Our Mother, Hattie Vanderschaegen, was an excellent cook. She died as the result of cancer in 1960 in our home town, Iron Belt, Wisconsin. Recently my sister, Bev, and I were looking at a box full of her cookbooks and recipes and I decided to scan her handwritten recipes and one unique cook book. These recipes were on3 X 5 cards, some in a composition notebook and some on loose notebook papers. The recipes date from a time when most meals were made from scratch, there were few prepared dishes available. She baked bread, cakes, cookies, pies, etc. from scratch. I don't remember eating any store-bought bread as a kid. The smell of baking is still in my mind.
All of the files are in .pdf format. There may be duplicate copies in these different sources, I did not check for originality. Many of the pages have stains on them from spilled ingredients, my sister thinks that she did indeed make every one of these recipes.
Note: These files are large and may take a bit of time to download.
Cook Book compiled by the Iron Belt Presbyterian Ladies Aide: This is a recipe book printed as a fund raiser for the Iron Belt Presbyterian Church in 1956. Ladies from the church and others provided recipes for this book. The building on the cover of the book is no longer a church.
Recipes on loose notebook paper.
Recipes from a composition notebook. This notebook also included many recipes cut out from various sources, I did not scan most of these. There is an index at the back of this book.
Card file recipes. These were in a small metal box that I clearly remember her using. Some are single-sided and some were double-sided.
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