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Across the Fence:  Do you have a recipe box?  |
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catscharm74
True Blue Farmgirl
4687 Posts
Heather
Texas
USA
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 Posted - May 03 2008 : 2:12:57 PM
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Do you use it often? What is your oldest recipe? Favorite? Secrets and tips? I don't have a lot of cook books (I hate to search for something) but I do like old fashion recipes on handwritten recipe cards. I am looking for a fancy recipe box to store them in.
Heather
Yee-Haw, I am a cowgirl!!!
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Mumof3
True Blue Farmgirl
3890 Posts
Karin
Ellenwood
GA
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - May 03 2008 : 4:18:39 PM
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I use a Longaberger recipe basket that I have had for about ten years. I love it! Inside are all of my favorite family recipes. I am not sure, but I think the oldest recipe in there is my grandmother's JimJam Dandies. They are cookies made with oatmeal and a plop of strawberry jam in the center. They are yummy! And I always think of Grammy when I make them.
Karin
Farmgirl Sister
# 18 :)
Wherever you go, there you are.
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electricdunce
True Blue Farmgirl
2544 Posts
Karin
Belmont
ME
USA
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Posted - May 03 2008 : 4:37:54 PM
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My Danish grandmother was a professional cook, and I have lots of recipes of hers, lots of family recipes, and many I've collected over the years. I have three recipe boxes of mine, and one of my mother's. Some of my grandmother's recipes I've never attempted, Mock Turtle soup comes to mind. We always make the Christmas cookies, mandelstenger, peppernuts, and brown edge cookies. I love the old recipes cards in my grandmother's handwriting, the cards have yellowed over the years, Karin
Farmgirl Sister #153
"Give me shelter from the storm" - Bob Dylan
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electricdunce
True Blue Farmgirl
2544 Posts
Karin
Belmont
ME
USA
2544 Posts |
Posted - May 03 2008 : 4:41:35 PM
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Oh I just remembered one recipe I found in a cookbook from the junk store. It was written on a piece of paper with the Dragon Cement Company logo on the top (they're still in business in Thomaston, Maine) and the recipe is for Extra Fluffy Biscuits. I loved the combination....Karin
Farmgirl Sister #153
"Give me shelter from the storm" - Bob Dylan
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joyfulmama
True Blue Farmgirl
1175 Posts
Debra
Silver Springs
NV
USA
1175 Posts |
Posted - May 03 2008 : 4:41:43 PM
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I don't have a recipe box but should.. :-) Karin you grandma's cookies sound lovely
Blessings, Debra
Psalms 23:1 "The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want."
"Your life is an occasion, Rise to it." Mr Magorium..
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CountryBorn
True Blue Farmgirl
1545 Posts
Mary Jane
New York
USA
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Posted - May 03 2008 : 4:42:49 PM
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I have my Mom's recipe box. It's yellow and white nothing fancy. It is full of her recipes. She ran out of space in that so she put the rest in a blue and white shoe box and taped a white piece of paper to it and wrote "Recipes" on it. The oldest recipe in it is my Grandma's stuffing recipe which has been in her family for at least 200 yrs.
MJ
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Freya Stark |
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - May 03 2008 : 5:35:38 PM
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I have a recipe accordian file (that's really pretty) and VERY stuffed, and I have two old wooden boxes for cards--one was my Nanny's, a Gold Medal Flour label on it from 1930, and the other I bought at the thrift. Oldest recipe in the whole shebang is my Nanny's Mammy's Mammy's sweet potato pie...so about 1870 or so.
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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grace gerber
True Blue Farmgirl
2804 Posts
grace
larkspur
colorado
USA
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Posted - May 03 2008 : 5:39:27 PM
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I too have a Longaberger recipe box - I think mine is 10 or 11 years old too. I have been slowly adding recipes from my cookbooks (Have way too many so I sold about 40 last year)that way soon I will not have the remaining 37 taking up space. I really had an addiction to cookbooks but found I was not really using the recipes. So each week I sit down and in my spare time write out recipes that I have tried and love. After I am done I plan to put them on my copier machine and make a copy of all of them for both sons. That way none of the family recipes will be lost. My favorites are Red Cabbage, Rouleden, the six different German Xmas cookie and my Mom's seven minute frosting.
Grace Gerber
Larkspur Funny Farm and Fiber Art Studio
Where the spirits are high and the fiber is deep
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - May 03 2008 : 9:00:10 PM
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Mine is also a Longaberger recipe basket. I love it and have had it for probably 15 years. I have all my favorite recipes in there...nothing secret..I will share anything...some oldies but goodies.
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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elphie0503
True Blue Farmgirl
500 Posts
Samantha
Gilmer
Texas
USA
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Posted - May 03 2008 : 9:21:35 PM
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A couple of years back, my mother compiled a gift-book of recipes. She took all of the favorites of the family and put it in a scrapbook with photo sleeves...next to each one she put a picture of the person the recipe came from, or if it was their favorite. She gave extra sleves to add all of my handwritten ones into. I love it...the pages are easily wiped off and its nice to see my Grandma or Auntie's face while I am making their signature dish!!
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blueroses
True Blue Farmgirl
1323 Posts
Debbie
in the Pandhandle of
Idaho
USA
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Posted - May 04 2008 : 10:40:54 AM
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I have an old box with flowers on it that I bought as a new bride in Boise in 1978! My oldest recipes are from my ex sister-in-laws for finger steaks, a sour dough coffee cake and something called wicky-wacky cake.
