to enlarge.
Fruit and Spice Cakes Vintage Recipe
It’s a little early for Christmas but I couldn’t wait to share this vintage Fruit and Spice Cakes recipe page with you. It’s from Igleheart’s Cake Secrets, 1922. Click on image to enlarge.
