Hey Chelsea- My sister called and translated your recipe. Starting at the top by the watermark, she thinks it says Mom's Jam. 1 quart strawberries, 1 quart rhubard, 1 1/2 quarts sugar. Cut and peel rhubard into 1/2" pieces. Mix strawberries, rhubarb and sugar. Heat slowly until sugar is dissolved. Boil rapidly until thick and clear. Pour into hot clean glasses and cover with melted paraffin wax. What a treasure you have. Glad you will be sharing your cookbooks and trying some recipes with all of us ! !
Chelsea...I was emotional all the way through this fabulous video. Remembering my Mom and Grandma, I just let the memories flood over me. Lovely! ♥ As soon as I saw the note I said, that's shorthand. I'm 74 and learned shorthand in High School.
My mom and I have collected recipe books for life and she passed away recently and I feel the closest to her when I am covered with them in the floor. I feel you and I would LOVE a weekend in the Bunkie with totes full of recipe books. ❤❤❤
Chelsea, just imagine that Betty's apple sauce cake has probably not been made for over 85 years. Just amazes me. I love it. God Bless. Joe Scott Muddy Dog Ranch
I've had my corn stick pan for 50 years. I put a bit if fat in mine and heat it up before pouring in the mix. I do this with pan cornbread too. You can use any kind of fat(butter,lard,shortening, tallow or my favorite bacon grease) . I normally brush butter over it after baking and wait 10 minutes; then flip them out of pan.
My soul is attached to a by-gone era also. Reading hand-written things and being able to cook or create something from their era tears me up, too. It's like their in the room with you. So heart warming. My grandma was my best friend and maiden of honor at my wedding in 1983. I have noticed over my lifetime that I migrate toward older generations. Like my soul needs to be near them. I know it might sound weird, but I feel peace around older folks. Anyway. I have several very old cookbooks, too. Thank you for sharing 😀
I love all old things; books (the tattier the better), tools, gadgets clothes, automobiles, houses…I like to use my vintage cooking utensils and wonder who owned it before, what they made, what their lives were like, were they happy. I love old books with handwritten inscriptions in them, and recipes with notes alongside them.
Awwww that was so romantic. I love antique cookbooks to no matter what they look like. Oh my gosh the four leaf clover! Yes please take the pictures of some pages and post. Would love it. That is so so cool that paper!!! I love how Dan is so into it very much to. Ok Dan you are rocking that apron. That is true love if I ever have seen it!! oh my gosh love all the heritage recipes. This is so up my ally. LOVE it. It is very emotional. I love how you let the kids be so involved really twists my hearts strings always has. hugs
I absolutely loved this video. I love all things old. We can learn so many things from the women of the past. I am thrilled to be in this community of like minded souls.
I’m from Arkansas. If it said old south estate, it probably means the part of Arkansas that is Deep South Arkansas. Lots of farmland there, now days it’s mostly soy beans, rice, and feed corn. Most of my family is from around Conway, AR and they were considered “Farmers” on all of the census records. I remember going to my Great Grandparents home and now I realize it was 100% a Homestead. They had a large garden, tons of chickens, ducks, and a pond full of fish. They also regularly went deer hunting. My Great Grandma had sewing patterns made on newspaper. I fondly remember trying my hardest to catch the mallard drake. 😂 If you can handle hot and humid summers, all of our lakes help, and weird weather, Arkansas is a beautiful place to live and homestead.
"It is a sign of good taste to do only as much as we can do well." That is a life-wide lesson if I ever did hear one. Loving seeing Farmer Dan in the kitchen with you.
Chelsea, I just love your channel! Wanted to let you know that the "letter" is actually Gregg Shorthand. I learned it as a young secretarial student, but never used it. It had already been replaced by Dictaphones, which then were replaced by Dragon Dictate, and now most people just do their own typing on their own computer. (Wonder what secretaries do these days?) Hmm, I'm only 60 but I suddenly feel ANCIENT! ☺️
You make my heart smile, all the love you show for those old cookbooks. You have brought so much happiness into my life, I love they make you so happy. Thank you for sharing so much love and happiness with me (all of us) you make me feel like your best friend. Hope I am not overstepping.❤️😊😊
I am fortunate to have in my possession family recipes from both mine and my husband's family. His aunt cooked on a wood stove her entire life. I was fortunate to receive her notebook of recipes. I was unfortunate to eat the food she prepared as Auntie was not a very good cook! But it was prepared with Love. I've also collected cookbooks from all over the US. I now live in the Deep South and have gathered some very old cookbooks. Here they call old recipes, "Receipts". My suggestion for all those loose treasures is frame them, and hang in your kitchen!
I too have hand written recipes from several generations back on both sides. I’m 65, and wanted something unique to pass on to my kids….so I had the hand written recipes put on a tea towel for them. They turned out amazing…..and my adult kids just absolutely love them ❤. (Just google it and several companies come up)
I’m from Indiana I found The Art of Cooking and Serving one 1929, also Nyal one 1916 version! Thanks to you,I found these, I absolutely love cooking gardening it’s my life!
