Meals Without Meat Cook Book - 1943 Cook Booklet From the Culinary Arts Institute, Chicago, Ill. (1943) The cover is titled Cooling Dishes for Hot Weather Cook Book, but the title page reads The American Woman’s Meals Without Meat Cook Book. * Starring Eggs, Highlighting Cheese, Fish is a Favorite, Salads for Summer, Fresh & Dried Vegetables, Try Nuts & Rice, Macaroni, Spaghetti & Noodles, Sauces: The Final Touch. Book includes recipes such as Eggs Stuffed with Mushrooms, Eggs Baked in Potatoes, Cheese and Hominy, Asparagus Loaf, Cheese Custard, Tomato Rarebit, Noodle Oyster Loaf with Creamed Eggs, Chicory Crown Salad, Kippered Herring Salad, Stuffed Prune Salad, Eggplant Stuffed with Nuts, Soybean Loaf, Peanut Scrapple, Cucumber Sauce for Fish, Ripe Olive Sauce, Spanish Sauce, more. Good condition with some wear to the cover which is split and has pulled away from the staples. 48 pages.


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Circa: 1943
Publisher: Culinary Arts Institute  

Rawleigh’s Good Health Guide 1955 Almanac and Cook Book From "Your Rawleigh Dealer" – that’s the company that sells the extracts, seasoning, salves, and food products. Filled with recipes, ads, and almanac information plus 1950s wisdom such as "Girls who smell like bouquets are the girls who collect them." Recipes include Sausage and Corn Casserole, Grape Cobbler, Graham Cracker Nut Cake, Ribbon Fudge, Holiday Coffee Cake, Malted Milk Ice Cream, Corn Relish, Vegetable Loaf, and more. Fair condition, readable. 32 pages

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Circa: 1955
Publisher: Rawleigh  

Rawleigh’s Good Health Guide 1954 Almanac and Cook Book From "Your Rawleigh Dealer" – that’s the company that sells the extracts, seasoning, salves, and food products. Filled with recipes, ads, and almanac information. Recipes include Split Pea Soup, Scalloped Pig’s Feet, Salmon Pot Pie, Baked Fish Fillets in Cheese Sauce, Pineapple Coffee Cake, Black Cherry Conserve, King’s Jam, Spanish Beans, Cabbage Casserole with Bacon, Cinnamon Sweet Potatoes, Seedless Grape and Celery Ring, Ribbon Birthday Cake, Chocolate Loaf Cake, Cream Puddings with Raspberries, Raisin Lemon Cookies, Hawaiian Creams, Baked Candy, Fruit Fudge, Apple Macaroon, and more. Fair condition, readable. 32 pages

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Circa: 1954
Publisher: Rawleigh  

Eddie Doucette’s Favorite Recipes – Vintage Cook Booklet Courtesy of the Midwest Super Mart of Evanston, Illinois, this charming cook booklet contains some wonderful recipes. It unfortunately does not include a date but I estimate it as being circa late 1950s to early 1960s. It looks like a self-published booklet (an early zine) and does not include pictures. Some of the recipes include Butterscotch Meringue Apple Pie, Bride’s Cake, Ham Balls Casserole Bavarian, Joe Froggers (a spice cookie), Spicy Chicken a la Chinese, Sour Cream Biscuits, Short Ribs That Are Different (Sweet and Sour Like), Marshmacnut Salad, Lemon Barbecue Sauce, Krazy Kake with Fluffy Pink Peppermint Frosting, Forgotten Torte, and more. Good condition. 36 pages.

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Circa: 1955-1965
Publisher: Unknown  

Georgia Historic Homes and Sites Cookbook 1981 Booklet combines recipes with a guide to historic places including Callaway Gardens, Oak Hill in Rome, the Vann House in Spring Place, Traveler’s rest in Toccoa, Lovejoy Plantation in Lovejoy, Spring Opera House in Columbus, and several others. Recipes are included for Cheese Pear, Whiskey Sour Punch, Golden Nuggets and Luau Sauce, Brittlebread of the DeSoto Hilton Hotel, Stuffed Flounder Scarbrough, Carolina Trifle, Peach Chutney, Yule Log Cake, Confederate Cucumber Mousse and Tomatoes, Fried Pies, Corn Pone, Moravian Christmas Cookies, and more. Good condition with some wear and an inscription on the inside front cover. 32 pages.

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Circa: 1981
Publisher: Cartwheel Co.  

Cook Book - Favorite Recipes from Royal Neighbor Kitchens Published in 1960 by Royal Neighbors of America, Supreme Office, Rock Island, Illinois. This 9-inch tall cook book has a plastic binding at the top so that it can stand on your counter like an easel – easy to read! The book is filled with recipes from Appetizers to Vegetables and the pages are very full of recipes in double columns, since there aren’t many illustrations. Good home-cooking recipes include: Horseradish Bacon Dip, Angel Food Doughnuts, Dutch Apple Cake, Mystery Cake, Date-Scotch Picnic Loaf, Potato Cake, Applets, Cashew Nut Casserole (with Beef), Coconut Strawberry Cookies, Pineapple Crunchies, Cherry Pudding, Persimmon Pudding, New England Pumpkin Pudding, Mother’s Suet Pudding, Russian Steak, Spamburgers, Apple Meat Balls, Syrian Stew, Baked Salmon Spanish, Eggnog Pie, Zwieback Pie, Pineapple Lemon Pie, Cinnamon Candy Salad, 24-Hour Salad, Eggplant Souffle, Italian Plum Marmalade, Green Tomato Relish, and Watermelon Rind Pickles. 88 pages, but there are 5 to 8 recipes on most pages. Good condition with some wear.

