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Friday Giveaway: The Fairy Tales of Andersen and Brothers Grimm - contest closed

"The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales" and "The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales" both published by Chatham River Press, 1984. Bound in "genuine bonded leather" with gilt decoration and lettering. Each book is about 800 pages and contain black and white illustrations from various artists.

Contest now closed, back with a winner in a moment

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Friday Giveaway: The Fairy Tales of Andersen and Brothers Grimm

"The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales" and "The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales" both published by Chatham River Press, 1984. Bound in "genuine bonded leather" with gilt decoration and lettering. Each book is about 800 pages and contain black and white illustrations from various artists.

To enter the giveaway, just leave a comment below. You can also enter on Facebook , twitter or via email .

I'll gather up all the entries and select a winner at random tomorrow morning at 11:00 AM EST.

While you're waiting for the winner to be announced, you can check out my piece on found recipes over on The Huffington Post .

Good luck!

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Koshu

Recipe for whole wheat bread. It looks like this is a photocopy, as the left side is a bit cut off.

Whole Wheat Bread - Sesshin (Koshu)

1/2 cup honey or mild molasses
1/2 (cup?) melted butter or liquid shortening
1 teasp. salt
2 tables. yeast dissolved in 1/3 cup lukewarm water
3 cups milk scalded and cooled
Approx. 9 cups whole wheat flour

1. Scald and cool milk.
2. Stir molasses, shortening, salt, dissolved yeast into cooled milk
3. Stir in 1/2 flour and beat well
4. Cover and let sponge rise until light
5. Stir down and add remaining flour
6. Knead adding more flour if necessary, dough should be almost soft but not sticky
7. Let rise until doubled again
8. Turn our on floured board and flatten and let rest (couple of minutes)
9. Shape into two loaves and place in buttered bread pans
10. Let rise until doubled
11. Bake 375 degree oven for 35-40 min or until done

Optional - Add sesame seed at step #3, 1/4=1/3 cup per loaf. Substitute 1/2 graham flour - makes it taste more like cake

Found in "Ginko: A Practical Guide" by Georges Halpern. Published by Avery, 1998.


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First Prize

Three first prize ribbons, all from the summer of 1928.

Found in "The Quill" the 1929 yearbook of Lincoln High School, Jersey City, NJ.


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Miss Larson

Inscription, I believe it's from a teacher to one of her students:

June 1936

To Julia -

May you always win friends with your great brown eyes and may your curiosity never dull or get the better of you.

With love and best wishes for all possible success.

From,
Miss Larson

The inscription was in a terribly worn copy of "The Story of Delicia" by Gertude Newman. Published by Rand McNally, 1935.

In other news, " Handwritten Recipes " is on sale today!

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Friday Giveaway winners

Here are the five winners of "Handwritten Recipes" -

 Justin Allison (via email)
 Lindsay Babroski (via twitter)
 Julie Anne Heikel (via Facebook)
 Ana Moreno (via Facebook)
 Deb (of Singing Needle) via Forgotten Bookmarks.

I'll do my best to get in touch with each of you, but if you see this post, go ahead and send me an email:

fb@forgottenbookmarks.

For those of you who didn't win, there's still one day left in the Goodreads giveaway .

Friday Giveaway - Handwritten Recipes: A Bookseller's Collection of Curious and Wonderful Recipes Forgotten Between the Pages (contest closed)

In case you haven't heard, my second book will hit the shelves on Tuesday. I can't tell you how excited I am to see what you all think of it. It's a gorgeous book, filled with interesting recipes, great vintage cookbook cover art and some fantastic recipe testing by bloggers who know what they're doing in the kitchen.

To celebrate, I'm giving away five copies of "Handwritten Recipes." I'll keep the contest open until Monday morning to make sure everyone gets a chance to enter.

Here are some pictures to whet your appetite:






Contest now closed, winners will be announced shortly.

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Friday Giveaway - Handwritten Recipes: A Bookseller's Collection of Curious and Wonderful Recipes Forgotten Between the Pages

In case you haven't heard, my second book will hit the shelves on Tuesday. I can't tell you how excited I am to see what you all think of it. It's a gorgeous book, filled with interesting recipes, great vintage cookbook cover art and some fantastic recipe testing by bloggers who know what they're doing in the kitchen.

To celebrate, I'm giving away five copies of "Handwritten Recipes." I'll keep the contest open until Monday morning to make sure everyone gets a chance to enter.

Here are some pictures to whet your appetite:






To enter the giveaway, leave a comment below. You can also enter on Facebook , twitter , or via email .

I'll gather up all the entries and announce the five random winners on Monday morning, around 11:00 AM EST or so. There will five different winners, so if I happen to select you twice, I'll just select again.

Good luck!

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The Queen

Black and white photograph, no date written but there's a stamp on the reverse that may indicate 1981.

Someone decided to caption in (in a very strange hand) -

The queen b*tch and her ???? (my best guess is 'matron') trade brains

Found in "The Edith Wharton Omnibus" published by Doubleday, 1978.

EDIT: Yes, it probably says 'braids' and not 'brains,' but I'm leaving brains up because it's funnier.

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Texas Heat

Postcard sent from Lackland AFB, San Antonio TX. Dated August 12, unsure of the year, maybe 1947, it is partially obscured.

Hi Howard

I meant to write before but I have been in the hospital for 3 days. I got out last nite and boy it seems good.

It is hot out here. Every day so far it has been over 100 degrees. How is everything at the plant?

Pvt. "Leo"

Found in "Death Rides a Sorrel Horse" by A.B. Cunningham. Published by World Publishing, 1946.



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