Cooking Receipes (or Receipts), Alice Redfield Phillips' Sweet Old Pair of Brown Paper Handwritten Cookbooks, Montpelier, VT Critical eye finds no splits or notable losses

no splits or notable losses

8 1/4" tall with handle raised

and to my eye just about a perfect thing

which if I came across it in a museum would also make me swoon and want to take it off the wall and bring home

as there is a fair amount of wear to the gold paint

Cooking Receipes (or Receipts), Alice Redfield Phillips' Sweet Old Pair of Brown Paper Handwritten Cookbooks, Montpelier, VT Critical eye finds no splits or notable lossesI was sold on these just by their brown paper cover, with grease stains here and there to boot. I don't usually just on old recipe books, even handwritten ones, but I couldn't resist these, one titled "Cooking recipes" and the other "Cooking receipts," the latter stamped on the back by the maker of both: Alice Redfield Phillips (who I've found record for, 1908 1994) of Montpelier, VT. Chock full, and I believe written much earlier in her life than