The Old-Time Brand-Name Recipe Pamphlet Cookbook: Over 500 Dishes, Illustrations, and Household Tips from the Early Days of the Convenient Kitchen

by Bunny Crumpacker

Book Overview

More than a nostalgic recipe book, the Old-Time Brand Name Cookbook is a compendium of household tips and classic art from the ingredient makers of the past. The recipes came from a cache of pamphlets... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076519077X
• ISBN13: 9780765190772
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Smithmark Publishers
• Length: 123 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Delightful and unusually useful novelty cookbook, this!

I am surprised at how much I love this book! I would call it a compendium of social, industrial, culinary, agricultural, USAmerican women's history. And yet there's nothing pretentious about it-- it's homey, in fact, and quite usable for a cookbook with such a theme. Crumpacker pulls off quite a feat: updating old-fashioned American recipes without making kitsch of them, which other similar books do. I recommend this book to everyone interested in cooking and the many contexts in which recipes are invented, reproduced, and prepared, and I plan to give a copy to all my foody friends!