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This post contains affiliate links. Read our disclosure policy here. Old cookbooks, whether antique or vintage, will always have a place in my kitchen. On my 9th birthday, I received my first “very own” cookbook and there began my love of cooking and cookbooks. Snickerdoodles, pumpkin custard, and hot milk sponge cakes were my early specialties.…
For every second-rate housekeeper I ever knew was wont to declare that the hardest thing in her life was to tell what to get for three meals a day. ~1884 I hear so much praise for big batch freezer meals that I wonder if I’m one of the few people who won’t spend one day…
The specifics are a little different in 2023, but on the whole, things haven’t changed a lot in the past 100+ years. We still prefer lighter, fresher meals cooked outside in hot weather, there’s an abundance of garden produce that we need to preserve, end-of-summer sales are a good time to stock up, and in…
There are SO many decisions to make when you’re moving, trying to decide what is worth packing and hauling and what is better left behind. When I moved to Texas last year, I made a last-minute decision to keep my kombucha SCOBY, not wanting to toss a faithful friend to the curb. I put it…