Much of my early cooking came from my mom's collection of cut-out back-of-the-box recipes. She would stuff dozens of cut-out recipes (from boxes, magazines, and even Cream of Wheat packets) into her ...

Bette-Jane Hardersen of Bloomfield wrote in to request a quiche recipe for a high school classmate who remembered it from a column that Bette-Jane’s mother used to write for the Berkshire Eagle. The ...

When I scored the vintage cookbook So Quick with New Bisquick at a thrift store, I was thrilled. The collection of recipes is a goldmine of old-school culinary delights made with the beloved baking ...

Q. My husband is a heart bypass patient, and Bisquick’s impossible pies seem to be an answer for us. (I use evaporated skim milk, Egg Beaters and margarine.) My problem is that they have an Impossible ...

Recipes from brand name companies often get a bad rap. But many people learned to cook from the backs of boxes, bottles, and jars, especially in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s when packaged convenience foods ...

Contributor Stephanie Burt has shelves of community cookbooks, those spiralbound snapshots of church groups, Junior League chapters and other social organizations. They hold history in every line and, ...