Ok, I went down and checked the archives to see if that 1948 red-white-checked cookbook on was a BtrHomGrdn - it was.
And while there, I noticed a couple of older "cook-books", and there were some items I thought I'd share
- one book was labeled "Preparation of 165 Dinners" by Hein?. It had no date. Published by Proctor-Gamble. On page one, article one, it extolled the miracle of a brand-new cooking discovery, Crisco. It had a fair number of recipes, many for steamed puddings - since I didn't bring it up to the desk, I'll get some recipes from it on another day, maybe.
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I did bring up another oldie in the archives, a 1941 San Joaquin County Farm Home cookbook, with hints for better living:
A trick for cooking - and I quote "To prevent burning of cooking food, set an alarm clock for the time it should be removed from the oven " We forget that timers were not common back when.
"To prevent the cream pitcher from dripping after pouring, grease the mouth of the pitcher with a little butter, or put a little butter under the spout."
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"When taking olive oil internally, it will prove much more palatable if a pinch of salt is added to the wine glbutt before taking."
For smelly kerosene heaters "A piece of gum camphor dropped into the tank will remove unpleasant odors and give a clearer flame"
"To rid the chimney of soot, burn potato peelings, or old zinc tops from Mason fruit jars, in the stove or furnace;"
"To remove mildew: rub the stains well with a fresh, cut tomato and cover with salt. afterwards put the article in the sun. Mildewed articles should be boiled in buttermilk.Rinse well and hang them in the sun. This also works for articles which are yellow from lack of use."
The directions for preparing for dinner were several pages long -directions for placing the silence cloth; for laying the "cover" (i.e., napkin, plate, silver, etc); use of the spoon, e.g., "Sip from the side of the spoon", "Do not sip tea or any other beverage from the spoon"
"you may drain the serving bowl of its last helping if you desire. It is quite proper, and to refrain looks as if you doubted the supply. Proper hostess' always have additonals kept in the kitchen. At a formal meal, second helpings are never offered and one never asks for it."
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"Do not put salt upon the table cloth. Put it on the side of a dish - preferably the bread and bitter plate" I buttume the salt was served in cellars, and one takes the salt as one takes the butter when the butter dish pbutted
"Round tables seat an odd number of guests."
There is an etiquette for using your napkin again, if you are staying for more than one meal.
They are recipes for fried cucumbers, stuffed carrots, veal birds, jellied ham mold, porcupines, tarllarene macaroni hot dish, banana bread - old style, for a lot of orange cakes, syllabub, flummery, peach polly, western pie, how to make american cheese (1pp),
among recipes in the "foreign dishes" section: chili con carne, italian meat balls (swedish meat ball recipes were in the book's meat recipe section); chow mein; mystery; tortillas.
in the quick emergency meals: rarebit; peach torte; cornbread; baked whole salmon with oysters. "Hey, guests are on their way over - we need something quick. How about we bake up a salmon with oysters? That's really quick."
the words "icebox" and "flatiron" appear in several places
fwiw
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