Old Newspaper Clippings for Recipes

[SheilaAnn]

This is an offshoot of another thread that I cannot find. But we also discussed newspapers here https://pitmaster.amazingribs.com/fo...ok#post1371683

and I asked if anyone wanted to see a few pages that I still have from my grandma and aunties. Recipes one side showing a date and grocery ad on the other side.

[CaptainMike]

I remember those vividly! Always something new to try.

[ecowper]

My grandmother clipped recipes from the local newspaper. My mother clipped from some magazine she got all the time, don’t remember which one. But common for the 1970’s. I have since transcribed a lot of their recipe clippings because they wrote notes on them about how they had changed them.

[barelfly]

Hey that’s pretty cool! I don’t recall having any newspaper clippings from my mom, but I do remember having some magazine clippings that she had. And of course my wife and I back when Food Network magazine first started….pre internet searching for anything and everything.

The ol’ newspaper! How cool is that! Something most kids these days have no clue about!

[MBMorgan]

My wife has a bunch like those, folded, falling apart and tucked randomly into a couple of old recipe boxes. They’ve all been scanned into Paprika, along with all the torn and tattered cards from her mom, grandmas, family friends, and relatives.

[Bkhuna]

Is it possible to "scan" paper into Paprika? I hear scan, I think of scanner.

[smokenoob]

Bkhuna just snap a pic and save, it’s the new scan!

[MBMorgan]

Bkhuna - Short answer is "no". I scan the papers on my printer. Its flatbed scanner does a good job of grabbing either JPEG images or PDF's. Sometimes the PDF's can be OCR'd but it's rare to get much more than gibberish that way. I just create a new recipe manually in Paprika, load the scanned image(s) as photo(s), then manually transcribe the text into Ingredients, Description, Directions, and Notes. It's a bit of a PITA but it works ...

[Draznnl]

My wife and I each had a copy of The Joy Of Cooking when we married. Mine was an inch thicker than hers because of the newspaper clippings I’d tucked in there over the years.

BTW, thanks for the flashback to my childhood with that Hillman’s ad.

[Jfrosty27]

Look at the prices! If I only had a time machine….😵💫

[rlozinak]

Yes, that is was got me was the prices. .43 cents for veal leg. WOW

[nunyaz]

Yup, that's what got me too - 49 cents for a dozen eggs, now they're 49+ cents per egg!

[Washblue]

I recently did an onion gravy recipe from Cherokee Country… they don’t have to be complicated to be worthy…
I look at old papers for genealogy purposes… to read witty local gossip columnists… check weather and crop conditions… and of course, check fashion for the ladies…

the lady in the black dress clearly is upset at getting biscuit dough on her dress…. Maybe another advertisement will convince her to buy an apron…

[bbqLuv]

Onion on toast, you know that has to be good.

[nunyaz]

bbqLuv - ok, you first 😂

[Washblue]

Onions are now in my milk gravy recipe…

[LA Pork Butt]

Growing up in New Orleans the energy company used to publish little pamphlets that were available on the public transportation buses. They were recipes by locals which my mother swore were the best. About 20 years ago they offered to customers a compilation of those recipes in a cookbook. It is one of my prided positions.

[Murdy]

We used to bet recipes in our electric bills. I suppose there was a little extra weight available after the company paid the standard postage, so they stuck some extra stuff in there. We still make one, ruben chicken. Mix together white meat chicken (i like to use chicken tenders), 1000 Island dressing, a can of kraut, and some grated swiss cheese. Bake for about an hour at 350. The proportions don't matter that much. I tend to put the chicken on the bottom, then all else mixed together.

[LA Pork Butt]

Murdy Now r that you mention it I believe they came in our electric bill, too.