Recipes families have shared

A handwritten recipe card for a German Kuchen sweet dough, listing ingredients such as milk, butter, sugar, salt, yeast, water, eggs, and flour. Instructions de

A handwritten recipe card for bread pudding, listing bread slices, eggs, sugar, milk, vanilla, raisins, and butter or margarine. Instructions direct the cook to

This is a printed recipe for "Oatmeal Gems," a baked good made from leftover cooked oatmeal. The recipe instructs saving a pint of oatmeal overnight, then mixin

A handwritten recipe card for Swedish Rye Bread, yielding two loaves. It lists ingredients including yeast, milk, molasses, brown sugar, shortening, rye and whi

A recipe for Snowflake Cake, a light egg-white based cake made with sugar, flour, baking powder, and milk, baked in an angel food cake pan. It instructs on care

A handwritten recipe card for Kolackys (kolaches), a pastry made from cream cheese, butter, and flour dough filled with jelly or preserves, yielding 30 pieces.

A handwritten recipe card for a 'No Fail Pie Crust,' dated July 31 (year uncertain), listing flour, sugar, vinegar, water, shortening, salt, and egg. The instru

A handwritten recipe for "Speedy Little Devil's Bars," a dessert made by combining devil's food cake mix with butter, pressing two-thirds of the mixture into a

A recipe for Tea Biscuits made by sifting flour with baking powder, salt, and sugar, rubbing in butter, and mixing with sweet milk into a soft dough. The dough

A handwritten recipe for Apple Cake instructing to layer apples in a greased or non-stick 9x13 pan, sprinkle box cake mix over them, add melted butter over the

A handwritten recipe card for "Bridge Mix," a party snack combining several boxed cereals (Rice Chex, Wheat Chex, Corn Chex, Cheerios), pretzel sticks, peanuts

A handwritten recipe card for Peanut Butter Bars, attributed to 'Wagner's' and dated 1976. It lists ingredients including shortening, peanut butter, sugar, eggs

A typed recipe for Coffee Cake dated September 1983, credited to Evy Goffin, listing flour, shortening, milk, eggs, sugar, baking powder, vanilla, and salt, wit

A recipe for Cheap Cream Cake, combining sugar, egg, milk, flour, butter, and baking powder into a batter baked in three layers. A separate cream filling is mad

A handwritten recipe card for a no-bake chocolate cookie made without flour. It lists butter, sugar, coconut, cocoa, quick oatmeal, optional nuts and coconut, v

A newspaper clipping recipe for Fruit Cake, calling for white sugar, butter, raisins, eggs, buttermilk, soda, flour, cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg, baked in a fl

A handwritten recipe card for 'Butter Swim Biscuits,' attributed to Brenda Parrett (and possibly a second contributor, Hoitman), dated October 8. The recipe lis

A recipe for cheese souffle made from milk, flour, butter, salt, eggs, and grated cheese, combined into a thickened sauce with egg yolks and folded egg whites.

A handwritten recipe card for 'Stay Up All Night Cookies,' attributed to Wagner's kitchen. Instructions describe beating egg whites to stiff peaks, adding sugar

A handwritten recipe card for making pasties, listing a pastry dough of flour, shortening, eggs, and salt, and a filling of ham or cubed steak, carrot, onion, h

A handwritten recipe card for 'Old Fashion Yeast Rolls', listing ingredients such as dry yeast, warm water, sugar, butter, salt, hot milk, egg, and flour, along

This is a handwritten recipe card for Marbled Fudge Bars, listing ingredients including margarine, chocolate, nuts, salt, cream cheese, sugar, eggs, flour, and

A handwritten recipe for Bran Muffins listing ingredients such as egg, milk, flour, baking powder, brown sugar, vegetable oil, and bran cereal (All Bran), with

A recipe for Orange Shortcake made with a flour, cornstarch and egg mixture baked in two layers, filled and topped with fresh orange sections and whipped cream.

