Guide to the Culinary Pamphlet Collection

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Title: Culinary Pamphlet Collection

Creator: California State University, Northridge. University Library

Identifier/Call Number: SC.CP

Extent: 2.09 linear feet

Date (inclusive): circa 1871-1965

Abstract: The Culinary Pamphlet Collection includes product advertising literature, government and non-profit organization pamphlets, brochures on food preparation and cooking equipment, and independently written recipe booklets. Most were published in the United States.

Language of Material: English

Historical Note:

The library created this collection of materials for study and research.

Scope and Contents

The Culinary Pamphlet Collection includes product advertising literature, government and non-profit organization pamphlets, brochures on food preparation and cooking equipment, and independently written recipe booklets. Most were published in the United States. The collection has been divided into nine major series: Charitable and Volunteer Organizations (1894, 1927, 1964), Culinary Arts Institute Cookbooks (1936-1957), Equipment Manufacturers (1922-1953), Food Preservation, Food Product Literature (1898-1965), Government and Industry (1907-1910, 1924-1938, 1954-1961), Health and Hygiene (1918, 1925-1926, 1948, 1957), Restaurants (circa 1871-circa 1884, 1925-1938) and Retailers and Grocers 1918-1926). Each series is arranged alphabetically by title of the publication.

Arrangement of Materials:

Series I: Charitable and Volunteer Organizations, 1894, 1927, 1964

Series II: Culinary Arts Institute Cookbooks, 1936-1957

Series III: Equipment Manufacturers, 1922-1953

Series IV: Food Preservation

Series V: Food Product Literature, 1898-1965

Series VI: Government and Industry, 1907-1910, 1924-1938, 1954-1961

Series VII: Health and Hygiene,1918, 1925-1926, 1948, 1957

Series VIII: Restaurants, circa 1871-circa 1884, 1925-1938

Series IX: Retailers and Grocers, 1918-1926

Related Material

Additional materials in the Culinary Collection are available in the Library Catalog.

Conditions Governing Access:

The collection is open for research use.

Conditions Governing Use:

Copyright for unpublished materials authored or otherwise produced by the creator(s) of this collection has not been transferred to California State University, Northridge. Copyright status for other materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Kenneth Reichman Estate, 2008.

Preferred Citation:

For information about citing items in this collection consult the appropriate style manual, or see the Citing Archival Materials guide.

