Cooking Receipes (or Receipts), Alice Redfield Phillips' Sweet Old Pair of Brown Paper Handwritten Cookbooks, Montpelier, VT Critical eye finds rolled up edges (like sardine

rolled up edges (like sardine tins

Executed on natural colored paper

and to my eye just about a perfect thing

beautifully rendered in watercolor

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

Cooking Receipes (or Receipts), Alice Redfield Phillips' Sweet Old Pair of Brown Paper Handwritten Cookbooks, Montpelier, VT Critical eye finds rolled up edges (like sardineI 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