Blog – Page 4 – Food for Thought

1926 Floor plan for an eat-in kitchen.

Biographies / Historic Kitchens

1926 Convenient Kitchens by Greta Gray

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cake decorated in red and green with birthday candles.

The Cake that Got Me Wondering

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Rockwood's Chocolate Bits by Alice Bradley of Miss Farmer's School of Cookery.

1930s / Cookbooks and Booklets / Plants & Minerals

c. 1930s Miss Farmer’s School of Cookery, Boston, Recipe Book – Home Cooking Made Easy with Rockwood’s Chocolate Bits

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Ancient to 1799

Beyond Intermittent Fasting LEWIS CORNADO, 16th C. – 1830s Booklet – Speed Read to Chopin

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WWII Women’s Roles in World War II – Revisited 1943 Cooking Booklet

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1984 Keys to Successful Baking, Diane Phillips, American Cooking Guild

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Eliza Leslie, cookbook author, at West Point Military Academy in 1824.

Eliza Leslie of Philadelphia, 1830s cookbook author, lived at West Point

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Who Loved Borders Bookstore?

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1912 Deviled Bananas

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glass jar of sandwich pickles.

I made the most incredible Pickles

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First commercial cooking show on the radio with a named host, picture of Anna J. Peterson.

Biographies / Cooking Shows

First Radio Cooking Show Celebrity

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Maria Willett Howard, Boston Cooking School principal, cookbook author

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Block letter sign for 1920s Kitchen at McFarland Historical Society

Historic Kitchens

1920s Wisconsin Kitchen

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President Taft’s Famous Aunt Delia

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Inside the 1908 Kitchen: the Daily Chores of a Farm Woman

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Boy and a girl eating sandwiches.

BAKING / Cookbooks and Booklets

The Versatility of Baker’s Yeast: Uncovering Forgotten Uses from Yeast Booklets on eBay

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Corn Whiskey at Daybreak

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Class of 1900 Boston Cooking School, group picture.

1900-1909 / Cooking Schools

Class of 1900

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Cooking Booklet Pudding Recipes

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Eliza Leslie, cookbook author, at West Point Military Academy in 1824.

Eliza Leslie lived for a while @ West Point

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Mrs Rorer vs Miss Colling

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Thanksgiving

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a boy and a girl taffy pulling

Taffy Pulling

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Pick Dandelion Greens in the Spring

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Recipe for Shrimp Wiggle cooked in a chafing dish.

Chafing Dish Shrimp Wiggle

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Playbill from 1910, short plays including Gertrude Jennings "A Women's Influence."

1910s / Cooking Shows

Kitchen Theater

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1911 Spring Vegetable Planting Guide

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Portrait of Fannie Merritt Farmer.

Cooking Schools

Fannie Farmer’s Boston Cooking School Cook Book editions

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Brownies, dessert recipe from The Boston Cooking School Cook Book, 1906 edition.

1900-1909 / Recipes

First Brownie: Fannie Farmer, Mrs. Palmer

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Happy Valentine Cooks

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US Department of Agriculture symbol, 1916.

1910s / USDA & College Booklets

1916 Ice Box in Window

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Google My Maps of Florida Historic House Museums.

Historic Kitchens

Going to Florida?

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1930s / Cookbooks and Booklets / USDA & College Booklets

1936 Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book

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Dr. Miles Taffy, two children pulling taffy.

Dr Miles Candy Book

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Eating Time in Britain

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