Page from the recipe scrapbooks of Helen Brown Williams (1912-1998) of Kentucky. The recipes in her scrapbook collection came from a variety of sources – magazines, newspapers, and promotional recipes from packages.
Page from the recipe scrapbooks of Helen Brown Williams (1912-1998) of Kentucky. The recipes in her scrapbook collection came from a variety of sources – magazines, newspapers, and promotional recipes from packages.
This is unique and neat to see how things have changed. I could do scrap books in my future classroom as well. It is also neat to see this because we are doing a historical time-travel scrap book in my college class – so we can compare the differences.
I feel this would be a good resource to use in the classroom when teaching math, science, and social studies. It shows measurements and also a scientific step-by-step process. And it is also a historical primary source.
Students could bring examples of recipes form their homes to class to use the measurements in a math lesson, make connections with other recipes that fellow classmates bring in, learn about new recipes, and speak about their pasts and how this particular recipe made it into their recipe book at home.
The students could write the recipe down and bring it, or take a picture of it and then bring that in to class.
This is an image I could use in my classroom to show students that some things may not change too much over time. In this image the recipes from past decades are written much like we write our recipes today.