Major find!!

MonstersMummy

My day just keeps getting better!!
After selling my first item on amazon 8 mins into today, taking my loose change, which i'd counted up, to bank only to find I'd counted the 2ps wrong and had an extra £2, I then went into the charity bookshop only to find...

The dairy book of home management circa 1980 for £1!!!!

Its so inkeeping with old style its untrue!!!!
Its got everything in there, the chapters are listed as: Food and cookery, home maintenance, home improvement, gardening, home crafts, pet care, beuty and health, law and finance and family occaisions.

Its a shame the lottery isn't done today else I'd buy an extra ticket!!!!

Toxic_Lemon

Good finds!

Whatever you do, don't waste what you've saved on buying a Lottery ticket. :eek:

MonstersMummy

lol! I have learnt my lesson!

I did just have another thought though....Lloyds would have got my letter today about claiming back bank charges. I hope that'll be the 3rd thing and they just pay it straight away with no quibbling!!!

I can always dream!!!! :rolleyes:

Queenie

I love old books on cookery and housekeeping and such like! We have some great 2nd book shops around here and the charity shops are great for finding old books too, as you say!

Well done to you!! :T :T :T

Deedee73

My Mum used to have that book, we used to laugh because I am sure one the editors is Neil Tennant, he of "pet shop boys" fame, he used to edit books before his music carear took off! So make sure you keep it! you never know, one day it might be worth a few bob!

MonstersMummy

Yeah thats the one!! I didn't spot that!! He is the general editor.
I'm definitley going to keep it as it does say first edition in there and I make sure all firsts are kept!

lynzpower

hahaha thats the one Ive got as well!!!! briliatn

I salvaged this from oHs mums bag of stuff to go to the charity shop- well chuffed! she ewas also getting rid of margurite pattens 1000 fave recipes, which i also salvaged.

I was more chuffed with these than most of my Xmas presents. How OS is this, apparently they belonged to OHs gran, passed to me from MIL, and maybe Ill have them long enough to pass down to my grandkids :cool:

oakdale_minx

MonstersMummy wrote:

The dairy book of home management circa 1980 for £1!!!!

Its so inkeeping with old style its untrue!!!!
Its got everything in there, the chapters are listed as: Food and cookery, home maintenance, home improvement, gardening, home crafts, pet care, beuty and health, law and finance and family occaisions.

My Dad is a milkman and every year there is a Dairy cookbook or Dairy Diary etc. I know he used to get them every year, when I was a child, I used to spend hours looking at the cookbooks as a teenager........I wonder if my Mum and Dad have that book tucked away somewhere. Think I might send my Mum an email!

I got the new Dairy cookbook for Christmas and it is good. All 'homemade' type recipes from different regions of the UK. I'm planning on trying the Birmingham Bacon cake first which is a big bacon and cheese filled scone! Then there is a recipe that looks a bit like curd tart, but has ground rice. That is second on the list!

vivw_2

can get it on Amazon for 2.76....1p for book, 2.75 for postage

House_Elf_2

Panic over!! :eek: Just back from rummaging through the bookshelf! Have found my copy, which is also a first edition and edited by Neil Tennant! (I have not noticed that before). I thought I may have sent it to the charity shop when we had the kitchen renovated.

A prospective Mother in Law bought this for me when I was 18. I wasn't impressed at the time, but I realise its worth now. It has been very useful over the years and has outlasted the boyfriend by about 20 years!!

exlibris

Just had a rummage for my copy and was disappointed to not find Neil Tennant as Ed. Then I checked the date 1969 I can beat you lot by nearly 20yrs !!! It even tells you about new money, weights and measures (decimalissation to you and me)

I also have the Dairy Book of Home Cookery form 1968. It is my bible. The recipes are sensible and economical. It is so well used I had it re-bound about 15 years ago.

Don't know what the market value of them is but to me they are priceless!