Category All Recipes

This is where all the recipes come together—from breads and breakfast to main dishes, preserves, desserts, and plenty of good things tucked in between.

Boiled Dressing

A handwritten recipe for a sweet and tangy boiled dressing made with vinegar, sugar, mustard, butter and egg, with cream or vinegar added to thin it.

Eagle Brand Recipe Fragment

A mysterious handwritten Eagle Brand recipe fragment with crackers, chocolate chips and nuts—and only part of the original directions still intact.

An old newspaper clipping shares a Vermont-style apple butter recipe made with fresh apples, cider, dark brown sugar, and warm spices. Slowly cooked until thick and rich, it's a traditional preserve made for filling jars.

Baked Pinto Beans

Classic baked pinto beans with molasses, brown sugar, mustard and bacon or salt pork, carefully saved from the original package.

Lincoln’s Birthday Cake

A 1969 newspaper recipe for a gingerbread cake roll filled with pineapple whipped cream and made in honor of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday.

Olave Pickles

A sweet green tomato and onion pickle seasoned with mustard, pepper, allspice and cloves.

Rhubarb Cake

Rhubarb Cake recipe from an old newspaper or magazine clipping, made with brown sugar and rhubarb, topped with cinnamon sugar, and served with whipped cream or ice cream.

Krumkager (Krumkaker)

A handwritten recipe for traditional Krumkager flavored with cardamom and baked in a stovetop iron, complete with a practical note about the butter.

Ever Ready Frosting and Chocolate Sauce

A chocolate frosting made with Nestlé’s Ever Ready cocoa mix that can easily be thinned into chocolate sauce.

Ella’s Drop Sugar Cookies

Tender drop sugar cookies flattened with a sugar-dipped glass and baked until done.

Elise’s Molasses Cookies

A typed molasses cookie recipe made with coffee and spices, shaped into balls and pressed with sugar before baking.

Cressa’s Cherry Winks

Cornflake-coated cookies filled with pecans, dates and maraschino cherries from a handwritten 1970 recipe.

Walnuts Treats

A typed recipe for an old-fashioned layered bar with a brown sugar crust and a chewy walnut-coconut topping.

Cranberry Fruit Nut Bread

A classic cranberry quick bread with chopped nuts and bright orange flavor, baked until golden brown.

Cherry Crunch

An easy cherry dessert topped with a buttery cake mix crumble and baked until golden brown.

Aunt Olga’s Fruit Cake

A substantial fruitcake packed with raisins, dates, figs, citron and nuts, with an intriguing old-fashioned addition of a “small glass of jelly.”

Sot Suppe (Norwegian Fruit Soup)

A cold Norwegian fruit soup filled with apricots, raisins, prunes, and tapioca, preserved here as the closest version I’ve found to the Sot Suppe my grandfather made.

Radiant Mix Old Fashioned Dark Cake (5 lb)

A rich, dark old-fashioned fruitcake packed with raisins, dates, nuts, and candied fruit, with a family tradition of keeping it moist with currant wine.

Casserole of Ham

A classic ham and pea casserole with cheese, bread crumbs, pimentos, and a mushroom soup topping.

Butter Milk Soup & Lemon Soup

A typewritten page preserves two separate sweet soup recipes. Buttermilk Soup combines oatmeal, raisins, and lemon peel in a creamy, tangy base, while Lemon Soup features tapioca, raisins, and fresh lemon. Both are enriched with egg yolks and sugar, creating comforting dishes that could be enjoyed as light meals or desserts.