Hi, my name is Ehme and I collect recipes. They in turn collect dust, because they are stuffed in recipe boxes, recipe files, recipe notebooks, LL Bean tote bags and shoe boxes. Instead I go to the internet, do a quick search and print a recipe. Which is probably what brought you here. I started this site with the intention of putting all my recipes on the intermanet, so that I would actually use them. It has worked, but I just keep finding more and more recipes.

I like to buy recipe boxes that are full of recipes, because I get all sad and goopy thinking that some little old lady’s recipes are disappearing forever. Sadly, little old ladies are horrible recipe writers, so I do not claim that any of their recipes are complete and/or edible. I have categorized recipes by which recipe box they came from, so if you try one and like it, you can go back to that recipe box.

As I add different recipe boxes, I will post as much information here as I know about the previous owner.

Green Recipe Box–This recipe box was purchased for $10 at an “Estate Sale” in Brunswick, Maine. The granddaughter of the woman said her Grandmother grew up in Aroostook County, Maine and spent the last years of her life in Bath, Maine. Her name was Edna. Edna was very fond of puddings, molasses cookies, any other kind of cookies, and white sauce. She refused to write on the back side of index cards, which often results in a completely unfinished recipe.

Teapot Recipe Box– I actually purchased this set of recipes on Ebay for $5.00, and then put them all in a vintage Teapot covered recipe box. They arrived in a manila envelope from Olympia, Washington. There are still a lot of recipes in the envelope, because they would not fit in the box. These recipes came from a woman named Cheryl, who really likes to clip recipes off the back of boxes, loves casseroles and cakes, and is a sucker for all those recipes that pop up every year and become the coolest thing on the potluck party circuit. (Texas Sheet cake, jell-o creations, and anything made with cake mix.) Cheryl has very neat handwriting, and I appreciate that.

Family Recipes–As I go through all these recipes, I realize I own quite a few collections of my very own families recipes. Some of them I am putting on here and tossing, others–such as my Grandmother A’s complete collection of recipes, I cannot bring myself to throw away, but I will share with you if you are nice. There is something about seeing my long gone Grandmother’s handwriting on a yellowed, food-stained chocolate chip cookie recipe that warms my shriveled little heart.

Land O’Lakes Recipe Box: I have coveted the Land O’Lakes Recipe Box since I first started collecting recipe boxes. I saw many of them in thrift shops and on Ebay, but I was waiting for just the right one to jump out and call to me. I finally found it under the menorah/Christmas tree one year, a gift from my husband. It came with no recipes, but I have been filling it with all of my favorite recipes that I actually make. I probably won’t toss the recipes in here, because hopefully someday, someone will flip through my recipe cards and want to save them. Sadly, my recipes are even harder to decipher than Edna’s, but I have editorial control of them, so I will try and clean them up for you. –UPDATE! Nov. 15 2007. All the recipes are entered from this box. Woo!

The Magazines

I recently took two whole days and set about trying to throw away 5+ years of magazine subscriptions. I have subscribed or am a subscriber to a whopping 12 different cooking magazines in the last ten years. The count is currently at 5. I am working to get it down to 3. I decided that hundreds of pounds of magazines were not an attractive end table and set about going through every single one of those magazines and ripping out any recipes that I might possibly make at some point in my life. (It actually started out with only baking recipes….it spiraled out of control.) My kitchen table is currently stacked with magazine pages that I have no idea what to do with. So I am putting them on here, in the hopes that maybe one day I will actually make one of them! Or that you will. Someone has to get some use out of these things. Sometimes, if the recipe is too long, or I am fairly certain I will never make it, or I am lazy, I will post a link to the recipe on the site that it came from. Below is a picture of the ginormous LL Bean tote bag that is full of recipe clippings. This could take a while.