I am a 73YO man and grew up mostly in West Texas. My mom was a Old South Southern cook - lots of lard/crisco shoertning and sugar in most things cooked and of course butter. Northern cooking almost never has sugar added as with cornbread. Tip - to avoid soaking your cast iron - while cast iron is still very hot - once food is removed - use HOT water as hot as you can get it from the tap and put the hot water into the cast iron and the food particles will come off and wipe pan out then set on stove to dry and season/oil your pan - for your corn stick pan with all the nooks and crevices - this method will save you time and work. Always - hot water to hot cast iron never cold to hot. Just a little bit to pass on since you are into wood stove and cast iron cooking. You are a nice couple and it is a pleasure watching the both of you in the kitchen working together.
Yes, I have two of them. Use them all the time my grandkids love cornbread sticks, and you’re correct. I’m from the south live in Georgia raised in northeastern Tennessee in the United States.
My grandmother always used the cornbread stick cast iron pan. The trick is to preheat it in your oven with a little oil in it.... the hotter the pan the better. Then you put your batter in and bake it. Yours looks like it could have baked a little longer to get a better golden brown color and crispier. I inherited her cornbread stick pan. Your video makes me want to use it. I haven't used it in years. Her favorite way to eat the cornbread sticks was in a glass of milk. The sticks fit in perfectly.😃
I love going to second hand bookstores and finding old cookbooks. I haven't found ones that old, but, I love fundraiser books from churches and schools. They always have simple, basic recipes
I watch you all the time but don't usually take time to comment! Had to stop my canning prep for a moment to to say just how extra enjoyable today was! I'm quite jealous of these old cookbooks. Such a treasure. Thank you for sharing and reading them for us. Keep up your wonderful videos please. So inspiring!
I love love love old cookbooks and when there is writing in them it is even better. I cherish handwritten recipe cards I have from family and friends. My favorite memory of a handwritten recipe was in a neighborhood collaboration cookbook that my great aunt had gotten from my great grandmother from their predominantly Swedish neighborhood. It was for homemade sausage and started with "Butcher your hog". I can't remember the rest of the recipe, it was very general and "to taste". Since then, I have made sure to include actual amounts on my own handwritten recipe cards, rather than "a package" or "a can" because those have changed over the years. Old cookbooks are my favorite books of all. Thanks for sharing yours, I was over the moon when you showed the four leaf clover.
Love the old cook books. I have a book on jam making and preserving passed down from my Great, Great Grandmother. It barely holds together now but it is priceless to me.
I Love the old cookbooks. I have one of my Mom’s it is called “ Woman’s Home Companion Cook Book” from 1950. I cherish it, because it belong to my mom.
I love your passion for the cook books, and I know they will be cherished for many years. When you were reading them it sounded like poetry. Good job Dan!
I have cookbooks like that from my mom and grandma. I was born in 1950. The one recipe is written in shorthand. But its been years since I was taught that in school. More years than you are old lol❤❤❤😂
I’m almost 80 and I have some of my grandmothers recipes hand written by her that I love. There is nothing better than old timey recipes. By the way that recipe you have was written in shorthand. Love your videos and thank you Dan for the appearance.
Chelsea, instead of using lard to grease your cornpone pan, try using bacon grease. That's what my family in the South would have used, it adds a lot of flavor to the cornbread. Also, we have a tradition in our family to give the new brides a Good Housekeeping cookbook. I have my mother's cookbook from 1944, the cover is all torn up but it is still my old faithful cookbook that I learned to cook from. I love the old cookbooks too!
I am with you! My treasure is a "New Butterick Cookbook" published in 1924 that I paid 10cents for at a thrift store. The inscription inside says "A Merry Christmas to my friend Frances. From Alice M. Moorman, 1924". I absolutely adore this cookbook. The binding is tearing, and the pages are yellow and stained. Such history.
When my parents were first married my great grandmother gave them an old cookbook for a wood stove. They didn’t know it was for a wood stove though and followed the recipe that said leave on the back burner overnight only it was on an electric stove. My parents woke up to a kitchen full of smoke the night before hosting their first thanksgiving. Thankfully everyone and the house was fine and 30 years later just a funny story they share every thanksgiving.
Hello from Kentucky, I have my Grandmothers and great grandmothers iron skillets. We call them black skillets,but that’s all i cook in!Lard or bacon grease is what my Grandma would use❣️❣️
I love old things, and it thrills me to no end. I talked about some new antique cookbooks Dan bought me a lot in this video. If you want to skip to the cooking part, jump to the 10:00 minute mark. Have a wonderful day, friends! ❤Chelsea
Oh Chelsea! We picked up our own cornstick pan last year and have yet to use it! My Aunts name was Martha. ❤️ It's nice to see the hubby in this one. You guys get along so dandy. So much fun!
Chelsea, I loved this video. I also enjoy the stories and messages that have come down through the years to us from our ancestors. Maybe you could do a "Blast from the Past" video every once in a while to share more recipes and info from your books. Super entertaining and informative today. Thank you 🙂🙂
I love the history of the personal cookbooks. I have my mother and grandmothers books with all the loose added hand written recipes and notes tucked in. It is the thread of love that connects us through cooking.
