Starla's Vintage Recipe Collection of: Old fashion cooking recipes from your mother's kitchen.  Handwritten recipes gathered from little old tin recipe boxes.  Home cooking recipes from throughout the 1950's, 60's, and 70's. Plus - Robin Wallace - A StoryTeller most extraordinaire. Updated 10-30-08

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My mom loved her cooking recipes and she loved to cook.  I remember she had this little red tin recipe box, she kept on top our stove full of recipes. These were home cooking recipes passed down from her mother.  She rarely used this box, as she had most of her recipes memorized. Yet, in the spring, out would come the box and she follow her mother's instruction for making homemade jams and jellies.  At the end of summer, the box came out again as she canned pickles, corn relish, and a myriad of other homecooked foods.  My sister inherited her knack for canning foods.  I never did.  I am the collector. There we are, standing in front of the green house, in 1971.  The photo faded, so you can't quite get the feel for how green the house really was.  My mom, Helen Stone and me, a 21 year old "know it all".  Boy, was I a brat!

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Yes, it was just as busy back then as it is today, but mom always found the time to fix meals from scratch. When she passed away, my sister inherited her recipes.  One day it dawned on me that most every mother has a little tin recipe box on top her stove. What a shame it would be to loose our mothers history.  It is a part of who they were.  So I started collecting these recipes.  All handwritten,  Now I am sharing these recipes with you.

Some of you will remember him...Turk, owned the Dairy Freeze near Mt. Logan school?  Good old Main Street in the East End of Chillicothe, Ohio..  Yea, that's him, holding my dog, Scamp, in the first photo.

Beside -  an old photo, I found of my best friend, Marty Higgins, and me drinking a coke at the Dairy Freeze's counter.  Probably finished one of those great hamburgers, dad fried.  Circa, 1970 Ha! You can't see that green paint very well here either.  Rats!

My mom loved her name brand products, so for this recipe she used Kellogg's Rice Krispies.  Our mother's had their name brand products and we have ours.  This was my mom's favorite sweet treat recipe to bake with us kids, on a Saturday afternoon.  Kellogg, we still love you!

This was in my mom's recipe box.  I think it was my mom's special touch that made these so good.         Rice Crispies Treats 1/4 cup regular margarine 1 package 10 oz (about 40 regular marshmallows). Half a bag of chocolate chips. 5 cups Rice Crispies Your choice of finely chopped nuts.  Melt margarine in a large saucepan over low heat.  Add marshmallows and stir until melted and well blended.  Cook 2 minutes longer, stirring constantly.  Remove from heat.  Add Krispies, chocolate bits and nuts. Stir until well coated.  Using buttered spatula or waxed paper, press mixture evenly and firmly in buttered 13 x 9 x 2 inch pan.  Cut into perfect squares when cool.  24 squares about 2 x 2 inches. Got a little rice crispy history?

Read, "The Story of the Missing Cookie Jar" by PenVampyre.  A delightful little Christmas story with mouthwatering  recipes for the most wonderful time of the year! Read "Santa and the Magic Key".  An entertaining story for the holidays, plus recipes for your Christmas.  A story by Robin Wallace. Read "Easter and Where NOT to Hide Eggs"  Memories of Easters past and a few vintage recipes. Logan's Halloween Story -The original story won first place in sixth-eighth grade division of Southeastern Middle School, 2005 by Logan Lyon Food and Genealogy.  A story By Robin L. Wallace.  Our lives, our families, our very history's are defined by the foods we eat. Family Reunion Recipes. "The Fourth of July and Other Disasters" (With Apologies to Jean Shepherd) By Robin L. Wallace A short story by Suellen Fry.  Memories of my father and his version of Kickapoojoyjuice. Memorial Day Recipes - "For me, Memorial Day was the day when we went out where relatives were buried in the tiny, local cemeteries and thoroughly cleaned up each gravesite, carrying away branches that may have fallen in the winter.................." Grandma Irwin's Story of Courage and Swit Tater Biskits Recipe

Remember the candy you had when you were a kid? I will never forget it.  Our mom would take us to Manker's Candy Shop down on Paint Street.  I still remember the wooden floor was so smooth, you could walk on it bare foot.  It felt so cool.  It was ok for a kid to be bare foot in the 50's and 60's. We were stocking up for our candy stand, yep, that's right, our candy stand.  See, instead of a typical lemonade stand, our mom bought us candy to resale.  The Stone kids were budding capitalists. We sold it all, the wax lips, wax vampire teeth (my favorite), candy cigarettes too.  Yep, we, young entrepreneurs, sold candy cigarettes at the ripe old age of 10 and not one neighborhood adult complained. (note to self - Maybe that is why I developed a nasty cigarette habit at the age of 19...took me another twenty some years to kick the habit....I really need to think about suing that candy company......make sure not to typed this in the story line......)  We had candy necklaces, wax bottles with syrup in them, pixie sticks, now and laters, generally, all kinds of candy.  We were the coolest and richest kids on the block, until we ate all our profits, then mom decided the candy had to go.  Plus, our coolness factor took a turn for the worst when dad painted our whole house this wild fluorescent green color. Our house could be seen from the moon. Mom said NASA mentioned that in 1969. What the heck was dad thinking?  The house was green, his pick up truck was green, mom stopped the madness at her car's color, heck he even painted one of his restaurants fluorescent green with white stripes.  I am older something now and still can't find the rational for all that green.

