Good Morning, Acorns! This week at a thrift store, I found a wonderful old cookbook from 1949 called “The Bergen Cook Book.” It says on the front, “Compiled by the members of Bergen Ladies Aid Society, Bergen Lutheran Church, Roland, Iowa.”
Inside the front cover it has this inscription, which I wanted to share.
Recipe for a Day
Take a little dash of water
Add a little leaven of prayer,
Add a little bit of morning gold,
Dissolved in the morning air.
Add to your meal some merriment
And a thought of kith and kin,
And then as your prime ingredient,
A plenty of work thrown in.
But spice it all with essence of love,
And a little whiff of play,
Let a wise old Book and a glance above
Complete a well made day.
—Allie
Sounds like a dandy recipe to me! I’m so glad Allie shared it.
Last night’s video: The BEST Shovel Ever! Spreading Mulch & A Tasty Treat from Katie.
Tipper
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I am just tickled you shared this here, Tipper! 🙂 Thank you, everyone for the kind comments. I thought it was the sweetest inscription and believed the Acorns would enjoy it, too! I love to thrift and look for old things. Old recipe books are some of my favorite finds, along with anything handmade or vintage kitchenwares. You just absolutely cannot purchase anything nowadays that can come close to an old treasure like that. I found a very sturdy basket this week at a thrift store that I believe was handmade. I couldn’t pass it up. I am always impressed how the old recipe books are very short and and to the point. You could tell that everyone knew how to cook back then. Very simple and basic instructions such as, “Bake in the usual way.” Our asparagus is coming in really strongly right now. We planted 100 crowns four years ago and they are very prolific now. All that to say, I have been thinking about Jim’s wonderful asparagus casserole that you shared with us, Tipper, and I hope to make it this week. I made it a few times last year and greatly enjoyed it. It’s on pages 103-104 in their cookbook for anyone interested!
Love this! Thank you Allie, and Tipper. Prayers for all that were mentioned.
Those older cookbooks are the best! They don’t use processed food ingredients because they hadn’t been introduced on the market yet. True cooking from scratch.
Thanks Tipper for all that you do!
It’s 59ºF and drizzling outside right here right now (11:40 AM)! That’s about 30 degrees cooler than this time two days ago.
I said 11:40 AM and posted it at 11:22 AM. Am I in a time warp? Doesn’t matter, ain’t nobody gonna notice if I don’t tell them.
Beautiful way to start the day ! Thank you ! Praying for all !
Miss Tipper, Thanks for sharing the morning prayer. How lovely to start my day reading something so beautiful and inspiring. Mr. Randy my condolences to your son and the family of his friend. Very hard to lose someone you are close to. Your son sounds so kind and loving to you. Not everyone has children or children who care so much about their family members or people they are acquaintances of. You are truly blessed. Prayers up for the family, him and you. To all the Acorn’s, God bless everyone today, tomorrow and always. May everyone have a blessed day for Decoration Day and be safe from all harms and dangers. Thank God for all those who have served their country and lost their lives doing so. May He also have helped all those who were left behind. J
My mother kept her first cookbook, which someone gave her when she and Dad married, in 1929, the year it was published. It is a thin little book, not a thick one such as we see today. My daughter has it now, and one of the granddaughters will own it one day.
Love the ‘recipe for a day’—thanks Tipper and Allie. I love to go thrifting too!
Praying for Papa Tony!
The added inscription was surely a wonderful bonus to the lucky thrift store find. The old church cookbooks have some of the best and simplest recipes that call for ingredients most of us already have on hand. I love finding handwritten suggestions made by modern-day cooks, such as using olive oil instead of lard or Cool Whip instead of meringue. The Hollyhocks are beautiful! I’m so glad Corie got her garden planted before the rain set in. I enjoyed seeing a glimpse of the darling little boys in last night’s video who helped bust up the dirt clots and hinted they will be the next generation of gardeners.
“With His blessings from above/Serve it generously with love/One man, one wife, one love through life/Memories are made of this…”
In response to Barbara Nichols-you and your son are in my prayers for healing and a peace of mind only the Lord can give. I worked many years as a RN for Vanderbilt in skilled care in Stallworth Hospital, home care and I took care of the oldest person in the world with Duchennes Muscular Dystrophy. I feel you’ll be receiving medical care in a CAPABLE facility with way better odds for a positive outcome than the local “bandaid” center. You’ve made a good firm decision and I support you in prayer. TIPPER, I loved the poem out of the cookbook from Iowa in the 40’s. If I move again, Iowa would definitely be a place to consider… We got rain and it’s cool and I’m not complaining WHATSOEVER!!! Are those crimson red outhouse hollyhocks you have growing beautifully there in your garden edge???? Hollyhocks are my absolute favorite flower in this world and I’d consider myself a gazillionaire if I was to have two armfuls of them (all I could muster) covering my face and nose… You know my favorite movie is ITS A WONDERFUL LIFE and Mary hid in the hollyhocks after George stepped on her robe thus unrobing her leaving her to seek shelter in the hollyhocks…
I don’t know for sure but it might be that variety 🙂
As Randy says, the recipe of the day builds to a recipe for life, just have to work at being consistent. Thankfully, the Lord knows our hindrances better than we do and can give us grace for the struggles unknown, misunderstood or especially troublesome to each of us. He knows we want to be more like him than we are and are frustrated with ourselves and our situations that keep us from it. He taught us to redeem our days one by one. I am one who finds it hard to do for thinking of past faults, current inadequacies and looming future troubles and obligations. I have been accused of thinking too much and it is likely true.