Hey Chelsea, I so enjoyed the segment. I too get emotional over old recipes. I think it’s our connection to the past., we all eat. I have a wonderful photo of my great grandmother standing out on the Prairie with several of her children, holding my grandmother on her hip and the chuckwagon in view, my great grandmother had 14 children. During hunting season she would go with my great grandfathers hunting party. To collect game for the winter when I have a tough Times, I think of how strong she had to be to get through all of this to be out on the Prairie with young children cooking for a bunch of guys sadly I don’t have any recipes from her, but I do have a few cast iron fry pans and a Dutch oven and her KJ Bible. You referred to your Pennsylvania Dutch cookbook as an antique. I was nine years old when it printed, yes, I’m old, but not an antique, lol
Well, my 4 year old, who is feeling unwell, has stated that he would 'soooo like to taste that cake' So I'm gonna bake one. I love vintage cookbooks. Simple food that's often quite frugal.
I collect cookbooks and the ones you have are treasures indeed! I’m from the south (United States) and when making cornbread I always add the fat to the cast iron and place it into the oven to heat while mixing the cornbread, then when you pour the mixture into the hot pan you will get that crispy crust..... so yummy! Thanks for sharing you new treasures!
Chelsea, congrats on your anniversary. It was so cute to watch and listen to you be so excited about your presents-brought me joy. You are also very lucky that Dan was able to find these for you. He’s a jewel and especially so that he shared your joy in these finds and by doing so increased your joy. Love from Texas.
I have 3 breadstick pans, 2 cast iron and 1 glass. Used them quite a lot over the years. If well oiled it should not be a problem. I also have my mother 's cookbook she received when she was 13 years old. My grandmother wrote some recipes in it as well as my mother. It is a treasure to have.
This is one of my favorite videos of all time. I'm now 65 yrs old and my first experience with cooking was with my German Great Grandmother. I was kneeling at the sink on one of those bright yellow metal foot/seating stools. She had a small window that looked out her side yard. I could see my Great Grandpa cutting the grass while I was peeling with one of the old-school push mowers. He even went as far as trimming the sides of the sidewalk with a very sharp pair of scissors. She taught me how to peel potatoes with a teaspoon at the age of 3. I did get one of her authentic german cookbooks but there is no way I can read it as it is all in German. Thank you for this video. My favorite cooking is old school. I have a Better Crocker cookbook from some time in the 30's I found at an old antique store warehouse in downtown Indianapolis. I'm a lover of older cookbooks when the ingredients were affordable and available. You brought back so many of my great childhood memories.
You could photograph one recipe after another - I will translate it for you. Or tell me the name and author and year, maybe I‘ll find it at faksimilie in Germany. Many greetings from Bavaria
Chelsea, my daughter just inherited her great grandparents 110 year old, 3500 sq ft, 2 story farmhouse. We have found newspaper clippings, farm receipts back to 1899. Just crazy!
Chelsea you would of loved my great grandmothers home, she was born in the beginning of 1899 and lived until the summer of 2001. There by she lived in three centuries and kept absolutely everything. Going through two world wars and the great depression. Her home was given to my grandfather and when he passed away we went through everything in the home. There were newspapers from the 1920's, old serving ware, the most unique little kitchen gadgets, just everything you could possibly imagine. Oddly my favorite item that I kept is an old glass coffee jar still in perfect condition, it currently stores all my tea. Really enjoyed this video and thank you for sharing :)
Reminds me of co-worker I had years ago. She said her parents talked about the years during the depression of the thirties; her father's family was very poor and had some very difficult times, he remembered going to bed hungry many times. Her mother said her family also had a very hard time during the depression, they had to let all the servants go but two.
I love that you love antiques. I am also a freak for old things that have a history, that have stories. My housse is filled with heavy old furniture that is way to big for my tiny house, but I couldn't part with them. As for the apple cake, my grandmother used to make them and also fresh apple cale. which was my all-time favorite. She also used to make blackberry cobbler, which she said she learned to make from an old Indian woman when she and my grandpa lived "on the lease" in Oklahoma. That was in the early 1920s. Grandpa worked as a rigger on oil wells and "the lease" was a portion of land that the oil companies rented from the Kaw Indians who were allotted the land by the federal government. BTW, my grandmother made the best fried chicken I have ever eaten and she used Crisco!
Iv been collecting old cookbooks for years now, 1 of my most treasured is a Julia Childs tiny book produced prior to her becoming famous on bread making. I live in UK and my passion is WW2 cooking leaflets and books.
My Mother and I love old cookbooks. She had one that had recipes to cook muskrat, beaver and other wild animals. I don't think I would be cooking those animals...lol. I have an old Betty Crocker ( orange) from the 70's. It's been helpful from time to time. I have a couple corn pans also. I should get them out and use them. The grandkids will love that. Another great video. Thank you.
