(Please visit Suzanne at Colorado Lady for more Vintage Thingie Thursday fun!)Please forgive me, my husband is on summer vacation (for another six and a half weeks yet), and I'm having a hard time finding chunks of time to blog, respond to comments and visit my dear blog friends. I will endeavor to try to keep up but I feel rather like I'm rapidly sinking in quicksand. Please know I think of you and miss you all!
I'm sharing a fun recipe booklet with you today that I got at a garage sale a couple of weeks ago. It's was published for the Calumet Baking Powder Company and it's filled with delightful illustrations. Sadly it doesn't have a copyright date but there is a handwritten note beside one of the recipes that reads "June 5, 1931, Fri.", so it's at least that old.
(front cover)
(page with date noted - wonder if the biscuits were good?!)
(Yum! Someone made sugar cookies! Wonder why this woman's head is circled??? That's a bit odd and er, creepy teehee.)
(back cover)
Lovely post, and I like these vintage pictures of recipes
ReplyDeleteHey, have you tried a recipe from the old recipe books. like that calument chocolate cake looks ultra yummy. Have fun in the sun dear lady and report back whenever you can, I am sure we all understand.
ReplyDeleteI like the artwork on your booklet and the recipes look good too.
ReplyDeleteI would say your cookbook find is definitely vintage. I enjoyed seeing and hearing about the company.
ReplyDeleteWhat fun to look at these recipes, this is a charming recipe book, I just love it!! I may try a recipe or two!! Have a great VTT!!
ReplyDeleteHi Self Sagacity!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for visiting, I'm so glad you enjoyed the post!
Happy VTT,
Sally
Hi Jenny!
ReplyDeleteSo nice to see you! :) I'm on my blog at 6:30 in the morning teehee.
No, I sure haven't tried any recipes from old cookbooks. They must have been good though - I can remember both of my grandmother's were wonderful cooks and bakers.
Hope all is well with you and your dear ones!
Sally
Hi Postcardy!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for visiting! I wish I could find as wonderful paper ephemera as you have, you have the most wonderful collection.
Happy VTT,
Sally
Hi LV!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for visiting! I was so sad to not find a copyright date on the booklet - it mentions something about Calumet meeting government standards in 1918, so it was published somewhere in between 1918 and 1931.
Happy VTT,
Sally
Hi Suzanne!
ReplyDeleteThanks again for hosting VTT! I'm so glad you enjoyed the booklet. Maybe I will post the rest of it down the line ... my scanner is such a slow poke, it takes forever.
Happy VTT,
Sally
The style makes me long for my grandma and my mom (when I was a little girl )
ReplyDeleteI love using the old cook books .
Thanks for sharing
Hi Barbara!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for visiting and your sweet comments. It's so nice to see you, feels like a long time. I haven't made anything from the few old cookbooks that I have - do you have any favorite vintage recipes? I'm so hoping to find a recipe for applesauce cake with brown sugar glaze that my grandmother used to make when I was little. Sensory memories are so amazing, aren't they?!
Happy almost weekend to you,
Sally
Oh, I love your recipe book. I have the Calumet cutters. A book to go along with them would be fabulous. I have one Jell-O book from the early thirties. My daughter did a report on the 30's for school and discovered Jell-O was first produced then. I was at an auction, the recipe book was up for bid and she needed a display piece for the project. My collection was born.
ReplyDeleteBTW-Thanks for visiting my blog, too! You asked what plant was at the base of my tomato plants. On one side is sweet potato squash and on the other, zucchini. Like my tomatoes, they are going wild this year!
Hi Shelley!
ReplyDeleteYou lucky, how fun to have the cutters from Calumet and I bet the Jell-O book is fantastic. I love seeing old recipes using Jell-O, it's amazing and amusing what they used to add in.
Oh! Thanks so much for the info re those gorgeous giant leaves. Wow! I've never heard of sweet potato squash and I just looked it up and they're so pretty!
Happy Saturday,
Sallyy