Sour Dough Hot Cakes

A typed recipe for Sour Dough Hot Cakes—start them tonight, fire up the griddle tomorrow, and save a little starter to do it all over again.
Recipes preserved on typed cards, sheets of paper, and other pages, reflecting the way family favorites and everyday dishes were recorded and shared through the years.

A typed recipe for Sour Dough Hot Cakes—start them tonight, fire up the griddle tomorrow, and save a little starter to do it all over again.

A typed recipe for Stuffed Date Drops—pecan-stuffed dates wrapped in sour cream cookie batter and topped with glorious browned-butter golden frosting.

A typed recipe for Swedish Pudding with a handwritten addition—and the unforgettable promise, “After the war, serve with whipped cream!”

A 1969 typed recipe for Pumpkin Cake—three warmly spiced little loaves, plenty of pumpkin, and your choice of nuts or raisins.

A typed recipe for Sauce for Plum Pudding—a sweet finishing touch with your choice of brandy, lemon, nutmeg, or vanilla to make it your own.

A typed recipe for Pineapple and Cottage Cheese Salad—lime and lemon Jell-O, pineapple, cottage cheese, and enough to feed a crowd at the potluck table.

A typed Peppernuts recipe from Christmas 1925—tiny spiced cookies and a century-old glimpse into holiday baking from the recipe box.

A typed recipe for Laurene’s Oatmeal Crispies—chill the dough overnight, then slice and bake for crisp oatmeal cookies filled with chopped walnuts.

A typed recipe for Myrtle’s Ice Cream—with melted marshmallows standing in for the usual custard, this is homemade ice cream with a sweet little trick up its sleeve.

A typed Macaroni Salad recipe submitted as someone’s favorite—with shrimp, crab, or cabbage among the optional ways to make it your own.

A typed recipe for Lemon Filling—fresh lemon, a double boiler, and everything you need to give a lemon meringue pie its sunny center.

A typed recipe for Hershey Bar Cornflakes Cookies—melt a candy bar, add cornflakes, dates, and nuts, and suddenly not turning on the oven sounds delicious.

Typed on a personalized recipe card, Hawaiian Style Spareribs bring pineapple, brown sugar, and soy sauce together for one sweet-and-tangy dinner worth saving.

A typed recipe for Frosted Fruit Drink that blurs the line between punch and dessert—orange, ice cream, and enough frosty goodness to keep a crowd coming back for another glass.

A typed 1954 recipe for Fudge Cookies—chocolate, marshmallows, graham cracker crumbs, and nuts come together without ever turning on the oven.