There is a RUclips channel from Glen and Friends. He lives in Toronto. Every Sunday he makes something on his Old cookbook series. He has hundreds of old cookbooks. He is making it for the first time. Sometimes it is a complete hit. Sometimes not so much but always there is a lesson or discussion on that day. Somethings I have learned is that the first Fanny Farmer cookbook was when accurate measurements and temperatures were first included. Before that one cup was the size of that person’s tea cup. Temperatures and baking times could also be missing. Shortening was what was available to that person - butter, lard, etc so you get to choose what to use. The measurements before WW II talking about 1 teaspoon, 1 tablespoon, 1 cup was different sizes depending where the cookbook was printed. USA was different from Canada. I know England and Australia also some differences. One of his big hits - not part of the old cookbook series - are the peanut butter bars. Try them.
I love this so much. I also keep old books and cook books. Actually, my bag pipes are from 1898! I had them restored and can now play them. They were given to me through my cousins, husbands family who knew I played. The original receipt is still in the box. The man who bought them brought them from Scotland when he came over. His only daughter is deaf, she married a deaf man and their only child is not interested in them so even though they could have sold these to museums, I get to play them to my hearts desire. I'm so very blessed! It makes me want to cry to think of the history of them and where they were played in time.
I sooo get you feeling emotional looking through these books and holding a piece of someone's life and memories in your hands. Thanks for sharing these moments and these recipes. My Mom and I watched together and she loved seeing you use your wood cookstove. She has one in her kitchen too.
I have my grandmothers corn stick (cast iron ). I use my regular cornbread recipe. You have to grease them with crisco or lard. Preheat them in your oven. When they are hot put your batter in and bake. They will fall out
Love that you shared these books…I have a couple of cookbooks that are written in composition books by my great grandma and great aunt…amazing how they wrote! They would save and add clippings from newspapers and magazines…which are from early 1900’s and are so fascinating…so glad you found these and are sharing with us!
You know, watching you bring the cake back in from the porch made me think of a project you and Dan could do that would be very useful, and in keeping with your old-timey living style. You need to make yourself a pie safe for your porch :)
Hey Chelsea, thank you for sharing with us those wonderful cook books. Like you it make me emotional to think of my Grandmother and her kitchen/cooking. She was born in 1904 so could of easily made things like the one's you talked about.
I love the old cookbooks I bought a box of old cookbooks at a auction and found a journal of the person that had the cookbooks Loved reading her daily life ❤
That one that was 1919 was the year my mama was born in September 9th 1919.she died 3 years ago. That's so cool.We have the cornbread pan. Yes you have to have it hot every time!
Hey Chelsea- My sister called and translated your recipe. Starting at the top by the watermark, she thinks it says Mom's Jam. 1 quart strawberries, 1 quart rhubard, 1 1/2 quarts sugar. Cut and peel rhubard into 1/2" pieces. Mix strawberries, rhubarb and sugar. Heat slowly until sugar is dissolved. Boil rapidly until thick and clear. Pour into hot clean glasses and cover with melted paraffin wax. What a treasure you have. Glad you will be sharing your cookbooks and trying some recipes with all of us ! !
It's called Shorthand.....I took that course in college.
I sent the picture to a friend as well. He came up with the strawberries, rhubarb and sugar but could not read the rest.
Chelsea...I was emotional all the way through this fabulous video. Remembering my Mom and Grandma, I just let the memories flood over me. Lovely! ♥
As soon as I saw the note I said, that's shorthand. I'm 74 and learned shorthand in High School.
Tell your sister she did an excellent job transcribing the recipe. I got most of it, but she got it all.
@startipper3767 's sister for the win!
My mom and I have collected recipe books for life and she passed away recently and I feel the closest to her when I am covered with them in the floor. I feel you and I would LOVE a weekend in the Bunkie with totes full of recipe books. ❤❤❤
I bet you & Dan own the movie Somewhere in Time! I bet you own every Jane Austin book & Anne with an E. Awesome! Me too!
Not sure if anyone has commented this yet or not, but that one note in one of the old cookbooks looked like shorthand to me. My Mom used to do it. 🙂🙂
That's what I thought.
Definitely shorthand.
Yes, I agree, I use to know shorthand and will try to re-create it.
Agreed! It is Shorthand....I used Gregg's Shorthand book in school!
Yes it is looks like Gregg shorthand. I actually used Forkner shorthand back in the 80's. There is another type can't remember the name
We are kindred spirits about old cookbooks
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Chelsea, just imagine that Betty's apple sauce cake has probably not been made for over 85 years. Just amazes me. I love it.
God Bless. Joe Scott Muddy Dog Ranch
Wow, those cook books are amazing, such a great find. I would have loved to learn how to cook and bake in a wood cook stove, they are beautiful.
I'm sure Betty is smiling wherever she is in the universe, seeing her recipes honored and used again. ❤️
My mom used her corn stick pans often. It was always fun.
I've had my corn stick pan for 50 years. I put a bit if fat in mine and heat it up before pouring in the mix. I do this with pan cornbread too. You can use any kind of fat(butter,lard,shortening, tallow or my favorite bacon grease) . I normally brush butter over it after baking and wait 10 minutes; then flip them out of pan.
