Featured Finds Thread

Nice finds. Wowzer on the cake slicer!!!!

 

I stand corrected, mine that I received yesterday are from 2 from GM Motors, Riceland Rice (never heard of it) Met Life Ins., Taylor Wine & Arrow Liqueurs. Funny one of the titles Desserts Men Like. One of my husbands customers passed she was 100, her kids gave me them and 2 cookbooks from the 40’s. Life’s little treasures.

 

Pearls, I ate there a few times, my sister lives about 10 minutes from them, and it is amazing. I can kick my self, I found one of them and put it down & forgot to purchase it.

 

@NanaB
I can relate, I have picked up things in the past and then put them back down only to find out I made a huge mistake.

I have some of the booklets you mentioned here.

 

My worst was I was given a Julia Child first edition cookbook, signed for BD gift from my Grandmother & we were at a restaurant, went to help her in the ladies room & someone stole it. I felt horrible for my Grandmother, everyone who worked there was looking for it. It was never found, and unfortunately it was the last birthday I had with her. But she was my ultimate gift & tresure.

 

@NanaB
that is terrible.I am so sorry that happened.
I agree my maternal grandparents were a treasure to me. I wish I could go back and spend some time with them again.

 

I agree my grandparents were my world. Like my grandkids are to me. She found it through neighbors who had a vintage store. Vintage back then, wow that is odd to say considering what is vintage now.

 

I still have my copy, alas not signed. My grandmother didn't use cookbooks and thus couldn't pass her own on.

 

I have some Julia Child Books here. But my grandmother didn't collect cookbooks. All her recipes were in her head from her mother. My mother used to collect recipe cards where she wrote down the recipes or glue on recipes from newspapers or magazines on to index cards. I have her recipe box chock full of her clippings.

 

My Grandmother was like that, so when I took an interest, I would stand on a chair, and watch as I got older I would write everything she did. I have most of them, looking at them now in my childish writing, I would make notes ask Bubby what a schmidgeon or kleinschtickle is, phonetics could have a dictionary of its own! She cooked what she knew, from her Mama, they were from Russia & observant Jews. So as my kids as adults took to asking me, I have been gathering, hers & mine to combine in one book for each of them, with room for them to include their own. She never had a recipe box, nor did she ever own a cookbook just her head, so I am glad I did that way back then.

 

What a sweet story. So wonderful you have many recipes that go back generations. And your kids will have those same wonderful recipes to carry on the family meals.

 

I wish I had my dad's meatloaf recipe. I have his cucumber salad recipe, his hot dogs and beans recipe, and his strawberry shortcake recipe. My brother has his pastry recipes- my grandparents had a bakery in Philly. My dad's rye bead was exquisite, European-style. It had a crunchy crust but had the consistency of white bread inside.

 

Fresh from the oven rye bread... now that is delicious.

So interesting that your grandparents had a bakery.

I wanted my paternal grandmother's recipe for sweet and sour meatballs but due to some people on that side not getting along, I never got it. She and my grandfather were from Russia, now the Ukraine, so language was also an issue at time. However it helped me learn my Yiddish somewhat.

 

It is an Amazigh/Berber fibula, or clothing fastener, probably from Morocco. It would have had a twin and the two were connected by a chain.
They are often sold as single fibulae, and you've got a bargain.

 

Thank you ANY !

 

A bakery! That is awesome and love a good fresh rye! What I would do for old pastry recipes!

 

I have some old sweet & sour recipes I would be more than happy to share with you. Do you know the year or around it was from? I

also, if you have any memory of any specific ingredient I can check for a meatloaf recipe. I am always happy to share.

 

Thanks for your kind offer NanaB, but I know part of the ingredients was some sort of bread for binding, and I can no longer eat that anymore.
You are a doll for offering.

 

It’s tough knowing we can’t have normal bread anymore, something I really miss.(French baguettes) Some of the GF breads I have bought have sugar in it I can taste

 

Gluten-free breads are things to eat for survival, but I've never had any I'd classify as good. Some gluten-free cookies and brownies are another matter. (did someone say almond flour?!) My mother's father came here from Poland, officially still Russia then, in 1910. Got a factory job but couldn't take the noise, and then became a baker. It seems to be a theme!

I think part of that is women often weren't literate. You learned things by apprenticing to someone who knew how. Besides, if you got chased, information stored in your head couldn't be dropped in the confusion.