Recipe book vintage

Includes index

Cookbooks are a valuable resource for studying social history, ethnic traditions, folk medicine, and gender studies - and of course, culinary history! How to find cookbooks in the MSU library catalog

This vintage cookbook page includes recipes for coffee cake, fruit bread, corn bread and cinnamon buns. A colorful illustration of each of the baked goods, ready to serve, is included to the right of the recipes on the page. I scanned the original page from Any one can Bake, published by the Royal Baking Powder Co. in 1929 (copyright was not renewed). Click...Read More

Many folks love cooking from old recipes handed down through generations. But keeping these treasures organized and in good condition is tricky. Vintage recipe cards, sized 4x6, come in handy for this.

2 p. 18 cm

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Myrna gave me a copy of the 1946 Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book that I treasure; this is a version of this iconic cookbook our mother used. It is notable because although it is a “red plaid” cookbook, it is surprisingly thin, with only 200 or so pages. My own first copy of the cookbook is from 1968, and probably weighs twice as much. But what really interested me is that this 1940’s version is the only cookbook I’ve seen with an entire chapter devoted to “Leftovers”. This is pretty…