Series I: Charitable and Volunteer Organizations, 1894, 1927, 1964

Box 1, Folder 1

California, Pacific Rose Society, 1964

Box 1, Folder 2

California, Selected Recipes, 1927

Box 1, Folder 3

Massachusetts, Ladies Union of the First Congregational Church, 1894

Box 1, Folder 4

Washington, Ladies of the Presbyterian Church, Buckley Cook Book

Box 1, Folder 5

Wisconsin, Home Helps

Series II: Culinary Arts Institute Cookbooks, 1936-1957

Box 1, Folder 6

Berlozheimer, Ruth, 250 Fish and Sea Food Recipes #9, 1940

Box 1, Folder 7

Berlozheimer, Ruth, 250 Fish and Sea Food Recipes #9, 1949

Box 1, Folder 8

Berlozheimer, Ruth, 250 Classic Cake Recipes #103, 1940

Box 1, Folder 9

Berlozheimer, Ruth, 250 Classic Cake Recipes #3, 1940

Box 1, Folder 10

Berlozheimer, Ruth, 250 Delicious Soups #5, 1940

Box 1, Folder 11

Berlozheimer, Ruth, 250 Delicious Soups #6, 1949

Box 1, Folder 12

Berlozheimer, Ruth, 250 Superb Pies and Pastries #5, 1940

Box 1, Folder 13

Berlozheimer, Ruth, 250 Ways to Prepare Meat #8, 1940

Box 1, Folder 14

Berlozheimer, Ruth, 250 Ways to Prepare Meat #8, 1949

Box 1, Folder 15

Berlozheimer, Ruth, 250 Ways to Serve Eggs #10, 1940

Box 1, Folder 16

Berlozheimer, Ruth, 250 Ways to Serve Eggs #10, 1949

Box 1, Folder 17

Berlozheimer, Ruth, 500 Delicious Salads #7, 1940

Box 1, Folder 18

Berlozheimer, Ruth, 500 Delicious Salads #7, 1949

Box 1, Folder 19

Berlozheimer, Ruth, 500 Snacks #1, 1940

Box 1, Folder 20

Berlozheimer, Ruth, 500 Tasty Sandwiches #14, 1941

Box 1, Folder 21

Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book of Fine Old Recipes, 1936

Box 1, Folder 22

De Proft, Melanie H. Salads and Salad Dressings #107, 1957

Box 1, Folder 23

Berlozheimer, Ruth, Sauces, Gravies and Dressings Cookbook #20, 1949

Series III: Equipment Manufacturers, 1922-1953

Box 2, Folder 1

Ateco, Cake Ornamenting Tools

Box 2, Folder 2

Chicago Flexible Shaft Co., Kitchen Tested Recipes, 1933

Box 2, Folder 3

General Electric, The New Art of Simplified Cooking, 1940

Box 2, Folder 4

Hasty-Bake, The Art of Hasty Baking...

Box 2, Folder 5

Kelvinator, For the Hostess

Box 2, Folder 6

Kitchenaid, Best of Breads

Box 2, Folder 7

National Pressure Cooker Co., National Presto Cooker Recipe Book, 1946

Box 2, Folder 8

O'Keefe & Merrit Co., 150 Recipes for your Electric Refrigerator

Box 2, Folder 9

Pie Pans, Nettie McBirney, Aunt Chick's Pies, 1940

Box 2, Folder 10

Robertshaw-Fulton Controls Co., Robertshaw Measured Heat Cook Book, 1953

Box 2, Folder 11

Savory, Inc., Savory Prize Recipe Book, 1922

Box 2, Folder 12

Servel Corp., Servel Coldery, 1926

Box 2, Folder 13

Sunbeam, Only Sunbeam Mixmaster...

Box 2, Folder 14

Tappan Co., Guide to the Care and Use of your New Tappan

Box 2, Folder 15

Vallauris Ware, French Recipes

Series IV: Food Preservation

Box 2, Folder 16

American Can Co., Quick Trick Cookery

Box 2, Folder 17

National Canners Association, Canned Food Recipes for Serving Fifty

Box 2, Folder 18

Van Camp Packing Co., Van Camp's Delicious Milk Dishes

Series V: Food Product Literature, 1898-1965

Box 2, Folder 19

Alaska Pacific Salmon, Peter Pan Salmon Book of Recipes

Box 2, Folder 20

American Maize Products Co., Amaizo Cook Book, 1926

Box 2, Folder 21

Arden Farms, 136 Favorite Recipes

Box 2, Folder 22

Atlanta Mills Co., Oven Proved Recipes

Box 2, Folder 23

Best Foods, The New Karo All American Cook Book

Box 2, Folder 24

Calumet Baking Powder Co., Helen Harrington Downing, Modern Biscuit Baking, 1923

Box 2, Folder 25

Carnation, Cooking with a Velvet Touch, 1965

Box 2, Folder 26

Charles B. Knox Gelatine Co., The Health Value of Knox Sparkling Gelatine, 1924

Box 2, Folder 27

Chattanooga Medicine Co, Cardui Cook Book, 1912

Box 2, Folder 28

Cointreau Co., Gourmet's Guide to Dining and Drinking

Box 2, Folder 29

Corby's, Corby's Party Book

Box 2, Folder 30

Corn Products Refining Co., Emma Churchman Hewitt, Karo Cook Book, 1910

Box 2, Folder 31

D&C Co., Good Things to Eat, 1928

Box 2, Folder 32

Food Product Literature, Douglas-Pectin Corporation, How to Make Jams, Jellies, Marmalades, 1927

