VINTAGE THINGIES THURSDAY

Today for Vintage Thingies Thursdays I want to share my favorite cookbook with you. It’s vintage of course. 

I have a lot of cookbooks and as I was telling Hubby the other day after I got a recipe off the internet that people really don’t need cookbooks anymore because you can get recipes for anything online. I still have one cookbook that I use. It’s my oldest one and I use it every Thanksgiving and Christmas and sometimes in between. The recipe I use for pecan pie is in this book. Here is a copy of the page.

I’ve been making pies by this recipe for many many years. It calls for 1 cup of dark Karo syrup though and I use light Karo syrup instead. Sometimes I use half dark and half white. I entered one of these pies in a pie contest at a church fellowship one year and won first prize. 

Here is the book the recipe is in. It really is a vintage cookbook. I bought it shortly after I got married in 1958. 

Here’s the price tag inside the front cover. I bought it at the May Co. which was my favorite store back then. It was bought out by Robinsons and became Robinsons/May. That became my favorite place to shop and now it is gone too – bought out by Macy’s. Wonder who will buy out Macy’s and that will be gone too? I did hear they are closing a few of their stores. 

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