I did a post on my Christmas list boxes way back when with challenge #26. I like these little tin boxes that hold 3 x 5 cards. The Christmas list boxes are a fun little category of them. More traditionally we see them in the form of recipe boxes.
I pick them up at estate sales if the price is right. Their graphics are darling.
This is one of the recipe boxes I use in my kitchen. It is extra long. It is also the perfect green for my kitchen.
It has this great little engraving on the front that reads "The American Home Menu Maker".
I have a second recipe box that I use that I love as well. Once again the green color is a winner in my kitchen.
This one is nice as it has a little shelf to hold your recipe card.
They live stacked on one another in my kitchen.
It is always interesting to see the different dividers inside the recipe boxes. Funny with the dividers for Fritters and the other for Biscuits...I wouldn't think those would be their own categories.
These are the recipe cards I use. They came from my neighbor. I love the little rhyme at the bottom. "A truer friend there cannot be than one who shares her recipes". If you ever get an old recipe box keep an eye out for the darling graphics on some of the old cards.
One of the most unusual recipe boxes I have ever found is this one.
It dates to the 1930s and is full of promotional cards/recipes sponsored by a local department store and newspaper. It was part of their weekly cooking school program.
Dated 1935, this is a menu for the Busy Day Dinner.
What shall I make for dinner tonight?
If you have an idea for a future collection challenge, leave me a "comment and finish the sentence "Show me your collection of ___." Always cooking up a new challenge each week.
Happy Day!
You gotta love a time that fritters had a category all their own!
I want to see a detailed post of your kitchen. I love to see how you display things and how you use vintage items in your day to day life.
Needless to say your green is my green too! Makes me happy!!!
Posted by: Melissa | June 17, 2014 at 04:58 AM
Another fun post! I agree with Melissa. I'd love to see a kitchen tour post too. I've been seeing some fun recipe boxes lately at estate sales. The best part are those hand written recipes. Happy cooking!
Posted by: Musings from Kim K. | June 17, 2014 at 06:17 AM
I love this collection! I have found a few recipe boxes over the years but my goal is to find one full of old recipes. Once I found an old cookbook at an estate sale that I bought for the graphics on the cover. Inside were a bunch of old, handwritten cards. I was more excited about those!
Have a lovely day!
Erica
Posted by: Erica | June 17, 2014 at 07:07 AM
the funniest part of this is when I think about all those people who preach "don't eat it if your grandparents wouldn't eat it". Hmmm, boiled beef tongue for dinner anyone? YUCK.
Posted by: sarah | June 17, 2014 at 07:10 AM
How fun and what memories! You can publish a cookbook with those handwritten classics!
When my mom died, all the cousins said she gave them her handwritten recipes for a wedding gift! Wow...I don't have that! ( I need to look thru her things to see if some handwritten gems are in her recipe box/bag! ) Cousins and friends are still calling me to get one of her recipe specials! Miss you, mom! ...
Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: Betty in Arlington | June 17, 2014 at 07:59 AM
You had me at Strawberry Marlow. And Fritters. I'm guessing that was from a Sounthern cook? An entire section devoted to Fritters? This collection is one of my favorites of yours -- very charming. :)
Posted by: Into Vintage | June 17, 2014 at 08:40 AM
I love the ones you have in your kitchen...especially the one that holds a recipe. What is a meal without some sort of fritter??
Posted by: Annette | June 17, 2014 at 10:17 AM
OH! OH! OH! Memories of Rose's Restaurant on Glisan where the cooks would run out with the beef tongue and chase the waitresses! And an Oregonian recipe! Fun!
Posted by: Tammy | June 17, 2014 at 06:28 PM
I had as much fun zooming in on the recipes! Plumamousse? Yikes! I don't even want to think what would happen if you ate too much LOL. Salad Dessert Sandwich Loaf? Cute boxes! I do like your green boxes you use in your kitchen. I've never any like the long one.
I also love your jar full of b-day candles. I get so many great ideas from your blog :-)
Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: Doreen | June 17, 2014 at 06:44 PM
Cute collection. I'm with you on the "grandma green"!
Posted by: Kathy | June 17, 2014 at 08:17 PM
Show me your collection of knee huggers.
& I've only got a few recipe boxes. Cooking is something I have been meaning to take up, but BF works at night time so usually 5/7 nights I am alone.
Posted by: Sir Thrift-A-Lot | June 17, 2014 at 09:46 PM
Beef tongue is delicious. The problem with it is that it looks like a tongue and you have to peel the thick layer of the whitish-gray taste buds after it is boiled (looks just awful) it is good though.
Posted by: Bette Williams | June 18, 2014 at 05:18 AM
Those old recipes are a hoot. I have some of my mom's old books and cards - I would never try to make the dishes, but reading them is so much fun! Love your green boxes... very cool.
Posted by: Maureen | June 18, 2014 at 07:18 PM
My mother had a little green plastic box of recipes. Some of them my grandmother gave her when she got married. It sat on the kitchen counter for years and years. It's one of those things that I was unable to locate after she died. I've been bummed about it ever since.
Posted by: Eddie Mitchell | June 19, 2014 at 04:32 AM
Here's a recipe box story for you! I was at a shop back home and saw a recipe box, I was taken to it because it was the same as my Mom's, opened it, some recipe cards were in it, I recognized the writing as my grandmothers, this box had been sold at auction and found its way back to me!, I now have both of my grandmothers boxes, Mom's and one belonging to my mother in law, all with recipes!
Posted by: Jill | July 07, 2014 at 04:42 AM