Recipe Index - Quilter's Muse
by James Cummings
As a bonus to our needlework friends, I am putting illustrations from various vintage sources among the recipes. These illustrations will be most useful for outline stitch embroidery, or in what are known as Redwork quilts, and motifs in Crazy Quilts. If you click here, you will go to a tutorial in one of our online redwork books about resizing and printing images for your own use. Use the back button on your browser to return to this section.
I have a new blog called vintage cookery. All new recipes, illustrated with vintage stamping patterns will appear there. I will also write about vintage kitchen textiles, cookbooks and implements. http://vintagecookery.blogspot.com/
Keep in mind that these images were copied from old catalogs and some of the lines are faded, or may have disappeared entirely. Some splotches of ink may have been introduced from the ancient printing process, most of which I now have removed. As a creative needleworker, you will have to use your own artistic judgement to redraw lines, and add or eliminate certain elements to achieve an effect which pleases you most.
While this can be done on the computer, it is much more simple to do so with a drawing tool ,just before transferring the design to fabric. The same is true, if you enlarge the design and get jagged pixilated edges as a result. While it is possible to smooth out the drawing with a drawing program, the results I have seen with that method are mechanical looking, and the charm of the vintage drawings is lost.
Chicken Salad in Melon (for two)- from "Joyce at the Jersey Shore"
Grandmother Grace's Best Apple Pie
Tourtiere-French Canadian Pork Pie with a little serving of history
Southwest Turkey and Squash Enchilada Casserole
Red Lentil and Chicken Soup: Jim's version of Esau's Potage
Portuguese Potato and Sausage Stew
Crock pot Indian pudding with maple sugar and apples
Read the interview with Anne Copeland, author of the cookbook, Pumpkin, Pumpkin: Folklore, History, Planting Care, and Good Eating. The cookbook features beautiful art quilts with pumpkins, as well as photo illustrations.
Also, visit our blog to read more about the contents of the book: http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/
Quilter's Muse Publications. James and Patricia Cummings, Concord, NH. Write to: pat@quiltersmuse.com