Category: You Ate What?
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Be a Better Housewife With These Cookie Recipes
Home Baking Made Easy For Beginners and Experts Lever Brothers 1953 This small cookbook is a delightful homage to the 1950s. Note the fashionable matching aprons on the cover. This is more pamphlet than book and was probably a give-a-way back in the day. Spry is the brand name of…
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Mystical Fish and Chips for Everyone!
Frying Tonight: The Saga of Fish & Chips Priestland 1972 Submitter: In this book Gerald covers every aspect of the great British invention – Fish & Chips. He takes us on a journey from the 1880’s, the days of the ‘Fish Dinners for the Poor’ campaign, then on past the ‘Great…
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It’s Congealed!
Knox On-Camera Recipes A completely new guide to Gel-Cookery 1960 For those of you wondering what Knox is, it is the unflavored gelatin. When I was a young teen it was touted as something to make your fingernails healthy and long if you drank it before it cooled. My nails…
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Mmmm Meat!
Meat Recipes for the Family Chef National Livestock and Meat Board 1951 Today we have another recipe book (actually pamphlet) from yesteryear. Obviously, this belongs in an archive. They are great fun and remain a good reminder that cookery does tend to have have a sell by date as far…
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So Meaty!
Sausage and Small Goods Production Gerrard 1976 Submitter: A whole new world opened up for me on reading this book. Bits of it, I must admit, got under my skin and filled me with awe and wonder. It appears the word sausage is derived from the Latin ‘salsus’ meaning salted and…
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The Big Salad
Salads Famous Recipes of America 1968 You know I love a cookbook. I don’t actually cook, but I like to “window shop.” Well, straight from the 1960s we have a lovely array of salads. Truth be told, there are not a whole lot of fresh veggies in the recipes, but…
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