Inspired by @debsphotos I decided to shoot a cookbook. This one I think was part of a Home Economics class. On the inside cover is the date 12-13-13. It discusses how to pasteurize your own milk and how to make cheese. It states under the care of milk to "make sure you have a clean dairy man". It also has many recipes and menu plans for breakfast lunch and dinner as well as the prices for the grocery list one of which I have shown here.
Wow ... I think that this is so interesting! I'd love reading someting like that! A real homemaker ... even a grocery list. Did you pick this up at an antique store or was it handed down from family. I'm even fascinated by the perfect handwriting. Fab photo!
What a cool cookbook! I like to cook but I'm not going to pasteurize my own milk!!! Imagine what life was like cooking back then. No going out when I don't feel like cooking!
@karenann I think we got it maybe from a yard sale in a box of stuff. I really don't remember. It is very interesting but a little difficult reading! Thanks,KarenAnn!
What a great photo of this cookbook, Katy. It is interesting to see what the prices were and how simple things seemed to be. So many homemade things and such a different time.
Wow this is so cool - how nice to find something like this. I will remember that when I make my cheese I will make sure I first find a clean dairy man!
Very cool! Nice job with the focus making it very easy for us to read... and wish that those prices still applied! However, I am betting that the incomes were more in tune to those prices than to today's incomes! :)
WOW...first, I'm glad I could inspire you to do this but, secondly, where did you ever find this? It's SO AWESOME! I have an old Bowman Dairy (which was the dairy that delivered to our house when I was little) milkman's route book that has some great entries in it but this is super!
@debsphotos WOW !I am glad you saw this. I thought you were gone!!! Thanks a bunch, girl! I think we got it at a yardsale or auction. My husband used to do some remodeling work on the side and one time he gutted a house that had been in a fire and brought some unwanted things home and this might have been one of those things. I really don't remember. Sometimes there are advantages to being a hoarder! ;~} Thanks so much,Debbie!
@grammyn -- I'll check photos ever now and again. :-) I can't cut myself off "cold turkey"!!! HA HA That's such a cool item, Katy It's amazing what you can learn from the past and about people in the past from that. Like the handwriting...they don't even teach cursive anymore in the schools!
@debsphotos I'm glad to know you will still be around a little. I am also glad to know you liked this. I have always been interested in peeking into the past this way too.
The handwriting struck me right away and then the date..how in the world do you pasteurize your milk? did you by any chance read about fermenting your own cabbage for instance? looks like an interesting book.
@bruni The book says to put th bottle of milk in a pan of hot water and heat it to 165 degrees and then keep it at that temperature for a certain amount of time. No description of how to ferment your own cabbage! It is a very interesting book.
April 18th, 2012
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