Wednesday, September 23, 2009

VINTAGE THINGIES THURSDAY: Vintage Cookbook....sweet!

Welcome to this weeks segment of Vintage Thingies Thursday. Thursday is the day to showcase your vintage treasures and to share your special things with everyone. If you are visiting and would like to join us, please do. It is very easy!
To participate, all you have to do is:

* * * * * * * Please everyone, follow these guidelines!

(1) do a post about something vintage.
(2) Visit all the participates and leave a comment.
(3) Link in with the link at the bottom of this post, please use a perma-link to link in with, that way, anyone can refer back to your post if they can not get to it on Thursday.
(4) Be sure to refer back to my blog so everyone can see who is participating today, and if you like include the VTT button in your post. Please be sure to have your post up before linking in.

This week, I want to share a cookbook I found at an estate sale a few weeks ago. I love vintage cookbooks. This one was nestled among lots of old books, none being cookbooks, so I was really excited to spot this one....I had to have it.....for more than one reason....


The title alone intrigued me, look at the cute little cover. The front cover has come detached from the book, I plan to try and find someplace locally that can rebind the cover to the book. I really love this little cookbook. But to me, the magic was when I opened up the book......

This is the inscription inside the front cover of the book. Harvey, you made my heart melt a bit at reading the sweet words written for your wife long ago. I CAN NOT imagine the family would not have kept this....but it has a wonderful home in my kitchen, and I love this book......

The newspaper clippings were there when I purchased it, I am sure holding the place of wonderful recipes that were either tried out or waiting to test, of course, I looked at all of these pages first thing....

There were two full pages for ice cream toppings......so sweet were the pages....


Now, here is a recipe for the upcoming holidays. It is so interesting to me to read the ingredients on recipes printed long ago compared to recipes in a more modern book.


Here is a good one...Parker House Rolls.....YUMMY!


There is even a whole section dedicated to feeding the baby..... Please notice every infant should receive Cod Liver oil..... well, I missed that part when my two were infants...maybe that is what is wrong with them today.....joking of course....they are great and survived my lack of mothering skills.......only the strong survive, I tell ya'.

I especially thought this was interesting and really pretty informative...I usually try and guess, but here the work is done for you.....no problems now knowing how much to serve if you are cooking for 40 people!

Yes, I have a thing for vintage cookbooks, and this one is really a new favorite of mine....I am just beginning to discover all the wonderful recipes inside the books covers.

Have a great week everyone.....

51 comments:

  1. What a treasure! Especially Harvey's inscription and the marked pages. I, too really appreciate the provisions list. I saved it to my hard drive! I have a cookbook this week, too.

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  2. what a treasure indeed!!..LUCKY you..i LOVE it!!

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  3. Hi Suzanne,

    What a treasure indeed! The inscription is priceless! I would have loved to have been there when he presented her with it. Thanks for sharing it with us.

    Debbie

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  4. That inscription is about the sweetest thing I've ever seen! I love old cookbooks too. The recipes can make for some really interesting reading, like you have shown. Such a shame though, that this wasn't passed down through that family, but I can tell that you will treasure it!
    Happy VTT!

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  5. what a sweet letter to his wife! That book would not have left my house that's for sure...not because I am a cook...but a sentimental fool!
    great find friend! I am linking in today too...not as good as yours tho I'm afraid!

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  6. What a great find! I remember that my grandmother had this cookbook as well. I wonder what happened to it after she passed away.

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  7. Hi Suzanne,

    This is my first time visiting your blog. What fun! I loved your story about the cookbook--how sweet--I think I would have cried when I saw the inscription!

    Have a wonderful day,
    Debbykay @ Rose Cottage Gardens and Farm

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  8. Love the color of those old pages--I can almost smell them!

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  9. I do believe you hit the jackpot with this find. Since you love cookbooks and know how to use them, you found yourself a real winner.

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  10. OHHHH, I want it!!!! That is so precious and sooo perfect for VTT! I have books this week, too, but nothing compared to that sweet cookbook!

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  11. I have a thing for the vintage cookbooks too! I have one of my grandma's. I look for the most greasy pages...those were her favorite and best recipes!

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  12. What a treasure! Vintage books and magazines are such great storytellers. Some stuff is still tried and true while others.....cod liver oil. Oy!

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  13. Hi Suzanne, My VTT post is all about turquoise..Love it! That cookbook is wonderful. Thank you for giving it a good home. I found a vintage cookbook years ago in Pennsylvania called "Food that really Schmecks" which is Pennsylvania Dutch for Lip-smackin' good! It must be packed away somewhere. Must see if I can find it.
    Pam

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  14. Hi again,
    I'm not seeing Mr. Linky...am I missing something? Please advise.
    Pam

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  15. I like the little illustration on the ice cream sauce page. It is strange that the cookie recipe is just named Christmas Cookies--like there is just one kind.

    The Linky isn't working now, though it was there when I started my post...

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  16. Harvey's inscription was sweet, but his handwriting really impressed me. That is a lost art around here. My husband and I rarely take pen to hand.

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  17. Oh what a lovely tribute to this wife, from her DH. This is indeed a treasure, though the recipes may be a little out of date!

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  18. What a very precious cookbook. So glad that you were able to rescue it.

    Jocelyn
    http://justalittlesouthernhospitality.blogspot.com/

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  19. What a fabulous cookbook. The old books are a fun read...so many changes! Glad it found a new life.

