Montreal, P.Q. The Borden Company, Limited, [1920s]. staplebound wraps. (32 pages, 12.5 x 16.5 cm) A corporate cookbook from The Borden Company, advertising their St. Charles brand evaporated milk with recipes from “every part of the country” and “by leading food experts”. It opens with a brief introduction about Gail..... More
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
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
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
Peekskill, NY: Fleischmann's Yeast, [~1939]. Folded. 8 pages, 16 x 8.5 cm. The Quick ‘n Easy Recipes for Fleischmann’s Royal fast rising dry yeast pamphlet advertises the fast rising dry yeast the company invented in the early years of WWI and popularized in the beginning of WWII, which set out..... 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
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
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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
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
New York, NY: Royal Baking Powder Co., 1922. Staplebound. 50 pages, 20 cm x 13 cm. The New Royal Cook Book is the 1922 release of the Royal Baking Powder Company in their line of advertisement recipe booklets. The cover has detailed, full color illustrations of some of the recipes..... More
New York, NY: Royal Baking Powder Co., 1902. Staplebound. 44 pages, 20.5 x 13 cm. This copy of Royal Baker and Pastry Cook, published in 1902, seems to have been distributed at purchase by the grocer. It has a stamp on the back reading “Lydecker Bros. Co. Dealers in Staple..... More
New York, NY: Royal Baking Powder Company, [~1927]. Folded. unpaginated, 6.5 x 7 cm. This small, folded Royal Fruit Flavored Gelatin leaflet contains three recipes to be made with the Royal brand’s flavored gelatin packages, which still compete with the Jell-O brand today. The description on the first page describes..... More
Providence, RI: Rumford Chemical Works, [1890-1906]. 1 card, 12 cm x 8 cm. This card bears the name of Professor Eben Horsford who was among the first to suggest replacing the expensive and imported cream of tartar in baking powder with calcium acid phosphate, which he patented a process to..... More
New Haven, CT: Steele & Emery Manufacturers, 1880. 1 card, 8 cm x 12 cm. This card is one of the variations of Czar Baking Powder trading cards produced, and it was used as another form of advertising for this early brand. Czar was most prominent in Connecticut where it..... More