We all have memories of our childhood that reflect in our cooking.  The way your mom use to fry her chicken. The aroma of bean soup floating in the air on a Sunday afternoon from a neighbors house. Add your favorite memory about a family recipe, a childhood candy, Easter, Halloween, Christmas.....a camping trip... Here is a place to share your memories about food and life.  Who and what are families are has a great deal to do with how and what we eat.  Add your memory by sending me an email.  Don't let your family's recipes be forgotten.

Remember, as a kid, doing the sidewalk line shuffle outside the movie theater?  Summer's sweltering heat melting everything in site. You raise one shoe.  Rats! Chewing gum stringing from your new white Chuck's to concrete pavement below. Mom'll kill ya, if you get gooey blobs smashed in the carpet.  Ah, that will rub off by the time you get home, why worry now, your brain shrugs off trivial thoughts.  Soon, soon you will be out of this heat and into an air conditioned movie theater.  Your mouth starts to water in anticipation of concession stand popcorn, sodas, and buying the biggest Baby Ruth or Hershey's Bar they have!  Dang, candy bars were big back then, huge, in fact. Took an hour to eat just one! That's what we are talking about!

Man.....and woman, has had a sweet tooth since the beginning of time. Eve ate the apple.  If she had gotton her hands on a candy bar instead, we wouldn't be in such a terrible fix. Did people in the Bible eat candy?  Read about candy in the Bible and find home-cooking recipes with the word Angel in the title! What does that mean?  I will explore a little history, some nonsense, some trivia, and a vast array of vintage recipes collected from 1940's, 1950's, 1960's, and 1970's.  To include collections from cute little tin recipe boxes, handwritten recipes, and handme down recipes, and a lot of other cooking recipes.. Guess I'm stuck in the past.  Taking about candy, cakes, popcorn, cookies, vintage recipes, and all the rest of the good stuff. These old fashion recipes of our mothers are being shoved aside.  Their home-made cookies, candies, and home cooked meals, are getting tossed out, lost, and forgotten. This is their history, our mothers.   Their recipes were a sneak peak into our homes then.  They shared these little treasures with each other.  My mom belonged to a recipe club,  met once a week, and swap recipes. All those ladies taking all that time to type and write recipes down.  It seemed so sad that their work, love, and memories would be tossed aside.  I'm keeping them here. Now here is my disclaimer concerning the vintage recipes. I am only a collector of vintage cooking recipes, this is what I do, I do not cook, bake, fry, stir, melt, mix, spoon, or anything else related to cooking.  I started collecting recipes when I saw so many getting tossed out at yard-sales, auctions, and other places.......and lately.... vintage photos, which I will sprinkle gingerly around the site for added spice!  My own secret ingredient, sort of speak, for the perfect vintage website. Well, here they are.  As many of them as I can find.

A long lost photo has a new life on our vintage recipe site. You know these kids never forgot their mom's cooking!

A collection of homemade, handwritten, cooking recipes for pies, cookies, cakes, breakfast, lunch, and dinners. Good Foods that are great to eat and memories with a blast of vintage.

I know this was taken in the late 1950's somewhere because of my age.  I was born in 53, so this was what....1956, 1957?  Somewhere there abouts. Now, I don't know if I remember because my mom told me or because my mom kept this photo or I just remember...... but I remember my mother and the Big Bear grocery store.  Yes, that is me riding the bear in the Central Center parking lot, Chillicothe, Ohio!  Can you believe my mother allowed a man to put me on a bear to have my photo taken!  It was a promotional gimmic for the Big Bear store.  Today they would arrest everyone.  Can you imagine the uproar this sort of promotional gimmic would cause today?

I think my mom told me she paid about 75 cents to have my photo taken sitting top the bear.   Although Central Center is still there, alas the Big Bear grocery store is no longer. My mom loved this store.  The bag boys carried her groceries to the car, she gave a tip everytime.  She saved those S & H Green Stamps, filled her books up, then exchanged the stamps for "stuff".  I remember they gave away dishes at the store, she couldn't wait till a new piece came out!  For some reason, this was a weird craving of hers...those dishes.  I have the dishes top of the hallway closet.  Sentimental fool.

Today 8-01-06 - I received a recipe journal in the mail from the state of Georgia.  Newspaper clippings date from the 60's and she has dated some of her recipes 1965.  Now her handwritten recipes are included in our recipe collection.  If I run across any further information concerning this journal, as I go through it, I will include the finds on the website and recipe blog. This was an estate find and sold on Ebay.   Enjoy!

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