Tarrytown, NY: General Foods Corp. 1931. Staplebound. 31 pages, 19.5 cm x 12.5 cm. The Calumet Baking Book begins with a letter from the editor of the book, Marion Jane Parker, a General Foods Corporation employee at the time. This letter and the next 5 pages all serve as advertismets..... More
Chicago, IL: Jacques Manufacturing Co., 1935. Staplebound wraps. The Cook’s Book, a popular recipe book in the early 20th century, was printed by KC Baking Powder (now defunct) as an advertisement. Before its acquisition by Clabber Girl, KC Baking Powder was known for the slogan “Same price for over __..... More
Paris: Blondel La Rougery, 1925. Third Edition. Wraps. 104 pages. 20.5 x 13 cm. Text in French: Translation - The Best Culinary Recipes for Fish & Shellfish. Pages lightly toned, covers heavily soiled. Covered in protective mylar. Bookplate states: This book is a gift from THE SONTHEIMER FOUNDATION Greenwich, Connecticut..... More
Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1923. Hardcover. 380 pages. 19.5 x 13 cm. An extensive early volume on vegetable cookery including do's & don'ts, special untencils, the value of steaming, proper seasons for various vegetables, and a voluminous amount of recipes. Interior clean and crisp, boards lightly bumped. Bookplate states..... More
Boston: Bailey, Arthur H., 1890-91. Wraps. 2 pages. 28 x 22 cm. "The Finest Concentrated Clam Juice, Process and Product patented in the United States and Canada. Made from young Cultivated Clams on the New England Coast. The Original and Only Genuine CLAM JUICE on the Market." Sold in the..... More
Chicago, IL: Calumet Baking Powder Company, 1922. 26th Edition. staplebound. 81 pages, 22 x 13 cm. The 26th Edition of Reliable Recipes by the Calumet Baking Powder Co. has pages of recipes separated by full glossy front and back color pictures of some of the treats. The cover features an..... More
New York: Church & Dwight Co., 1924. Staplebound wraps. 28 pages. 14.5 x 9 cm. Facts worth knowing about Cow Brand Baking Soda as a proved medicinal agent. Includes remedies for acne, colic, hives, sunburn, tooth ache, etc. "He who cures a disease may be the skillfulest, but he that..... More
San Francisco, CA: Del Monte Creamery, c. 1930. Folded. Unpaginated. [8 pp], 15.5 x 13 cm. folded. This fold out advertisement for Del Monte Creamery's milk and other dairy products includes eight recipes made with the products printed onto perforated cards that can be torn out from the larger pamphlet..... More
Paris: ALBIN MICHEL, 1929. Hardcover. 374 pages. 18 x 12 cm. French cookbook with 290 recipes from writers, painters, actors, and politicians. Pages lightly toned otherwise clean. Boards clean as well. Text in French. Bookplate states: This book is a gift from THE SONTHEIMER FOUNDATION Greenwich, Connecticut. More
Boston: E. A. RICH COMPANY, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. 147 pages. 20 x 13.5 cm. An interesting combination of cookbook and promotional publication all in one. This cookbook opens up with an introduction of the Boston Fish Market Corporation and the new (early 1900's) Wharf in South Boston, built -..... More
Los Angeles, CA: The Joannes-Splane Co., [~1920]. Staplebound. 16 pages, 14.5 x 7.5 cm. The Joannes-Splane Co.’s Twenty-One Different Ways to Make Biscuits advertises the West Coast division of baking powder company Ben-Hur. This factory opened in 1917, as industry began to boom in California, shifting tides away from the..... More
Fairport, NY: H.A. & J. De Land & Co., 1880. 10 pages, 23.5 cm x 19 cm. Wonder-eyes and Whatfor Part II by Eleanor W. Talbot is a children’s book produced by H.A. & L.J. DeLand & Co. the manufacturers of DeLand’s Chemical Baking Powder. The first page has a...... More
New York: The Spice Mill Publishing Company, 1906. Hardcover. 86 pages, A byproduct of the baking powder wars, fought at the end of the 20th century. After a stable rising agent was established, baking powder became a profitable commodity with over hundred manufacturers popping up across the country. To win..... More
