Find of the Week - Cookbooks!

I have always adored those little cook-booklets that were so popular in the 40's-50's, I love the pictures in them, and especially some of the off-the-wall recipes that can be found in them :) Well you could have knocked me over with a feather when I found the mother of them all, this HUGE binder full of them! This binder is about 6 inches thick, and some of the books included in it are: 500 Tasty Snacks, 500 Delicious Dishes from Leftovers, 250 Classic Cake Recipes, 250 Ways to Prepare Poultry, 250 Superb Pies and Pastries, 250 Delicious Soup Recipes, 500 Delicious Salad Recipes, 250 Ways to Prepare Meat, 250 Fish and Seafood Recipes, 300 Ways to Serve Eggs, 250 Ways to Serve Vegetables, 250 Delectable Desserts, 250 Ways to Serve Potatoes, 500 Tasty Sandwich Recipes, 250 Ways to Make Candy, 250 Luscious Refrigerator Desserts, 250 Cookie & Small Cake Recipes, 300 Healthful Dairy Dishes, 250 breads, Biscuits and Rolls, 250 Sauces and Gravies, Meals for Two Cookbook, Body Building Dishes for Children, 2000 Useful Facts About Food, and Menus for Every Day of the Year......whew!!!!! Can you tell I'm excited?!?! More pix below:

Find of the Week - Cookbooks!

Vintage Cookbooks - Part 3

Here is the "Montgomery Ward Home Freezing Cookbook" from 1946. Next to is a really cool book from Armour and Company, it was a souvenir from the 1934 Century of Progress World's Fair!

And then there is "21 None Such Mince Meat Recipes" which has some really nifty pictures. But I have to ask - what IS mince meat???? Really - I know I have had it at least once in my life, can't remember it though, but nowhere in this book does it tell me what it actually is???

And next is a newer booklet called "A Season to Celebrate with Philadelphia Cream Cheese" I love that stuff! My granny used to make a wicked fruity-cheesy dessert out of it for the holidays. If you ask me, probably anything they could cook up would be good with Philly in it. I have to ramble on here for a minute - have you tried the ready made Philadelphia Cheesecake filling yet?? I recently found it in a tub container in the dairy case, and let me tell you - THIS STUFF IS ADDICTING! I had every intention of making the suggested Cheesecake out of it, but I must sadly report that it never made it that far...I ate it right out of the container! (I am embarrassed to say) but ohmygoodness was it tasty! Dare you to try it and not do the same! LOL

Vintage Cookbooks - Part 3

Vintage Cookbooks - Part 2

Lookie!! Here we have none other than "The Galloping Gourmet TV Cookbook" from 1972 featuring favorite dishes from Deep South Pacific. Note on the cover Graham Kerr is holding a Macaw parrot on his arm (hope that is not part of his menu :) Next to that is another book, "Blue Ribbon Recipes - County Fair Winners" yummmmm-eeeee, those goodies on the cover are calling my name!

I love those spiral bound cookbooks that are put out by churches and community groups - this one is called "The Salem Sampler" and has recipes from the members of the Salem Covenant Church in New Brighton (wherever that is) and then an old Swedish cookbook, called "The Smorgasbord Cookbook".

Vintage Cookbooks - Part 2

Vintage Cookbooks - Part 1

I hit the jackpot this week at a neighborhood yard sale, and got a whole box of vintage Cookbooks - for $2!!!!! I am in heaven. Now I did not NEED another cookbook, I have a ton of them already - and could never, ever make all the recipes in a lifetime, but I HAD to get them. It would have been a crime to leave them sitting there all alone, right?

Here is "Bananas...How to Serve Them", and "Southern Cookbook - 250 Fine Old Recipes" - and indeed they are. The Banana Cookbook is a hoot! - look at the second picture and they have all these little animated bananas doing wacky things in the book...you can click on the pix to enlarge them if you like.

Vintage Cookbooks - Part 1

Vintage Sewing Book

Here we have "The Complete Book of Sewing" that I thrifted this week for 50 cents. It is a substantial book from 1943. Get a load of the picture, don't you just love it! It has some great illustrations inside too. I am not the greatest of sewers, much to the dismay of my grandmother who, along with my great-grandmother, owned a custom dress design shop many years ago. You would think it would rub off on me, wouldn't you? She always would come along and fix up my messes, rip out the stitches, and do it the correct way....bless her heart, she did exquisite work. Who knows, maybe this book will inspire me to hone my sewing skills? :)

I got a bunch of old cookbooks too, and will post them tomorrow when I get the pix taken. :) Yes, I CAN cook! LOL

Vintage Sewing Book

Thrifted Potholders

Got these earlier this week, they were 25 cents each. The first one is a little crocheted (at least I think it is crocheted) dress, so adorable! And then this darling owl embroidered on the round potholder. Old kitchen-ey stuff warms my heart :)

Thrifted Potholders

Thrifted Birdies

Is this not the cutest little egg cup? It was only about 50 cents at the thrift store. I don't know about where you live, but around here egg cups have become very hard to find in thrift stores.

I'm not really sure what this little guy's use is, other than to be cute. It is too small to be a planter, and not an egg cup. He was $1 at a yard sale.

The birdie salt and pepper shakers were a find at $1. I was at an antique mall and the dealer was apparently closing his booth. Everything was marked so "cheep" I had to bring them home :)

Another egg cup, this one has a scalloped edge on top - I love the pictures on it!

Thrifted Birdies