Cooking Receipes (or Receipts), Alice Redfield Phillips' Sweet Old Pair of Brown Paper Handwritten Cookbooks, Montpelier, VT Riga I believe this light gray

I believe this light gray against red woolen needlepoint dates to the 19th century

I can't resist a good painted rock

My weakness for old wooden blocks never ceases

quintessential example of Penobscot basketry

Cooking Receipes (or Receipts), Alice Redfield Phillips' Sweet Old Pair of Brown Paper Handwritten Cookbooks, Montpelier, VT Riga I believe this light grayI 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