One year recovering 100 forgotten American recipes from church potluck binders, handwritten index cards, and yellowed magazine pages. Tested for the way you cook today.
100 forgotten recipes from the 1930s–1970s — recovered, tested, restored. 211-page PDF.
Then they got lost. The handwritten card. The church cookbook. The recipe your mother stopped making the year you moved out.
We spent a year finding 100 of them. At estate sales in Iowa, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania. In church potluck binders. In the yellowed magazine clippings your mother kept on the kitchen counter. Every one tested in a modern kitchen.
A taste of the 100 recipes waiting for you. Click any dish to imagine it on your Sunday table.
↑ 6 of 100 tested recipes · plus the Ingredient Substitution Guide · 211 pages total
— Composite illustrations from reader feedback across the Vintage Lifestyle USA channel —
I made the meatloaf on Sunday and my husband stopped halfway through dinner and said "this tastes like my mother's." He hasn't said that about anything I've cooked in 40 years. He took the leftovers for lunch on Monday.
The Ritz Mock Apple Pie was the first thing I made. My mother served it during the war and I hadn't tasted it since 1958. Closed my eyes at the first bite. I'm 71 and I cried at my own kitchen table.
The Depression chapter alone is worth the price. We're on a fixed income and we cooked Hoover Stew, Panade, and Poor Man's Steak this week — three full dinners for under twelve dollars. Real food, no shortcuts.
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