I wasn't going to post again until after Thanksgiving, as this one just moves my holiday wishes down a notch, but in keeping with this cooking weekend, it should fit in quite nicely. I picked up a vintage cookbook for all of 25 cents at the thrift shop the other day...a sneaky way of being able to upload a photo of it on the flickr group Vintage Cookbooks. I had no intention of even looking inside, but of course, I did. Curiosity got the better of me. The date on the cover didn't seem to mesh with its appearance...very well-thumbed and looking much older than 1972. It was compiled by the Women's Guild of Scotstoun East Church in Glasgow, Scotland. The first recipe caught my attention (and here's where it ties into Thanksgiving!).
AN UNFAILING RECIPE
Take 12 fine full grown months and prepare as follows:
Into each put 12 parts FAITH, 11 parts PATIENCE, 10 parts IMAGINATION, 9 parts SINCERITY, 8 parts CHEERFULNESS, 7 parts COURAGE, 6 parts UNDERSTANDING, 5 parts LOYALTY, 4 parts HOPE, 3 parts SACRIFICE, 2 parts PRAYER, 1 well-selected RESOLUTION * and a whole world of wonderful blogging women!
Serve with THANKFULNESS, QUIETNESS, and UNSELFISHNESS and you will enjoy a successful and satisfying year. by Mrs. M. J. Johnson
One recipe is titled MANSE FAVOURITE and here's two more of my favourites:
BRANDY FLIP
3 eggs (keep in shells), 1 large tin Carnation Milk, 1/2 pound castor sugar, 1 gill (whatever that means) of brandy and 3 lemons.
Squeeze lemons and in juice soak eggs in shells for 3 days and keep turning. After 3 days when shells have disappeared, beat, then add sugar, brandy and tin of milk. Beat again, not too hard. Strain and put into bottles. A very good pick me up. *With all that sugar and brandy, I should think so!
HELP YOUR RHEUMATISM *seriously, that's the name of the recipe!
3 oranges, 3 lemons, 3 grapefruit, 2 oz. epsom salts and 2 oz. cream of tartar
Squeeze juice of fruit. Mince skins and pulp. Soak overnight in 2 pints of water. Strain, then add cream of tartar and epsom salts and 1 pint of boiling water. Bottle and take one wineglassful every morning for six months. Shake gently before using.
Nothing staid about this group of women...what with all that bottling and filling of wine glasses, I bet they had a fine old time at Guild meetings!
I have no use for the book, although it was fodder for a fun post. If anyone wants it, let me know and I'll send it along to you. If more than one person wants it, I'm going to do what Marianne did with her recipe cards and draw from a bowl (or my old straw gardening hat), but remember...it is a wee bit on the used side of vintage!
