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  • Choice Recipes for Clever Cooks by Lucy G. Allen 1926
    Choice Recipes for Clever Cooks by Lucy G. Allen 1926 Blue cloth boards with green art deco design. Visible wear marks to boards. Minor edgewear Contains black and white illustrations. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. Binding remains firm.  Hardcover: 282 pages Little, Brown, and Company; (1926)
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  • The Blue Book of Cookery & Manual of House by Isabel Cotton Smith 1926
    The Blue Book of Cookery & Manual of House by Isabel Cotton Smith 1926
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  • A Guide to Good Cooking: Five Roses Flour compiled by Jean Brodie 1932
     A Guide to Good Cooking With Five Roses Flour -1932 1st edition  Collection of Good Recipes carefully tested and approved under supervision of Pauline Harvey and Jean Brodie to which have been added recipes chosen from the contributions of over fifteen thousand users of Five Roses All Purpose Vitamin Enriched Flour
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  • Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management by Isabella Beeton 1933
    Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management is foremost a The book offers advice on fashion, child-care, animal husbandry, poisons, seasonal produce, and the management of servants. Beeton's book explores the foods of Europe and contains hundreds of recipes. This Victorian classic is a compendium of practical household
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  • Good Housekeeping Cook Book: Recipes and Methods by Dorothy B. Marsh 1934
     Good Housekeeping Cook Book was published in 1934 and contains a range of recipes and other information for food preparation. This second edition was published just 8 months after the first, with a notation that this is only available with a subscription Good Housekeeping Magazine; 2nd edition
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  • Good Cooking Made Easy and Economical by Marjorie Heseltine, Ula M. Dow 1936
    This is a 1936 edition of Good Cooking, Made Easy and Economical is a classic with hundreds of recipes organized in 28 sections with a comprehensive index. A small label indicates the original book seller was located in historic Tory Row in Cambridge Mass. A cookbook with a 85 year old story
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  • America's Cook Book by The Home Institute of the New York Herald Tribune 1937
    America's Cook Book Black cloth lettered in yellow, colour illustrated end-papers, colour fronts piece in excellent condition, Minimal shelfwear. The Spine is straight. There is some minor yellowing. Text is clear of markings of any kind with no crumbling or foxing.
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  • My New Better Homes and Gardens Lifetime Cookbook by Better Homes and Gardens 1938
     “My New Better New Homes And Gardens Cookbook  book contains sections for Nutrition & Menu Planning, Beverages, Breads, Cakes & Cookies, Candies, Canning & Preserving, Pickles, Desserts, Chicken, Fish & Game, Meat, Casserole, Cheese & Egg Dishes, Pies, Salads & Sandwiches, Soups, Vegetables.
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  • The American Woman's Cook Book edited by Ruth Berolzheimer 1st ed. 1939
     The American Woman's Cook Book has hundreds of black and white, and colour photographs and illustrations. 10,000 recipes and went to many printings of many editions.  collectors of vintage cookbooks, this is one of the staples in every collector's collection. classic cookbook Culinary Arts Institute; First (1939)
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  • The Good Housekeeping Cook Book edited by Dorothy B. Marsh 1942
     Plaid cover. No markings. This is an excellent collector's edition of The Good Housekeeping Cook Book. Not specifically a wartime cookbook but Farrar & Rinehart; 1942 does address the food and nutritional concerns of wartime home cooks.949 pages
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  • The Fannie Farmer Junior Cook Book By Wilma Lord Perkins 1942
    Perhaps the most important teacher of cooking in those changing days was Fannie Merritt Farmer. Although many beginners have taught themselves to cook by means of The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, there seemed to be a need for a shorter book for young cooks with only the recipes they will really use. The Fannie Farmer Junior Cook Book recipes have a moderate number of ingredients and use few utensils, so that there is very little
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  • Watkins Cook Book by Elaine Allen 1943
     Watkins Cook Book  The 1943 fourth edition is a revised and updated version of the original 1936 publication and in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Watkins company. Elaine Allen, who was Director of Home Economics the the Watkins company, edited this book and personally prepared every recipe.
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  • Purity Cook Book: 875 Tested Recipes by Purity Flour Mills 1945
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  • The Lily Wallace New American Cook Book by Lily Haxworth Wallace 1946
    Condition: Working Copy/Poor -Text is clean unmarred, except for page 251 has hole the size of a quarter. Pages are edge toned. Pages 903 to 907 have been secured neatly with library clear tape. First 14 pages and last 12 pages are chipped (small pieces are missing  928 pages Books Inc (Jan. 1 1946)ASIN: ‎B00B6VSXC4
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  • The Boston Cooking School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer 1946
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  • Out of Kentucky Kitchens by Marion Flexner 1949
    Good food is as much a part of the Kentucky heritage as fine horses and bourbon whiskey. And nowhere is Kentucky's traditional cuisine better presented than in Out of Kentucky Kitchens by Louisville's own Marion Flexner. First published in 1949, the book has been popular with cooks and cookbook collectors ever. A highly skilled hand in the kitchen, Marion Flexner compiled a representative gathering of delicious, thoroughly tested recipes of Kentucky specialties.
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