Category Clippings

Recipes, household tips, and other useful finds clipped from newspapers and magazines and tucked away in Aunt Bertha’s Recipe Box.

Apple Butter Made Vermont Way

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.

For Prettier Flowers

A newspaper clipping offers practical household tips for reviving wilted cut flowers and helping fresh arrangements stay beautiful longer.

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.

Caution: Flowers Can Kill

A saved newspaper clipping warning about poisonous plants and identifying the parts considered dangerous.

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.