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Vintage SUNBEAM TESTER Model T-35219 for 4 Appliances! - (eBay item 290181454480 end time Nov-20-07 19:16:35 PST) This is Sunbeam Tester T-35219 from Elematic Equipment Corp., Chicago, Illinois. Model T-35219, T/C IC, Serial No. 3296.
The top left switch toggles between 50 or 110 Volts. The switch on the top right toggles between Heat Test or Cold Test.
The appliances it was built to test were an ironmaster, coffeemaker, waffle baker, or cooker and fryer. I. C. Couple Res.=2.743 Ohms. The meter range is 70 to 700. The plug looks a little funky.
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Vintage SKILL BINGO Put Steel Balls in Rows, Scoreboard - (eBay item 290181434303 end time Nov-20-07 19:15:00 PST) This is a different wrinkle on Bingo. The box lid says, "Skill Bingo, A New Fascinating Game." It is "Copyright 1938 Bar-Zim Co., Jersey City, N.J. Made in U.S.A." The lid is covered in red paper with an alligator texture.
Inside the lid are the playing rules. The winner is whoever reaches 1000 points first by getting five balls in a row four different ways. A scorekeeper tracks each player's progress on the long green scoreboard.
There are eight metal balls in the blue box, five in the red box and seven in the yellow box. There are three wooden game pieces for the green scoreboard and might have been more when new.
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Vintage HERBRAND NO. 188 TOOL Old Weird Claw Pliers! - (eBay item 290181403192 end time Nov-20-07 19:00:00 PST) This is a strange tool to me. Would you call them pliers? They're marked, "Herbrand No. 188, Made in U.S.A."
They're made of a silvery metal and have much patina. Do you know what this tool is for?
Do you want this old mystery tool?
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Vintage Metal COOKIE CUTTERS in Box For Party Occasions - (eBay item 290181394824 end time Nov-20-07 18:45:00 PST) This set of cookie cutters looks like it came out in the forties. The lid says, "Cookie Cutters made of Metal For All Party Occasions." They seem to be made of tin.
There were twelve cutters originally, but three are missing: star, clover, cross. What's in the box are the axe, heart, deer, lamb, chicken, fish, rabbit and two I can't identify.
The metal has some patina, but the cookie cutters are still usable.
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Vintage AMERICAN LA FRANCE FOAMITE CORP UNIVERSAL TOOL - (eBay item 290181316457 end time Nov-20-07 18:30:00 PST) This strange old cast iron tool is marked, "American La France Foamite Corp" on one side and "La France Universal Elmira N Y" on the other side. A Google search gives me links to fire extinguishers and fire trucks, so maybe this is something to go along with one of those?
The little flat area on a stalk coming out the middle of the tool has a chip missing. The side of the curved end has a small square with something inside that could be 11 or A or U or H. Not much help to me. How about you?
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2 Vintage Cast Iron Wood-Burning STOVE LID LIFTERS Tool - (eBay item 290181289827 end time Nov-20-07 18:15:00 PST) These two old tools were used to lift the lids on old wood-burning cook stoves. The short one is marked "4" on the bottom of the tip. The one with the mesh handle is marked "00" on the handle and might have said something more, but it's obliterated by rust.
Can you imagine the clanking sound of shifting a stove lid out of the way to check the fire? Can you hear the roar or hiss of the flames? What was cooking? Eggs? Beans? Meat? Or maybe someone's warming his sock feet on the rail of a pot belly stove.
You don't need the actual two-ton stove for such memories. Just hang these old cast iron lid lifters on your wall.
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1935 WILKEN FAMILY HOME COOKING ALBUM Whiskey Memories! - (eBay item 290181105968 end time Nov-19-07 19:41:51 PST) This old soft-cover book The Wilken Family Home Cooking Album was published in 1935 by Jos. S. Finch & Co. Inc., Schenley, Pa. Someone cut out some drink recipes from one page, leaving a stub that's now loose. The book might have been a giveaway.
It's down-home country cooking with photos of the old whiskey maker and his boys. One of the photos shows Harry Wilken and Ma in a horse-drawn cart on their way to New Kensington, PA one sunny day.
