THREE COOKBOOKS
Updated September 5, 2026
| Lot number | 208 |
| Auction | Hancock Estate Auction |
| Date | September 25, 2026 at 9:30 AM CDT |
| Auction house | Harrison Auction & Realtor |
| Location | Gracemont, Oklahoma |
THREE COOKBOOKS - CADDO ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE COUNTRY COOKING COOKBOOK 1975 EDITION, SOUTHERN SIDEBOARDS FROM THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF JACKSON MISSISSIPPI, AND THE GENERAL ELECTRIC MICROWAVE COOKBOOK Description Country Cooking Cookbook, Caddo Electric Cooperative - saddle-stitched softcover booklet, white wraps with red display lettering, the front cover reading Country Cooking Cookbook / A Collection of 'Tried & True' Recipes from the Kitchens Of Caddo Electric Members / $2.00. Inside title page repeats the title over a welcome paragraph beginning People look to the country for "the good life" and closes Juanita Dorsey, Home Economist / Caddo Electric Cooperative, with a note directing members whose recipes were not included to watch future issues of The Caddo, the co-op's monthly newsletter. Facing page marked 1975 Edition. Interior pages photographed include a cake section with Boat Day Cake, Pumpkin Cake, Red Devils Food Cake, Coconut Pound Cake, Pumpkin Custard Cake, Applesauce Cake, Butter Cake, Spanish Cake, Fresh Apple Cake, No Egg No Milk Chocolate Cake, and Coconut Cream Cake, credited to cooks including Katherine White, Boone Extension Group; Mrs. Lee Broadous, Fort Cobb, Oklahoma; Ashla Fuchs, Binger, Okla.; Mrs. Marion Carman; Opal I. McBride; Ruby Whaley, Boone Ext. Group, Apache, Okla.; Nicole Washburn, Boone Group, Apache, Okla.; Mrs. Fannie Carr, Apache, Okla.; Fannie Harvey; Mrs. Ernest Fryhover; Fardla Henderson, Fort Cobb, Okla.; and Myrtle Wunderlich, Gracemont, Extension Club. A pickles and relishes spread facing a Pies section credits Emma Churchill, South Pioneer Ext. Group, Mrs. Jimmie Carr, Boone Ext. Group, DeAnne Burkhart, Oney THD, Lillie Martin, Carnegie, Okla., South Pioneer Club, Lora Phillips, South Pioneer, Teedum Vincent, Hydro, Elsie Crow, and Mrs. Norman Dorsey. Inside back cover printed WHEN THE CURRENT GOES OFF with six numbered outage steps and the co-op number 1-800-522-8920, followed by a NOTICE CALENDAR on meter reading and bill payment. A former owner has written a name in ink across the front cover, reading as Jo Ann Hancock in two hands. Measures approximately 10-1/2 inches tall per the tape-measure photograph, roughly 7-1/2 inches wide. The tape hook rests on top of the cover rather than hooked over the edge, and no width measurement photograph is included, so both figures are close estimates. Southern Sideboards, Junior League of Jackson, Mississippi - plastic comb-bound book with stiff pictorial boards, tan ground, the front cover reading Southern Sideboards in gilt script above a framed still-life painting of a bushel basket of red apples on a weathered bench, with Junior League of Jackson, Mississippi in script at the foot. Title page repeats the title over a pen-and-ink version of the same still life and reads COMPILED BY / Junior League of Jackson, Mississippi / featuring / TESTED RECIPES / COOKING BASICS / PREPARING FOOD FOR GIFTS / INSTRUCTION IN SPECIAL TECHNIQUES and a line on homemade party
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