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[Blank book for recipes].
LIBRA - Blank Collection TX715 .B536 1943
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooking, American--20th century.
- Cooking, American.
- Cooking--United States--20th century.
- Cooking.
- Genre:
- Notebooks.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (donor) (Kislak Center copy)
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Recipes
- My recipes
- Place of Publication:
- United States : [publisher not identified] [not before 1943]
- Summary:
- Dark green, cloth-covered three-ring binder with 9 tabbed dividers, each printed with an illustration, a heading, and tips for making foods under that heading. Each divider is followed by an envelope; numerous blank leaves (unlined and lined) follow the final envelope. A four-page, illustrated section titled "for health and happiness through food:" appears before the first divider. A list of abbreviations and a table of weights and measures are printed on page [2] of cover and "general hints about working" on page [3] of cover.
- Contents:
- For health and happiness through food
- Cake-pastry
- Desserts
- Drinks
- Eggs-cheese
- Fish-meat
- Preserves
- Salads
- Soups
- Vegetables.
- Notes:
- Title devised by cataloger. Cover title: Recipes. Caption title on page [2] of cover: My recipes.
- "made in U.S.A."--Page [2] of cover.
- "The above statements by Clive M. McKay, Professor of Nutrition, Cornell University, appeared in the New York Times Magazine [28 March 1943]"--About vitamins--.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- Kislak Center copy has clippings affixed to "Desserts" divider and verso of "Soups" divider.
- Kislak Center copy has 3 sets of recipe cards, each held together with a printed band ("Beef Recipes for many different cuts Swift & Company B.1", "Lamb Recipes that give variety to the menu Swift & Company", and "Pork Recipes A wide selection, all of them tasty Swift & Company P.1"), in envelope following "Eggs-Cheese" divider; 3 x 5 inch index card with clipping affixed containing recipe ("Cottage Cheese Citrus Salad") and cardboard slip with recipes for "Quick-Cooking whole cranberry sauce" and "Molded cranberry salad" advertising Ocean Spray fresh cranberries in envelope following "Preserves" divider.
- OCLC:
- 1527609214
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