Old Recipe Box

     Dovetailed, scarred but still sturdy, an old oak box makes a perfect recipe file. Sized for index cards and probably intended originally for office use, it holds all my handwritten recipes. Since my recipe collection is actually monumental, the clipped and copied pages are organized into eight binders, however a few of the simplest, most used edicts are copied onto cards. Also the oldest, including these directions for Parkerhouse Rolls. My son copied this for me from an indeterminate source, probably twenty-five years ago. It is faded and stained, but tried and true - I use it as a base for almost all of my dinner and sweet rolls, and treasure it because of the teenage scrawl.