• Baked Salmon and Potatoes Casserole Recipe from 1907

    This recipe comes from Mrs. G. B. Richmond and was published in Crumbs From Everybody’s Table (see: OFF Library), a community cookbook published in 1907 by the Ladies’ of St. Paul’s Guild in Salinas, California. Unlike many vintage recipes I find, this one looks easy enough that even I could make it! šŸ‘‰ More Dinner Recipes / All Recipes / More from Crumbs from Everybody’s Table (1907) Original Recipe BAKED SALMON AND POTATOES. Put a layer of mashed potatoes in baking dish, then one of cooked fish; grate over the top crackers enough to cover, and pour over a sauce…

  • The Wizard of Oz Book Series Index

    The Wizard of Oz book universe is a larger thing than you may know! There’s the original books written by L. Frank Baum, then there’s the spinoffs and sibling books, and THEN there’s the rest of the “official Oz” books written by authors approved by the publisher after Baum’s death in the 1920s. If you’ve only every heard of the original book (and maybe a few others), you may be surprised at how many books are actually out there! This post is an index of all the official Oz books, which include the “Famous Forty” official books, as well as…

  • The Langs’ Colored Fairy Books Index

    The Fairy Books are 25 volumes of collected fairy tale stories from around the world, translated and compiled by Leonora Blanche Lang and edited by her husband, Andrew Lang, in the late 1800s to early 1910s. You can read more about the history of the books and their creation on Wikipedia! This post is specifically an index for the books in the “Colored Fairy Books” collection, which is 12 volumes. I’ve also put together an index of the contents of each of the Colored Fairy Books, so you can CTRL-F to find a specific story and see which volume it’s…

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    26 Wizard of Oz Illustrations by W.W. Denslow (1900) – Full Color Pages

    These were collected from the digitized version of the 1900 edition of The Wizard of Oz on the Library of Congress website. In that edition, all the illustrations were done by W.W. Denslow— you’ll probably recognize them because they’re used heavily in Oz products! As for this post: I downloaded each image individually, lightly edited them (keeping the vintage aged paper look), then re-uploaded them here! All these illustrations are in the public domain, so you can use them for personal or commercial things. If you do use them, it’d be nice to credit the original artist, W.W. Denslow. I…

  • Tea Party Cakes Recipe from 1913

    Another recipe from the amazing Ultra Select Dishes for Afternoon Teas (1913), a collection of recipes from high end Edwardian era chefs. This tea party cakes recipe is from Frank Bock, pastry chef at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, California. šŸ‘‰ More Desserts / All Recipes / More from Ultra Select Dishes for Afternoon Teas (1913) Original Recipe Take one pound of the ready dough and work another two ounces of butter well into it. Let prove and scale off in half pound pieces; divide these pieces again in twelve equal parts; mold them round and let raise a…

  • Author L. Frank Baum Book Index

    Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 ā€“ May 6, 1919) was an American author best known for his children’s fantasy books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part of a series. In addition to the 14 Oz books, Baum penned 41 other novels (not including four lost, unpublished novels), 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and at least 42 scripts. (Source: Wikipedia) This is an index of the Baum books that are available for download on Project Gutenberg. I personally find PG a little difficult to look through when I’m focused on a specific author or topic, so indexes like…

  • Winter Birds (& Poems) Vintage Cards

    These images are from chromolithograph greeting cards made by L. Prang & Co. in the late 1800s in Boston. The artist was Hector Giacomelli, and the poems are signed E.S.F. You can download these images and use them for art, scrapbooking, junk journaling, etc.– they’re in the public domain in the US and come from the NYPL’s Digital Collection here. I’ve cropped them and made them into individual JPG images, which is what you see here. If you’d like higher quality PNGs at 300 DPI, or if you’d like a high quality printable page of all four images on one…

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    Poem: WINTER-TIME (1895)

    Late lies the wintry sun a-bed,A frosty, fiery sleepy-head;Blinks but an hour or two; and then,A blood-red orange, sets again.Before the stars have left the skies,At morning in the dark I rise;And shivering in my nakedness,By the cold candle, bathe and dress.Close by the jolly fire I sitTo warm my frozen bones a bit;Or with a reindeer-sled, exploreThe colder countries round the door.When to go out, my nurse doth wrapMe in my comforter and cap;The cold wind burns my face, and blowsIts frosty pepper up my nose.Black are my steps on silver sod;Thick blows my frosty breath abroad;And tree and…

  • Omelet Bonne Femme Recipe from 1923

    This recipe comes to us from Reliable Recipes (1923), a collection of family recipes from the the Rector’s Guild of St. John’s Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. There’s tons of good recipes in here, and they seem easier to make than some other vintage ones so I’m determined to share as many of them as I can with y’all. For the first recipe to share I’ve picked a breakfast egg dish called “Omelet Bonne Femme.” šŸ‘‰ More Breakfast Recipes / All Recipes / More from Reliable Recipes (1923) Original Recipe Here’s the original recipe: Cut one ounce of salt pork…

  • Pickled Cantaloupe Recipe from 1913

    This is from the amazing Ultra Select Dishes for Afternoon Teas (1913). It’s a collection of recipes from chefs at high end hotel restaurants, and honestly it’s a crazy collection because all the recipes are meant for huge groups of customers, so the proportions are for, like, 20+ people at a time and not individual families like most other cookbooks. They’re also very high-brow recipes, quite different from the usual family cookbooks from the same time period.