‘We found my Grandmother's recipe book from 1989’

LFC Jaipur | October 2025

A treasure trove of category wise recipes from newspapers dating back to 1976. Photos by Arahant.
From soups to sherbets to ingenious ways of using up lemons, this treasure trove from a time gone by might just be the best find of Diwali cleaning.

Arahant: During our Diwali clean up, we found my grandmother’s recipe book from 1989—full of category-wise recipes from newspapers dating back to 1976. 

From mangoes, to scraps, to paneer, to different dals! It’s a gold mine and speaks volumes on how recipe-sharing worked in the pre-TV and pre-internet era.

Ratika: What a precious find!

Shruti: Wow! Priceless! 

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