Commercial Cookbooks
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The McCall’s CookBook
1963 Author: The Food Editors of McCall’s The McCall’s Cookbook (1963) was a cookbook created by popular magazine publisher, McCall Corporation. While considered to be a “classic” cookbook and sought after by collectors, physical copies are easy to acquire. Prices for prints of this book tend to land around the $15 mark, obviously depending on…
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Simple Italian Cookery
1959 Publisher: Peter Pauper Press Author: Edna Beilenson Illustrator: Ruth McCrea This Cookbook contains Italian recipes that would be popular in the 1950’s as well as today. The art work on the cover of the cookbook is a theme that is carried throughout the rest of the cook book. The book follows a traditional Italian…
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The Young Housewife’s Counselor and Friend
1871Author: Mrs. Mary Mason This cookbook was mass produced through J.B Lippincott and Company, an American publishing firm who originally produced bibles, and then later expanded their merchandise to include journals, medical books, and other educational pieces. This cookbook served as an instructional handbook on how to attend to the various duties required to become…
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Betty Crocker’s Cookbook (Adapted)
January 1969 (13th edition) Contributors: Staff of General Mills, Nellie England Bayliss, Nellie Ruth Hunter, Deborah Hunter Leftwich, Kimberly Leftwich JolleyPublisher: General Mills This cookbook is a 1969 edition of Betty Crocker’s Cookbook, commonly referred to as the “red pie cookbook,” as adapted by the Bayliss/Hunter/Leftwich/Jolley family over the course of the twentieth century. Following…
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Dungeness Crabs and Blackberry Cobblers The Northwest Heritage Cookbook
Published: 1991 First Paperback Edition: 1996 Author: Janie Hibler This cookbook was written by Janie Hibler, a native of the Pacific Northwest and author of four other books: The Berry Bible, Wild About Game, Easy and Elegant Seafood, and Fair Game: A Hunter’s Cookbook. Originally from rural Bayside California, 120 miles south of the Oregon…
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The Joy of Cooking
1931 (1st Edition) 1975 (6th Edition) Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill Company Author: Irma S. Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker This cookbook was first self-published by Irma S. Rombauer in 1931, a 54-year-old homemaker from St. Louis. The rights to her cookbook were bought in 1935, and the book has continuously been in print ever since. The book…
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Macy’s Salad and Dessert Book
1933 Author: Mabel ClairePublished by: Greenberg Publishers, New YorkPrinted by: Vail-Ballou Press, INC, Binghamton NY Written By: London Eller This cookbook was my great-grandmother’s, Ollie Lou Vena Forbes-Garland, from a young age until her death in the mid-1960s. Stamped on the inside cover by my great-grandfather, Robert Garland, in Roan Mountain, TN. Over the years,…
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Mrs. Mary’s Down-Home Cooking: Traditional Recipes from Lynchburg, Tennessee
1984 Author: Diana DalsassContributors: Helen Daniel, Louise Gregory, Barbara Ruth McGowen, Leola Dismukes Mrs. Mary’s Down-Home Cooking: Traditional Recipes from Lynchburg, Tennessee, written in 1984 by Diana Dalsass, describes the various recipes from Mrs. Mary’s Boarding House, Bobo House, in Lynchburg, Tennessee. To create this book, Dalsass interviewed various members of the Lynchburg community, including…
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The Art of Chinese Cooking
The Art of Chinese Cooking Written by the Benedictine Sisters of Peking (Sister M. Francetta and Sister Regia) First Edition 1956 Written By: Summer Vo The Art of Chinese Cooking was written by two American nuns that spent 15 years in China as missionaries, but moved to Japan. They wanted to share the recipes they…