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THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
Vintage cookbooks today's hottest collectibles
According to a recent Wall
Street Journal article, vin
tage cookbooks are one of
today’s hottest collectibles.
Lots of high-end restaurants
and bed and breakfast estab
lishments are searching
through cookbooks from
yesteryear to find new and
unusual recipes to add to
their menus.
Vintage cookbooks are like
history books in a way. The
kinds of recipes and styles of
cooking in their pages tell a
lot of what was going on in
that particular era. Earlier
cookbooks used items such
as lard in their recipes,
World War II recipes often
reflect the rationing of sugar
and other ingredients. You
May pleasant time with chores for the gardener
May is a very pleasant
month for us gardeners, as
the heat has not yet become
unbearable and the spring
coolness has wandered off to
pester someone else.
Herewith are a few things
that you may want to be
doing during this fair
month.
Plant summer-flowering
plants such as gladiolus,
canna lilies, caladiums and
dahlias. They all need a
warm soil in order to sprout
and grow properly.
Cut flowers will last
longer if they are cut late in
the day and immediately
placed in warm water. When
the water cools to room tem
perature, the flowers are
ready to use.
Pinch back annuals that
may have gotten leggy, such
as petunias and impatiens,
to encourage the formation
of new branches. Remove
old, faded flowers (dead
heads) often so that plants
Sun protection factors
I heard on the radio this
morning that teenagers are
really not concerned with sun
protection. They want to look
bronze and beautiful and the
danger of sun exposure is not
an issue to them. I was really
surprised at this general
statement. I have realized
that many of us do not under
stand how dangerous the sun
can be to our skin.
Sunscreens were invented
during the 19405. The prem
ise was to promote a tan
rather than avoiding it. There
were and continue to be so
many different sun products
that it can be very confusing.
The factor to consider is the
ultraviolet light we experience
daily. The Ultraviolet A (UVA)
and Ultraviolet B (UVB) are
invisible and can be harmful
to us. UVBs cause sunburn.
Just remember UVB = burn
ing. UVAs are a different
story. The effects of UVA
exposure may not show up for
years, but can be dangerous to
you. UVAs were once consid
ered simply an aging factor,
but now they have been seen
in skin cancers. So, UVAs =
aging.
It is important to educate
yourself about sun protection
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parking lot was still full and there was plenty of fun and plenty of fried fish. Shown here
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Jillinda Falen
Antiques
falen@alltel.net
can usually tell the era of
the cookbook by the clothing
style worn by the cooks in
the pictures or by the types
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Gardening
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will direct their energy to
producing flowers instead of
seeds.
Plant French marigolds
(the small-flowered type) to
help control nematodes in
the flower or vegetable gar
den. If planted close to your
plants, the marigold roots
will lure the troublesome
roundworms away from
them.
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Fashion Trends
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and respect the sun daily. To
assist you in understanding
the Sun Protection Factor
(SPF) and how it works, here
are a few easy tips. If your
sunscreen says SPF 15, that
allows you to stay in the sun
15 times longer than if you did
not apply sunscreen. If you
use a SPF 30, you can stay
longer in the sun, but you will
receive less color.
Any sun protection product
that has an SPF of 2 or higher
is considered sunscreen. If
your product has an SPF of 12
or higher, it contains a physi
cal sunblock. The chemicals
found in sunscreen are specif-
Fry that fish!
of recipes therein. Some
cookbooks from the 60’s
actually had recipes for mar
ijuana brownies!
Some people like to collect
cookbooks from a certain
era or a certain subject.
Cookbooks that are dedicat
ed to chocolate or from a
certain era such as the ’2os
or ’3os are popular with col
lectors. The top two col
lectible cookbooks are Joy of
Cooking and Betty
Crocker’s Picture Cookbook,
the latter of which I remem
ber receiving as a wedding
gift and am still using to this
day!
