Old Fashioned Cookbooks are the Best Cookbooks

2/4/2016

(I recently did a series on 30 days to more natural living and in it, a few of the days were devoted to making foods from scratch. As in, no boxed recipes allowed. If I think back to my own transformation to from scratch cooking, brownies were the first thing I decided I would no longer buy in a box. I discovered that I only needed items I already had on hand to make delicious brownies, and they tasted amazing to boot! I know this may sound funny to some, but really, there was a time when almost all the things I bought were convenience type, boxed foods. Thankfully that was a long time ago and I have made major progress since then making almost everything from scratch at this point.

I have to say that as I began this journey, I found that old cookbooks became my friends, the older the better, I love anything prior to about 1970 cookbooks and when I can get my hands on more antiquated ones, I smile. I even have one that is so old it talks about using wet yeast lumps in your bread...I'm not sure you can even buy that any longer.

Auctions and garage sales are also some of my favorite places to locate these gems.

So, what do I make from scratch? Some of our family's favorites are:

Egg Noodles (Grandpa's old family recipe)
Brownies
Breads
Rolls
Teas
Syrups
Jams
Gravy
Cakes
Cookies

How about you? Do you have a favorite that you make instead of buy? Care to share or link up to your favorite recipe in the comments below.