As part of my ongoing project of digitizing my vintage/antique cookbooks so I can consult them for recipes without worrying about more spills hitting the pages, I've scanned and cleaned (sort of) the pages of this little gem:
Good Things to Eat, compiled and published by The Domestic Science Class, Peoria (Illinois) Women's Club. My copy of this book was much abused before it joined my library. There is no title page, no copyright information (and so, no date I can use to tell you precisely how old the book is). The best I can do is hazard a guess or two, based on the condition of the book itself, and of the items tucked amid its pages.
Begin with the condition of the book: it's a two-ring-binder which, when I first picked it up, was already almost literally hanging together by a thread (I think I counted about eight remaining on the back, while the front cover was completely detached). By the time I opened it to study the contents, the least bit of handling caused the last threads to surrender.
The pages, too, have seen better days (although I've seen worse). Many of what once seem to have been dark blue ink printed on light blue paper are splotched, foxed, and all are badly yellowed, as were the newspaper clipping and the instruction sheet between the pages of the canning section. I chose to convert most of the book's pages to basic black and white images for maximum clarity. Also, here are the extra pieces:
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| I like my chocolate cake very dark brown… |
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| here's the back of the cake article, |
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| in two parts. |
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| Sure-Jell. We've been depending on it… |
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| …FOREVER |
These would indicate my copy of the book is at least 85 years old, and quite possibly older.
Back to the book itself, and something about the way I'm posting it:
At the end of each chapter, the authors included two leaves of blank pages for "MY OWN RECIPES", a few of which the original owner did take advantage of. The rest, being blank, I deemed non-essential for these posts. I have not disposed of the actual pages, but ask that you use your imagination as you scroll through here: where you come across a single pic, understand it was originally accompanied by more, so the pagination is not as completely befouled as it first appears.
I do hope to preserve the original, in all its remaining pieces, so I've put the front and back covers into the outer pockets of a pair of acid-free 7"x9" binders, and tucked the pages inside, in acid-free sleeves of a corresponding size.
Storing the spine will be an issue for another day, when I can play in Pop's workshop (or ask him to engineer something for me).
But most of all, I can now peruse the pages without worrying about more corners crumbling in my hot little hands, and I hope you'll enjoy doing the same, here.
Without further ado, let us begin.
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| Inside front cover, explaining the loose-leaf format |
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| English Walnut Toffy (part 1) |
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| English Walnut Toffy (part 2) |
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| p 7: BREAD Apple Pancakes; Mother Sibley's Griddle Cakes; Aunt Polly's Sour Milk Griddle Cakes; Raw Potato Pancakes; Parker House Johnny Cake |
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| p 8: BREAD Old Fashioned Buckwheat Cakes; Johnny Cakes for Breakfast; Waffles; Sour Cream Waffles; Crisp Waffles |
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| p 9: BREAD Sunshine Toast; Baking Powder Biscuits; Cheese Biscuits; Sunday Hot Bread; Sally Lunn Bread |
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| p 10: BREAD Orange Bread; Grape Nut Bread; Corn Bread (1); Corn Bread (2); Graham, Bran Bread |
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| p 11: BREAD Bran Bread; Steamed Brown Bread; Boston Brown Bread Steamed; Baked Brown Bread; Rolls and Coffee Cake |
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| p 12: BREAD Ice Box Rolls; Denver Rolls; Biscuits; "Kneadless" Ice Box Dough |
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| p 13: BREAD Corn Flake Nut Bread; Cocoa Bread; Raised Nut Rolls; Rolls (1) |
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| p 14: BREAD Rolls (2); Butterscotch Rolls; Nut Bread (1); Nut Bread (2) |
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| p 15: BREAD Nut Bread (3); Nut Tea Ring; Peanut Bread; Dainty Breakfast Muffins |
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| p 16: BREAD Bacon Muffins; Four Minute Date Muffins; Cocoa Muffins; Graham Gems; Bran Muffins; Blueberry Muffins |
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| MY OWN RECIPES |
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| p 21: CAKES Orange Cake; Orange Icing; Delicious Cake; Lightning Cake; Sunshine Cake (1) |
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| p 22: CAKES Sunshine Cake (2); Feather Cake; Sour Cream Cake; Whipped Cream Cake; Caramel Cake |
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| p 23: CAKES Sunshine Layer Cake; Filling; Macaroon Cake; Frosting; Caramel Cake; Caramel Flavoring; Coconut Cake |
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| p 24: CAKES Golden Angel Food Cake; Swansdown Delicious Cake; White Cake; Angel Food Cake |
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| p 25: CAKES Washington Pie; Cream Filling; Pond Lily Cake; Filling; Sponge Cake (1) |
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| p 26: CAKES Mock Angel Food Cake; Sponge Cake (2); Never-Fail Sponge Cake; Yellow Frosting; Graham Cracker Cake |
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| p 27: CAKES Prune Cake; Prune Cake Filling; Apple Sauce Cake; Whole Wheat Apple Sauce Cake; Fudge Cake |
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| p 28: CAKES Devil's Food (1); Feather Chocolate Cake; Scotch Chocolate Cake; Delicious Chocolate Cake; Devil's Food Cake (2) |
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| P 29: CAKES French Chocolate Cake; Chocolate Nougat Cake; Boiled Icing; Eggless Devil's Food; Devil's Food Cake (3) |
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| p 30: CAKES Cocoa Cake; One Egg Chocolate Loaf Cake; Chocolate Mocha Cake; Date Nut Cake; Icing |
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| p 31: CAKES Date Loaf; Delicious Date Cake; New England Eggless Cake; Eggless Butterless Spice Cake; Mashed Potato Cake |
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| p 32: CAKES Hot Mashed Potato Cake; Spice Cake; Ginger Bread (1); Ginger Bread (2); Fruit Cake (1) |
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| p 33: CAKES Fruit Cake (2); Eggless, Butterless, Milkless Fruit Cake; Peanut Bar Cake; Nut Cake |
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| p 34: CAKES Silver Nut Cake; Nut Cake |
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| MY OWN RECIPES Swans down cake |
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| p 39: CANDY Candied Grape Fruit Peel; Burnt Almonds; Creamy Fudge; Fudge (1); Fudge (2) |
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| p 40: CANDY Never-Fail Fudge; Divinity Fudge; Peanut Butter Fudge; Mexican Caramels; Opera Caramels |
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| p 41: CANDY Divinity Candy; Salt Water Taffy |
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| MY OWN RECIPES Grape Juice |
For the rest of the pages to this cookbook, you can scroll down through the next few posts, or you can click to find part 2 here, part 3 here, part 4 here, and the conclusion (part 5) here.
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