Cooking

Here's a nice little 80-page softcover book about holidays in different countries. The book is organized by continent and then by country. It was compiled and published in 1964 by the American Home Economics Association. A PREVIOUS OWNER'S name is handwritten on title page. Interior pages are clean and unmarked.

From the Editors of Better Homes and Gardens, this First Edition hard cover is a great one! How to decorate your home and tree, recipes for the holidays and last minute gift ideas are all included in this How To book. Handmade and home cooked are once again adjectives that carry a sense of value. Here are ideas for making your home special! The book is in As New condition with no apparent defects, inside or out.

This First Edition hardbound copy of Gifts from a Country Kitchen was edited by Marion Ham and illustrated by Carolyn Ringland. With 168 pages including index, it contains numerous black/white and color photographs & illustrations. Recipes and step-by-step instructions for making more than 200 delicious gifts and festive decorations. Previous owner's name handwritten inside front. No apparent defects inside or out. Also includes separate 8-page softcover booklet with patterns for Creative Gift Bags You Can Make in Minutes!

Whether you are a timid novice or an acknowledged dessert artist, there is something for you in these 400 pages of mouth-watering glories. Chocolate cakes, cookies, pies, puddings, confections, indescribables, the World's Best Hot Fudge Sauce and more. Written by Maida Heatter; illustrated by Toni Evans. 428 pages. Index. Previous owner's name hand written inside. No other defects apparent, inside or out!

Illustrated by Ray Skibinski and in its First Printing, this one's a great choice for the cookie baker! It's always time for homemade cookies and here you'll find hundreds of new recipes for not only old favorites, but new cookies for special occasions, holidays, club meetings, kids and grownups! All have been tested in the Betty Crocker Kitchens, as well as in homes across the country! 96 pages. Soft covers. Index. No apparent defects, inside or out.

Emphasizing the use of whole grains and the practice of baking as a family experience, Ken Haedrich wrote this hardcover guide for stress-free holiday baking. The 268-page book provides 125 recipes for wholesome holiday treats and covers such issues as mailing baked gifts, working with yeast, and baking with children. Indexed. No apparent defects, inside or out! Dust jacket has very minor wear to edges/corners. Apparent First Edition.

Keep on the Sunny Side of Life Book by Kellogg's 5 1/4 inches by 7 1/4 inches. It's dated 1933 and features a colorful image of a happy family and their Terrier dog To Keep Happy, Keep Well -- a new way of living . This starts off with a section on Public Enemy Number 1 - can you guess what it is? According to Kellogg's it's constipation :-) The entire booklet touts the good health rewards of consuming bran. There are recipes, and a 7-day diet to correct constipation, as well as an Ideal Weight, According to Height listing. Super graphic of very chic 1930's women at a scale. (See second picture)

This is a recipe book for early Jell-O recipes dated 1931. It is approximately 5 3/4 inches by 4 inches across. As you can see from the pictures, there are stains on the front and back cover. The stains don't go all the way through the booklet. I've included a scan of the middle pages so that you can see the clearness of the pages, as well as the slight rusting of the staples. This one includes info on the last few pages about how to mold your Jell-o, Jell-O Rules and pictures of Jell-O molds you can purchase at the bargain price of 25 cents - 6 individual sized molds or 1 large size. Also instructions for making ice cream. The back cover shows the actual box of Jell-O as it looked back then and lists Six pure fruit flavors . The price is set lower due to the staining on the cover, but it really is a nice copy despite these stains.

This fabulous hardcover cookbook is in very clean condition. It was put together by Sarah Ferguson, the Dutchess of York in conjuction with Weight Watchers. This 215 page book brings together great recipes that make you feel like you are not dieting. It gives the Weight Watchers points as well as calories, fats and carbohydrates.

Betty Crocker Hearty Casseroles & Skillet Dinners booklet. 1994. Contest winners. Te BEST new cassserole recipes. 96 pages. In very good condition and SHINY IN AND OUT.

