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"Modern Cookery Illustrated", by Lydia Chatterton, published by Odhams, 1940s. This lovely book seems to have been published during the 1940s as there are many references to food shortages, rations and replacing staple ingredients with alternatives. There are recipes using National Flour, the flour introduced in early 1940s, for health and food shortage reasons. Baking, meat, fish, poultry, preserving, making the most of tinned meat, lots of recipes for "mock" items and amongst the pages, a torn out article from a newspaper about making a Christmas Cake with rations. Book is in overall good condition for age, there is some wear to top of spine. Wonderful stuff! |
Two recipes leaflets for Fry's Cocoa, which seem to date from 1940s. Both of the leaflets are two pages with recipes on each side. One of them features a recipe for Chocolate Cake issued by the Ministry of Food which was set up during the War. References too to using dried egg, soya flour and dried milk, all used during rationing. Chocolate biscuits, flans, puddings, mock cream and sweets too. The leaflets have a mark to the top of each of them (presumably from storage) but have no tears and are a great addition to any 1940s recipe collection or Easter gift!
| There is nothing finer than sipping tea from fine china! This is a very pretty early 19th century Sunderland lustre cup and saucer set. Pretty pink floral lustre design on the inside and outside of the cup and saucer. Marked with the number 550 on the base of the saucer. Some fading to the lustre glaze on the rim of the cup and saucer but without any chips or cracks. |
| "Cooking Craft" by Elizabeth Nash, published by Pitmans 1937. "A Practical Handbook for students in training for cookery and for the homeworker". A wonderful guide to the preparation of food, recipes, storage and planning of family meals. It also has an acoompanying questionnaire at the back of the book for the reader to complete. Chapters on preserving, bottling, pastry making, soup making, the preparation of meat and fish, cake decorating, bread and cakes, methods of cooking and equipment. Book is in good condition for age, owner's name on inside endpaper. |
| 1944 Economy edition of "Farmhouse Fare" a collection of country recipes collected by The Farmers Weekly. This 160 page book was published during the war and bears the War Economy Standard on inside endpaper, it is a 4th edition. Featuring many wonderful traditional country recipes from readers with tips on how to replace difficult to find ingredients (because of the war) with others. How to stock your cupboard, cakes, bread, meat, poultry, game, Christmas Fare, preserves, wines eg rhubarb and balm wine, and recipes for household soap, elderflower ointment and farmhouse herb salve. This is wonderful stuff! In good condition for age too, previous owner's name written on front cover. SOLD |
| Lovely collection of vintage fluted pastry cutters in various sizes. Five cutters in total, the largest is circular and measures approx 18cm. The four others are oval in shape and range from approx 11cm to 20cm at their longest point. All are in good vintage condition, some tarnishing as to be expected, but no rust. The metal rim around the largest of the oval cutters seems to have come a little loose at one point only but this in now way hampers the use of the cutter. Perfect addition to a vintage kitchen, if you're not much of a pastry chef these would look lovely displayed en masse on a wall or in a frame. Time to get baking... |
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| Lovely vintage enamel pie dish in our favourite colours of buttercream and library green trim. Perfect for making sweet and savoury pies and for adding to a vintage style kitchen or dresser. The colours are so nostalgic. Tin is in good condition for age, just a tiny bit of wear to one edge and there is no sign of rust. Measures approx 17cm x 23 cm x 6cm. SOLD |
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| "Enquire Within Upon Everything", published by Herbert Jenkins, 1923. One of the most popular reference books published, as shown by the fact that this is the 113th edition published (1923). A must have guide for domestic reference. This book is crammed full of tips and hints - from cooking to cleaning, letter writing to legal information, socialising to sewing. Household and cookery hints, card games, pickling nasturtiums, remedies and laundry, illnesses and domestic pets - this is wonderful stuff. Book is in good condition for age and the perfect armchair companion. |
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| No need for your hands to get wet again! A lovely pair of vintage wooden laundry tongs to help on washing day, in good used condition. Even if we no longer have to resort to washboards and mangles, these would look lovely hanging on a kitchen or utility wall too. Measure approx 29cm (wooden part) and 31cm total length. |
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| Wonderful 1920s little recipe book "Royal Cook Book" produced by The Royal Baking Powder Co, New York. Delightful board covers with paper paste downs to front and back with gorgeous graphics. Inside the contents are clean and bright, just a very slight loosening at spine. The contents really do not look their age! Full of great recipes for cakes, puddings, pies, fish, meat, bread, preserving and canning. A wonderful recipe for Christmas Plum Pudding, Lady Goldenglow cake, Graham gems, candied sweet potatoes and foamy sauce! 49 pages of recipes for you to try. |
