Reading List From 10 Years Ago

 This post, which I'm sharing on Fandango's Flashback Friday, was first published on one of my old blogs in 2016. Updates added today.

WHAT I READ THIS WEEK

Books read for the first time are marked with a #
Books are listed by author (or series creator),
 and not necessarily in the order read.

"Mary Erskine: A Franconia Story"
by Jacob Abbott
[children's fiction]
(free online book)

 "Summa Theologica"
by St. Thomas Aquinas
long-term Catholic studies
(Kindle book)

"Tangled Web"
by Kristi Holl 
(openlibrary.org loan)
"R U 4 Real?"
by Nancy Been Peacock 
(physical copy)  
Luv @ First Site
by Tess Kindig
(physical copy) 
( todays.girls.com series, created by Terry K. Brown)

 [children's fiction, Christian, (Protestant, denomination or denominations not specified)] Some, but not all, of the books in this series were lost when I moved, so thank God for free online books!
Update: I'm now in a nursing home, and have once again lost many books.

 "A Right to Be Merry"
by Mother Mary Francis, P. C. C
(Kindle book) 
reserved for Sunday

 "Pauline Archer" #
 by Anna Theresa Sadlier
[fiction] 
(free online book) 
 reserved for Sunday
Update: I no longer reserve books for Sunday.

 "Every Day Is A Gift:
Minute Meditations for Every Day
Taken From the Holy Bible
and the Writings of the Saints"
Introduction by Rev. Frederick Schroeder 
 daily devotional reading for 2016
Update: I'm using this book again this year.

"Fifth Chinese Daughter"
by Jade Snow Wong
[autobiography]
Update: Also read this week. I was thrilled to find this
book on Internet Archive.

And I have a spicy feeling that I will be re-reading some more of the books on this list!

Soup Label From 1900

 Originally posted in 2018 on one of my old blogs. Updates are in italics.

I read an interesting label online the other day, and re-read today, a Campbell’s Tomato Soup label from 1900. It has some significant differences from their current label, and I learned some things I didn’t know before.

In those days, the company was known as The Joseph Campbell Preserve Co. Some of the varieties of soup they made then have been discontinued, such as Mock Turtle and the two listed below, neither of which I had heard of until I read the label.

Mulligatawny Soup, which is of East Indian origin. [The name may be translated as pepper water!] There doesn’t seem to be one set recipe for this soup, but apparently curry is a standard ingredient.

Printanier Soup, a soup made with spring vegetables.

There are other soups which Campbell’s has stopped making, but Tomato Soup is still going strong more than a hundred years after they introduced it.

I really enjoyed reading this label; it’s always fun learning new things.