Food and recipe booklets collection, 1864-1976.
Collection Number: 8006

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Food and recipe booklets collection, 1864-1976.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
8006
Abstract:
Booklets relating to food and cooking.
Creator:
Quanitities:
1.8 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Booklets relating to food and cooking.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Food and recipe booklets collection, #8006. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

RELATED MATERIALS

Related material in collection #8568, Diane Scrima Collection of Recipe Booklets and Cookbooks.

SUBJECTS

Subjects:
Food conservation.
Cooking (Gelatin)
World War II.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian participation.
Formulas, recipes, etc. -- United States -- History.
Cooking, American -- History.
Form and Genre Terms:
Cookbooks.
Recipes.

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Food and Recipe Booklets ca. 1880s-1970s
Box 1 Folder 1-3
Appliances
Box 1 Folder 4
Arrow Publishing
Box 1 Folder 5
Baking Powder-included Rumford
Box 1 Folder 6
Bread, including Fleischmann's
Box 5
"Wonder Sandwich Suggestions", by Alice Adams Proctor
1930
Box 1 Folder 7
Canning
Box 5
"Atlas Book of Recipes and Helpful Information about Canning",
no date
Box 1 Folder 8
Center for Service in Public Interest
Box 1 Folder 9
Cheese
Box 5
"Cheese", by Luella Sherman Mortensen and Beulah V. Gillaspie (McCall's Magazine)
no date
Box 1 Folder 10
Corn
Box 5
Crisco
Box 5
New Recipes for Good Eating
1949
Box 1 Folder 11
Cutlery
Box 1 Folder 12
Desserts
Box 1 Folder 13
Fish and Shellfish
Box 1 Folder 14
Flour
Box 1 Folder 15
Food porn
Box 1 Folder 16
Fondue
Box 1 Folder 17
Frozen Foods
Box 1 Folder 18
General Electric
Box 1 Folder 19
General Foods Corporation
Box 5
"Recipes for Today", by General Foods Corp.
1943
Box 5
"Quick-Quick-Quick 16 Smackin'-Good Meal Ideas with the New Minute Rice", by General Foods Corp.
1949
Box 1 Folder 20
Grange League Federation (GLF)
Box 1 Folder 21
Great Atlantic Lobster Co.
Box 2 Folder 1
Holiday
Box 2 Folder 2
Home Canning Supplies
Box 2 Folder 3
Home Economics Bulletins
Box 2 Folder 4
Home Economics Recipes
Box 2 Folder 5
Hunger
Box 2 Folder 6
Insurance- Metropolitan Life
Box 2 Folder 7
Jams & Jellies
Box 2 Folder 8
Gelatin-Jello, Knox, Larkin
Box 2 Folder 9
Kitchen Equipment
Box 2 Folder 10
Knudsen
Box 2 Folder 11
Lard
Box 2 Folder 12
Management
Box 2 Folder 13
Margarine
Box 2 Folder 14
Marketing
Box 2 Folder 15
McCall's Recipes
Box 2 Folder 16
Meat
Box 2 Folder 17
Milk-evaporated and Nestle's
Box 5
Milk Recipes by H. P. Hood and Sons
no date
Box 5
"Cook with Milk", by the Extension Service of the College of Agriculture, University of Wisconsin, Madison
1931
Box 2 Folder 18
Mustard
Box 2 Folder 19
National Dairy Council
Box 2 Folder 20
Oil-Weson
Box 2 Folder 21
Orange Juice-Sunkist
Box 2 Folder 22
Outdoor
Box 2 Folder 23
Party food and beverages
Box 2 Folder 24
Quaker Oats
Box 5
"Nutrition: Important Flashes of Nutrition News", by the Quaker Oats Company
1938-1940
Scope and Contents
(Vol. 1, No. 3-5; Vol. 2, No. 9; Vol. 3, No. 1)
Box 2 Folder 25
Quality Bakers of America
Box 2 Folder 26
Recipes/Recipe Cards
Box 3 Folder 1
Recipes/Recipe Card - including Kate Smith's Favorite Recipes (1939)
Box 3 Folder 2
