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Title: The Priscilla cook book of tried and proved recipes
Repository: Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.
Call Number: Harvard Depository 641.61 M592p
Catalog Record: id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/003772566/catalog
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HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO ALL!
Like the Fuller Brush fella, the Rawleigh fella used to go door to door...as did Watkins and McNess....:)
I am adding three scans of some booklets I discovered while packing to move.
These were in a little box of things I inherited from my grandmother and her sister, both born in the late 1800's.
There are many more little books and magazines...all about cooking and housekeeping..all from the early half of the century.
Some of the books are in Swedish, but most are in English. Most are mine but quite a few of them belong to Angus, too, as he loves to cook as well (and, in fact, cooks more meals than I do!) We also have a large number of vegetarian cookbooks, as me? I'm a veggie.
The Jello Pudding Sampler, 1976. I bought a few coookbooks the other day at the Rancho Cucamonga Library bookstore. I'm posting a few things ...
It's literally filled with recipes clipped from old newspapers, handwritten recipes written in whatever empty space was in the book. So many memories
Community cookbook to benefit The American Cancer Society, Connecticut Division, 1982. Illustrations by well known graphic artist Naiad Einsel.
The "Silent Hostess" Treasure Book was a cookbook and instruction book published by GE for owners of their Monitor Top refrigerators (though the term "Monitor Top" is never used in the book). It contains recipes and information on how to use the refrigerator -- remember, for most owners, this would have been their first electric refrigerator.
We have a Monitor Top, so I was looking for a copy of this cookbook, and found one on Etsy!
The book has lots of gorgeous color pictures as well as neat 1920s style line drawings.
The copy of the Treasure Book I have was published in 1930.
Jell-O America's Most Famous Dessert. Early 1900's? Printed by J. Ottman Lithograph Co., N.Y. 20 pages. Approximately 5 in. x 4.5 in.
In which I indulge my desire to buy cookbooks:
Martha Stewart's Healthy Quick Cook
The Urban Peasant - James Barber
A Passion for Vegetables - Paul Gayler
The Original Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (1896!!) - Fannie Merritt Farmer
For $2 for the lot. Score! The last one should be an interesting read if nothing else....I also bought a butterfly shaped cookie from the kids manning the snack booth, but passed on the lemonade. The cookie is not in the picture because I ate it immediately.
Found many great books at a local thrift for a super (cheap!) price!
Pillsbury Bake Off #24, 1973
Favorite Recipes of Alabama Vocational Home Economics Teachers, 1980
9th District Delights, no date
The International Cookbook – Campbell’s Soup
Browse my entire cookbook collection @ cocosvintagecookbookcollection.blogspot.com/
Das große Kochbuch in Farbe
Für die ganze Familie, Feinschmecker und Kenner
von Marguerite Patten
herausgegeben von Sybil Gräfin Schönfeldt
Manfred Pawlak Verlagsgesellschaft, 1972
Had a really good shoot yesterday. One of the best I've had. I'll have to swing some more when I get back from Florida.
i acquired two new cookbooks (again!) over the weekend - the perfect scoop by david lebovitz and korean cooking by young jin song. got them from books kinokuniya which had a 20% storewide discount last fri & sat. the perfect scoop was a steal at $32 (original price was about $41), and the korean cooking one must be the most expensive book i've seen and own so far (about $60+) so i had better make full use of it!
i love love love the perfect scoop. the little snippets before each recipe are just TOO FUNNY! david lebovitz really has a great sense of humor :p i was laughing so hard when the puzzled hubby said "how can anyone laugh reading a cookbook?" well i just did!
Found while sorting through my late grandmother's things last year: this 1940 Presto Cooker recipe book.
Tiffany Table Settings, c.1960
Sterling Service (Dothan AL Service League), c.1996
Box of Cocktail cards, c. 2000
St Jude Catholic Church (Atlanta) Cookbook, c.1977
Rice Cookbook, c. 1935
Three of my dear friends and I decided to do a cookbook secret santa thing this year. We drew names to determine who was giving to whom, and then got to work on our homemade cookbooks.
Sitting at my desk one day, looking at my fast dwindling page-a-day calendar, I thought how nice it would be to have a cookbook about that size, that would sit up all by itself while you worked in the kitchen. Since I've also been on a mad DIY'd gift kick, I resolved to upcycle the little plastic calendar stand into a rad little cookbook.
The whole process turned out to be really easy. I first pulled the remaining pages off the calendar stand. Then, I used it to trace a square the same width and height as the stand on a piece of heavy cardboard. I added two inches of extra height so the pages of the book would be well clear of the bottom of the stand, and then cut it out, and covered it with fabric. When you're using a light cotton fabric, don't mess around with glue, just use double-sided scotch tape. It works amazingly well, and it doesn't make a big mess. I used a hot glue gun to glue the back of the book to the stand.
As luck would have it, the cute, colorful 6x4 index cards I found were the perfect width, so I didn't have to mess around with them at all. I cute out another piece of heavy cardboard, this time the same size as the index cards, to be the cover of the book. At this point, I measured out where I wanted the holes for the binder rings to go, and punched them out of the cover and the back piece.
Before covering the book cover with fabric, I embroidered the title of the cookbook onto the fabric. To do this, I traced the title onto a piece of tissue paper, pinned it to the center of the cover fabric, and embroidered over it. Once I was finished, I ripped off the tissue paper. This worked pretty well, although it's a little messier than I would like.
The recipe cards are actually two index cards taped together to form a spine. I cut the top margin off of each front card, and punched holes in each back card, then taped them together with clear scotch tape. I'm including 19 recipes total in the book, but I punched a whole bunch of extra cards so my recipient can continue to add to it. I am extremely pleased with the execution of this project, and if you have a page-a-day calendar that's about to expire, why not try making a little book out of the stand? Happy crafting :)