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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 586866" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>I'd love to see a cook book like that! It's probably long gone but I once found a World War II era cook book that had belonged to my grandmother ... not that you'd really want to try out most of the recipes. This was the days of rationing and it's full of tips on skimping and substitutions on things that we'd think nothing of just picking up in the grocery store today. Really interesting though.</p><p></p><p>I would have been thrilled just to find that magazine! I LOVE to look at old things like that! One of my most prized possessions is an Oct. 1904 edition of Cosmopolitan magazine! Believe it or not, back then it was more like Newsweek, concentrated on current events, news, and pictures - nothing like todays Cosmo. The articles are fun to read but the real attraction is the ads. They are just fascinating! You could buy whole houses for a few thousand dollars, shipped to you by rail! And long before the food and drug acts, you could buy patent medicines to "cure" everything from baldness to blindness to cancer. Asparagus flavor Jello was a healthful thing to feed your children. And the clothing ads! OMG! My favorite thing was a set of long cloth pads that gentlemen could put down the inside of their pants legs! No, NOT what you're thinking! Back then a lot of people got rickets as children and the resulting bow-legs were a sign of poverty and poor diet. So these padded things were supposed to give the appearance of straight legs. Who knew that such things even existed!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 586866, member: 1883"] I'd love to see a cook book like that! It's probably long gone but I once found a World War II era cook book that had belonged to my grandmother ... not that you'd really want to try out most of the recipes. This was the days of rationing and it's full of tips on skimping and substitutions on things that we'd think nothing of just picking up in the grocery store today. Really interesting though. I would have been thrilled just to find that magazine! I LOVE to look at old things like that! One of my most prized possessions is an Oct. 1904 edition of Cosmopolitan magazine! Believe it or not, back then it was more like Newsweek, concentrated on current events, news, and pictures - nothing like todays Cosmo. The articles are fun to read but the real attraction is the ads. They are just fascinating! You could buy whole houses for a few thousand dollars, shipped to you by rail! And long before the food and drug acts, you could buy patent medicines to "cure" everything from baldness to blindness to cancer. Asparagus flavor Jello was a healthful thing to feed your children. And the clothing ads! OMG! My favorite thing was a set of long cloth pads that gentlemen could put down the inside of their pants legs! No, NOT what you're thinking! Back then a lot of people got rickets as children and the resulting bow-legs were a sign of poverty and poor diet. So these padded things were supposed to give the appearance of straight legs. Who knew that such things even existed! [/QUOTE]
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