My soul is attached to a by-gone era also. Reading hand-written things and being able to cook or create something from their era tears me up, too. It's like their in the room with you. So heart warming. My grandma was my best friend and maiden of honor at my wedding in 1983. I have noticed over my lifetime that I migrate toward older generations. Like my soul needs to be near them. I know it might sound weird, but I feel peace around older folks. Anyway. I have several very old cookbooks, too. Thank you for sharing 😀
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That corn stick pan!😍
I had a great Aunt named Betty❤
I have that cornbread pan and I also have one that each stick is fish. LOL
Perfect shorthand. 1920-70 every woman knows that. Ask your mom. You crack me up! Arabic. Thats hilarious 😂
I love all old things; books (the tattier the better), tools, gadgets clothes, automobiles, houses…I like to use my vintage cooking utensils and wonder who owned it before, what they made, what their lives were like, were they happy. I love old books with handwritten inscriptions in them, and recipes with notes alongside them.
Awwww that was so romantic. I love antique cookbooks to no matter what they look like. Oh my gosh the four leaf clover! Yes please take the pictures of some pages and post. Would love it. That is so so cool that paper!!! I love how Dan is so into it very much to. Ok Dan you are rocking that apron. That is true love if I ever have seen it!! oh my gosh love all the heritage recipes. This is so up my ally. LOVE it. It is very emotional. I love how you let the kids be so involved really twists my hearts strings always has. hugs
I am forever grateful that I have had the privilege of being a homemaker and I too, LOVE reading about homemaking a hundred years ago.
For us humans, our phenomenal sense of smell, is one of the strongest elicitors of memory. Also, music is a very powerful elicitor of memory.
I absolutely loved this video. I love all things old. We can learn so many things from the women of the past. I am thrilled to be in this community of like minded souls.
I’m from Arkansas. If it said old south estate, it probably means the part of Arkansas that is Deep South Arkansas. Lots of farmland there, now days it’s mostly soy beans, rice, and feed corn.
Most of my family is from around Conway, AR and they were considered “Farmers” on all of the census records. I remember going to my Great Grandparents home and now I realize it was 100% a Homestead. They had a large garden, tons of chickens, ducks, and a pond full of fish. They also regularly went deer hunting. My Great Grandma had sewing patterns made on newspaper. I fondly remember trying my hardest to catch the mallard drake. 😂
If you can handle hot and humid summers, all of our lakes help, and weird weather, Arkansas is a beautiful place to live and homestead.
"It is a sign of good taste to do only as much as we can do well." That is a life-wide lesson if I ever did hear one.
Loving seeing Farmer Dan in the kitchen with you.
Chelsea, I just love your channel! Wanted to let you know that the "letter" is actually Gregg Shorthand. I learned it as a young secretarial student, but never used it. It had already been replaced by Dictaphones, which then were replaced by Dragon Dictate, and now most people just do their own typing on their own computer. (Wonder what secretaries do these days?) Hmm, I'm only 60 but I suddenly feel ANCIENT! ☺️
You make my heart smile, all the love you show for those old cookbooks. You have brought so much happiness into my life, I love they make you so happy. Thank you for sharing so much love and happiness with me (all of us) you make me feel like your best friend. Hope I am not overstepping.❤️😊😊
I am fortunate to have in my possession family recipes from both mine and my husband's family. His aunt cooked on a wood stove her entire life. I was fortunate to receive her notebook of recipes. I was unfortunate to eat the food she prepared as Auntie was not a very good cook! But it was prepared with Love. I've also collected cookbooks from all over the US. I now live in the Deep South and have gathered some very old cookbooks. Here they call old recipes, "Receipts". My suggestion for all those loose treasures is frame them, and hang in your kitchen!
I too have hand written recipes from several generations back on both sides. I’m 65, and wanted something unique to pass on to my kids….so I had the hand written recipes put on a tea towel for them. They turned out amazing…..and my adult kids just absolutely love them ❤. (Just google it and several companies come up)
I’m from Indiana I found The Art of Cooking and Serving one 1929, also Nyal one 1916 version! Thanks to you,I found these, I absolutely love cooking gardening it’s my life!
I am a 73YO man and grew up mostly in West Texas. My mom was a Old South Southern cook - lots of lard/crisco shoertning and sugar in most things cooked and of course butter.
Northern cooking almost never has sugar added as with cornbread.
Tip - to avoid soaking your cast iron - while cast iron is still very hot - once food is removed - use HOT water as hot as you can get it from the tap and put the hot water into the cast iron and the food particles will come off and wipe pan out then set on stove to dry and season/oil your pan - for your corn stick pan with all the nooks and crevices - this method will save you time and work. Always - hot water to hot cast iron never cold to hot. Just a little bit to pass on since you are into wood stove and cast iron cooking. You are a nice couple and it is a pleasure watching the both of you in the kitchen working together.
Yes, I have two of them. Use them all the time my grandkids love cornbread sticks, and you’re correct. I’m from the south live in Georgia raised in northeastern Tennessee in the United States.
