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This is a great web sitehttp
://vintagesewing.info/index.html
i love it so much!!!
i also collect clothes patterns i have some that date back to the early40's they always need altering though as the modern women is a diffrent shape! and i have loads of make do and mend book and oddles of old cookery books i just cant help myself :)

http://vintagesewing.info/index.html

Milims wrote:This is right up my street! I collect such books. Marguerite Patton (sp?) is a great source. Also things like WI cook books and the old paperback farmers weekly cook books. If you have a second hand book shop near by - go there - they are a fantastic source.

Marguerite Patten (I know that 'cause I've got The Victory Cookbook out of the library at the moment ). Some very good wartime recipes out there. I like a lot of the older cookbooks because they were written before convenience foods were invented and things in tins were expensive.

I always turn to Marguerite Patten if I want to know how to cook something - and for some obscure stuff, there is the delightful Dorothy Hartley's Food in England, which talks about cooking through the ages, from what a medieval cauldron would contain to what stores an eighteenth century coaching inn would have on hand - and much more.