Digging For Treasures!

When we moved Mother into assisted living, we had to vacate her house—that was 6 years ago.  She is 103 now and non verbal, so I can’t ask her any questions about items we removed from her house.  I’m really sorry I didn’t talk to her earlier.  We bundled up many things and carried to our location, six hours from her Assisted Living Facility- I’ve not taken much time to look into what we have until recently

This is a well worn book!  Don’t know that it was used often—mother was never a great cook—only decent.  She did feed us kids and our father.  Can’t complain too much. 

Her meal plan was simple—Saturday nights we had bbq hamburgers that she cooked on stove.  Meat loaf!! Oh my! Lots of meat loaf!  And to this day I will not eat or make meat loaf!  And Spam!  Oh yes, lots of spam and potted meat sandwiches! 

This was written note at the top “my first cookbook given by Richard, July, 1940”. Richard is my father given at their wedding time!  What a gift for a new groom to give his new wife!?? Wonder what she thought when it was gifted??

She had a a marker between these pages—it’s pie section.  Don’t remember her making pies—hm! 

Found this little book slipped between other cookbooks—interesting to read but nothing here to really cook.

Here are her other cookbooks on my top shelf of bookcase and one book of poetry—surprised to find that among her sparse number of books.  She had many of those Reader Digest Condensed books, which we gave to library book resale shop. 

Afraid I took too much time digging through these treasures—nothing like going down a rabbit hole to get out of housework!