Barbara Vance, Piqua, Ohio

My mother's recipe cards left out half of every recipe.

Here is the other half. 408 answers, in one book.

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The Things She Never Wrote Down by Barbara Vance. Cover shows Barbara holding her mother's pie crust card.
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Nine lines of pencil

This is my mother's whole pie crust card. My neighbor Marlene followed it word for word three times and threw all three crusts away. Tap a line to see what the card never told her.

PIE CRUST

Tap any line on the card

Look inside

Real pages from the book. Tap one to see it full size.

Page 20. Very slow to hot: the words on the old oven dial and the numbers under them.
Page 40. One of the 88 cards, set the way it sits in the tin: greasing and flouring a pan so the cake comes out whole.
Page 451. Page 410 of Ruth Ann's Betty Crocker, pencil ticks down the margin.
Page 341. Beans that stay hard, and the red stamp where the old belief fails.
Page 220. The failure counts for Part Three, side by side. Pie crust wins.
Page 76. The ticks for Part One. Two Thanksgivings in that oven.
Page 836. One pound of meat, six people: four ways to stretch it.

Swipe sideways to see more pages.

What's inside

Twelve parts, from the oven to the wash line. A few of the 408:

Plus 88 recipe cards, every old belief that turned out wrong collected in one list, and a glossary of kitchen words nobody uses anymore.

The page she wore out

My mother put a pencil mark in her 1950 Betty Crocker every time a dish went wrong. Everybody remembers her as a woman who never ruined anything.

That page is in the book, pencil marks and all.

Book cover

THE ORDER

The Things She Never Wrote Down

  • 408things the recipe cards took for granted
  • 88recipe cards from my mother's tin
  • 920pages, large clear type
  • 7 daysto ask for your money back
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About 9 cents for each of the 408 answers. The PDF arrives the moment you pay, with a copy of the link in your email. Nothing is mailed. If it is not for you, write within 7 days and you get your money back.

How it works

  1. 1You payPress the red "Get My Copy Now" button. Payment is handled by Gumroad, and I never see your card number.
  2. 2The book opensRight on the next screen, on your phone, tablet, or computer.
  3. 3It stays in your emailThe same link goes to your inbox, so you can open it any evening.
Barbara Vance
Me, and the tin

Who wrote this

I am not a chef. I fed a family of six on one paycheck for 42 years in Piqua, Ohio, out of my mother's tin of 214 recipe cards.

  • 1974the year the tin came to me
  • 4 yearswriting it all down
  • 34mistakes I marked plainly

Barbara Vance

Questions

Is this a paper book?
No. It is a PDF, a digital book, and nothing is shipped. It opens right after you pay and the link is emailed to you too. You can print any page at home.
I am not good with computers. Will I manage?
Press the red button, pay on the page that opens, and the book appears. There is nothing to install. If you do not see it, look in your email, including the junk folder.
Will I be charged again?
No. You pay $37 one time and the book is yours to keep.
What if I don't like it?
Write within 7 days of buying and you get your money back. You do not need to give a reason.
Is it a cookbook full of recipes?
It is mostly the know-how the recipes left out, like oven words, how a dough should feel, and how to rescue a sauce. It also has 88 recipe cards.

Four hundred and eight things, written down at last.

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