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| A trio of wartime cooking recipes produced in 1940s during a time of food rationing. "Good Eating, suggestions for wartime dishes", published by Hutchinson from a selection of Daily Telegraph readers' recipes, "Stork Margarine Cookery Service Main Meal Weekly Menus" booklet 1948 and "Stork Margarine Cookery Service Party Recipes" 1949. "Good Eating" is in very good condition for age and offers comprehensive help and recipes to wartime housekeeping and cookery. Recipes for dried egg and egg substitute, cakes, meat, fish and mock fish, cheese, vegetables and a wonderful selection of preserving, bottling and pickling. A useful chapter on the art of flavouring, using wartime food to add some flavour to your dishes. Both Stork leaflets are aimed at helping plan menus and prepare party foods using the little amount of ingredients available and not too many ration points. The Daily Telegraph book and Party recipes leaflet are in good condition for age, "The Main Meal Weekly Menus" does show signs of its age, with some foxing and the centre page is loose. Interesting and very collectable pieces of social history for your kitchen table. |
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| Vintage washdays were hard work but this little handmade vintage drawstring bag filled with vintage wooden pegs and washing line will bring a smile to your face! Very sweet floral patterned bag containing 18 assorted wooden pegs for your washing and a vintage washing line, complete with metal rings at each end to attach it. Line measures about 9feet in length. The floral fabric of the bag is very pretty but it does have a couple of little rust stains on one side which are hardly noticeable amongst the pattern. Perfect addition to your kitchen or utility room. SOLD |
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| Lovely pair of vintage wooden butter pats for your kitchen. If you are not willing to give patting your butter a go, these would look great hanging on your kitchen wall or on a dresser shelf. In good condition for age too. |
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| A lovely set of vintage "Crinoline Lady" tea plates. Six in total, perfect for afternoon tea! Produced by The Staffs Teaset Co, Plex St Pottery. This pottery produced work from 1926-1960. These gorgeous plates are in excellent condition for their age c1940s, the colours are lovely and bright too, as is the gold trim to rim. The design is called "Pinkie" which must, we think, reflect the colour of the crinoline dress. More tea anyone... |
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| Gorgeous vintage enamel duck egg blue enamel casserole dish with lid and handle. This casserole is in the loveliest shade of pale blue and in good condition for age too. There are just a few marks to lid top and inside there are some stains to pot base but these are not rust stains although they look like it in the photo, they are just smooth stains from previous use which may come out with more scrubbing! Measures approx 28cm x 20cm x 8cm. This would look lovely on kitchen shelves or in your oven housing the perfect winter casserole.... |
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| "May Byron's Pot Luck", "Over A Thousand Recipes From Old Family M.S Books', published by Hodder & Stoughton, 5th edition 1922. Also called "The British Home Cookery Book". This is a wonderful book full to bursting with old fashioned family recipes passed from mother to daughter over the generations, collected by the editor and published in this volume. Recipes for meat, fowl and game, soups, salads, cheese dishes, , fish, vegetables and vegetarian dishes, cakes, pickles, jams and jellies, puddings, cakes, sauces, eggs, beverages and recipes for invalids. As the blurb says "old=fashioned ... but choicely good!". In good condition for age too, just slight foxing to beginning pages. |
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| Not only is this a gorgeous vintage jelly mould, but it's a large gorgeous vintage jelly mould, holding 1˝ pints of your jelly, enough for everyone to share. Lovely heavy glass mould in very pretty shape and design. Stands approx 12cm tall and 19cm at base. |
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| Perfect for parites, a wonderfully traditional vintage aluminium jelly mould in good condition. This mould will hold 2 pints of your favourite jelly so there's lashings of jelly all round! We love the shape of this one. Stands approx 11cm high without a wobble... SOLD |
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| Lovely retro orange enamel coffee pot, just perfect for when you fancy a cuppa or two. Wonderful bright colour, that would make any kitchen table look cheery! 1960s/70s coffe pot is in overall good condition for age. Measures approx 23cm high. Has "Made In Poland" stamp on base. A touch of retro sunshine at coffee time. |
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| Lovely little retro enamel casserole dish in gorgeous shade of duck egg blue with a dark blue trim to top of dish. This 1960s/70s dish is in very good condition for age. Has stamp of "Sturdy Pines, Made in China" to base. Perfect for camping, caravans, glamping or sitting on your kitchen shelves. Measures approx 17cm across and 7cm high. |
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| Lovely opaque blue frosted tumbler glass produced to commemorate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. The glass has a transfer design on front of the Queen's Coat Of Arms. Lovely and bright and in overall good condition. Very slight wear to the gold rim at top. Stands approx 13cm tall. |
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| Wonderful vintage Green's Sponge Mixture Sandwich cake tin. With lovley graphics to base of the tin, this really is a treasure. Green's were and still are one of the foremost cake mixture producers and this is a great piece of kitchenalia for any collection. If you're not much of a cake baker, then this would look good in any vintage kitchen on a shelf or dresser top. Measures approx 21cm. |
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| Lovely cup and saucer produced by Wood's Ware in Jasmine. These were produced during the war and directly afterwards and were used as utility crockery. Very popular at the time and very collectable now. This cup and saucer is in a beautiful butter yellow. Offered in very good condition. Cup measures approx 7.5cm high and 9cm across. Very pretty. |
