I found some interesting items while scanning my grandmother’s recipe clippings Thursday afternoon. I’m saving the actual recipes for later posts, but I wanted to share some images and labels today. The giblet gravy recipe above comes from the back of a frozen turkey label, a piece of paper that could be the origin of a Mangan family tradition.

This book of oven triumphs (!) is coming back to Brooklyn with me. I want every time I bake to be considered a victory.

My policy is to try any food item I encounter at least once (as long as it’s not alive at the time of consumption), however this meal has me rethinking things:

More scanning finds (including melon cutting tips and men in hot tubs) with my unnecessary commentary after the jump.

I would like a degree in the science of Better Cookery.

My grandmother kept a quick reference guide for proper baking temperatures.

If only cutting melons brought me this much joy.

I like to imagine Don Draper pitching this tagline for the Yum Yum Machine.

The backs of the newspaper clippings had a lot of interesting images. I have three favorites and the first comes from a home tour in Binghamton’s Press and Sun Bulletin in 1983. Hyrdrotherapy. Right.

The paper put a punching clown on the street and documented the results in the sixties:

So good, children lick the spoon! (This baby’s face will haunt me all weekend.)