Brutkey

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Family cookbooks, filled with handwritten notes, sometimes held together with little more than rubber bands, tell the story of generations of homemakers. Easily lost, they are irreplaceable treasures.

🦃🦃 This #Thanksgiving, celebrate the cultural & family histories on their worn & stained pages ➡➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2024/09/30/vanishing-culture-preserving-cookbooks/

#VanishingCulture

Cookbook page stained from use featuring a recipe for corn bread dressing with crossed-out words, ingredient adjustments, and cooking notes in pen, including instructions to cook onion, broth, and celery together. Cookbook page stained from use featuring a recipe for hot cakes with handwritten ingredient adjustments in pen.
Ross of Ottawa
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@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org uncanny how much the handwriting of the annotations looks like my mom's handwriting.

She of 1930s vintage is gone now but her hand-annotated recipe books are still a treat to peruse.