I have only one sale on my list today! Fellow cookbookaholic, Beryl, who also handles estate sales is holding one in a very small, rural town about thirty minutes Northwest of my house. She had cookbooks listed, so you know I’m going to be there. And by gosh, I’m heading out early and will attempt to be first in line.
I show up about an hour early and I see a car already there. They have their brake lights on and then they move on. I guess they didn’t want to wait? That’s good for me, so I park and head up to the front door…and wait.
Another car parks and a lady walks up to the front porch. She asks when the sale begins and I tell her at 8am. She backs up and says she’ll return in a few minutes.
Time creeps by really, really slowly. And by the time Beryl opens up the door at 8am on the dot, I’m still the only one there for the sale. Looks like it’s gonna be a private sale, just for me!
Beryl points me to the kitchen where I find a bookshelf with some cookbooks. I don’t want to say they’ve been picked over, but…..it looks like there used to be more on those two shelves.
I grab the good of what’s left. Here’s what I found:
Cajun-Creole Cooking (Terry Thompson), Market to Market (The Service League of Hickory, NC), The Peach Sampler(compiled by Eliza Mears Horton) andLancaster County Amish Cookbook (collected and received by Sallie Y. Lapp and Sylvia Y. Miller). I’m most excited about the Market to Market cookbook because this one is a first printing. Other copies I’ve found have been third printing. Good score!
Sweet Tooth: Down-Home Meals & Blue Ribbon Desserts (Sarah Ann Spaugh), Waldensian Cookery (???) and Betty Crocker’s Cook Book for Boys and Girls.
A few more people have trickled in and I look around the rest of the house. I find a couple pieces of framed art and a nice candy dish on a pedestal. I dig through a box of old issues of Southern Living and grab a few.
It looks like I’m ready to check out but I take one more swing through the kitchen. I never went through the kitchen gadgets. I find a clear plastic circular thingamadoogie that claims to be a no-mess pie crust maker. Sold!
And what luck..I find the most awesome chips and dip tray ever. It even plays a festive tune!
This will come in handy next Cinco de Mayo!