CookBook: Useful Information and Budget of Fun; Good Food and Good Humor Are The Chief Requirements of Good Health
Hoboken, NJ: RB Davis CO., 1904. Staplebound. 64 pages, 17 x 11.5 cm. The R.B. Davis Manufacturing’s Dry Yeast Baking Powder Cookbook begins with a dedication to housewives who have been misled into a purchase of Baking Powder with Cream of Tartar and to those sufferers of Bright’s Disease which they attribute to this same substance. The booklet is a combination jokebook, cookbook, advertisement for the Dry Yeast Baking Powder. It has a selection of jokes largely targeting marginalized groups, alternating with its simple recipes for sponge cake and roast beef for the average homemaker. 1 cm tear on front cover, some wear along corners and spine, pages crisp and clear. Dark blue illustrated wraps. Very good. Item #3034
Price: $35.00