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Vintage recipes Coming home for the holidays

We love vintage things — clothes, music, cars, antiques and collectibles — and Thanksgiving dinner doesn’t have to be any different.

Most everyone has their own must-have fare each year, and you can make your Thanksgiving meal as big or as small as you like, and as traditional or nontraditional — think the feast of popcorn, pretzels, toast, jellybeans and ice cream sundaes thrown together for everyone in A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.

But if you are up for adding something “new” to your table in the way of a vintage recipe, we looked through the online collection of “historically important” cookbooks in the public domain that the Henry Ford Museum has archived on its site at and rounded up a handful to share for consideration. While most of these recipes do

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