Home Grown

I think I'll skip the creamed tuna recipe too.

Angie! Knowing you like these types of books as much as I do, I'm so glad you have this one! I'm not even jealous that yours is an original edition. :) Yours looks to be in slightly better condition than mine, too.

I had to grab mine and compare. Mine doesn't have the dedication but it does have the little poems at the beginning of each month. The illustration on page 11 in mine is different -- Bettina is wearing an early 40s-style suit and we can only see Bob from behind. The text and recipes are exactly the same, except that she's just wearing a "trim percale apron" and the tuna in my book calls for "1 T-pimiento cut fine".

I love this book so much. My parents gave it to me for my birthday one year. They like to browse through antique stores and whenever they come across one of these old books that they don't think I have, they buy it for me. How lucky am I?! This particular book had a bunch of recipes inside the back cover that had been snipped from newspapers and magazines. One of them is dated 1931 but the other ones don't have dates. There's an advertisement for Ivory Snow, regular package 10 cents!

I should mention that I also collect women's magazines from the WWII era and earlier. My oldest are some Ladies' Home Journals from the late 1800s. I think they're reprints but I don't care!

Angie, my mom had some old cookbooks that you would have loved! Too bad I didn't "know" you then. Uh-oh, is Steven crawling? Now the easy days are over!