A couple of years ago I was digging through a box of papers and miscellaneous stuff at the flea-market when I came across an old journal. In this journal was a variety of handwritten recipes, autographs, and home remedies I thought, at the time, to be very strange. This strangeness became curiosity and that turned into amazement that someone at one time used these recipes. I was so intrigued by them I thought others should see them. I showed them around to other people and many thought as I did.. what an interesting book. And that is how this booklet came to be.

There was no author name just a bunch of poems and rhymes with a sprinkling of dates to someone named Ruth. So with my amazing skills of deduction I figured, maybe, Ruth wrote most of the recipes and such. So, thank you Ruth, where ever you may be. 

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