Cooking Receipes (or Receipts), Alice Redfield Phillips' Sweet Old Pair of Brown Paper Handwritten Cookbooks, Montpelier, VT Riga with a nice patina especially

with a nice patina especially visible on the creamy white paint

I believe this light gray against red woolen needlepoint dates to the 19th century

I can't resist a good painted rock

10 5/8” tall

Cooking Receipes (or Receipts), Alice Redfield Phillips' Sweet Old Pair of Brown Paper Handwritten Cookbooks, Montpelier, VT Riga with a nice patina especiallyI was sold on these just by their brown paper cover, with grease stains here and there to boot. I don't usually just on old recipe books, even handwritten ones, but I couldn't resist these, one titled "Cooking recipes" and the other "Cooking receipts," the latter stamped on the back by the maker of both: Alice Redfield Phillips (who I've found record for, 1908 1994) of Montpelier, VT. Chock full, and I believe written much earlier in her life than