I love cook books - Here are some fun ones I just added to my Kitchen

How to ice a cake and icing art are two little books that are just filled with lovely suggestions and ways to decorate a cake.

It looks like they are from the 1940-50s and the costs were 3pence each :o) if only that was so today.

They were produced by Tala and both books were by Anne Anson she must have truly loved the art of icing cakes as she says in one of the books "icing is the crowning touch" on a cake.

I have fallen in love with her net designs and she said the are not the most difficult but are certainly very fascinating styles to do.......Well I just love them.

Teh victorian looking wedding cake in the second book with its huge ferns coming from the top and the doves and other decorations in this book are stunning to say the least.

This cookery for parties is just lovely and being from the publisher of the "The Australian Women's Weekly" book in approx 1940.

This book is filled with prize recipes from a competition with prizes of 3000 pounds given out WOW! lets go in and have a look............

Mrs Robbie from Hobart won 1000 pounds for her entry of a plan for a twenty first birthday party for thirty guests.

Buffet dinner.

Consomme Clair

Melba Toast

Lobster Parisienne & Salda Garden

Assorted Savory Patties with Whitebait, corn, brain & walnut filling

Chicken a La King in Harlequin Noodle ring

Saratoga Potaoes

Snow Surprise

Maypole Birthday Cake

Fruit cup...........................................................................Coffee

Now that sounds wonderful no wonder she won the first prize

This is a wonderful new book called "Best of both worlds" American cooking in Australia. It has some fantastic idears in this book and I just love the fact that I can make a traditional American recipe using Aussie ingredience, Like this very yummy Pumpkin pie or Substitute Graham cracker crust Recipe. I will have a lot of fun with this book. This book is wonderful, I have a soft heart for all this Amish and this lovely book fills my ehart with joy and my kitchen with the most beautiful smells you could imagine.

Chestnut stuffing for Poultry

corn relish

Apple pudding

Pennsylvania Dutche rice pudding

fruit topped coffee cake

Dutch cakes.

Just to mention a few!

Gosh reading cooking books especially the older ones is great fun but cooking from them brings back memories of moments in my grandmothers kitchen or coming home from school to the smells that filled my mothers kitchen on a winter night.

I hope you have gone back to your memories of family kitchens when you read this post and have enjoyed the moment.

This is my Thursday - with friends