Cooking & Baking

I have the Betty Crocker Cookbook from 1941. It belonged to my maternal grandmother and, to me, it's a relic of a time gone by. She altered the measurements on a lot of the recipes to fit her family of eight
and wrote them in the margins.

I also have my mother's "notebook" recipe book in which she gathered her own recipes. She clipped a lot of them from the newspaper (Cleveland Press, Cleveland, Ohio). If you turn these over and read the back, you'll get a glimpse of WWII history! Reports of who was wounded, who was missing in action, who had been captured and who had been killed, reports of those visiting home and obituaries of those who had died. Also, stories about the local Red Cross and how to feed your family during rationing. It's better than a history book because it is local and was current. I would call it a primary resource. I plan to preserve as part of my family history.