Crinkled pages, splattered and stained with age. Handwritten notes in pencil. Handwritten notes in fountain pen. Doodles. Suggestions. Advice. A girl in love with writing her name. Grease stains. Water marks. Tanned pages. Black and white photographs. Brown ink. Blue ink. Bent corners. A creaky spine. Underlines. Thick paper. Brown tape. A smell of wooden floors. A sound. Like snapping wind, as each page turns one into another. 🕰 These are some of the gorgeous hallmarks of this rare 1923 edition of a cookbook originally published in 1910. 🥘 Touched by countless cooks over the course of 100 years, this is one of a handful of very old recipe books coming to the shop that all bear handwritten marks and notations. Evidence of real-life readers and messy kitchen life lived long ago. 🥘 Of course each of these unique one-of-a-kind cookbooks offers a wealth of culinary history, packed full with unusual recipes and antiquated cooking equipment. But they also offer secondary stories too. Unexpected ones. Surprising ones. Every handwritten mark is like a little ghost spilling out into the room, toying with imaginations and peppering the reading experience with intrigue and mystery about what life was like back then, when… . . . . #fortheloveofbooks #oldbooks #antique #1900s #oldcookbooks #antiquecookbooks #splattered #old #timeworn #handwrittennotes #antiquebooks #cookbookstagram #booklover #agedtoperfection https://www.instagram.com/p/CQbqujhANVo/?utm_medium=tumblr