"You cannot find peace...by avoiding life."
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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Posted - May 04 2008 : 11:33:53 AM
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I have a recipe binder! It works great. You get the side slide-in photo album pages and slide your recipe cards in! Easy to find, water/batter/mess resistant and there are so many cute binders out there!
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
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Huckelberrywine
True Blue Farmgirl
1607 Posts
Michelle
Rosalia
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Posted - May 10 2008 : 10:40:39 AM
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I found the best recipe box...an old wooden library index card file! Talk about space for all my recipes! It brings back memories of flipping through the cards at the library...I miss that. I rescued 2 of them, one has just 4 drawers and sits on my kitchen counter, the other is much too large, but very useful at work.
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joyfulmama
True Blue Farmgirl
1175 Posts
Debra
Silver Springs
NV
USA
1175 Posts |
Posted - May 10 2008 : 11:47:18 AM
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I found a great recipe book yesterday at Barnes and Nobles. It is all blank lined sheets to write your recipes on. It has sections divided for starters/veggies/fish/meat etc... there are protector pages for special recipe cards and in the back a zippered pocket for more recipe cards, pencils, coupons whatever.. I love it. I can copy my favorite recipes from all of my books and put them into one book. how cool
Blessings, Debra
Psalms 23:1 "The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want."
"Your life is an occasion, Rise to it." Mr Magorium..
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graciegreeneyes
True Blue Farmgirl
3107 Posts
Amy Grace
Rosalia
WA
USA
3107 Posts |
Posted - May 22 2008 : 7:39:47 PM
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| I have a recipe box my dad and my son made for me. It is oak, similar to a library card catalog and filled with family recipes. When my husband and I got married my parents sent a letter in the wedding invitation asking everyone to send a favorite family recipe, then they put them all in the recipe box and that was one of our wedding gifts. I have recipes, copied of course, in two of my great-grandmother's handwriting. That was the best gift we got, just an amazing connection to family |
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Annab
True Blue Farmgirl
2900 Posts
Anna
Seagrove
NC
USA
2900 Posts |
Posted - May 23 2008 : 03:32:17 AM
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I have a recipe 3 ring binder and a book that has unorganized pages of recipes. Funny, in all the organized chaos, I can still find what I need.
Favorite recipes are a chicken caserole made by a dear friend, my deceased grandmother's cookie recipe, and of course, a few my mom has also passed along |
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
6066 Posts |
Posted - May 23 2008 : 05:27:00 AM
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Recipe boxes are like little diaries. I have two, and some of the recipes have the handwritingof family members long gone. I got my MIL's several years ago. It was so interesting to go through it and see her writing and what she had chosen to clip out of magazines, etc. Mine is metal, like an old tin, and I think it came from Current 30 years ago, with pretty recipe cards in it, long ago used and given away. I have a wooden one that says recipes on the front (the lid lifts off), and my MIL's was a dark green metal box that was used in offices a long time ago. I also started a recipe journal when I got married, and it is stuffed now with clippings and moan than half hwritten in. I noted who gave me the recipe and when, and it is also like a trip down memory lane. My fvorite is one in my box written by my mom for warm pineapple salad, written in her hand, and at the top it says "from the desk of Thelma", which was her hame.......
Farmgirl Sister # 31
www.blueskyjeannie.blogspot.com
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sweetproserpina
True Blue Farmgirl
535 Posts
meg
Vinemount
Ontario
Canada
535 Posts |
Posted - May 23 2008 : 05:44:19 AM
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I have a recipe binder that has grown into quite a mess (organized chaos) since I first used it as my binder for my first Home Ec class years ago. I still have all the old recipes in there that we cooked in class- from microwave fudge to crunchy munchy cookies. The only two I really still use are Peppermint Brownies and Bumble Cobbler though, Yum!
ps. All my marks are still on all the recipes too! Mrs. Keller was tough!- if I forgot a spatula in my list of utensils off a mark would come! (And I was the best student in the class, lol ;)
"Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world."
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mellaisbella
True Blue Farmgirl
1862 Posts
melanie
living on Anne of Green
Gables land
Canada
1862 Posts |
Posted - May 27 2008 : 3:12:05 PM
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Mybe while we are going through our treasured recipes....we should copy some out and send them to other farm gals
"learn to watch snails" SARK |
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catscharm74
True Blue Farmgirl
4687 Posts
Heather
Texas
USA
4687 Posts |
Posted - May 27 2008 : 4:34:12 PM
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What a great idea Melanie!! I love old recipes.
Heather
Yee-Haw, I am a cowgirl!!!
FARMGIRL #90 |
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SusieQue
True Blue Farmgirl
603 Posts
Susie
Greenville
Ga
Georgia
603 Posts |
Posted - May 29 2008 : 10:27:12 AM
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| I have several receipe boxes but also have a regular notebook. My notebook has dividers just like we used in school, this one is used for family handwritten receipes. Seems as if my family grabbed a sheet of notebook paper and wrote them on so this was perfect for those. |
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gafarmwoman
True Blue Farmgirl
244 Posts
Pam
Georgia
USA
244 Posts |
Posted - May 29 2008 : 10:40:33 AM
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The recipe box I have I bought while I was taking Home Ec. in high school. We had to have one for a class project and I just kept using it. I have some of my Mother's recipes she handed down in there and some of my old favorites from the last 33 years.
I guess the fried apple pies would be one of my favorites.
...Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference... ~Robert Frost~
Life on a Southern Farm
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