Recipes
The Story of Crisco, Things to Remember, Hints to Young Cooks, Methods of Cooking, How to Choose Foods, Methods of Cooking, The Art of Carving, Soups, Puddings, Pastries, Cakes, Candies, Calendar of Dinners
Neil, Marion Harris. A "Calendar of Dinners" with 615 Recipes including The Story of Crisco. The Procter & gamble Co. Cincinnati. 1913 Sixteenth Edition. Hard cover. 231pp. Contents include The Story of Crisco, Things to Remember, Hints to Young Cooks, Methods of Cooking, How to Choose Foods, Methods of Cooking.....
Price: $65.00
recipes
9 recipes and recipe books, most are hand written but there is one set of typed recipes on Herald Tribune Home Institute paper.Recipes include: Genuine Bay Rum, Cold Slaw Dressing, Preserved Strawberries, Orange Marmalade, Sour Milk Cake, Cake Pie with Fruit, Cookies, Current Wine, Confection of Senna (which is on.....
Price: $45.00
Pasta, Recipes
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Lagomarsino & Cuneo, c.1874. Printed tri-fold pamphlet (6" by 3.75") with six different recipes for macaroni and vermicelli produced by Lagomarsino & Cuneo, "Steam manufacturers of over 100 different kinds of macaroni, vermicelli & fancy paste" based in Philadelphia. Boasts the "Highest Premium Awarded" from the Franklin Institute.....
Price: $85.00
Patent Medicine,Advertising to Women
New York, New York: John F. Henry & Co., 1882. A book of recipes marketing patent medicines to families, specifically housewives in search of effective family medicines for ailments ranging from consumption to scrofula. Includes interesting or helpful content such as populations of U.S. States and Territories, legal rates of.....
Price: $125.00
children's cooking,
Children's Press Inc., 1946. Chicago: Children's Press Inc, 1946 light surface wear 12 pp linen book with illustrated covers Full color picture book with basic instructions for children on cooking a meal including ingredients, preparation information on setting a table Measures 9 1/2" x 13"
Price: $26.00
Cook Book, Advertising & Promotion
New York: C. A. Coffin & Rogers, 1880. A 32 pp booklet. wraps. Middletown, NY. Artistic printing - covers with numerous decorative devices. McMonagle and Rogers produced premium fruit flavors and was founded in 1868 Recipes for cakes, creams, puddings and sauces and interestingly enough includes a veal loaf and.....
Price: $90.00
Commonplace Book,
A hand constructed booklet measuring 6" x 3 3/4" with an array of factual data from the year 1837 embellished with historical events from as early as the 15th century. A few facts of interest: -The death of King William the 4th took place in June, and the ascension to.....
Price: $225.00
Beauty,Dream Interpretation,Love, Patent Medicine
Buffalo, New York: Dr. Pierce's Clinic, 1920s. A booklet marketed to women advertising Dr. Pierce's medicines and remedies, featuring a host of content sure to interest young ladies such as dream interpretation, recipes for home cooking and candies, and tea leaf fortune reading. Overtly markets to young women seeking beauty.....
Price: $150.00
Prunes,Agricultural Associations,Marketing Nutrition
Salem, Oregon: Willamette Valley Prune Association, 1909. An attractively designed booklet of recipes using Oregon prunes, promoting the fruit as an essential part of a nutritious diet for the whole family: "A handful of uncooked prunes in the children's lunch box will be greatly appreciated and furnishes a healthful diet".....
Price: $85.00
Canning and Preserving,Women's Work,Gender Roles
New York, New York: Standard Oil Company of New York, c.1915. Promotional booklet for Parowax, a brand of "clean and wholesome" paraffin wax sold to homemakers for sealing jam and jelly jars. Marketed as a multi-use product, with additional uses in "washing and general household use". Includes recipes for different.....
