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Cover of Olive S. Allen's cookbook for Crisco, "200 Tested Recipes."

Olive S. Allen: A French Home Cook Writes Crisco Recipe Book

Clara Alden Spence portrait, circa 1930.

Airy Fairy Flour author Clara Alden Spence, 1920s-1930s

Inside Frigidaire’s Test Kitchen: Meet Verna L. Miller, Home Economist 1920s-1960s

Helen Louise Johnson, demonstrating electric cooking at the 1893 World's Fair.

Helen Louise Johnson: Cooking with Lightning, 1893

Mary Abel talk.

Mary Hinman Abel: A Revolutionary in Domestic Science

Ida Bailey Allen, circa 1928.

Ida Bailey Allen: first TV cooking show

Home Economist Irene Ady of Texas.

Beyond the Mills: Texas Heart and Soul of Irene Nevill Aby

Olive S. Allen: A French Home Cook Writes Crisco Recipe Book
Airy Fairy Flour author Clara Alden Spence, 1920s-1930s
Inside Frigidaire’s Test Kitchen: Meet Verna L. Miller, Home Economist 1920s-1960s
Helen Louise Johnson: Cooking with Lightning, 1893
Mary Hinman Abel: A Revolutionary in Domestic Science
Ida Bailey Allen: first TV cooking show
Beyond the Mills: Texas Heart and Soul of Irene Nevill Aby

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