1947 Rumford Complete Cookbook Hardcover

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Vintage Cookbook 1947
Rumford Complete Cook Book, written by Lily Haxworth Wallace and published by Rumford Chemical Works.
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Rumford Complete Cook Book, written by Lily Haxworth Wallace and published by Rumford Chemical Works.
The Rumford Chemical Works, established in 1854, was a manufacturer of baking powder.
The cookbook was first published in 1908 and had many editions throughout the first half of the 20th century.
The book was a promotional giveaway by the company to teach home cooks how to prepare better meals using their products.
The book includes recipes for baked goods as well as sections on cooking techniques and kitchen efficiency.

Red cloth Hardcover with black lettering, 213 pages, great vintage condition with toned pages from age, no marks, tears, or ownership writing, strong binding.

5” wide x 7” high x .75” deep


From the book:

BENJAMIN THOMPSON
Count Rumford
The American ennobled by the courts of Europe because of his pioneer discoveries in cooking.
After a century and a half, he is honored today as the great master of the great guild of chefs, the first and greatest scientist of the kitchen.
He was the first to study diet; to invent an effective oven, and roaster, and tea kettle, and boiler; to advocate drip coffee; to suggest holes in the handles of pots and pans so they can be hung up; to analyze fuels and the management of heat; to devise the modern air-tight stove; to lay out efficient kitchens; to reason about the construction of oven doors and thereby open up the great field of insulation.
"My principal design," he said, "is to fix the attention of my readers on a subject which is highly interesting and deserving of the most serious consideration. I wish to inspire cooks with a just idea of the importance of their art. In what other art could improvements be made that would more powerfully contribute to the enjoyment of mankind?" See less