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Taipei: 1969, 1974. Hardcover. Volume I - 400 pages. 21.5 x 19 cm. Volume II - 386 pages. 21.5 x 19 cm. Traditional Chinese cooking including Family Style Meals and Formal Meals written in Mandarin & English. Color illustrated full page photos of finished recipes. Volume I features: Dishes of..... More
General Mills, Inc., 1934. PH. Staplebound wraps. 52 pages. Beginning with an endorsement by Raymond Hertwig, Secretary of the Committee on Food of the American Medical Association, stating: "Bleached White Flour Wholesome," letters of recommendations by two doctors, and a forward by "Betty Crocker," this recipe book is filled with..... More
Albany, NY: THEPURE Baking Powder Company, 1904. Paperback. 128 pgs, 14 x 19 cm. THEPURE Cook Book, compiled by the owner and principal of the Greater New York Cooking School, Gesine Lemcke, was obtained by customers of THEPURE Baking Powder, as the footnotes instruct, by sending in their name and..... More
LYON: Valentin, 1923. Wraps. 396 pages. 15.5 x 9.5 cm. Text in French, Title page translation: New Complete Manual for the Charcutier, the Butcher, the Renderer, dealing with modern pork breeding and containing the best ways of killing and cutting up pork, beef, veal, sheep and horses and preparing them..... More
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Truth or Consequences, NM: GATEWAY PUBLISHING CO., ND. Spiral_bound. 110 pages. 23 x 15.5 cm. The Tiger Booster Club was organized with the idea of helping the students who participate in sports at Hot Springs High School to have the equipment they need. Filled with recipes for for wild game..... More
Chicago, IL: Jaques Manufacturing Co., [1940-1942]. staplebound, backed with cloth tape. 28 pages, 21 cm x 10 cm. This KC Baking Powder Grocer’s Want Book was published between 1940 and 1942, and was given out complimentary to grocers alongside their purchases of KC Baking Powder to stock their stores. The..... More
Rumford, RI: Rumford Chemical Works, 1932. staplebound. 64 pages, 12.5 x 18.5 cm. The Rumford Common Sense Cook Book includes pages of recipes, cooking terms, and instructions. One page informs the homemaker of how to bake “by temperature” as a helpful tidbit to those who had just acquired a gas..... More
New York: Walker and Company, 1997. Hardcover. 63 pages. 17.5 x 13.5 cm. Cod spans a thousand years and four continents. It tells of the extraordinary Basques, who first commercialized cod in medieval times; of Bartholomew Gosnold, who named Cape Cod in 1602; and of Clarence Birdseye, who founded an..... More
San Francisco: The Blair-Murdock Company, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. 170 pages. 20 x 15 cm. Recipes from 60 countries including Algeria, Bolivia, Finland, Hindustan, Java, Persia, Turkey, and many more. The Panama Pacific International Exposition was the 1915 Worlds Fair held in San Francisco, California. Taking over three years to..... More
Johnstown, NY: Charles B. Knox Gelatine Co. Inc., 1932. staplebound. 32 pages, 17 x 11.5 cm. Meals for Three presents a collection of recipes to be made with the Knox Sparkling Gelatin products that drift all across the culinary landscape from Calves' Hearts to Cocoa Tutti Frutti. These molded gelatin..... More
Boston, MA: Mrs. Lincoln's Baking Powder Company, 1899. staplebound. 48 pages, 17.5 cm x 11cm. The Mrs. Lincoln’s Baking Powder Company Cookbook features an introduction from Mary J. Lincoln herself, a culinary celebrity at the time of the book’s publication. Lincoln wrote the Boston Cookbook, the preeminent cookbook of the..... More
New York: George W. Stewart, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. 95 pages. 21 x 16 cm. The history of spices is an ancient and romantic tradition. For centuries spices have been associated with the travel and trade, eating and drinking, and life affirming traditions. This book calls attention to the many..... More