Christmas Cookie Recipes in Flour Sacks

[debodun]

I remember when it got to be near Christmas, Gold Medal and Betty Crocker would put little leaflets in ther bags of flour with unique recipes for holiday cookies. I still have what my mom saved. I like to look at them around this time of year. They are proibably about 60 years old and so fragile and brittle, they are in danger of falling apart. They look like they've been Scotch taped many a time.

 

[Aunt Bea]

The recipes with the most splatters and scotch tape are usually the best!

My Christmas cookie memories are triggered by my mother's spoons and tin measuring cup from Swans Down or seeing the big yellow bowl from a set of Pyrex.

 

[debodun]

Yep. I have my mom's nested Pyrex bowls that she started housekeeping with in 1951.

 

[Jules]

My husband had that set too. He also has the ones with a lip on each side for pouring. Sometime during the teen years of our kids, one of each set mysteriously disappeared. They must of had to work extra hard to clean up those messes.

 

[Pink Biz]

Yep. I have my mom's nested Pyrex bowls that she started housekeeping with in 1951.

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I just have the red one from my mom and I use it a lot due to its convenient size when "cooking for one." She would use it to make "red jello" every weeknight! It sure has seen a lot of use through the years.

 

[PamfromTx]

I remember when it got to be near Christmas, Gold Medal and Betty Crocker would put little leaflets in ther bags of flour with unique recipes for holiday cookies. I still have what my mom saved. I like to look at them around this time of year. They are proibably about 60 years old and so fragile and brittle, they are in danger of falling apart. They look like they've been Scotch taped many a time.

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I use to laminate old recipes that were becoming too brittle and fragile but now use those clear plastic sheets for the recipes I print from the Internet. Keeps them clean and protected.

I treasure a Jello recipe book my sister gave me many years ago. It is dated 1920. She bought it at a library book sale.

 

[Ruthanne]

I recall those flour sacks with the recipes. They were always leaking flour, too! I used to put them in a plastic bag so the flour didn't get all over everything. Some great recipes, too!

 

[PamfromTx]

Yep. I have my mom's nested Pyrex bowls that she started housekeeping with in 1951.

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I love those bowls and especially the colors. I wish I still had my mom's Pyrex; everything was destroyed and/or stolen when her house was vacant after she was placed in a nursing home. Thank you for bringing back some wonderful memories of her bowls, etc.

 

[Aunt Marg]

I remember one such bowl of my moms... a pale green one, one of many that she had in pale green and white.

 

[debodun]

That green glass is called "jadeite".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadeite_(kitchenware)

 

[Remy]

@debodun Those are amazing. A real treasure trove. Can you scan them to have another copy? I have seen scanned old recipes on Pinterest and they are so interesting to look at. They should be preserved.

 

[debodun]

I could just re-write them in word processing to have a permanent copy.