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.
recipe
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.
Free Vintage Image ~ Ryzon Waffles
Here is a vintage cookbook page that includes an image of a stack of waffles on a blue plate and an old fashioned glass jar of syrup set out on a white placemat. The page also includes a recipe for waffles. The recipe suggests substituting 3/4 of a cup of cold boiled rice in place…
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.
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…
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.
Vintage Christmas Fruit Cake Recipe
I enjoy cooking and baking but I’ve never tried baking an authentic Christmas fruit cake. Maybe someday? If I do, it will only be to say I did – but don’t hold your breath. 🙂 This vintage Christmas Fruit Cake recipe is from “The Ladies’ World” magazine, January 1915. Click on image to enlarge.
Old Fashioned Special Tea Recipe
This old page is from “600 Receipts Worth Their Weight in Gold”, published in 1867. It’s an entertaining read and some of the cures included in the book are unbelievable. (Click on image to open full size). After drinking a dose of this potent “tea”, you can’t eat for three hours and then you can…
Vintage Recipes Open Cookbook Pages
Here are two pages of vintage recipes from the cookbook Cake Secrets by Igleheart Bros., published in 1915. Click on the image to enlarge.