A handwritten recipe card for Peach Cobbler Muffins, sourced from Facebook, dated October 21, 2020. It lists ingredients for the muffin batter (flour, sugar, bu

A handwritten recipe card for 'Delicious Brownies' listing ingredients including sugar, cocoa, margarine, eggs, vanilla, flour, salt, and nuts. Instructions des

A handwritten reference card listing common baking ingredient substitutions, such as using all-purpose flour with baking powder in place of self-rising flour, b

A World War I-era newspaper recipe for "Fifty-Fifty Biscuits," attributed to Uncle Sam, using corn meal, ground soy beans or peanuts, and flour to stretch wheat

A handwritten recipe card for Chocolate Mint Bars from Edna Riveland's recipe file, listing ingredients including chocolate, butter, sugar, flour, peppermint ex

A handwritten recipe card for Lemon Squares, giving the crust ingredients (oleo, powdered sugar, flour) and instructions to press it into a pan and bake at 350°

A recipe for Lemon Pie submitted to The Times Household Hint Department by Mrs. W. Grassmuck. It describes mixing egg yolks, sugar, flour, milk, lemon juice, an

A recipe for Cream Biscuit, made by mixing cream and lukewarm water into a dough of flour, baking powder, salt, butter and lard. The dough is rolled out, cut in

A handwritten recipe card for 'Apple Pie (Norway)', listing ingredients including sugar, eggs, flour, baking powder, salt, vanilla, sliced apples, and chopped n

A handwritten recipe for Pannukakku (a baked pancake), dated December 6, 2020, attributed to Pam Rozyck Van Horn. It instructs melting butter in a 9x13 pan at 3

A prize-winning recipe for Divinity Cake submitted by Mrs. John B. Dunivant of Ullin, Illinois, detailing ingredients and baking instructions for a cake made wi

A handwritten recipe for Oatmeal Brownies listing ingredients such as melted butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla, flour, cocoa, baking powder, oatmeal, and salt, with

A typewritten recipe card for sweet roll dough, listing ingredients such as warm water, yeast, milk, sugar, salt, eggs, shortening, and flour. Instructions desc

A handwritten recipe card for Chocolate Chip Chews from Edna Riveland's recipe file. It lists ingredients including margarine, sugars, eggs, flour, oatmeal or c

A handwritten recipe card for Banana Bread from "Tower Iowa Bk," listing two slightly different versions of ingredients side by side (one using applesauce and h

A handwritten recipe card for Peanut Butter Bonus Cookies, listing ingredients such as margarine, peanut butter, sugars, egg, oat flour, salt, vanilla, soda, an

A handwritten recipe for Norwegian Lefse, a traditional potato flatbread. It instructs to boil and mash potatoes, mix with salt, oleo (margarine), and flour, ro

A handwritten recipe card for Pineapple Torte, credited to the kitchen of "Wagner's." It describes baking a Jiffy yellow cake mix, then layering it with a sweet

A handwritten recipe for Peach Cobbler, listing ingredients such as margarine, milk, flour, baking powder, salt, sweetened fruit (peaches, cherries, or berries)

This is a handwritten recipe for Banana Cake on a printed 'Here's what's cookin'' recipe card, baked at 350 degrees. The recipe lists ingredients including mash

A handwritten recipe card for "Turtles," a chocolate cookie made with melted chocolate and oleo (margarine), eggs, sugar, flour, and vanilla. The batter is drop

This is a first-prize-winning recipe for Anniversary Cake, submitted by Sophia Schroeder to a newspaper cooking contest sponsored by a Gas Light Company. The re

A handwritten recipe card for Buerock or Bierox, a traditional German-Russian cabbage and meat filled bread. The recipe lists yeast dough ingredients (yeast, su

A handwritten recipe for Oatmeal Bread attributed to Therese Thaine Powers, baked at 350°. It calls for leftover cooked oatmeal, water, molasses, sugar, oleo or