6 - Vintage 1930-40’s Recipe and Promotional Booklets

6 Vintage: 1930-40’s Recipe and Promotional Booklets  • Cooking with Cold is a vintage 1930s promotional cookbook for Norge refrigerators (by Borg-Warner) focused on refrigeration, salads, and desserts. • Oven Cookery - Menus and Recipes features Hotpoint electric ranges from the Georgia Power Company. • Delight Evans' Hollywood Recipes: Food Secrets of the Movie Stars is a vintage celebrity recipe magazine edited by Delight Evans, featuring classic film star glamour.                         ****************  •Modern Homemaker 1945 promo magazine by the Kerr Glass Manufacturing Corporation.  Released during the final year of World War II. The prominent yellow stamp in the corner declares Victory Demands More Canning.   •Merita Sandwich Book: 1948 American Bakeries Co. represents post-war entertaining trends.  Foods and visual food presentation gained immense popularity.  •Coconut Glamour Desserts: 1949 Published by General Foods.  Booklet captures transition toward elaborate, sweet showstopper desserts.  (Common in 1950s suburban entertaining.)  Great for historical props, nostalgic collectors, “old school” cooks, junk journal creators, decorations for kitchen, history buffs.  Typical aging, staple oxidation,folded corners from active use, recipes written in some books.