Kitchen Fun:

Here's another one from my personal collection, bought for a pittance at auction, and I've actually tried a few of its recipes, over the years. Even though they're simple enough for an absolute beginner (in grade school, no less) to make, they're good, basic, go-to options when you don't want to have to think too hard about what you're doing in the kitchen.

I'll probably be using the fudge sauce recipe in the very near future, to go along with a nice chocolate pound cake… 

As always, click on any image to embiggen. copy/share if you like what you see

Inside front cover: Rules for Little Cooks

pg 1: title page/copyright info

pg 2: Contents (part 1)

pg 3: Contents (part 2)

pg 4: Bran Muffins

pg 5: Mammy's Corn Bread

Hoo, boy! That'll go over well with the woke crowd today!

pg 6: Party Biscuits

pg 7: Peanut Butter Cookies

pg 8: Chocolate Nut Drop Cookies

pg 9: Fairy Gingerbread

pg 10: Cinderella Cake

pg 11: Jam Frosting

pg 12: Spicy Apple Sauce

pg 13: Rainbow Dessert

pg 14: Tapioca Pudding

pg 15: Rice Whip

pg 16: Fudge Sauce

pg 17: Chocolate Milk;
Hot Chocolate

pg 18: Yummy Eggs

pg 19: Baked Salmon Loaf

pg 20: Old King Cole Spinach

pg 21: Surprise Carrot Loaf

pg 22: Circus Salad

pg 23: Choo-Choo Salad

pg 24: Chocolate Fudge

pg 25: Uncooked Fudge

pg 26: Penuche

pg 27: My Own Recipes
Beginning the First Lesson

Pg 28: My Own Recipes
(handwritten notes)

inside back cover: Table of Measurements

Another old cookbook: Victory Meat Extenders (part 1: pp 1 - 19)

This year, I promised The Bat that we could continue to pare back some of the many cookbooks we picked up over the years, mostly from auction (a few we actually bought from straightforward booksellers), but before I let them go to the thrift store or to friends' collections, I aim to scan the best of them for posterity. As usual. 

Here's today's entry, front half of the booklet, scanned and cleaned up in P'shop. As usual, please click on any image to embiggen, share linkage wherever you can, and give credit to the National Live Stock and Meat Board in Chicago, Ill.,  who published the book, and thanks to the Illinois Northern Utilities Company who, it would seem, gave this little thing out, gratis,  to its customers, roughly 80 years ago.

pg. 1: introduction

pp. 2, 3: A Guide in Figuring Your Meat Purchases

pp. 4, 5: New England Boiled Dinner; Beef Stew Aristocrat; Brisket with Vegetables; Short Ribs with Beans

pp. 6,7: Boiled Beef Patties; Baked Meat Hash; Swedish Meat Balls; Horseradish Meat Loaf; Savory Meat Loaf; Hunter's Soup

pp. 8, 9: Parkerhouse Cutlets; Beef Stew with Biscuits; Meat Roly Poly; Bread Stuffing

pp. 10, 11: Stuffed Meat Loaf; Creamed Ground Beef on Toast; Topsy Turvy Meat Pie; Biscuit Mix; Navy Bean Soup; Fricadilloes

pp. 12, 13: Standing Rib Roast of Beef; Pot-Roast with Tomato Gravy; Broiled Sirloin Steak; Veal Stew; Montana Veal Birds (cont'd on next page)

pp14, 15: Montana Veal Birds (conclusion); Veal Loaf with Mushroom Sauce; Mushroom White Sauce; Roast Veal Roll; Veal Round Roast; Braised Veal Chops with Lemon

pp. 16, 17: Corn Belt Spaghetti; Pork and Apple Salad; Ham Ring; Spareribs and Sauerkraut

pp. 18, 19: Monday Loaf; Stuffed Green Peppers; Ladies Aid Salad; Split Pea Soup with Ham; Ham Shanks and Cabbage

(continued here)

Woman's World Book of Unusual Cookery part 3

Woman's World Book of Unusual Cookery part 1

This booklet – another one picked up in a bunch of ephemera at an auction, 'way back in 2010 – had suffered some serious water damage. I did what I could to restore the images, once scanned, but some of the text was just too blurred, and a few of the pages so badly stuck together that it would have given a restoration/conservation expert fits. It was pretty enough, and entertaining enough, though, that I struggled through some dense clouds of mildew to scan what I could (the pages were bigger than my old scanner bed, so each page was scanned in two parts, for as much data as I could rescue), then spent some time in Photoshop, cleaning up and reassembling the images.

As a project, it has a bit to be desired, but I hope you like what I managed to salvage. I'll post it in several segments, because it's a lot to load all at once.