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  20. How wonderful to have the vintage cookbook, but even more special is the inscription inside the book. It is sad that the family did not hold on to it. Now it has a forever home with you. It will be your treasure now.

    Iris

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  21. What year is your cookbook? I know there are several editions and I have one myself. Have been thinking of thinning out my cookbooks recently but that one would definitely be a keeper. When I was growing up in Jamaica we were given cod liver oil capsules daily and sometimes from a spoon (yuck!) My grandmother swore by them. Recently my mother asked if I was giving my son the capsules. I bought some. Now the trick is getting him to take them. He's fourteen and you know what that's like...

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  22. What a great cookbook. I love that inscription. I have a couple of old ones, but that one really has character. The recipes are fun to read. Enjoy your great find! Thanks for hosting this Vintage thingy thursday. So fun! I will post one tomorrow.

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  23. Old vintage cookbooks are such a wonderful way to learn about a certain time in the past. They show us another way of life where breast feeding was an accepted practice and cod liver oil was given for everything.
    Love the inscription from her husband and the date. Make the book so personal.

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  24. The inscription is one of the sweetest things I have read for a while, makes the book even more valuable. The Christmas cookies sound a lot like our brown Christmas cookies.
    What a coincidence, I'm showing a book which needs repair as well.

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  25. What a wonderful treasure...love the inscription and I agree, how could the family give it up! I've heard of this cookbook but had never seen one-thanks for the peak!

    Love that for 40 people you need 12lbs. of chicken salad but only 5 lbs. of tuna or salmon salad! (But what is bread salad?)

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  26. What a great find! Very nice vintage thingie today!

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  27. Such a fun and personal piece with the inscription inside. Vintage cookbooks pull me in. I have a collection so I completely understand how you feel about this one.
    Thanks for sharing!
    Living it up at Lakewood,
    Cindy

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  28. What a sweetheart Harvey was. I am so glad you found it and cherish it. Harvey had nice handwriting!

    It truly is a beautiful book and a sweet one for your collection.

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  29. Suzanne - Thanks for the great idea. That is something that I really will look into (I'm referencing the VTT door that was on my Dad's childhood home)...thanks again for letting us show our vintage treasures every week.
    Jane

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  30. I love old cookbooks! That chocolate marshmallow sauce sounds heavenly!

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  31. That's one sweet cookbook you found.
    A real shame the family didn't hold on to it as a memento, but I am happy you enjoy it so much. :)

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  32. What a wonderful cookbook for your collection. Harvey definately was a sweetheart, was't he? The title an cover were intriguing! Thanks for shareing.
    Dawn

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  33. This is an amazing piece! I love it!!!!

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  34. I love EVERYTHING about this post!!!

    The cookbook look so loved, and the note in the fly cover - - - priceless!!!

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  35. Fabulous cookbook. Fabulous graphics. Lucky you. I am participating in your blog party this week for the first time.

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  36. It killed me to do so - but I passed up on a small, falling apart cookbook last week. What really killed me is that it was filled with scraps of paper with handwritten recipes on them! But I just HAD to have a complete set of vintage cannisters....couldnt get them both...

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  37. Oh my what a treasure indeed! What a neat little cookbook!

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  38. Oh I love these old cookbooks and I think they are precious. I love to go to rummage sales and find them. Even though they are not all applicable to my life? Doesnt matter a bit to me... I still love them and find it hard to part with one once I get it

    Tracy

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  39. Oh so sweet and lovely! What an amazing find, I may send this post to my husband for inspiration.

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  40. Suzanne!
    hello from Denver..so glad you found me again!!
    Mountain Mermaid (http:mermaidlouie.blogspot.com)
    am so delighted for your vintage cookbook discovery..
    especially the inscription..
    priceless!
    my dad's name was HARVEY!~~
    if you check my blog, and look at the a-z posting for the letter P, you'll find a photo of my dad and mom..P was for Parents!
    thanks again..
    and please visit often!
    ♥hugs and smiles!

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  41. Harvey's wife surely knew the way to his heart! Wonderful cookbook, Suzanne! Some of my favorite recipes come from that era when my mom was a young wife....they're still as good today as they were then!
    Cheers!

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  42. I love old cookbooks--I thought I was about to snag an old Better Homes & Garden cookbook but the asking price was steeeeep, so I passed. I love looking at the recipes, too--they always seem to be delicious, basic food made from "scratch", without the complicated ingredients a lot of more modern recipes contain.

    Good find!

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  43. I love your cookbook post. What a sweet Harvey!! His wife was very lucky, I think. Even though this "treasure" didn't go to his family, I think sometimes they go to the ones who will "treasure" them!! I think you will.

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  44. Wonderful old cook book. They are hard to find.

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  45. So neat! I like the provisions for 40 guests! That 'takes the cake', and THEN some! Have a great weekend!

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  46. I love to collect vintage cookbooks, but this one is a real treasure ... especially with the inscription! I wonder if she had been wanting the book and Harvey got it for her ...

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  47. What a fun post! I am surprised the descendants of Harvey and his wife did not keep this book. I would have if I knew about something like that in my family.

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  48. This book is amazing! And I think I am in love with Harvey! :) Makes me want to hit the used book stores in search of a great old book!

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Sometimes someone says something really small, and it's like it fits into this empty space in your heart!

Thank you for stopping by and leaving your thoughts here, they really mean a lot to me!

Suzanne

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