My grandmother always used the cornbread stick cast iron pan. The trick is to preheat it in your oven with a little oil in it.... the hotter the pan the better. Then you put your batter in and bake it. Yours looks like it could have baked a little longer to get a better golden brown color and crispier. I inherited her cornbread stick pan. Your video makes me want to use it. I haven't used it in years. Her favorite way to eat the cornbread sticks was in a glass of milk. The sticks fit in perfectly.😃
I love going to second hand bookstores and finding old cookbooks. I haven't found ones that old, but, I love fundraiser books from churches and schools. They always have simple, basic recipes
Love the cookbooks! I'm always looking at thrift stores for them. So much fun having your husband in the video today.🥰
I watch you all the time but don't usually take time to comment! Had to stop my canning prep for a moment to to say just how extra enjoyable today was! I'm quite jealous of these old cookbooks. Such a treasure. Thank you for sharing and reading them for us. Keep up your wonderful videos please. So inspiring!
I love that you guys love historic cookbooks so much. I have several cookbooks that were my great great grandparents. They are treasures.
I love how you got emotional over the letter to Betty. You have such a tender ❤️
I feel like going out and hunting old recipe books. In fact I most certainly will. I'm an avid collector of anything old. Hugs from Spain 🇪🇸
Too Funny! Its shorthand. A skill long forgotten with all our technology. Love that others here were able to translate it for you.
I love love love old cookbooks and when there is writing in them it is even better. I cherish handwritten recipe cards I have from family and friends. My favorite memory of a handwritten recipe was in a neighborhood collaboration cookbook that my great aunt had gotten from my great grandmother from their predominantly Swedish neighborhood. It was for homemade sausage and started with "Butcher your hog". I can't remember the rest of the recipe, it was very general and "to taste". Since then, I have made sure to include actual amounts on my own handwritten recipe cards, rather than "a package" or "a can" because those have changed over the years. Old cookbooks are my favorite books of all. Thanks for sharing yours, I was over the moon when you showed the four leaf clover.
Love the old cook books. I have a book on jam making and preserving passed down from my Great, Great Grandmother. It barely holds together now but it is priceless to me.
I loved the old cookbooks. I too love old things! Thanks for sharing.
I Love the old cookbooks. I have one of my Mom’s it is called “ Woman’s Home Companion Cook Book” from 1950. I cherish it, because it belong to my mom.
My MIL gave me her cookbooks and her moms cookbooks. They have handwritten notes and clippings in them. I adore them. Your cookbooks are divine.
I LOVE old cookbooks like that.
I love your passion for the cook books, and I know they will be cherished for many years. When you were reading them it sounded like poetry. Good job Dan!
I love the old cook books to. Your husband was so nice and loving together you them.
I have cookbooks like that from my mom and grandma. I was born in 1950. The one recipe is written in shorthand. But its been years since I was taught that in school. More years than you are old lol❤❤❤😂
Chelsea I am so jealous right now. Oh how I wish I had those cookbooks. You have been blessed.
so glad you rescued the books. Applause for hubby.
I’m almost 80 and I have some of my grandmothers recipes hand written by her that I love.
There is nothing better than old timey recipes. By the way that recipe you have was written in shorthand. Love your videos and thank you Dan for the appearance.
What does it say ?
Chelsea, instead of using lard to grease your cornpone pan, try using bacon grease. That's what my family in the South would have used, it adds a lot of flavor to the cornbread. Also, we have a tradition in our family to give the new brides a Good Housekeeping cookbook. I have my mother's cookbook from 1944, the cover is all torn up but it is still my old faithful cookbook that I learned to cook from. I love the old cookbooks too!
I love those cookbook and shows how certain concepts are the same and others are not.
I am with you! My treasure is a "New Butterick Cookbook" published in 1924 that I paid 10cents for at a thrift store. The inscription inside says "A Merry Christmas to my friend Frances. From Alice M. Moorman, 1924". I absolutely adore this cookbook. The binding is tearing, and the pages are yellow and stained. Such history.
If you have left over corn bread it is wonderful in a savoury bread pudding…the best use ever for Christmas leftovers.
When my parents were first married my great grandmother gave them an old cookbook for a wood stove. They didn’t know it was for a wood stove though and followed the recipe that said leave on the back burner overnight only it was on an electric stove. My parents woke up to a kitchen full of smoke the night before hosting their first thanksgiving. Thankfully everyone and the house was fine and 30 years later just a funny story they share every thanksgiving.
What a treasure to find those books. Looking forward to all the cooking videos. Love to see little hands helping in the kitchen too.
Hello from Kentucky, I have my Grandmothers and great grandmothers iron skillets. We call them black skillets,but that’s all i cook in!Lard or bacon grease is what my Grandma would use❣️❣️
I love old things, and it thrills me to no end. I talked about some new antique cookbooks Dan bought me a lot in this video. If you want to skip to the cooking part, jump to the 10:00 minute mark.
Have a wonderful day, friends!
❤Chelsea
Oh Chelsea!
We picked up our own cornstick pan last year and have yet to use it!
My Aunts name was Martha. ❤️
It's nice to see the hubby in this one. You guys get along so dandy.
So much fun!
