Or you could copy the recipe by hand and add it to your own collection. The only way to share recipes back then was to tote the big book (or individual recipes) to a neighbour’s house and start making the food off of the recipe. Those were all recipes I knew were good ones. I always looked forward to when my grandmother would take out that big folder of recipes she had put together and was preparing to make something from there. Pulling any random recipe out of a book like that, you were liable to find bits of flour, oil stains, or a little chocolate sauce on the recipe from its use in the kitchen. In her day, recipes were passed around in big folders, stuffed to the brim with scraps of papers and hastily scrawled recipes with writing that was hard to read after being used so many times.

If only my grandmother could see the way we get recipes these days- she would be so amazed.

Some of them have been kept in the family for generations and are now being shared on social media platforms like Pinterest for the first time.

I am always checking through Pinterest to see what new and interesting recipes people are coming up with.

Pinterest food ideas