I found this great 1933 vintage “Balanced Recipes by Pillsbury” in a stamped aluminum Art Deco binder. I think it’s rare to find a book that looks like an appliance, and this is definitely a collection that can take a good beating in the kitchen. The previous owner made good use of the binder by handwriting and typing their own recipes in the appendix. One of the last pages in the binder reads:
Additional copies of this ultra-modern cook book may be obtained by mailing $1.25 or you need send only $1.00 if you include a recipe slip from a sack of Pillsbury Best Flour.
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Now I’m hungry.
So do you plan to sell this classic or keep it? I could see you going either way, depending on your bend.
OMG, this is fantastic! Where did you find it? I love old cookbooks.
WANT!
Aluminum, being fairly new as a material, was very trendy at the time. In 1931 the men’s lounges at Radio City Music Hall were done in aluminum foil, deco wallpaper. It’s quite spectacular.
I found it at a vintage store near me. There’s some copies online that aren’t as cheap as the one I found.
http://www.oldcookbooks.com/product/BCB557767
Aw, man, $68? *cries*
Cheaper here! Elle – I like your website.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B001O3VWIG/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&qid=1294769757&sr=8-1&condition=used
You’re an enabler, you realize that no?
And thank you!
Wow! Whole flaxseed? Guess it wasn’t all about the heavy cream like we stereotype food of that era.
What a find! I love all of the old cook books that I have from my grandmother. They’re wonderful pieces of Americana. A definite keeper.
Neat! I have been collecting cookbooks and recipe booklets for quite a while and have a huge number by now, but I have never seen this one. I do hope I come across a copy in my life!
I’ve never seen a recipe collection inside an aluminum tin like this one! What a great find.
I have been collecting old cookbooks since I was a kid. One of my favorites is from 1935 ‘The way to a mans heart” by Mrs Simon Cantor from the Minneapolis School System. It covers everything you could ever want to know from diets, setting tables for entertaining to building a stove.
Isn’t this a great one? I picked one up many years ago during one of my garage sale, flea market or thrift store excursions. One of a handful of cookbooks that could probably stop a bullet if the need arose.