Comments on: The 1927 Butterick Book of Recipes

By: Peculiar Cat Mama

Peculiar Cat Mama — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:07:07 +0000

I’m just now reading this post. I love old cookbooks, too, and have some of my husband’s grandmother’s and great aunt’s from the 1800′s. My favorite are the recipes that call for lard or start with “kill and pluck the chicken”! Many times when I have an idea and search for a recipe, I end up finding what I want in those old ones rather than anything modern or even slightly older. So now I just go to those first.
Cats and boxes … they also love WalMart sacks, grocery sacks, cracker boxes. I have nearly 30 cats – my BillyCat (orange tabby – personal cat rescued as a tiny kitten when her Mama died), Susannah the cow patty kitty (found her as a kitten covered in dung), a litter of 6 that I saved from a bad mother that have grown up in the house, 4 kittens from one of that litter, 3 kittens and a teenage cat from a beautiful dark tabby that was passing through (that’s 17 inside, except 2 of them have now gone outside). Outside, there’s Gypsy’s line (she was a dark calico – some of her kittens were gray and peach calicos!) – now mixed with Lillith’s line (a gold-eyed black cat I rescued from a shelter with her 7 kittens – she has a gray and white blue-eyed Siamese granddaughter!) – all shapes, sizes, colors, markings – beautiful cats. Outside, counting the new kittens, totals about 16 (I still count Jasper the passing-through beauty in case she ever comes home).
That’s more information than you cared to know – LOL. Hey! At least I didn’t give you all of their names! ;>) I have a cat genealogy written out, too – talk about Crazy Cat Lady! I’m the Mama cat and they’re my babies. They know this and play along.

By: mike

mike — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 17:37:36 +0000

I would like to see the ginger bread recipe please.

By: Roni Mann

Roni Mann — Tue, 11 May 2010 17:23:17 +0000

My mom just gave me my grandmother’s Butterick cookbook and the front of it is all worn off. I too found her name written in the front in pencil and then also a X next to her favorite Halibut recipe. I came across this website in trying to find out more information on this cookbook since the cover was so badly worn. It’s great to see how much my grandmother and your great-grandmother seemed to keep their books in common.

My grandmother passed on almost 9 yrs. ago and I miss her terribly. The one thing I had in common with her was her love of recipes and cooking. I don’t cook much but love to bake and can’t wait to try some of these out. She also left some other recipe cards in the book that look interesting.

By: Julie Wriston

Julie Wriston — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:09:06 +0000

Oh what a treasure to have that cookbooK! Great post!

By: josie9395s

josie9395s — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 06:22:40 +0000

I used my vacuum sealer and sealed up a few of my older books. Since we are n the military and have to move every few years I found that this helped keep them together and away from any moisture that might try to seep in.

By: Suzanne McMinn

Suzanne McMinn — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:13:05 +0000

Cindy, I don’t know. My Butterick book is really old and kinda fragile, too. I’m just going to photocopy it so that every time I use a recipe, I don’t have to use the book because I don’t think it can take a lot of use.

By: cindy smith

cindy smith — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:05:15 +0000

i went to a yard sale and there were a lot of book in this box and as i was looking in it there was a 1888 cookbook that the cover wasn’t in the best of shape so i ask how much was it and the man so you can have it. there is alot in the cookbook but afraid that if i really get into the book it might fall apart the pages seem to be so brittle.
i have it wrapped on a towel and put away. do you have any ideas how to care for it. i wrote to a book collector but got no answer. thank you

By: Abiga/karen

Abiga/karen — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:51:33 +0000

We have three cats down from four over a year ago. We may end up with some barn cats if we find the mice bothering things out there. They are sometimes friends, sometimes playmates, and sometimes in all out war it seems. I also have some old hand written cookbooks my grandmother wrote out in tablets. They are packed away but I can’t remember if they are at my son’s house or here at my daughter’s as some of my stuff is in both homes after selling my house in Georgia. I think I might check it out today in the basement here. Blessings.

By: Nancy in Atlanta

Nancy in Atlanta — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 04:33:45 +0000

Your Butterick book takes me back to junior high Home Ec – about 1957! Oh, boy – we learned about wearing aprons, greeting our “hard-working husbands” with a smile at the end of their day…never mind what a woman’s day was like. It’s priceless!! :catmeow:

By: Martha F.

Martha F. — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:53:30 +0000

Nothing say home sweet home like the family heirloom of a passed down cook book and old recipies. There are so many people that would have pitched it in the garbage not realizing their cherished heritage rest on those old stained pages.
You posess a much older soul than body… as do I.