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Woman's Home Companion Cook Book / with a foreword by Willa Roberts Editor of the Woman's Home Companion.
LIBRA - Rare TX715 .W874 Malgieri copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Woman's home companion.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooking.
- Penn Provenance:
- Malgieri, Nick (donor) (Malgieri Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 952 pages, 52 unnumbered leaves of plates (some color) : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : P. F. Collier & Son Corporation Publishers, [©1942]
- Contents:
- Useful information - Table setting and decoration
- Nutrition and meal planning
- Beverages
- Cereals
- Breads
- Eggs
- Cheese
- Macaroni, spaghetti, noodles and rice
- Fruits
- Appetizers
- Soups
- Vegetables
- Fish and sea food
- Poultry and game
- Meat
- Sauces, garnishes and accompaniments
- Salads and salad dressings
- Desserts and dessert sauces
- Frozen desserts
- Pastry
- Cakes
- Candy
- Cookies
- Sandwiches
- Canning, pickling and preserving.
- Notes:
- "The Companion cook book reaches you with our world at war. More than ever food, carefully chosen, properly prepared, is important."--Foreword.
- "It has been planned to be a miniature kitchen encyclopedia - a book that will be useful to everybody from the young bride to the older, more experienced homemaker. It solves problems for families on small food budgets and supplies unlimited ideas for those who have larger ones."--Introduction by Dorothy Kirk.
- "Every recipe in this book has been tested by the Companion Home Service Center."--Back cover.
- Includes index.
- Yellow cloth boards lettered in red and blue. Two ribbon book marks. Blue lining papers.
- Local Notes:
- Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Nick Malgieri.
- Malgieri Collection copy has articles, receipes cut from labels and handwritten recipes laid in.
- OCLC:
- 3004729
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