Handwritten recipes

For some of us, the strongest memories of Mom take place in the kitchen. Reading her handwritten recipe cards puts us right back at her side.

A vintage handwritten recipe for a French Apple Cake from the Verdin Collection. Make this cake with eggs, Wesson oil, sugar, flour, chopped apples, nuts, vanilla, salt, and soda. Bake the cake batter in three 9-inch cake pans. Pour a boiled icing made with light brown sugar, evaporated milk, and butter or oleo over the cake layers.

Gram's handwritten recipe

See how to make 25 Old-Fashioned Recipes Your Grandma Knew by Heart including biscuits, pie crust, fried apples and more!

A vintage handwritten recipe card for a Strawberry Cake, make this cake with a package of white cake mix, flour, strawberry gelatin, water, oil, eggs, and frozen strawberries; make the frosting for this cake with margarine, confectioner's sugar, salt, and strawberries.

Last month my dad gave me my mother's recipe box that was crammed full of recipe cards and newspaper clippings of 'Favorite Recipes' from "The Hutchinson News" (Hutchinson, Kansas). Only a few of her recipes were the original handwritten pages she collected over the years. Of all the recipes I reviewed in this little tin, dark olive-drab box, the one I treasure most is the one shown above. It's in the handwriting of her mother-in-law, my paternal grandmother, Mollie Koleber Margheim. When my…

A light buttermilk biscuit made the old fashioned way. With jam, these biscuits are sure to please anyone hankering for a snack and they're great for sopping up gravy or with eggs in the morning.

A vintage handwritten recipe card for a Four Layer Pie, a pecan flour crust base, a layer of cream cheese and Cool Whip, a layer of chocolate pudding, and topped butter pecan and Cool Whip. #FourLayerPie #Pie #VintageRecipes #Vintage #Recipes #OldRecipes