Price: $100.00
Advertising Ephemera,Citrus Fruit Wrappers,Cocktail Recipes
United States: 1930s? A group of five (5) printed citrus fruit wrappers from American citrus producers, each printed on tissue paper and measuring approx. 9.5" by 9.5. Citrus fruit wrappers are ephemera produced to both protect the fruit in transit and represent the brand in a colorful way. These examples.....
Price: $175.00
Social History, Work & Leisure,
c1915. A 14 pp booklet promoting the outdoor life in two locations - June 15-Sept 10th Eliot ME and Dec 1 - April 15 Green Acre SC. Images from photographs throughout. The camp was open to any one who wished to live a simple and sane life out-of-doors, to study.....
Price: $125.00
Lace Pattern instructions, Potpourri Recipes
1881-1902. The diary through mid-March is absent and begins with a short news clipping for Torchon Lace. This is followed by manuscript instructions for Drusella Lace followed by a random pencil sketch of a farm house. This is followed by Hansom Wide Lace, Knitted Diana Lace, Pretty Knit Lace. Mid-April.....
Price: $95.00
Gastronomy, Recipes, Domestic Life
New York: The Camp Fire Stores Co. A book of sandwich recipes "in handy form" designed for "quick reference and convenience" in the home (p. [1]). Includes fifteen pages of sandwich recipes and a page of "suggestions for making sandwiches" at the rear. Examples of recipes include Oyster Sandwiches, Peanut.....
Price: $100.00
Spices,Cooking and Homemaking,Advertising to the American Housewife
Des Moines, Iowa: Tone Bros. 1924. Printed booklet advertising Tone Bros. brand spices to American homemakers in 1924. Featuring an image of a smiling grandmother on the front with her baked goods, the booklet aims to appeal to American housewives who want to impress their friends and family with flavorful.....
Price: $100.00
Almanacs and Receipt Books, Calendars, Woodcuts, Family Medicine, Turtle Soup
New York and Philadelphia: Turner & Fisher, 1846. An 1846 almanac and family receipt book for "House-Keepers" published specifically "For the Middle and Western States". Upper wrapper features a woodcut depicting a white woman cooking over a fireplace next to her son and Black house servant in the background; in.....
Price: $125.00
Body Image,Weight Loss or Reducing,Dieting and Nutrition,Health and Weight,Stigma of Weight,Hollywood and Body Image
United States: 1933-1970. A collection of ten (10) items relating to weight loss and dieting in America between 1933 and 1970. Each of the items focuses intensely on weight loss to improve body image, with an emphasis on dieting methods such as calorie counting/restriction and "low-carb" dieting. Often the booklets.....
Price: $550.00
food & wine, women's work, women's history, charity, recipe
Winsted, CT: M. W. Dowd & Co., 1883. A book written by two housewives for other housewives full of recipes which would enable them to make a different dessert each night for husbands and families for a single year. The recipes used in the book were gathered from a variety.....
Price: $150.00
Food Science, Nutrition, Body Image
Hollywood, California: The Food Chemistry Educational Institute, 1933. A brief science-based pocket guide to gaining weight for those who "are thin because of their chemical makeup" (p. 4). Includes detailed descriptions of how digestion and exercise can affect weight, and offers a dietary regime with recipes. Organizes foods into different.....
Price: $150.00
Rose Markward Knox,The American Family,Women's Work,Labor Saving and Economical Products for Housewives
Johnstown, New York: Charles B. Knox Gelatine Co., 1932. A brief recipe booklet published by Charles B. Knox Gelatine Co. offering American housewives dozens of meal ideas, and promoting gelatin as a healthful, economical, and labor-saving product for the family. Showcases the versatility of the product and its use in.....
Price: $125.00
food & wine, women's work, home economics, brewing, recipe
New York, NY: Robert Sears, 1848. A book for housewives containing numerous receipts, or recipes, as they are now called. Both words are derived from the Latin verb 'recipere' which means to 'receive or take'. The book provides 'receipts' for a variety of items, from over two dozen different types.....
Price: $75.00