PSA118:24 This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
Praise God for the rain!
thank you for praying for me friends, I went to another hospital last night, and they told me I needed to see gastroenterology so they could help resolve my problem another way besides CT scans, they too agreed I have had too many CT scans, praise God my pain has dissolved, thank you for praying, pain go go go and never return in Jesus name, by his stripes I was healed, I am healed, thank you Jesus
Wonderful!!
Norman, so glad you finally are getting some answers. God bless you with total healing.
thank you Gloria, I might have told you before you have my mother’s name, God bless you very much
Alice did a great work coming up with that recipe. One we could use daily in our lives. We got the much needed rain and it’s suppose to continue all weekend. It’s one of those on/off slow steady rain, which gives the rain water time to actually soak in the ground. Hopefully, with this type of rain we won’t have major flooding.
I have watched the video about the best shovel, I figured it would be the front end loader on the tractor! I don’t know how we got along so many years without one. This is about Katie buying the expensive shovel Matt had been wanting, last weekend my son gave me a new Milwaukee 1/4 inch driver I had been looking at and wanting for about a year. I didn’t think I could justify the cost because of not using it a lot, but it sure did come in handy this week using it on something I made and saving a lot of money because of not buying it already made online. How do you explain, show or put into words what it means to you when your children do things like this for you? I had rather see my boys spend their money on themselves than buy something to give to me. He said “I knew you had been wanting one, Happy Father’s Day.” I don’t think I deserve that kind of love from them. Pray for my son, I know he will be very upset today, one of his coworkers he worked right beside of on the line he works on was killed in a car wreck after getting off work yesterday.
I’m so sorry. I will pray for the coworker’s family and your son. Your son loves you 🙂
God comfort Randy’s son, God comfort the Man’s family, in Jesus name
So sorry Randy. I will pray for your son also. And the boys family.
So sorry, Randy. I will be praying.
Yep, I am one of those “nobodies.” I didn’t pay one bit of attention to the time.
I want to thank everyone that has prayed for my son. He just got in a few minutes ago from working and is upset along with a lot of the other workers. The man was as innocent as anyone could be, the wreck happened on a country 4 lane highway, one car in the north lanes tried to change lanes without looking and clipped a SUV in the other lane causing it turn over and him to loose control, he crossed the paved medium hitting the man killed head on in the south lane. The man killed was driving a Mini Cooper and didn’t have a chance of surviving after being hit head on with a larger vehicle.
Good Morning Tipper and Acorns. Praise The LORD, we got 2 1/2 inches of rain yesterday. I had gone out with a half a bucket of hot soapy water and took the car was brush to our 2 vehicles. They were covered in pollen and a bit of mold on the trim. I took a toothbrush and the soapy water to the trim. I didn’t rinse it, just soaped it good. Right as I was finishing the front passenger finder on the last car it started to rain hard. I hollered TY, LORD. and came to the house. I dumped the water out of the bucket but left it out to catch the rain and it filled it to 2 1/2″. It rinsed off the cars pretty good too. Just a few streaks and I’ll wipe them down this morning before it rains again. What a Beautiful Holly Hock photo and sweet poem. I’ve seen several Recipes for Happy Homes, Friendship and such in some of my recipe books too. I love reading recipe books. I’m loving yours. It is such a blessed gift because it is from my daughter and written by you. I keep everyone here and up Wilson Holler in my prayers. We thank everyone for keeping us in your prayers, THE LORD is moving mountains for us. Vanderbilt called and they are sending us patient paperwork in the mail. ED may see a doctor there before Christmas. We will get help with someone to take us down there too. I love y’all.
Wonderful!
So happy for you and Ed. Will continue to pray.
Tipper, Thank you for sharing Allie’s lovely morning prayer! I love finding old quotes, prayers and expressions that I’ve never heard before. Maybe we should all write a favorite quote on the inside cover of our favorite book that would delight someone else 50 or 100 years from now. It’s nice to think about!
Blessings, J.
That sounds like a good recipe for life, thanks Allie. I hope things get better for me this morning, I have 3 bad disc in my back, I shore did something yesterday (don’t know what) to get them acting up. I can hardly stand up straight.
I have reread this morning Don Casada’ article about the rabbit that got away from January of 2021, I dearly loved rabbit hunting with my father in law and other friends, there was only one thing I liked better, that was bird (quail hunting). The memories of the fun we had with one another are worth more to me than money. Tuesday, one of these friends had to have a cancerous kidney removed. I have not heard from him, I pray they got it all and he will not have to go through cancer treatments.
Good recipe for life right there.
Fixing to take mom to tge Dr. they are doing a procedure to shock her heart back in rhythm due to her A-Fib. she gets out of breath just going to the bathroom.
They say this is a temporary fix and in a few months they will due a different more permanent fix of something they run down her throat and do a different procedure.
please pray this goes well today and helps the breathing. Sounds scary to me shocking the heart. Continuing to pray for Tony.
Thanks and God Bless
I pray they can help her!
Jacqueline, what a nice idea!