Box 2, Folder 33

Fleischmann Co., Excellent Recipes for Baking Raised Breads, 1920

Box 2, Folder 34

Franklin Baker Co., Baker's Coconut Recipes, 1911

Box 2, Folder 35

Fruit Dispatch Co., Camille Den Dooven, Elizabeth MacDonald, From the Tropics to Your Table, 1926

Box 2, Folder 36

Furet-McNess Co., F. W. McNess' Cook Book

Box 2, Folder 37

Gebhardt Chili Powder Co., Mexican Cookery for American Homes, 1949

Box 2, Folder 38

Geiger-Tinny Co., Virginia Sweet Pancake Flour

Box 2, Folder 39

Genessee Pure Food Co. (Jell-O), Menu, 1925

Box 2, Folder 40

Genessee Pure Food Co. (Jell-O), All Doors Open to Jell-O, 1917

Box 2, Folder 41

Genessee Pure Food Co. (Jell-O), In No Time, Make Delicious Ice Cream, 1930

Box 3, Folder 1

Genessee Pure Food Co. (Jell-O), Jell-O: America's Most Famous Dessert, ca. 1900

Box 3, Folder 2

Green & Green Co., Forty Delightful Ways, 1928

Box 3, Folder 3

House of Herbs, Inc., Dash: Tricks, Recipes, Bouquets

Box 3, Folder 4

Hunt Foods, Easy One-Dish Meals, 1960

Box 3, Folder 5

J. R. Watkins, Better Baking

Box 3, Folder 6

Jell-O (General Foods), The Complete Jell-O Recipe Book, 1929

Box 3, Folder 7

Jell-O CO., Rose Cecil O'Neill. The Jell-O Girl Entertains

Box 3, Folder 8

Kellogg Co., Try These 5 Delightful . . . Recipes

Box 3, Folder 9

Knudsen Creamery, Knudsen Recipes: For Greater Food Value, 1951

Box 3, Folder 10

Knudsen Creamery, Knudsen Recipes: For Greater Food Value, 1954

Box 3, Folder 11

Knudsen Creamery, Knudsen Recipes: For Greater Food Value, 1955

Box 3, Folder 12

Knudsen Creamery, Knudsen Recipes: For Greater Food Value, 1957

Box 3, Folder 13

Knudsen Creamery, Knudsen Recipes, 1959

Box 3, Folder 14

Salad Recipes featuring Knudsen Dairy Products, 1965

Box 3, Folder 15

Knudsen Creamery, Worlds of New Flavor in Dishes . . ., 1948

Box 3, Folder 16

Kraft-Phenix Cheese Co., Cheese--and Ways to Serve It, 1928

Box 3, Folder 17

Minute Tapioca Co., Janet McKenzie Hill, The Minute Man Cook Book, 1909

Box 3, Folder 18

Minute Tapioca Co., Minute Tapioca Substitute advertisement, 1918

Box 3, Folder 19

Mutual Citrus Product Co., How to Make Uncooked Jams..., 1960

Box 3, Folder 20

N. K. Fairbank Co., Cottolene: The New Shortening

Box 3, Folder 21

N. K. Fairbank Co., Sarah Tyson Rorer, Home Helps, 1898

Box 3, Folder 22

Northwestern Consolidated Milling Co., Ceresota Cook Book

Box 3, Folder 23

Ono Trading Co., Facts about "Blue Flat" Crabmeat

Box 3, Folder 24

Pillsbury Flour Mills, Pillsbury's 40 War Time Recipes, 1917

Box 3, Folder 25