Chelsea, I loved this video. I also enjoy the stories and messages that have come down through the years to us from our ancestors. Maybe you could do a "Blast from the Past" video every once in a while to share more recipes and info from your books. Super entertaining and informative today. Thank you 🙂🙂
I think its shorthand (writing) like what a secretary uses to take notes for typing (Ireland)
I love the stories too. I would definitely like to see any of those books you are willing to share on your website.
@@fullofhope2222 Yes that is what I thought as well when I saw it. Looks like shorthand to me.
The mystery writing on a slip of paper in the second cookbook is Gregg shorthand.
Wild! I have never seen, nor heard of it before.
I love the history of the personal cookbooks. I have my mother and grandmothers books with all the loose added hand written recipes and notes tucked in. It is the thread of love that connects us through cooking.
Hey Chelsea, I so enjoyed the segment. I too get emotional over old recipes. I think it’s our connection to the past., we all eat. I have a wonderful photo of my great grandmother standing out on the Prairie with several of her children, holding my grandmother on her hip and the chuckwagon in view, my great grandmother had 14 children. During hunting season she would go with my great grandfathers hunting party. To collect game for the winter when I have a tough Times, I think of how strong she had to be to get through all of this to be out on the Prairie with young children cooking for a bunch of guys sadly I don’t have any recipes from her, but I do have a few cast iron fry pans and a Dutch oven and her KJ Bible. You referred to your Pennsylvania Dutch cookbook as an antique. I was nine years old when it printed, yes, I’m old, but not an antique, lol
Well, my 4 year old, who is feeling unwell, has stated that he would 'soooo like to taste that cake'
So I'm gonna bake one.
I love vintage cookbooks. Simple food that's often quite frugal.
I collect cookbooks and the ones you have are treasures indeed! I’m from the south (United States) and when making cornbread I always add the fat to the cast iron and place it into the oven to heat while mixing the cornbread, then when you pour the mixture into the hot pan you will get that crispy crust..... so yummy! Thanks for sharing you new treasures!
Crouch is my married name. It’s very unusual to see it😀
Well done Dan, you rocked the cooks assistant no problem, look at you go.
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So cool! Love antiques! Great job Chelsea, I see that Dan is happier to do the research rather than cooking 😁! Have a blessed week 💗
I would also add a hotdog to the corn-stick pan... corndog, possibly?? I' so hungry! LOL
Chelsea, congrats on your anniversary. It was so cute to watch and listen to you be so excited about your presents-brought me joy. You are also very lucky that Dan was able to find these for you. He’s a jewel and especially so that he shared your joy in these finds and by doing so increased your joy. Love from Texas.
This video was epic 🥰 I love the cookbooks and hearing the history ❤
My grandmothers each had pans like that. They were good and crispy. But it became easier to feed a crowd with a big skillet of cornbread.
I have 3 breadstick pans, 2 cast iron and 1 glass. Used them quite a lot over the years. If well oiled it should not be a problem. I also have my mother 's cookbook she received when she was 13 years old. My grandmother wrote some recipes in it as well as my mother. It is a treasure to have.
This is one of my favorite videos of all time. I'm now 65 yrs old and my first experience with cooking was with my German Great Grandmother. I was kneeling at the sink on one of those bright yellow metal foot/seating stools. She had a small window that looked out her side yard. I could see my Great Grandpa cutting the grass while I was peeling with one of the old-school push mowers. He even went as far as trimming the sides of the sidewalk with a very sharp pair of scissors. She taught me how to peel potatoes with a teaspoon at the age of 3. I did get one of her authentic german cookbooks but there is no way I can read it as it is all in German. Thank you for this video. My favorite cooking is old school. I have a Better Crocker cookbook from some time in the 30's I found at an old antique store warehouse in downtown Indianapolis. I'm a lover of older cookbooks when the ingredients were affordable and available. You brought back so many of my great childhood memories.
You could photograph one recipe after another - I will translate it for you. Or tell me the name and author and year, maybe I‘ll find it at faksimilie in Germany. Many greetings from Bavaria
I would be eager to assist! Greetings from Munich
My great grandmother (born1890)
Maybe an applesauce cake also
We add dried apricots and dates and sometimes nuts and Ours now..
Thank you sharing your passion for old cook books 📚
It was a true pleasure to see the joy on your face.
It was a Fabulous video!
Chelsea, my daughter just inherited her great grandparents 110 year old, 3500 sq ft, 2 story farmhouse. We have found newspaper clippings, farm receipts back to 1899. Just crazy!
Chelsea you would of loved my great grandmothers home, she was born in the beginning of 1899 and lived until the summer of 2001. There by she lived in three centuries and kept absolutely everything. Going through two world wars and the great depression. Her home was given to my grandfather and when he passed away we went through everything in the home. There were newspapers from the 1920's, old serving ware, the most unique little kitchen gadgets, just everything you could possibly imagine. Oddly my favorite item that I kept is an old glass coffee jar still in perfect condition, it currently stores all my tea. Really enjoyed this video and thank you for sharing :)
I should also add she was an avid canner such as yourself and we enjoyed peaches she had canned for 3 years after her passing.
Reminds me of co-worker I had years ago. She said her parents talked about the years during the depression of the thirties; her father's family was very poor and had some very difficult times, he remembered going to bed hungry many times. Her mother said her family also had a very hard time during the depression, they had to let all the servants go but two.