Many companies such as
Pillsbury, Jell-O, Frigidaire
and other now defunct com
Canna lilies provide a nice
border of color to the sum
mer flower garden, but they
need to be divided every
three or four years to
encourage flowering. When
their roots are crowded,
they cannot make vigorous
growth, and flower size and
quality will decrease. Set the
divided root sections five to
six inches deep and 15 inch
es apart.
Stake tomatoes soon if you
haven’t already done so. Try
a stake that reaches about
five feet above the ground.
Keep all side shoots, or suck
ers, pinched out until the
main stem reaches the top of
the stake. Then pinch the
tip out and let the suckers to
grow to shade the ripening
fruit.
Prune hedges so that they
will fill out at the bottom.
Do this by tapering them
inward from bottom to top.
This will allow light to reach
the lower branches, encour
ically designed to combine
with your own skin chemistry
to protect you from the harsh
rays of the sun.
Read the labels on your
products carefully!
Sunscreens do contain a com
bination of many different
chemical components.
Remember that these chemi
cals are designed to be
absorbed into your skin. They
can cause an allergic reaction
such as rashes and redness.
Stop using the product if this
occurs.
On the other hand, a sun
block will stay on the surface
of the skin and physically
block both the UVB and UVA
rays. Two of the most popular
ingredients are zinc oxide
(The one lifeguards use on
their noses) and titanium
dioxide. Titanium dixoide is
the most common sunblock
because it completely protects
the skin from UVB and UVA
Next week, I will share with
you the history of the suntan
and when it became popular.
We will also review what SPF
level is best for your skin type.
Have a great week! Feel free
to contact me at hhome
run(« friendlycity.net with any
questions you may have!
LIFESTYLE
panies produced their own
little cookbooks given away
as premiums to their cus
tomers.
When collecting vintage
cookbooks, condition, as
usual, is everything. This
can sometimes be hard
because good cookbooks
were used often and have
dog-eared pages and gravy
stains and the like. To me
this just adds character and
you can tell which recipes
were well loved. You can find
all kinds of good cookbooks
from $1 up to SSO in antique
shops, flea markets and yard
sales. The top price paid for
a cookbook was for the first
ever published cookbook,
American Cookery by
aging foliage to grow all the
way to the ground.
Watch for lacebugs on
your azaleas, pyracanthas,
and sycamores. These are
light brown piercing sucking
insects with gauzelike wings
that feed on the undersides
of leaves, causing tiny white
specks on the top surfaces.
Spray them with Sevin or
Orthene, being careful to
reach the undersides of the
leaves for good contact.
Early flowering shrubs
and trees such as spirea,
flowering peach, forsythia,
redbud, mock orange, azal-
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Amelia Simmons from 1796
which sold for SIO,OOO.
Since it is strawberry sea
son, here is a recipe for
shortcake from the 1917
Gold Medal Flour cookbook
as found. Cooks were
assumed to know how long
to bake it and what the ter
minology used meant back
then! Good luck and happy
collecting!
Short Cake #1
One pint flour, on-half tea
spoon salt, two teaspoons
baking powder, sifted
together four times, one
quarter cup butter rubbed
in, one egg beaten and
mixed with one scant cup
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quince can be pruned now
that they are finished
blooming. Try to reduce the
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milk. Spread on a biscuit tin
and bake in quick oven. Pull
apart after cooling five min
utes, spread with softened
butter and fill with fruit.
Please join us at Carrie
Lynn’s on Saturday, May 7
for our Mother’s Day/Grand
Opening Sale!
Jillinda Falen is the
owner of Carrie Lynn’s
Antiques in Perry. She has
been collecting and selling
antiques for over 21 years.
She is also an experienced
estate liquidation specialist.
You may contact her via
email at falen@alltel.net,
www.antiquesingeorgia.com
or through the Houston
Home Journal.
size of the plant without sac
rificing its natural shape
while removing all unsightly
foliage and branches.
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