The Recipe Card Archive


Dad carried the two boxes in a fancy department store shopping bag out to my car, then waved, shut the door (no slamming) and hustled back into Legacy.  The boxes were different: one was metal with 1970s floral designs in bright blues, yellows and greens, kind of a kitchsy Pennsylvania Dutch design.  The other box, grey metal with a few drops of something-that-Mother-was-cooking-that-day on the top, a dent on one corner.  Both were filled with indexed, mostly handwritten recipe cards.  This blog is dedicated to the archiving of those cards.

Stories are also welcome: memories you have of mother or stories she has told you about her life.  Type them into the comments and I'll get them onto a post.  Please write them ready for publication.


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