A Treasure and Some History...

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richard-in-cincy

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We have been searching for a new dining room suite for some time to replace the small dining room table we bought for the much smaller house when we lived in the city. I don't buy new furniture because I like old antique furniture and because it so solid and well made.

My searching finally paid off and I found a 70-year old Duncan Phyfe style dining room suite that I purchased from the estate of the original owner: pedestal table with brass claw feet, seating for 10, original table pads (the finish on the table looks new since it was so well cared for all these years), 3 table leaves, ginormous bow front buffet, and a china cabinet for $700!!! Score!!!

I've been cleaning and polishing all the furniture today, taking out the drawers, vacuuming them and washing them out, and I discovered some old newspapers behind the drawers in the buffet. Recipe clippings and food and arts sections from the old Cincinnati Post & Times Star dated 1960 (my birth year) to 1963.

Some of the recipes:

Sardi's Chocolate Cream Pie

Jam Crescents for Afternoon Tea made with a yeast dough

Christmas Chocolate Swiss Roll filled with peppermint cream and frosted with Brown Beauty Icing

The 1962 Christmas Food section featuring the Christmas Open House Buffet from a family in one of the big Hyde Park mansions consisting of Ham Loaf with Horseradish Sauce, Sliced Turkey, Parker House Rolls, Crab Puffs, Green Bean Salad, Molded Cucumber Salad, Garlic Potato Croquettes, Deviled Eggs, Fruitcake, Apricot Pastries, Christmas Mints, etc.

From the Grocery Sale Ads:

Lamb Breast .09¢/lb.

7-Rib Pork Loin Roast .29¢/lb.

Porterhouse Steak .69¢/lb.

Side of Beef Cut and Wrapped .49¢/lb.

Turkeys .29¢/lb.

Oranges & Apples 5 lb. bags for .39¢

Vanilla Extract .19¢

Cinnamon .23¢

TV Dinners 3/$1.

Brach Villa Choc Covered Cherries .39¢

Lux Soap .10¢

Catsup-2 bottles for .29¢

Not one ad for pop/soda, chips, and the like.

The new hairdo for 1962: Dior's "Cleopatra"

The Post & Time Star's Food Editor unveils her new "His and Her" kitchen: Her side-Storage Area, Mixing & Work Area, Cook Area, Work Island. His side: Cabinet for bar glasses, liquor shelves, counter/cutting board for slicing citrus & fruit.

Tips for the Homemaker: Make sure hubby has a hobby for those times you want to go downtown shopping for the day.

At the Cinema:

Flower Drum Song

El Cid

The Innocents

One, Two, Three

Pocketful of Miracles

At the Theatres:

Max Rudolf and the Cincinnati Symphony playing Bruckner Symphony #7 at Music Hall

San Francisco Ballet at Music Hall

Holiday on Ice at Cincinnati Gardens

Cincinnati's First "Twistathon" at the Cotton Club

Heartbreak House at Playhouse in the Park

My Fair Lady at the Taft Theatre

Moliere's "School for Wives" at the Edgecliff Theatre

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"the page may only be visible to an audience you're not in." (Wow, fee the burn!)

Would love to see you make those recipes and review/share...sounds like such fun! And my goodness what luck on the dining room set, hope you can get a photo up!

 
Richard, if you want to make the picture visible. change the privacy setting on FB to Global --

It's to the right of your name. You probably see a silhouette of people now. Hover over it. Change the drop down to the globe. That way anyone can see it--not just your Facebook friends.

 
What a great find! How fun that must have been for you. Also very nice

that the dining set went to someone who will love and care for it just as the original owner did...and you also appreciated the newspaper find! Someone else would probably have tossed it.

 
And I want those food prices! Gorgeous furniture, Richard. Glad you finally found what you wanted.

 
Joe, Ham Loaf is a very popular dish here in Ohio...

and it is quite yummy. We take our pork very seriously in these parts. LOL

It's a great way to use up the ends and pieces of the holiday ham mixed with brown sugar, cloves, mustard, onion, etc.

 
Ohio Ham Loaf

2 lbs. ground ham
1 lb. ground pork
1 1/2 cups seeded rye bread crumbs
1 small chopped onion
2 garlic cloves, smashed and minced
3 eggs, well beaten
1/4 tsp. allspice
1/4 tsp. ground cloves
1 tsp. black pepper
1 tbsp. dry mustard
2 tbsp. prepared mustard
1/2 cup chopped fresh parsley
1 cup milk, more if needed

For the glaze:
2/3 cup brown sugar
1/2 tsp. ground cloves
1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
1 tsp. dry mustard

In a large bowl, combine ham, pork, bread crumbs, and onion.

Add allspice, cloves, pepper, dry mustard, prepared mustard and parsley to eggs and mix well with a fork. Add egg mixture and milk to meat mixture and continue mixing with hands until well combined.

Mixture should be moist and very soft. If too dry, add up to ¨ö cup of extra milk.

Form into one large loaf (or two smaller ones). One large loaf should fit perfectly into a 9-by-13-inch rectangular pan.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Meanwhile, in a small saucepan, combine glaze ingredients and stir over medium heat until sugar is dissolved. Mixture will be thin.

Pour about one-third of glaze over ham loaf. Cover with foil and bake for 50 minutes. Uncover and pour remaining glaze over loaf, basting frequently until glaze begins to get thick and sticky and ham loaf is browned and cooked through completely, about 30 minutes longer for a large loaf.

Makes six to eight servings.

 
What fun...like finding a secret stash. Can't see photo (Sunday noon), pity. I used

to create doll houses filled with Ethan Allen and Duncan Phyfe cutouts from their catalogs. Not that we ever owned any of that furniture, but their catalogs were like fairy land to me. Living rooms with end tables that had matching lamps. Dining tables set with matching dinnerware! What a concept.

 
I remember buying chuck roast, 3 lbs. for $1. right after I got married. Of course, my husband was

in the military and didn't make enough in a month for anywhere near a months worth of groceries today.

I had a friend with a child whose husband was also military and money would get tight at the end of the month. One of her favorite recipes for that time was a sort of sloppy joe with a lb of ground beef browned with chopped onions and a can of condensed chicken gumbo soup added with a some mustard and catsup. Didn't taste bad, either. The recipe came from an old Betty Crocker cookbook. The recipe including the buns was probably much less than a dollar.

 
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