Pillsbury Flour Mills. Nellie Duling Gans, The Pillsbury Cook-Book, 1914

Box 3, Folder 26

Pillsbury Mills, Inc., Ann Pillsbury, 100 Prize Winning Recipes, 1952

Box 3, Folder 27

Planters Edible Oil, Cooking the Modern Way, 1948

Box 3, Folder 28

Post, For the Best Bran Muffins, 1929

Box 3, Folder 29

Price Baking Powder Co., Table and Kitchen, 1908

Box 3, Folder 30

Price Flavor Extract Co., Delicious Desserts and Candies, 1923

Box 3, Folder 31

Procter & Gamble, Tested Crisco Recipes

Box 3, Folder 32

Procter & Gamble, White Cake . . . with Crisco

Box 3, Folder 33

Procter & Gamble, Marion Harris Neil, Mrs. Neil's Cooking Secrets, 1925

Box 3, Folder 34

Ralston-Purina, Ralston Recipes, 1921

Box 3, Folder 35

Royal Baking Powder, How to Use Corn Meal, Oat Meal . . ., 1917

Box 3, Folder 36

Royal Baking Powder, The New Dr. Price Cook Book, 1921

Box 3, Folder 37

Procter & Gamble, Winifred S. Carter, Cooking Hints and Tested Recipes, 1937

Box 3, Folder 38

Royal Baking Powder, How to Save Eggs . . ., 1917

Box 3, Folder 39

Royal Baking Powder, Royal Cook Book, 1925

Box 3, Folder 40

Royal Baking Powder, New Royal Cook Book, 1920

Box 4, Folder 1

Rumford Co., Lily Haxworth, Utility and Economy in Cooking

Box 4, Folder 2

Rumford Co., Fannie Merritt Farmer, Rumford Cook Book, 1910

Box 4, Folder 3

Rumford Co., Fannie Merritt Farmer, Rumford Cook Book

Box 4, Folder 4

Rumford Co., Bulletins

Box 4, Folder 5

Rumford Co., Dainty Desserts, Delicious Drinks

Box 4, Folder 6

Rumford Co., Lily Haxworth, "The Wholesome" Baking Powder, 1905

Box 4, Folder 7

Rumford Co., Lily Haxworth, Rumford Receipt Book, 1906

Box 4, Folder 8

Seabrook Farms., Seabrook Farms Frozen Foods Miracle Meals Cookbook

Box 4, Folder 9

Spice Islands Co., Collector's Items: Fifty Superb Recipes . . ., 1959

Box 4, Folder 10

Spice Islands Co., Helen Evans Brown, Spice Islands Company: Herb, Spice, Vinegar . . ., 1950

Box 4, Folder 11

Spry, Cookies

Box 4, Folder 12

Spry, Secret of Tender, Flaky Pie Crust

Box 4, Folder 13

Standard Brands, Royal Cook Book, 1940

Box 4, Folder 14

Swift & Co., Martha Logan, At Home on the Range

Box 4, Folder 15

Swift & Co., Martha Logan, Meat Complete, 1942

Box 4, Folder 16

Swift & Co., Martha Logan, Tasty Recipes

Box 4, Folder 17

Thomas Vineyards, Thomas Vineyards: California's Oldest Winery

Box 4, Folder 18

Tropo-Pak Food, Tropo-Pak: The Story of the Coconut

Box 4, Folder 19

Walter Baker & Co., Parloa, Janet McKenzie Hill, Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes & Home Made Candy . . ., 1910

