Recipe box
Last weekend I went back to Pennsylvania to see my family. While there, I swung by Knoebels to see my old stomping grounds and see what’s changed over the years since I visited last.
View the full set of photos and videos from Knoebels.
While I was home I also stumbled across my grandmother’s recipe box. It is full of mid-20th century delight, including both her original recipes and those collected from friends and periodicals. Some highlights include a recipe for smoking 100 lbs. of pork, jello salads clipped from magazines, and 11 ways to make pickles. Also: white wash.
I’m currently planning to scan or photograph the cards, as well as to enter the contents into a database or XML file.
July 20th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Are you going to share the pickle recipes? Pickling is one of the great human inventions.
July 28th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
I want that. How much you charge for access to that database? I have not been given a long promised box and book from my great aunt (she’s been dead for years and I think I may have to wait for her son to die in order to get them) and those puppies are valuable.
The concrete one you tweeted about made me laugh out loud.
Are there any poultice recipes?