I live in an Amish community, and I love going to the thrift stores to find the old Amish and Mennonite cookbooks.
I love that you love antiques. I am also a freak for old things that have a history, that have stories. My housse is filled with heavy old furniture that is way to big for my tiny house, but I couldn't part with them. As for the apple cake, my grandmother used to make them and also fresh apple cale. which was my all-time favorite. She also used to make blackberry cobbler, which she said she learned to make from an old Indian woman when she and my grandpa lived "on the lease" in Oklahoma. That was in the early 1920s. Grandpa worked as a rigger on oil wells and "the lease" was a portion of land that the oil companies rented from the Kaw Indians who were allotted the land by the federal government. BTW, my grandmother made the best fried chicken I have ever eaten and she used Crisco!
Iv been collecting old cookbooks for years now, 1 of my most treasured is a Julia Childs tiny book produced prior to her becoming famous on bread making. I live in UK and my passion is WW2 cooking leaflets and books.
My Mother and I love old cookbooks. She had one that had recipes to cook muskrat, beaver and other wild animals. I don't think I would be cooking those animals...lol. I have an old Betty Crocker ( orange) from the 70's. It's been helpful from time to time. I have a couple corn pans also. I should get them out and use them. The grandkids will love that. Another great video. Thank you.
There is a RUclips channel from Glen and Friends. He lives in Toronto. Every Sunday he makes something on his Old cookbook series. He has hundreds of old cookbooks. He is making it for the first time. Sometimes it is a complete hit. Sometimes not so much but always there is a lesson or discussion on that day.
Somethings I have learned is that the first Fanny Farmer cookbook was when accurate measurements and temperatures were first included. Before that one cup was the size of that person’s tea cup. Temperatures and baking times could also be missing.
Shortening was what was available to that person - butter, lard, etc so you get to choose what to use.
The measurements before WW II talking about 1 teaspoon, 1 tablespoon, 1 cup was different sizes depending where the cookbook was printed. USA was different from Canada. I know England and Australia also some differences.
One of his big hits - not part of the old cookbook series - are the peanut butter bars. Try them.
This sounds so interesting! Thank you for the information.
I love this so much. I also keep old books and cook books. Actually, my bag pipes are from 1898! I had them restored and can now play them. They were given to me through my cousins, husbands family who knew I played. The original receipt is still in the box. The man who bought them brought them from Scotland when he came over. His only daughter is deaf, she married a deaf man and their only child is not interested in them so even though they could have sold these to museums, I get to play them to my hearts desire. I'm so very blessed! It makes me want to cry to think of the history of them and where they were played in time.
Aww, how sweet!
Believe your note is shorthand. Envy you your woodstove! Lucky you!
Such cool finds are these old cookbooks. I absolutely love finding them & buying them to add to my cookbook collection. Love anything vintage.
I sooo get you feeling emotional looking through these books and holding a piece of someone's life and memories in your hands. Thanks for sharing these moments and these recipes. My Mom and I watched together and she loved seeing you use your wood cookstove. She has one in her kitchen too.
It's so nice to see Dan in your vlogs. Your shared humour and goofiness is lovely to witness.
Wow! A man in the kitchen! You’re so lucky!
You guys are very precious, thanks for sharing your family and your home with us.
Our pleasure!
My family loves sausage gravy and biscuits! Yum, Yum, Yummy!
I have the corn stick pan, too. Given to me by my Grandma 50 years ago. It was very old then. Heavy cause it's cast iron, but bakes fantastic.
I have my grandmothers corn stick (cast iron ). I use my regular cornbread recipe. You have to grease them with crisco or lard. Preheat them in your oven. When they are hot put your batter in and bake. They will fall out
I agree with @startipper 3767’s translation.
Love that you shared these books…I have a couple of cookbooks that are written in composition books by my great grandma and great aunt…amazing how they wrote! They would save and add clippings from newspapers and magazines…which are from early 1900’s and are so fascinating…so glad you found these and are sharing with us!
Please do more of these types of videos!!!❤️
Oh the memories!!!
Those cookbooks are priceless.
I agree. Shorthand, Gregg is the one I learned in high school many years ago (1965).
You know, watching you bring the cake back in from the porch made me think of a project you and Dan could do that would be very useful, and in keeping with your old-timey living style. You need to make yourself a pie safe for your porch :)
Oh my how precious are those cook books wonderful gift
Hey Chelsea, thank you for sharing with us those wonderful cook books. Like you it make me emotional to think of my Grandmother and her kitchen/cooking. She was born in 1904 so could of easily made things like the one's you talked about.
I love the old cookbooks I bought a box of old cookbooks at a auction and found a journal of the person that had the cookbooks Loved reading her daily life ❤
Yes, that is shorthand. My mother took a secretarial course in the 1950’s & I remember the shorthand she had to learn.
That one that was 1919 was the year my mama was born in September 9th 1919.she died 3 years ago. That's so cool.We have the cornbread pan. Yes you have to have it hot every time!
Definitely shorthand…which I still remember very well.