Recipe book 1955-
April 17, 2007 by niceties
This is the oldest recipe notebook of my grandmother’s that I have.
It has been wrapped in more recent years, maybe the 1990s, with recycled giftwrap.
This is the actual cover. Can you make out the faded logo? It says ‘Federal Stationery 250′.
Here are some of the first few pages. Note the date: Dec 22nd, 1957.
9/3/08 update : I’ve just come across a page on Rose Syrup dated 24 October 1955! So it appears that this notebook was not started in December 1957 as I noted above. Grandmother did not fill in the pages sequentially, so the front page dated 22 December 1957 simply indicates that she had added in that information at that point.
In some of the entries on this blog, I’ve made some observations about changing perceptions of food in the decades that these cooking notes were made. Came across this British Nutrition Foundation page which points out some of the changes between 1952 and 1992.
do you know how to make chinese rice wine for confinement mother
Hi Sharon,
I’m sorry, I don’t know and there’s nothing in my grandmother’s recipe notebooks either.
If you haven’t already seen this book, you may want to refer to “The Chinese Pregnancy and Confinement Cookbook” by Ng Siong Mui (Singapore: Landmark Books, 1990) which is available at many branches of the National Library in Singapore.
Good luck finding an appropriate recipe!