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
Desserts, Macaroons, Cooking and Baking, Uncle Sam in Advertising
Chicago, Illinois: Chapman & Smith Company, c.1899. Finally, a way to make macaroons at home! Simply add egg white, stir, bake, and eat with Chapman's Macaroon Powder. This pocket-sized advertising pamphlet includes four (4) recipes using the product: Almond Macaroons, Almond Meringues, Almond Fingers, and Almond Quickies. Includes an illustration.....
Price: $75.00
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
Food Flavorings, Family Medicines, Perfume and Colognes
Lancaster, Massachusetts: Gallup & Safford, 1882. A booklet of recipes advertising Colton's Select Flavors (i.e. food flavorings) and Colton's Nervine Strengthening Bitters, a patent or family medicine that purports to treat or cure everything from nervousness and headaches to dyspepsia and indigestion. In advertising Colton's flavorings, the booklet includes dozens.....
Price: $85.00
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
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
dye, dyeing, textile manufacturing, handwritten
[Early 1800s]. A handwritten recipe for dyeing cloth scarlet. The unknown author refers to the instructions as a "receipte" which is a misspelling of the word 'receipt', which historically was used instead of the more relatively modern word of 'recipe'. Both words are derived from the Latin verb 'recipere' which.....
Price: $175.00
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
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
Wartime Rationing,WWII,Fighting from the Homefront,Women in Wartime
Minneapolis, Minnesota: General Mills, Inc., c.1943. Two (2) WWII-era bulletins for American homemakers, focusing on the importance of food rations: "Food is Women's Weapon with Which to Fight the War ... Use it Wisely". Food rations were important for conserving food for the troops abroad, and led to women creating.....
Price: $400.00
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 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