However, today now I feel like I'm getting a cold. I can't quite yet tell whether it's just really bad allergies (though things like dust in antique stores generally does not bother me) or if I actually have a cold. At least I don't have to teach tomorrow, although I am going in to type up an exam and try to get a couple more chapters' worth done for PI.
Anyway. What I found:
This is a "syrup jug" (or so it was labeled; I think it's more likely a jug to hold honey, given the design.) I love things like this - it doesn't NEED to be in the shape of a beehive and with bees on it, but they add so much to it. I probably won't ever actually use this (Keeping honey or syrup in a jug like this out on the table would be an open invitation to ants), but I will use it as a mantel decoration and as a decorative piece.
I also found two more souvenir plates. I have a whole bunch of these decorating the walls in my bathroom. I've slowed down considerably on purchasing them because I am running out of space, but I couldn't resist the Colorado one (it's a different style than most of the ones you see - and I have several others done in this style. I would guess that a number of different companies made these, based on stylistic differences.) The other one is from the '64-'65 World's Fair. It was more expensive (Originally $20 but on sale at 40% off...I would not have paid $20 for it), but I like that it commemorates a specific event - and on the back it's stamped "Presented by United States Steel" - presumably, they underwrote that Unisphere there on the plate.
I'll get these up on the wall as soon as I can get more hangers. I thought I still had some but find I've run out.
I also found a couple more cookbooks for my collection.
The soup book especially - it was only $4 but has a wealth of interesting recipes in it - a number of which I want to try. She also includes some things that are more stews than soups - there is an authentic Sauerbraten recipe (including the several-days-marinating) and also one for Picadillo, which I always made as a taco filling, but her recipe has more liquid and is to be served over rice. There's also an interesting-looking cheese soup made with beef bouillon and Swiss cheese - a little bit different from the gloppier cheddar soup I'm used to.
Also, this is the kind of cookbook I love, where the writer is somewhat opinionated and gives a little description or discussion of most of the recipes before they are presented. Or bits of history: she notes that Pasta E Fagioli was promoted by Mayor LaGuardia of New York as a way of coping with WWII era meat rationing..."calling it in New Yorkese 'pasta fazooli'." Interesting, because many Americans I know, describing that dish, call it something similar.
The other cookbook is huge (and yes, it's THAT Pepperidge Farm, and no, except for a few stuffing recipes calling for its stuffing cubes, it does not push the company's products - in fact, most of the recipes are good solid from-scratch recipes). It's as much an autobiography of Margaret Rudkin as it is a cookbook. I bought it partly because it's filled with illustrations as well as the writing about her life growing up in the early 1900s in New York. (The illustrations are by Erik Blegvad - that is a very familiar name, I think he must have illustrated some of the books I read as a child - maybe some of Margery Sharp's "Mouse Prisoner's Aid Society" books?)
I also finished the binding on the quilt; I think I'll do a separate post about that tomorrow.
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Wonderful finds! Especially the honey jar and the Pepperidge Farm cookbook. I have seen that one (I think my mother may have had a copy), but never been fortunate enough to acquire one. Eric Blegvad is the artist who used to do the yearly calendar pages for Woman's Day—Mom still has some of them, I think. She used to cut them out and mount them on a little cardstock stand.
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