Here is a vintage advertisement for the “rapid” tea pot and a coffee urn & cafetiere which were patented by General Hutchinson. The sole manufacturer of the equipment was Henry Loveridge & Co., of Wolverhampton. I scanned the original ad from Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management, circa 1888. Click on image to enlarge.
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Free Vintage Printable Cookbook Page Muffins Waffles
This vintage cookbook page includes recipes for cereal muffins, waffles, chocolate waffles, buckwheat cakes, royal griddle cakes and rice griddle cakes. An illustration of perfectly prepared waffles and pancakes is included at the bottom of the page. I scanned the original page from Any one can Bake, 1929, published by the Royal Baking Powder Co. (copyright was not…
Free Vintage Clip Art Breakfast Table Setting
This vintage illustration features an elegant breakfast table setting for eight people. Here is a black and white clip art version. I scanned the original illustration from Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management, circa 1888. Click on images to enlarge.
Free Vintage Printable Cookbook Page Cake Bread
This vintage cookbook page includes recipes for coffee cake, fruit bread, corn bread and cinnamon buns. A colorful illustration of each of the baked goods, ready to serve, is included to the right of the recipes on the page. I scanned the original page from Any one can Bake, published by the Royal Baking Powder Co. in 1929 (copyright was not renewed). Click…
Free Vintage Printable Grocery Store Receipt
This unused printable vintage grocery store receipt was printed for Ditto’s Store in the 1940s. Ditto’s was located on 644 Washington Avenue in Hagerstown, MD and could be reached at telephone number 1588J. The receipt has yellowed with age. Two small illustrations are included at the top of the invoice. One shows a store clerk,…
Free Vintage Luncheon Recipe Graphics
This nine page vintage article titled Ladies’ Luncheons by Janet M. Hill includes two menus, with accompanying recipes, to successfully host a luncheon for ladies – early 1900s style. The first eight pages of this article (and other pages in the magazine that included photographs) were published on a paper that is glossier than the…
Vintage Catalog Page of Groceries
This vintage catalog page features a variety of boxed, canned and bottled groceries that could be ordered by mail in the late 1800s. Some of the items available to order from the page were: coffee, tea, baking powder, cocoa, jelly, raisins, sardines and olives. I scanned the original page from the 1897-8 H. O’neill & Co. catalogue…
Shabby Cooking School Magazine Cover
This shabby, worn cover from the Aug. – Sept. 1908 issue of The Boston Cooking School Magazine includes illustrations of cooking equipment, steaming cups (perhaps filled with tea), a sugar bowl filled with sugar cubes and a creamer. Stalks of wheat are designed in a circular pattern behind the illustrations. The magazine was a 10…
Victorian Boy Plum Pudding Postcard
This vintage Christmas postcard by Ellen Clapsaddle features an adorable Victorian boy with curly blonde hair, dressed in red, white, and blue. The boy is standing on a wooden chair at the table, making him tall enough to place a sprig of holly and berries into the centre of the baked Christmas pudding that is…
Franklin Sugar Cookbook Pages
Here are two aged and shabby vintage cookbook pages that include images of a woman testing the temperature of heated sugar, a food scale set out with a marble board and candy-making tools, and a young lady in a blue and white plaid bonnet and apron carrying a basket filled with groceries. The pages also…
Old Christmas Plum Pudding Recipe
I thought you might enjoy reading, baking, or designing with, this shabby and aged vintage recipe for Christmas Plum Pudding. The recipe is from an old notebook of handwritten recipes I purchased at a garage sale many years ago. Click on image to enlarge.
Milk Bottles Clip Art
This strip of catalog listings includes descriptions and/or pricing for milk bottles, milk bottle caps, parchment butter paper and dairy salt. Also included are illustrations of three sizes of milk bottles and an illustration of milk bottle caps, showing one cap being opened and one cap closed. Here are black and white clip art versions of…
