Negative Space: food history
- Chiquita Banana’s Recipe Book
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Let the singing and teaching banana introduce you to the joys of baking and cooking with bananas: green, yellow, and brown!
- Club recipe archive
- Every Sunday, the Padgett Sunday Supper Club features one special recipe. These are the recipes that have been featured on past Sundays.
- A Decade of Jell-O Joys: 1963-1973
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What changes a decade brings! I have the 1963 Joy of Jell-O and the 1973 New Joys of Jell-O. What happened to Jell-O and gelatin between the sixties and the seventies?
- El Molino Best: Whole grains in 1953
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El Molino Mills of Alhambra, California, published a fascinating whole grain cookbook in 1953.
- Finding vintage cookbook downloads
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There are several sites for finding vintage cookbooks, from general-purpose online archives to special collections at universities. Here are a few of my favorites.
- A golden harvest of sunflower seeds
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Golden Harvest Sunflower Seed Recipes is a fascinating bit of ephemera from the seventies and the tail end of the era of regional whole grain mills.
- A home-cooking handful from Eddie Doucette
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A glimpse at a long-lost 1954 Chicagoland television cooking show, including recipes. Some of them require creative interpretation.
- Ice cream from your home freezer
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You can make great ice cream with whole eggs, egg yolks, and egg whites. You can even make it without eggs at all. All you need is syrup and cream—and a refrigerator with a freezer or a standalone home freezer.
- January birthday veal from 1950
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The Veal Rolls from the 1950 recipe calendar of Hope Lutheran Church in Chicago.
- Looking back over 1950 in vintage cooking
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While I didn’t make my goal of trying a recipe every month in the month it was meant for, following this calendar through 2023 was an interesting experience and provided some very good food.
- Plain & Fancy in the seventies with Hiram Walker
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Enjoy a whole new world of fun, excitement and discovery in Hiram Walker Cordials, adding a personal touch to all your memorable moments and special occasions—plain or fancy!
- Promotional cookbook archive
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I’ve managed to acquire several old promotional pamphlets and cookbooks that don’t appear to be available elsewhere on the net.
- Promotional Cookbook Archive
- I’ve managed to acquire several old promotional pamphlets and cookbooks that don’t appear to be available elsewhere on the net. I’m making them available here.
- Refrigerator Revolution Revisited: 1928 Frigidaire
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The 1928 manual and cookbook, Frigidaire Recipes, assumes a lot about then-modern society that could not have been assumed a few decades earlier.
- Something fishy in the state of Wisconsin
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Fish soup, fish salad, and fish gelatin. These are very fifties recipes—for better and for worse. Very worse.
- Tempt Them with Tastier Foods: An Eddie Doucette Recipe Collection
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When I get locked into a serious recipe collection, the tendency is to take it as far as I can. You can benefit from my obsession with this collection of wonderful recipes from the fifties and sixties “files of Eddie Doucette”, television personality and IGA chef.
More Information
- Feeding Michigan
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“Feeding Michigan is a digital archive of 68 cookbooks from the MSU Libraries’ collection, which were published in Michigan or produced by Michigan communities, organizations, churches, or individuals dating back to the late nineteenth century.”