Index (92 recipes!)- Aunt Ann's Picalilli
- Baking Powder Biscuits
- Butter Cakes
- Beaten Biscuits
- Boston Baked Beans and Brown Bread
- Brown Bread
- Chestnut Stuffing
- Chocolate Frosting
- Cloverleaf Rolls
- Codfish Balls
- Cottage Apple and Bread Pudding
- Cottage Corn Soup
- Country Baked Apples
- Country Griddle Cakes
- Country Snowballs
- Country Style Chocolate Cream Filling
- Cream Scones
- Deep Dish Apple Pie
- Eggnog (Plain)
- English Plum Pudding
- Fall Squash Pie
- Family's Favorite Indian Pudding
- Farm Cheese Straws
- Flapjacks
- Foamy Homey Sauce
- Fried Chicken, Maryland
- Grandma's Sweet Pickled Watermelon
- Grannie's Sugar Cookies
- Hard Pudding Sauce
- Harvest Pumpkin Pie
- Hattie's Sugar Cookies
- Holiday Custard Pie
- Home Made Lemon Pie
- Home Made Orange Marmalade
- Horse's Neck
- Hot Whiskey Punch
- 'Liza's Pastry
- Manhattan Cocktail
- "Marster's" Pound Cake
- Ma Wilken's Mincemeat
- Mince Pie
- Mint Julep
- Mississippi
- Mother's Apple Dumplings
- Mrs. Wilken's Cheese Delight
- My Own Chili Sauce
- My Own Custard Sauce
- Old-Fashioned Cocktail
- Old-Fashioned Fish Chowder
- Old-Fashioned Molasses Cookies
- Old-Fashioned Strawberry Shortcake
- Old-Fashioned Tomato Catsup
- Old Pal Cocktail
- Our Neighbors Special
- Peach Pandowdy
- "Pease Porridge Hot"
- Philadelphia Cinnamon Buns
- Pie-Plant Tarts
- Planked Bluefish with Vegetables
- Plunkets
- Poor Man's Pudding
- Popovers
- Prune and Chestnut Conserve
- Pull Opens
- Queen of Puddings
- Rich Chocolate Cake
- Roast Chicken with Chestnut Dressing
- Rochester Gingerbread
- Sally Lunn
- Scalloped Oysters
- Soda Biscuit
- Sour-Milk Biscuits
- Stone Crock Pickles
- Stone Fence
- Stone Wall
- Sunday Welsh Rarebit
- The Maples Special
- Tipsy Squire
- Wedding Eggnog
- Whiskey Cobbler
- Whiskey Daisy
- Whiskey Fizz
- Whiskey Highball
- Whiskey Punch
- Whiskey Sauce
- Whiskey Sour
- Wilken Cocktail
- Wilken Daisy
- Wilken Special
- Yankee Pot Roast
- Yum-Yum Cake
Opening paragraph: Seeing as how good you've been to us--
I just forget which one of us it was that first sprung the idea, but one time a while ago when we were all sitting around after one of Ma Wilken's crackerjack suppers, one of us pops up sudden like and says look here everybody--seeing folks are finding The Wilken Family Blended Whiskey so much to their liking, what if ever they were to get a taste of our Family's home cooking recipes--wouldn't they just love these real old-fashioned country dishes we're always hollering for Ma and Mary to make!
So right then and there we set to getting up this here book by way of showing you the Wilkens are good neighbors, too.
Harry E. Wilken, Sr.
Here's a sample recipe:
MOTHER'S COLE SLAW
1 head cabbage
I cup sugar
1 teaspoon mustard
1/2 teaspoon salt
pepper
2 eggs
1 cup top milk
1 cup vinegar
Cut cabbage in quarters and soak in cold water until crisp. Drain and shred fine. Mix sugar, mustard, salt and dash of pepper. Add eggs and mix well, then add milk. Add vinegar slowly and cook over a low heat, stirring all the while, until thickened. Chill. Pour over the cabbage and serve.
This recipe has been in our family for eighty years, passing from generation to generation.
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