Recipes/Recipe Card - including Kate Smith's Favorite Recipes (1939)
Box 3 Folder 3
Reynolds Wrap
Box 3 Folder 4
Salads
Box 3 Folder 5
Sandwiches
Box 3 Folder 6
Sauerkraut
Box 3 Folder 7
Soap
Box 3 Folder 8
Soap
Soup-Campbell's
Box 5
"Wonderful Ways with Soups from Campbells"
1958
Box 5
"Plain and Fancy Gravy Dishes" Campbell Soup Company
Undated
Box 5
Campbell's Red Kettle Soup Mix Recipes
Undated
Box 5
"50 Classic Bean Dishes" Campbell Soup Company
Undated
Box 5
"It's Home From Work We Go" Campbell Soup Company
Undated
Box 3 Folder 9
Stainless Steel
Box 3 Folder 10
Sucaryl-non-caloric sweetner
Box 3 Folder 11
Tobacco
Box 3 Folder 12
USDA
Box 3 Folder 13
Walnuts
Box 5
Westinghouse - Home Freeze Guide
1968
Box 3 Folder 14
Yankee Books
Box 3 Folder 15
4-H Dairy Foods Project Manual
Box 3 Folder 16
Rice Council - Great Dinners for Six
Box 3 Folder 17
California Raisin Brochure
Box 3 Folder 18
American Egg Board
Box 3 Folder 19
Brochures for Corn Syrup, Mazola Oil, Hellmann's Mayo, Skippy Peanut Butter
Box 3 Folder 20
Soy
Box 3 Folder 21
"Food of Our Fathers" - Institute of Food Technologists
Box 3 Folder 22
Kraft - "Outsmarting the Cash Register"
Box 3 Folder 23
Handwritten recipe book
Blank book with printed title "Recipes: my friends' and my own," copyright 1900, with recipes written in by hand or glued in as newspaper clippings.
Box 3 Folder 24
Handwritten recipe book
Untitled recipe book, with signature MRN, 1860 on front pastedown. Mostly cake recipes, together with some for vegetables (such as pickled cabbage), soda water, etc. Poor condition, fragile binding, pages stained.
Box 3 Folder 25
Loose recipes
Box 3 Folder 26
Miscellaneous-not recipes
Box 4 Folder 1
Commercial recipe booklets-Karo Cook Book by Emma Churchman Hewitt; "Superior Salads," from Duffy's Apple Juice Vinegar; "Directions for Operating 'Lorain' Oven Heat Regulator," American Stove Company; Book of Formulas for Preparing of Syrups, Etc.," Crown Cordial and Extract Company; "The Celebrated Vienna Pressed Yeast"
undated
Box 4 Folder 1
"Just a Cook Book for Economical Gas Cooking," American Stove Company
1902
Box 4 Folder 1
"100 Ways to Better Health," Battle Creek Food Company
1922
Box 4 Folder 2
Mrs. Winslow's Domestic Receipt Book
1872, 1875
Box 4 Folder 2
Ransom's Family Receipt Book
1876, 1879, 1884
Box 4 Folder 2
The Ladies Note-Book and Calendar
1882
Box 4 Folder 2
Choice Receipts by Maria Parloa
1893
Box 4 Folder 2
National Yeast Company, Seneca Falls
no date
Box 4 Folder 2
The Housekeeper's Receipt Book, Carter's Compound Extract of Smart Weed
no date
Box 4 Folder 3
Hyde's Practical Miscellaneous Recipe Book
1855
Box 4 Folder 4
"The Practical Cookbook," by Mrs. H. M. Robinson, New York: Abbey and Barrett
1864
Box 4 Folder 5
The American Domestic Cook Book
1869-1870
Box 4 Folder 6
"Choice Gleanings," Columbus Avenue Church, Boston, MA.
1883
Box 4 Folder 7
"Tompkins County Old Time Recipes and Philosophy of Housekeeping," Cornell University
1937
Box 4 Folder 8
Money-Saving Main Dishes, USDA and "Hot from the Oven," cookie recipes compiled by Elinor Genung Allen
1948
Box 4 Folder 8
Family Fare: Food Management and Recipes, USDA
1950
Box 4 Folder 9-11
Handwritten recipe books
Box 4 Folder 12
"Cooking with Imagination for Special Diets"
Box 5
"Holiday Meals For Wartime", by Mary Lee Taylor
Box 5
"Drinking and Dining Recipes from the Original Thirteen Colonies", by Lord Calvert Whiskey Company
