I’ve had my grandma’s recipe box for years!
Recipe Box
I love that she had a pecan pie recipe taped to the front. I remember her pecan pies!
For some reason, I’ve never really gone through the box carefully but today, I got it down and went through it. There are so many interesting recipes in there and so much “grandma”.
Back in that day, they conserved everything.
Recipes
She had recipes written on the back of envelopes. This one wasn’t that old. I can’t remember when the post office went to different zip codes for p. o. boxes but this was when they were different.
There are recipes she cut out of newspapers, the paper is now yellowed with age, and crumbly.
Recipes on Newspaper
One of the first recipes is her tea cake recipe.
Tea Cakes
My grandma wrote that this recipe came from the Shreveport Times. I am so tempted to try it because you know how I love tea cakes.
Donation Acknowledgement
She even has a recipe written on the back of the acknowledgement for their donation to the Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home in memory of my great grandma! How funny is that?
There are three recipes I pulled out. None of these are low carb so I’ll have to save them for special occasions.
Recipes
The first is hard to read in the photo but she has it as Hominy Tamale Casserole. Many years ago, I made this recipe often but used corn instead of hominy. The recipe actually calls for canned tamales and that’s always what I used but I have plenty of good Zwolle tamales so I’m going to use those and, I’m using corn. I don’t like hominy too much. I have homemade chili that is canned or freeze dried. So many choices! 🙂
The second one is Tea Cakes, which I can’t make to try and the third one is Refrigerator Rolls. Maybe it’s my nostalgia but old bread recipes seem to just taste better to me. But, right now . . any bread would taste pretty darned good!
Just going through the recipes . . I can see my grandma standing in her tiny kitchen. I can see her little recipe box sitting up in the windowsill. What she wouldn’t give to have the kitchen I have now . . the kitchen I complain about. Perspective!
My grandma was an amazing lady and an even more amazing grandma.
Phyllis says
Your grandma’s handwriting looks just like my mom’s writing. A real lost art.
Judy Laquidara says
It makes me want to practice and make my handwriting better.
dezertsuz says
My MIL’s were in that same box design! My sister had Mamo’s and I loved going through it because some of it was written on the backs of pages from her father’s store ledger. I loved reading both sides. I don’t know who wound up with that when my sister died, but I hope they treasure it. I have a lot of her recipes because my sister typed them up and put them in a book for me one Christmas, but the box was lots more special. =)
Judy Joy says
Have you considered typing up your grandmother’s recipes and making a cookbook of them to give to Nicole and Chad and other relatives? I did this with my mother’s recipes and my mother-in-laws and gave them to the relatives. They were a real hit!!!! (we even found on recipe calling for an 8 x 9 square pan — we had a big laugh over that one.)
Sandy says
When I was first married my older sister wrote her favorite recipes on index cards for me. She was an excellent cook! I treasure those recipes and use them often.
Joyce says
I have recipes from both Grandma’s and my Mom in their handwriting. I treasure them! Somehow when I make those recipes I swear they even taste better just because I feel like a little piece of them were there with me helping me.
cassews says
I have some of the recipes from my husband’s grandmother- how I miss that woman… she was the kindest gentlest soul next to my grandmother (she was a nurse). Hubbys grandmother’s recipes are from Germany and one of the Kaiser’s there which is just awesome in itself. She would tell me how to make something and I would write it down. I am so glad I had the time with her .