1935 WILKEN FAMILY HOME COOKING ALBUM Whiskey Memories! - (eBay item 290181105968 end time Nov-19-07 19:41:51 PST)

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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Vintage HANDY TYPE SET RUBBER TYPE, Great Graphics Box! - (eBay item 290181063208 end time Nov-19-07 18:45:00 PST)

Vintage HANDY TYPE SET RUBBER TYPE, Great Graphics Box! - (eBay item 290181063208 end time Nov-19-07 18:45:00 PST)

This old printing stamp set comes in the original box with a great old red, black and white graphic design on the lid of a printer and his young apprentice. This set came out in the twenties or thirties. The lid is marked, "Handy Type Set Rubber Type, ©T.S.T. Co. Made in U.S.A. No. 6004-S."

Inside is most of the original gear which includes tweezers, stamp pad with a gold lion on the box lid, a large wooden tray, a three-row wooden stamp, and a one-row metal stamp with wooden handle. The set of the rubber type is incomplete. There's no instruction sheet, just a card that says, "Print Cards & Tickets by the Hundreds."

There's an extra stamp marked, "Hackendahl Mfg. Co., 95 State St., Rochester, N.Y." The name and address it stamps is, "Mr. Gerald C. Shaner, 916 Florence Avenue, East McKeesport, PA." There's a card with that stamped on both sides beneath the words, "Novelty Shop."

The ink pad is in a narrow red metal box with a gold lion and is marked, "Ink Pad for Rubber Stamps, Made in U.S.A., Size A." It needs new felt and new ink. Both original stamps have black ink stains. The box lid is stamped inside.

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Vintage FLINCH CARD CO. 150 Playing Cards in Orig Box! - (eBay item 290181043111 end time Nov-19-07 18:15:00 PST)

Vintage FLINCH CARD CO. 150 Playing Cards in Orig Box! - (eBay item 290181043111 end time Nov-19-07 18:15:00 PST)

This full set of Flinch playing cards comes in the original box with old fashioned-graphics. The lid says, "Flinch Trademark, Registered, Manufactured by Flinch Card Co., Kalamazoo, Mich." The box bottom has a Kaufman's sticker marked 75.

There are 150 cards in the set, with ten cards each numbered 1 through 15. Two numeral 1 cards are marked, "P 1945." The back design is red and white, the fronts are black and white.

There are no rules or instructions here, but here's a link to info and the rules for this older version of the game: http://www.djmcadam.com/flinch.html

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Vintage CRAFTSMAN DRILL GRINDING ATTACHMENT 9-6677 - (eBay item 290179664938 end time Nov-15-07 16:54:44 PST)

Vintage CRAFTSMAN DRILL GRINDING ATTACHMENT 9-6677 - (eBay item 290179664938 end time Nov-15-07 16:54:44 PST)

This drill bit grinding attachment is marked, "Craftsman Drill Grinding Attachment, 9-6677, Sears Roebuck and Co., U.S.A." The angle selector is marked, "CSK, 49 degrees, 59 degrees, 68 degrees, 88 degrees."

The base can be screwed down to a table and the rest of the tool twists around to wherever you need it. Three clamps hold the bit you're grinding exactly where you need it.

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1966 Vol. 1 No. 1 HARVARD LAMPOON PLAYBOY Parody Spoof! - (eBay item 290178590353 end time Nov-12-07 18:30:02 PST)

1966 Vol. 1 No. 1 HARVARD LAMPOON PLAYBOY Parody Spoof! - (eBay item 290178590353 end time Nov-12-07 18:30:02 PST)

This pretend Playboy magazine looks so real it's hard to believe it was put out by college students back in 1966. The contents page says, "The Harvard Lampoon, 1966 Vol. 1, No. 1, published monthly by the Harvard Lampoon, Inc. $3 for one year."

Contents:
Playbill
Dear Playboy
The Playboy Advisor
The Playboy Philosophy--editorial
Playboy Interview: Magic Eight Ball
Playboy's International Datebook--travel by P*trick Ch*se
Hard Cheese--fiction by Ch*rles Dick*ns
Playboy's Fine Feathered Forecast--attire by Elmer Green
Ocrocokian Oona--playboy's perennial playmate
History of Sex in Art--essay
The Girls of Playboy--pictorial essay
On The Scene--personalities
Playboy Gifts:
Toadstool--J*m*s B*nd Thriller by I*n Fl*m*ng
Midsummer Frost--fiction by Ken W. Putrid
Playboy Pad:--pictorial essay
Adrianna's Garden--ribald classic by Uncle Remus
Little Orphan Bosom--satire by Michael Frith and Christopher Cerf

Even the cartoons look authentic.

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1998 Play-by-Play Giveaway Plush COCA-COLA BEAR Coke! - (eBay item 290178582394 end time Nov-12-07 18:06:07 PST)

1998 Play-by-Play Giveaway Plush COCA-COLA BEAR Coke! - (eBay item 290178582394 end time Nov-12-07 18:06:07 PST)

This eight-inch tall Coca-Cola polar bear is wearing a red sports jersey and holding a bottle of Coke. He's new with tags, even though he came out in 1998.

The front of the hangtag says, "Always Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola® Brand Plush Collection." The back says, "Not for Retail Sale. Coca-Cola® and Coke® brand plush is produced under the authority of The Coca-Cola Company, owner of the trademarks Coca-Cola, Coke, Always Coca-Cola Polar Bear, the design of the Coca-Cola Seal and the design of the contour bottle. ®The Coca-Cola Company, All Rights Reserved. Distributed by Play-by-Play Toys & Novelties, San Antonio, Texas 78218. Not recommended for children under 3 years of age. Caution: Remove all plastic fasteners and hangtags before giving to child. Made and Printed in China."

The butt tags say, "Coca-Cola® brand Plush Collection. All new material. Contents: polyester fibers." It repeats much of the info on the hangtag, then another tag says, "Not to be removed until delivered to the consumer," and repeats contents info.

I just love his face.

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JUMBO MICKEY Cloth Doll Fisher-Price Mattel Disney 2000 - (eBay item 290178578581 end time Nov-12-07 17:55:46 PST)

JUMBO MICKEY Cloth Doll Fisher-Price Mattel Disney 2000 - (eBay item 290178578581 end time Nov-12-07 17:55:46 PST)

This jumbo Mickey doll is 25" tall--not that he'll stand up. He prefers sitting. He's wearing a red tee marked "M" and "Mickey" on the chest, with tan cargo pants and blue and white sneakers. His tail comes out through a slot in his pants.

The tag says, "Fisher-Price, Inc., New York, New York 10010 U.S.A. Made in China ©2000 Mattel, Inc., © Disney, Ohio Reg. No.: PA 274."

The other side of the tag says, "94669/94672 Asst. Jumbo Mickey, Surface Washable Only, Filling: All New Materials: Polyester Fiber, Plastic Stiffener." A number is stamped on it: "198IEL."

When I took the photos, he had a small mark on the left side of his nose, and his white gloves were a mite gray. They cleaned up pretty well with a damp cloth, so he's looking more spiffy now.

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