Times Change
These gloomy winter/spring days are perfect for projects like my recipes-to-computer exercise. I'm all out of teacups from my grandmother's collection (I only have a few cups from her), but this one is fun. It's the only (or one of the only) cup and saucer sets (that I know of) from a set of china that belonged to my great great grandmother. The pattern was held in a factory in Germany. That factory was destroyed during World War II, and with it went the pattern for this china. Well, I'm nowhere near finished with my project. Scanning the recipes and hacking them into my recipe software takes time. But I'm seeing some interesting trends as I go through these cards. I have seen recipes dating back to the mid 1940s, the 1990s, and everything in between. But even without the dates written on the cards, it isn't too hard to tell which era the recipe is from. Recipes from the 40s and 50s mostly include whole/real foods , recipes are