Cooking & Food
A Handbook of Fish Cookery
This is a very practical book concerning the cooking of fish. The author does not limit herself simply to recipes, but also adds sound advic…
Betty Crocker's Bisquick Cook Book
Betty Crocker, a creation of General Mills, has become synonymous with good American cooking and nearly every household had one of her cook …
Canned Fruit, Preserves, and Jellies
Fruit is a favourite with many of us. But if you have fruit in your garden or collect it otherwise, you know that the season ends too soon. …
Oysters and Fish
Would it not be beneficial, were the average American to substitute fish for the everlasting steak and chop of the breakfast-table?For the s…
A Poetical Cook-Book
This is an interesting mix of recipes and poetry about cookery and food. The author has written this book during and in the aftermath of the…
The Calumet Book of Oven Triumphs!
Published by the General Foods Corporation, featuring Calumet Baking baking powder, these recipes cover a variety of baked goods from biscui…
Billy in Bunbury
This 1924 poem/recipe book, designed as promotional material for the Royal Baking Powder Company, is set in the Oz community of Bunbury. Lit…
The Little Tea Book
After all, tea is the drink! Domestically and socially it is the beverage of the world. There may be those who will come forward with their …
The History of the Art of Tablesetting
The art of table setting is one of the lost arts in the modern household. Do we just not bother anymore or did we collectively forget how to…
The New Dr. Price Cookbook
This cookbook was published by the Royal Baking Powder Co. to promote the use of Dr. Price's Phosphate Baking Powder in a broad range of rec…
The Banana
Bananas are the most popular fruit in the world according to the BBC. In this book we see how this fruit that is grown in limited areas of t…
30 Tempting Spaghetti Meals
This is a small booklet of recipes featuring Franco American products produced as a promotional piece by the Campbell Soup Company, but cont…
Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes
Indulge your sweet tooth with Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes by Maria Parloa, a delightful collection of recipes that celebrates the rich flavo…
A Course of Lectures on the Principles of Domestic Economy and Cookery
"This course of lectures is designed to meet the wants of two classes of persons:First—Those who are experienced housekeepers, familiar…
Food Values
Food Values by Dr. Albert Philip Sy is a concise guide that emerged during the tumultuous times of World War I, serving as a practical resou…
Cookie 'n' Cracker Cookin'
This is a short recipe book published by the United Biscuit Company of America, later to become the Keebler Company. Each recipe features o…
A Treatise on Foreign Teas
What would England be without tea? It is difficult to imagine, but there was a time in which tea was not quite as ubiquitous in Europe as it…
Choice Recipes and Menus using Canned Foods
American Can Company has compiled here 130 recipes featuring a broad spectrum of commercially canned foods including meats, fish, vegetables…
The Book of Ices
Summer is around the corner, time to make ice cream! This volume contains tried and true recipes for all kinds of cold drinks and desserts t…
Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of Six
Juliet Corson has put together a few books on economic housekeeping, and this is a fine example. Almost 150 years after publication (1878), …