Box 4, Folder 20

Washburn-Crosby Co., How a Well Bred Maid Makes Well Made Bread, 1908

Box 4, Folder 21

Washburn-Crosby Co., Gold Medal Flour Cook Book, 1910

Box 4, Folder 22

Washburn-Crosby Co., Betty Crocker's $25,000 Recipe Set, 1935

Box 4, Folder 23

Welch Grape Juice Co., Marion Harland, Welch Ways

Box 4, Folder 24

Wesson Oil, Wesson Oil for Cooking and Salads

Box 4, Folder 25

Wesson Oil, Snow Drift People, With Wesson Oil, 1926

Box 4, Folder 26

Wesson Oil, Snow Drift People, For Making Good Things to Eat, 1925

Box 4, Folder 27

Wilson & Co., Eleanor Lee Wright, Wilson's Meat Cookery, 1923

Box 4, Folder 28

Wilson & Co., Eleanor Lee Wright, Wilson's Meat Cookery, 1921

Series VI: Government and Industry, 1907-1910, 1924-1938, 1954-1961

Box 4, Folder 29

California Fruit Growers Exchange, Sunkist Recipes for Every Day, 1924

Box 4, Folder 30

California Fruit Growers Exchange, Sunkist Recipes for Every Day, 1929

Box 4, Folder 31

California Walnut Growers, Menu Magic in a Nutshell

Box 4, Folder 32

Maine, 99 Potato Recipes, 1938

Box 4, Folder 33

National Livestock & Meat Board, Meat Recipes to Please, 1954-55

Box 4, Folder 34

Roquefort Association, 50 Exclusive Recipes Featuring Roquefort, 1959

Box 4, Folder 35

US Department of Agriculture, W.O. Atwater, Principles of Nutrition & Nutritive Value of Food, 1910

Box 4, Folder 36

US Department of Agriculture, W.H. Beal, Experiment Station Work, XLI, 1907

Box 4, Folder 37

US Department of Agriculture, W.H. Beal, Experiment Station Work, XVI, 1908

Box 4, Folder 38

US Department of Agriculture, C.F. Langworthy, Fish as Food, 1907

Box 5, Folder 1

University of Hawaii, The Composition of Some Chinese Foods, 1925

Box 5, Folder 2

Wine Advisory Board, How to Cook with California Wines

Box 5, Folder 3

Wine Advisory Board, How to Make Punches & Other Mixed Drinks

Box 5, Folder 4

Wine Advisory Board, The Wine Cook Book, 1961

Box 5, Folder 5

Wine Advisory Board, Recipes . . . Meats with Wine

Box 5, Folder 6

Wine Advisory Board, Wine in Cooking

Series VII: Health and Hygiene, 1918, 1925-1926, 1948, 1957

Box 5, Folder 7

Chicago Tribune, Mrs. E.L. Rolph, War Time Recipes, 1918

Box 5, Folder 8

Evening Herald, Mildred Kitchen, Favorite Recipes

Box 5, Folder 9

Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Health Hints, 1926

Box 5, Folder 10

Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., Know Your Foods

Box 5, Folder 11

Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., The Metropolitan Life Cook Book, 1925

Box 5, Folder 12

Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., Metropolitan Cook Book, 1948

Box 5, Folder 13

Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., Metropolitan Cook Book, 1957

Box 5, Folder 14

Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., The Metropolitan Life Cook Book

Box 5, Folder 15

Pebeco Toothpaste, "Gone With the Wind" Cook Book

Series VIII: Restaurants, ca. 1871-ca. 1884, 1925-1938

Box 5, Folder 16

Clipper Restaurant (San Francisco), Menu, ca. 1871-1884

Box 5, Folder 17

Jonathan Club (Los Angeles), Otto J. Hoog, Correspondence with Recipe, 1939

Box 5, Folder 18

Live Food Cafeteria, Vera M. Richter, Mrs. Richter's Cook-Less Cook Book, 1925

Box 5, Folder 19

Russian Tea Room, Russian Dishes and What They Are Made Of, 1938

Box 5, Folder 20

Simpson's In-the-Strand, Bill of Fare

Box 5, Folder 21

Southern Pacific, Our Dining Car Recipes

Series IX: Retailers and Grocers, 1918-1926

Box 5, Folder 22

H.G. Chaffee Co, Chafees Household Advisor, 1922

Box 5, Folder 23

John Wagner & Sons, Herbs, Peppers, Spices, Seeds, and Seasoning . . .

Box 5, Folder 24

Marshall Field & Co., Forty-Four Ways to Win the War, 1918

Box 5, Folder 25

May Co., The Golden Key to Pure Foods, 1925-1926

Box 5, Folder 26

Safeway, Inc., A Safeway Exclusive . . .