Box 5
"The History of the Spoon, Knife and Fork", by Reed and Barton
1926
Box 5
"The History of Spices" by American Spice Trade Association
1960
Box 5
"A Handbook on the Jewish Dietary Laws"
1954
Box 5
"Ways with Wine" Paul Masson Vineyards
1968
Box 5
"Thoughts for Teas" by Saga Food Service
Box 5
Notebook with clippings of World War I recipes, especially for meatless and wheatless meals
Box 5
"From Tree to Table", Curtice Brothers Company, Preservers, Rochester, New York
1893
Box 5
D.M. Osborne and Company, "Handy Book for House and Farm"
no date
Box 5
"Apples for You!", Alice L. Spencer (Recipes) and E. Stuart Hubbard (Horticulturalist)
no date
Box 5
"Campfire Girl (CFG) Campfire Cookery"
no date
Box 5
"Trail Cookery for Girl Scouts"
no date
Box 5
"Trail Cookery for Girl Scouts", by the Home Economics Dept., Kellogg Company, Battle Creek, Michigan
no date
Box 5
"A Manual of Cooking for Boy Scouts", by the Home Economics Dept., Kellogg Company, Battle Creek, Michigan
no date
Box 5
"Summer Cook Book", by Good Housekeeping
no date
Box 5
"Canned Salmon Delicacies", by Lola M. Cremeans (University of Alaska)
1937
Box 5
"Health-for-Victory Club Meal Planning Guide / Early Summer Home Canning: What to Can ... How to Do It", by Home Economics Institute
1943
Box 5
"Perfect Pies and How to Make Them", by National Household Service and The Proctor and Gamble Co.
1928
Box 5
"Spring Suggestions, Including Lenten Recipes", by The Food Education Bureau
no date
Box 5
"When You Entertain: A Woman's Home Companion Booklet"
1933
Box 5
"Your War Garden for 1944: Helpful Information from Firestone Farm and Garden Service Bureau"
1944
Box 5
"Food and Health", by Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co.
no date
Box 5
"Ways to Use Wisconsin Apples", by the Extension Service of the College of Agriculture, University of Wisconsin, Madison
1931
Box 5
"Rumford Cook Book", by Fannie Merritt Farmer (and the Rumford Chemical Works)
no date
Box 5
"Everyday Uses for Cherries", by Luella Mortenson
no date
Box 5
"Bananas Take a Bow ... in Attractive New Dishes for the Up-to-Date Hostess"
no date
Box 5
"Banana Salad Bazaar", by the Home Economics Dept., Fruit Dispatch Co.
no date
Box 5
"What Shall I Cook Today? 124 Thrifty, Healthful Tested Recipes" with Spry (Pure Vegetable Shortening), by the Lever Brothers Co.
no date
Box 5
"Magic Short-Cut Recipes for the Automatic Refrigerator"
no date
Box 5
"Minute Cook Book", by the Minute Tapioca Co., Orange, Mass.
1915
Box 5
"Menu Magic", by the National Biscuit Company
1932
Box 5
"Eggs: 100 Tempting Ways to Serve Them", by the New England Fresh Egg Institute, Worcester, Mass.
no date
Box 5
"Tested Recipes: Successful Baking for Flavor and Texture", by Martha Lee Anderson
1936
Box 5
"The Right Food for Your Family", by the Vermont State Nutrition Committee and the Maltex Company
no date
Box 5
"What to Eat and Why", by Alice F. Blood
1939
Box 5
"The Sunny Side of Life Book", by the Kellogg Company, Battle Creek, Michigan
1934
Box 5
"A New Way of Living: Come Over to the Sunny Side of Life", by the Kellogg Company, Battle Creek, Michigan
1932
Box 5
"The Student Home Economist: A National Newspaper for Home Economics Students"
1938
Scope and Contents
(Vol. 1, No. 1)
Box 5
"Household Nutrition: A Timely and Reliable Clip-Sheet for the Women"
1931
Scope and Contents
(July 25 and "Spring Issue")