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Making Butter – a tutorial
When I was growing up we almost always drank raw milk. We didn’t own a cow but we would buy fresh milk from a neighbor who did. We made our own butter, too. Recently I bought a half-gallon of whipping cream and then didn’t end up using it all before the expiration date, so I decided my children could learn…
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The Girl I Used to Be
Being in Louisiana this past weekend has brought back so many memories of my junior-high years when we lived there. It is hard to believe that’s been 30 years ago. The experiences I had there are still fresh in my mind, yet a lot happens in 3 decades! I’ve been trying to remember the dreams and aspirations I had as…
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Family Time in Louisiana
I love living in the Northwest, but my roots are in the South. It has been 14 years since I have been to Louisiana, so in spite of the circumstances I am thoroughly enjoying my time here. I had forgotten (or maybe just didn’t appreciate before) how good the food is! We got here Friday morning and so far I…
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Summer Sunday Supper
When I was a little girl I would beg my mother, “Tell me stories about when you were a little girl!” She’d laugh and say, “I don’t have any stories!” But she did! Just simple anecdotes of everyday happenings when she was growing up. Now that I’m a mother, my children love to hear my “stories,” too! One Sunday recently…
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Vintage Boys and Girls Cookbook
It’s been awhile since I’ve participated in Vintage Thingies Thursday, but I’ve been meaning for several weeks to share this cookbook from my childhood with you.I can’t remember where Mother got them, but we had this cookbook and a Betty Crocker’s Parties for Children book. I “inherited” the cookbook and it is falling apart. I haven’t seen the party book…
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The Workbasket – April 1952
Here we are in 1952 with plenty of handy “Ideas for the Bazaar, the Home, Gifts, Sparetime Money Makers, with Many Articles, Easily Made and Inexpensive, that find a Ready Sale.” How’s that for a tag line? And with plenty of capital letters, too! The first…
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The Workbasket – January 1952
It’s been awhile since I’ve done a Workbasket post… and I still have quite a few I haven’t share with you yet. I know you’re just so excited about that, aren’t you? This one is from January 1952, and as you can see, the cover was torn off. For some reason, this issue seemed to have more than its share…
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My Calendar Plate
My mother always uses her “good china” for special occasions — Thanksgiving, Christmas, company dinners — and when I was a little girl, any time the table was set with Mother’s good china, I had the privilege of eating from this “special” plate. See? It’s a calendar of my birth year!I have four siblings and none of them had a…
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The Workbasket – December 1951
It’s been awhile since I shared a Workbasket with you, and I thought you might be needing some hokey gift ideas for Christmas… circa 1951. I loved the edgings on those towels, but all I can think of is having to iron them to keep them looking nice. Iron bath towels? Uh… no, thanks!I’m sure these are very sweet baby…
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Junior Elf Books
I love vintage books! Big surprise, huh? And because I always need more books, I couldn’t pass up this handful of “Junior Elf” books when I came across them at a garage sale this summer. You’ll probably have to click on the picture to enlarge it to see that the cover price on most of them is 15 cents! (One…
