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Vintage Recipes - Archiving nostalgic recipes from cookbooks, handwritten notes, advertisements, etc

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WE Engergies Cookie Books dating back to 1932 all free to download. Each year they put out a new Cookie book full of recipes and the 2023 is not yet available.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s really cool, but why does the electric company spend money every year on a cookbook? Do you have any favorite recipes from these?

I guess monopolies spend money on stuff like this as a PR exercise to curry favor with regulators.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I do not as they just recently made them all available last year as far as I know. I am looking through them but I am a sucker for tea balls so those will probably be my first test.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's a very cool archive. I'm not much of a cookie (cooky, in the older versions) baker, but there are some fun things there , in addition to old standbys. Nice find.