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| Wonderful boxed set of six vintage shot glasses in very good condition for age. These lovely glasses were produced by Crown Decor and have a charming image of a heather and thistle bouquet tied with tartan ribbon to the front of each glass. The glasses have been 'permanently fired with 22 carat gold rims'. Some very slight wear to rim on glasses. Original box has lovely image to lid too. Perfect vintage souvenir of Scotland. Cheers or Slainte! |
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| This lovely black and white poster was originally produced in 1930s/1940s as a classroom poster. One of a series used in classrooms at that time produced by Macmillans. This would be perfect for a kitchen/scullery/utility room wall, very striking in monochrome. Wonderful graphics of household utensils entitled "Beauty In The Home - Pots, Kettles and Pans". The poster is in very good condition for age - there are three holes down the left hand side of poster on border which were made to keep poster in a file. However, these would not notice if the poster was mounted and framed. Lovely! |
| Lovely retro orange enamel teapot, just perfect for when you fancy a cuppa or two. Wonderful bright colour, that would make any kitchen table look cheery! This one started its life on a narrowboat and we suspect has held many a cup of tea in its time! Teapot is in overall good condition for age, a little "bubble" to side of lid only. Measures approx 17cm high. SOLD |
| Six lovely vintage wooden clothes pegs that would look great in your kitchen or utility room. These are the kind made of pieces of split wood, held together by strips of tin can with a nail and were traditionally sold door to door by travellers. In overall good condition for age. |
| "Labour Saving Hints and Idea For The Home", published by George Routledge & Sons, this edition dated 1928. A wonderful book full of vintage handy household hints for the smooth running of your home. Book is in overall good condition for age. the board covers are slightly grubby but the contents are good and free from inscription. Beauty tips for the housewife, ironing and mangling, washing and cookery tips. A real gem of vintage how to's. Along with the book there is a pair of wooden butter pats, a very old Bluing paddle to help keep those whites white (some staining to label of paddle) and a pair of old laundry tongs that have been painted which would look good on display on the kitchen or utility room wall. |
| "Recipe Book Of Atora - The Good Beef Suet", 1931. Lovely little booklet produced by manufacturers of Atora, Full of traditional recipes for puddings, pies and dumplings. Steamed, baked and sauces. A real nostalgic culinary trip back to the nursery - Children's Pudding, Roly-Poly Pudding, Granny's Pudding etc. So very much of its time - comfort food at its best - 1930s style! Booklet is in good condition for age, contents tight, cover bright and no tears. Some foxing to pages due to age. 5 pages of puddings and more... SOLD |
| Lovely old Bunny egg cup to put a little hop into your breakfast boiled egg. Perfect for Easter too! In good condition for age, just a bit of nibbling to base on its front paw (please see photo). Hop skippity jump... |
| Delightful country cottage hand embroidered tea cosy c1930s/1940s. The perfect country cottage with flowers in the garden and climbing up the side of the house. A stable door, redbrick roof and chimney. This one is insulated too to keep your cuppa extra warm! Lovely hand made cosy with padded insert for extra warmth. Wonderfully bright colour threads and lovely stitches combine to make this a truly nostalgic addition to your kitchen table. The cosy is only decorated to one side, the back is plain with just stitches to the back of chimney pot. Stiched on natural linen which is in good condition, some slight staining to rear of cosy which might come out with a further gentle wash. This has been freshly laundered. Measures approx 30cm x 21cm. Time for a cuppa? SOLD |
| Lovely vintage enamel flour bin in our favourite colour combination - clotted cream and grassy green! So evocative of its time too. The flour bin is offered in good condition for age there are a few tarnished and patches of wear to base, handle and lid top but these are small and do not detract from its charm (please see photos). The bin measures approx 18cm high x 25cm from one tip of handle to the other. The perfect accessory for the vintage kitchen. SOLD |
| Perfect for your party table, no celebration is complete without a wobble! Lovely old glass jelly mould, pint size. Let them wobble and shine on your table or display them on your shelves, they are lovely! |
| Very pretty vintage crochet Daisy Doily. A circle of yellow daisies surround a centre daisy and gorgeous jade green band. Perfect for those summer tea parties! In lovely vintage condition. |
| A lovely set of six 1950's rose patterned china tea cups and saucers. All in excellent condition. Just add a few little iced cakes and you have a party! |
| Both practical and charming, this lovely vintae china dog string holder is designed to hang on the wall. Made by Arthur Wood Potteries and marked on the back with the words 'Made in England' and the serial number 4788. Approx 12 x 10 cm. The condition overall is good, however there is a small hairline crack on the back of the holder and some crazing to the glaze. These small flaws are not detrimental to the charm of this piece. This lovely pooch comes with a new ball of string and a useful pair of new scissors too. |
| Lovely green handled vintage wooden rolling pin. 44cm length from one end of handle to the other. Lovely wooden pin with some signs of ageing to paint on handles only and some marking to wooden pin. Perfect for a vintage kitchen. |
| Lovely red vintage wooden rolling pin. 46cm length from one end of handle to the other. Heavy wooden pin with some signs of ageing to handles only. Perfect for a vintage kitchen. |
| Nostalgic baking, the perfect bowl for mixing cakes - "The Gripstand" mixing bowl by T G Green. In good condition. Has three little marks on inside of bowl from tripod firing marks. Bowl measures approx 26cm. Time to get stirring. |
