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…
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Victorian Etiquette New Year’s Calls
Here is a two-page article on the etiquette of New Year’s Calls. It was the Victorian era and the rules for social etiquette were much different than they are today. I first planned only to scan the decorative illustration from the first page but I thought some of you may enjoy reading (or working with)…
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…
Antique Christmas Text Magazine Pages
These two aged pages are from the December 1900 issue of The Designer magazine. The first page includes a lovely Christmas frame around typewritten details for three contests The Designer was running at the end of the year 1900. The second page outlines the rules that applied to all three contests. Click on images to enlarge.
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…
Christmas Doll’s Wardrobe
Here is a three-page vintage magazine article titled The Wardrobe for the Christmas Doll. There are several illustrations on the pages including a variety of adorable Victorian dolls dressed in their finest Christmas costumes. There is a sketch of Santa’s face is in the upper left corner of the first page. Designs of garland, mistletoe…
Christmas Tree Story
This vintage magazine page features The Story of a Cheap Christmas Tree. The page includes illustrations of Santa, a decorated tree and a line up of toys. The story is about two young girls who combine their Christmas spending money to purchase a tree, decorations and gifts for their baby brother. The page is from…
Ways to Cook Turkey
These four aged and yellowed vintage cookbook pages include a variety of ways to cook turkey. Some of the recipes are: Boiled Turkey, Devilled Turkey, Hashed Turkey, and Roast Turkey. The pages are from Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management, circa 1888. Here are black and white clip art versions of the boiled turkey and roast turkey illustrations…
Santa Claus Doll Costume ~ Free Vintage Graphics
This page, from a vintage magazine, includes an illustrated article about a Santa Claus costume. Illustrations on the page include a Santa doll and seven articles of clothing that make up Santa’s costume. The page is from the November 1891 issue of The Delineator magazine. Here is the first part of the article from a…
Single Entry Bookkeeping
Here are six full-sized, shabby and aged, printable accounting book pages from Gaskell’s Compendium of Forms Educational Social Legal and Commercial by Prof. G. A. Gaskell, 1880. The pages feature samples from a single-entry bookkeeping section in the book. Whether printed out or used digitally, these vintage accounting papers make great backgrounds for tags, cards, art journal pages,…
Familiar Flowering Plants ~ Free Vintage Image
This vintage page, titled Familiar Flowering Plants, includes beautiful illustrations and corresponding names of 24 different types of flowers. Numbers 1 to 12 form a list of “Flowers of the Year”, with the month to which each is appropriate. Those twelve flowers are: 1. January – English Snowdrop 2. February – English Primrose 3. March…