Hershey Chocolate Company cooking pamphlet titled A Cookery Expert's New Recipes with an introduction by Woman's Editor from The Country Gentleman. It includes her pictures and her signature, but I'm at a loss as to what it says. The Chocolate and Cocoa Town is mentioned several times including under the aerial picture of Hershey, Pennsylvania. Lots of great recipes, and a Table of Food Values, comparing 1 pound of various Hershey products to other foods. Did you know that 1 pound of Hershey's milk chocolate has 2335 calories (at least back then!) and 1 pound of white bread has 1200 calories? I'm not sure what point they were trying to make, but it makes for amusing reading. It's just under 5 1/2 inches by 8 inches. This is undated, but I did some research on the company, the they used the Baby in the Bean logo from 1898 to 1936. That logo is evident on the picture on the back cover, so it falls sometime within that time frame. This has some problems as you can see from the pictures. The front cover and first page have what appears to be a food stain - doesn't appear to be water or grease, but it's not moldy at all, so I'm not sure what it is. The interior pages are in better condition. Even with those problems, it's nicely intact as far as the staples, with no tears except on the edge of the front page. The back cover itself would look awesome matted and framed in your kitchen! I think this is fairly rare. There's one on that famous auction site listed for $39.00 and I haven't found another anywhere.

No date, fold out, very good.

1939, fold out, very nice.

Some tasty recipes included are: Tuscan Bean Dip, Grecian Party Squares, Southwest Country Casserole, Peach Tea Freeze, Waffle Berry Bread Pudding, Bananas Foster Stir-fry and lastly, Peach Melba Flan. Great recipes to try on family and friends. ADD $3.00 SHIPPING TO ANYWHERE IN THE U.S.A.

Great recipes featured in this cookbook from Campbell's Soup Company consist of: Garden Swiss Steak, Best Ever Meat Loaf, Perfect Tuna Casserole, Souper Easy Quiche, Buffet Layered Salad and No Knead Onion Bread. A nice one to add to your cookbook library. ADD $3.00 SHIPPING TO ANYWHERE IN THE U.S.A.

The very best in dessert recipes and three different mini-volumes for dinners in a dash and do-ahead dinners. Family Circle Illustrated Library of Cooking, Volume 7. Rockville House Publishers, Inc. Copyright ©1972 The Family Circle, Inc. There is a small quarter-inch mark on the inside title page. The cover and remaining pages are crisp and clean. The binding is tight. This 126-page hardcover is in Very Good condition.

By Senderena Borrell, Alain Senderens, Jean-Bernard Naudin. Hardcover, 192 pages. Dining with Proust invites you into this great novelist's sublime fin-de-siecle world, where you'll feast on wine, sumptuous meals, and, of course, madeleines. The reader enters a gallery of vintage photographs, master paintings, excerpts from his masterpiece In Search of Lost Time, and recipes from the novel revised for the modern kitchen. We follow Proust's path, from his childhood in Combray to the Swanns' in Paris, through Wednesday suppers with Madame Verdurin to the high society of the Reveillon and Guermantes estates, and finally to the seacoast. Eat, drink, and celebrate the good life with the poets and artists of the day, among them Baudelaire, Valery, and Monet. Like its popular predecessor Monet's Table, Dining with Proust is a virtuoso blend of food, literature, art, and history. With sixty delicious, easy-to-follow recipes, and magnificent illustrations, here is a feast for the palate as well as the spirit.

This soft cover spiral bound cookbook has a multitude of great down to earth usable recipes. I tried a few and really liked the Steak Casserole and the Graham Bread. There are 186 pages including a nice index of recipes and some tabbed recipes. The cookbook is clean but does have a big stain on the back.

This fun soft cover cookbook was put out in 1976 by the Old Farmer's Almanac people. It has 64 pages of foods that the Colonial era folks would have eaten. The recipes are good, very wholesome and slightly modernized for our tastes.

This soft cover cookbook is the absolute best for Avocado cookery. It has 48 pages of dips, salads, appetizers and more.