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Inside there’s a recipe for s’mores, which were in a Girl’s Scout book in 1927, and this booklet is undated, yet it’s close to 1927. It’s a toss up! Which came first?
Fannie Farmer was principal of the Boston Cooking School and wrote the book, The Boston Cooking School Cookbook.
When the Boston Cooking School was sold/transferred to Simmons College Fannie Farmer opened her own school called this “Miss Farmer’s School of Cookery.”
Fannie Merritt Farmer died in 1915 and her estate sold the name “Fanny Farmer” but using a “y” instead of “ie” to the Candy company. The estate also sold Miss Farmer’s School of Cookery to a trusted professional sidekick of Fannie Farmers, Alice Bradley, author of this recipe booklet.
Food companies paid famous cooking instructors to write cooking booklets, and this is one of them, a double-sided accordion booklet with 10 pages. The adorable booklets were most of the time free to everyone, so the public loved them–at a time when, for many, buying a cookbook was a luxury. As new but seasoned owner of Miss Farmer’s School of Cookery, Alice Bradley compiled eight recipes using Rockwood’s chocolate bits: Rockwood’s Chocolate Bits Cookies, Chocolate Bits Spice Cookies, Chocolate Bits Cornflake Macaroons, Chocolate Bits Cake, Mint Icing, Chocolate Bits Afternoon Tea Crackers, Chocolate Bits Frosting, Chocolate Bits Raisin Squares, and Chocolate Bits Nut Bread.