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Circa: 1960
Publisher: Royal Neighbors of America  

Modern Method of Preparing Delightful Foods 1928 Cook Book Published by the Corn Products Refining Co. of New York, NY in 1928 and written by Ida Bailey Allen. 109 pages. Vintage hardcover booklet contains household advice, food history from colonial times, the story of Mondamin the Legend of Corn, and recipes such as: Sally Lunn, Shirred Eggs with Crumbs, Codfish Omelet, Corned Beef Hash Au Gratin, Salmon Bisque, Bread and Raisin Balls, Lemon Nutmeg Sauce, Mock Scallops, Steamed Brown Bread, Butterscotch Bread Squares, Caramel Tapioca, Scotch Cup Cakes, Orange Ice, Lobster Savory Canapes, Carrot and Rice Soup, Beef Steak and Kidney Pie, Spanish Casserole, Jellied Caramel Cream, Raisin Nut Omelet, Scotch Scones, Jelly Layer Cake, Steamed Graham Cracker or Cake Crumb Pudding, Vanilla or Chocolate Blanc Mange, Jellied Chicken Cream Salad, Christmas Pudding, Salt Water Taffy, and much more, including a six-page section on caring for linens, an ad for LINIT laundry starch, and instructions on making mayonnaise with Mazola oil. The author stresses the use of Mazola oil and Karo syrup, which is not surprising, considering that the publisher is the Corn Products Refining Co. Small hardcover booklet measures 6.75 inches high and is in good condition with normal wear that can be expected for its age. A thoroughly delightful glimpse of our past.

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Circa: 1928
Publisher: Corn Products Refining Co.  

Aunt Sammy’s Radio Recipes – 1976 Cook Booklet Selections from Aunt Sammy’s Radio Recipes and USDA Favorites (1976) – In 1926, the USDA Bureau of Home Economics and the Radio Service created the character of Aunt Sammy, who was said to be the wife of Uncle Sam. Menus and recipes were the highlights of Aunt Sammy’s radio show, which faded out after the Great Depression in 1934. Booklet contains recipes from the 1920s as well as some from the 1970s. Some of the recipes you’ll find in this booklet are: Fricasseed Chicken with Dumplings, Smothered Ham with Sweet Potatoes, Harvard Beets, Baked Cucumbers, Browned Parsnips, Scalloped Onions and Peanuts, Fried Apples and Bacon, Cabbage and Carrot Salad, Boston Brown Bread, Baked Caramel Custard, Sour Cream Pie, Date Pudding, Baked Soybeans, Moussaka, Eggplant-Tomato Casserole, Cabbage cooked in milk, Squash Bread, Yellow Chiffon Cake, and more. Good condition. 24 pages.

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Circa: 1976
Publisher: USDA  

Spotlight on Foods 1960s Cook Book Published by the National Live Stock and Meat Board in Chicago, Illinois. 38 pages. Vintage booklet contains meat charts, roasting and broiling timetables, instructions for various ways of cooking meat, and recipes such as: Beef Cabbage Rolls, Pickle Pot Roast, Veal Stew with Pepper Biscuits, Beef Heart Casserole, Live a la Stroganoff, Cheese-Stuffed Pork Chops, Raisin-Rice Lamb Chops, Corned Beef Cones, Bacon-Cheese Filling, Double Crust Pork Pie, Frankfurter Surprise, many more meat recipes and some desserts that use lard as shortening (use your own judgment, folks, you may want to be kind to your arteries): Chocolate Confetti Pie, Pineapple-Peach Pie, Cranberry Coffee Cake, Apple-Plum Dumplings, and more. Softcover booklet measures 6.75 inches high and is in good condition with some water-induced wrinkling on the back cover and a rip in the front cover near the stapled edge.

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Circa: 1960-1970
Publisher: National Live Stock and Meat Board  

1970s Treasury of Christmas Ideas Booklet From the Illinois Power Company - no date given, but one page mentions caring for the "fabrics of the 70s" so this booklet probably dates from around the winter of 1970. Some recipes, plus crafty decorating instructions, gift suggestions (all electric, of course! "There's a plug at one end...magic at the other.") Cookies, beverages, appetizers, main dishes, turkey, turkey leftovers, desserts. The recipes include Coffee Bon-Bons, English Matrimonials, Caramel Crisps, Finnish Christmas Rolls, Turkey Waffle Stack-Ups, Orange Savarin, Holiday Fig Delight, Mincemeat Parfaits, and more. Pictures of electric appliances of the day (as suggested gifts). Nicely illustrated ideas for decorating your house with outdoor lights. 31 pages. Very good condition.

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Circa: 1970
Publisher: Illinois Power Company