Cooking Receipes (or Receipts), Alice Redfield Phillips' Sweet Old Pair of Brown Paper Handwritten Cookbooks, Montpelier, VT Critical eye finds grey and brown glazes over

grey and brown glazes over a cream slip

beautifully rendered in watercolor

Looks like our woman has a cigarette between her raised fingers too

as there is a fair amount of wear to the gold paint

which if I came across it in a museum would also make me swoon and want to take it off the wall and bring home

Cooking Receipes (or Receipts), Alice Redfield Phillips' Sweet Old Pair of Brown Paper Handwritten Cookbooks, Montpelier, VT Critical eye finds grey and brown glazes overI 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