For our theme this week I leafed through one of my old volumes of the 'Housewife's Magazine' from 1899 and found some nice adverts and images. I chose a very serious one from Dr Oetker's Baking Powder - still on sale today! The ad has a black frame round it, which reminds me of the cards they send here when somebody has died. I glued the image to a piece of scrap card, and framed it with some golden paper lace usually used to put round cakes. As the husband is sitting there reading instead of praising his wifey for baking him such a nice 'Rodon' cake, I added a text to show what she is thinking, 'If I'd have known he'd be reading I'd have burnt the cake, burnt the cake, burnt the cake....' The German text underneath the ad says that Dr Oetker baking powder only costs 10 Pfennigs and can be used instead of yeast, and gives an unbeatable flavour. And if you only use this brand, your cakes will always be successful. You can get free recipes from good firms and from the chemist, too!' I suppose it used to be a commodity which was sold at the chemist's.
The following images are all food related, and you are very welcome to download and use them.
Nestle's baby milk:
Albert's cakes:
Suchard cocoa:
Müller's invalid stout - especially recommended for people who are sick, reconvalescent and nursing mothers....
Have a good week you all, take care and thanks for visiting!
Valerie
lovely little tag, funny quote, great images !
ReplyDeleteGreat stuff! Thank you for the images they will come in handy.
ReplyDeletePat x
Very neat images!
ReplyDeleteCute images and I love the lace around the tag. Did you actually cut the magazine or scan it Valerie, and how come you have such an old magazine, if I may ask? Mo
ReplyDeleteI have 2 giant volumes of the mags, over 100 copies in all. Someone wanted to throw them out and gave them to me a few years back, as they knew that I liked 'strange stuff'! They are full of ads, fashion pics, sewing and crochet patterns etc. This time I have scanned the images; I use some pages as they are for backgrounds etc. They are all very brittle, and can only be used well mod-podged and gessoed, but they are still a wonderful source of life back then. I put images on my blog every now and then when I have time to scan them!
DeleteGreat tag and images Valerie.
ReplyDeleteLynn
One I Made Earlier Today
Great tag, thank you for the use of images, I love the apron, too late to use it this week.
ReplyDeleteooohhh very cool - what lovely images - I really enjoy going through old ephemera like this - thanks so much for sharing your images!
ReplyDeleteI would have burnt the cake too. Nice tag and thanks for the images
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't have baked it to begin with! HA! Way cool tag.
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