I’m actually getting more comfortable about hitting estate sales during my Friday lunch hour. Of course, having everything picked over is the chance I take. On this Friday adventure I find a home that still has a ton of items on tables, the walls…everywhere. If this is what is picked over and left behind, I wonder what was here at 8am!
I walked into the kitchen hoping to find cookbooks and only see one on the countertop. It’s a classic Charlotte cookbook and I’m glad to find it:
Christ Church Cooks (no dust jacket) but still a nice find.
I walk around the kitchen and on the other side of the stove, I spy these two little interesting finds:
The Terrace Chef: Richard Rosen’s Festive Barbecue Recipes (in a box!) and Old Glouchester Sea Food Favorites (Frank E. Davis Fish Co./Glouchester, MA) They’re tee-tiny cookbooks!
Oh well…if that’s all that’s left then I think I’ve found some cute little interesting cookbooks. That Old Glouchester one looks old—but I don’t see a publication date.
I take some time and go through the rest of the house. In the back corner room, I find an office with a couple of bookshelves. Tucked in between novels were these two cookbooks:
From Manna To Mousse (Beth El Sisterhood/New London, CT) and Olde Favorites (National Council of Jewish Women/Peninsula Section-Evening Branch).
There are a ton of recipes that are stuffed into the back of the Manna to Mousse cookbook. Some are clipped from newspapers, Others are jotted down on yellow notepad paper like recipes for “Motzoh Pecan Brittle,” “Best Borscht” and “Apple Torte.” Plus, there’s a clipping from a Dear Abby column—a woman of few words is asking Abby for her 25th wedding anniversary tribute to her husband. I wonder if that writer was saying she had trouble finding words—or after 25 years, she was having trouble finding “nice” words?