Pages 23 − 25 have been added. Don’t be fooled, page 24 was intentionally left blank.
Page 23 finishes up the cake section with clipping from an old magazine (courtesy of the California Raisin Advisory Board) and another recipe for pound cake. Neither of these seem to have made it into the index. I’ve decided not to try to force any sort of organization onto the original book, since my purpose here is archiving. The search tool provides quick access to the content. When the entire thing is transcribed perhaps I can add a more complete index.
Page 25 begins the cookie section of the book. So far all of these recipes simply list ingredients. I suppose the cookie method must have been well known.
Apologies for the late update. I was traveling this weekend far away from the internet.
This week’s pages 21 and 22 include a number of cake recipes (yes more cake) a few of which seem to have been written by someone else. The handwriting and ink are totally different. Some of the recipes are credited, which isn’t unusual. Archie credited recipes from others.
It’s interesting though to see a completely different hand and format. I prefer the orderly, list based method Archie used over the more linear style of the others. One of the recipes is split awkwardly across two pages in the book. None of these recipes made it into the index — which leads me to believe they were added much later and crammed in on some blank pages where they would fit.
These recipes disrupt the lovely order of the book. I want to cheat and reorganize them better, put the recipe for Velvet orange chocolate cake all on one page, etc. But that’s not keeping with the spirit of archiving and transcribing. The book is the way it is, and I’m trying to preserve it, not improve it.
On a brief formatting note - I’m going to try using actual fraction characters in the text instead of dumb ascii shorthand. That is, instead of something like 1/2, you should see ½ (on these most recent additions). Modern browsers should display these fine. If I hear no complaints, I’ll update the rest of the site.