✓ Three Meals a Day Series: SALADS for Breakfast, Dinner, Supper — Bessie R. Murphy; published by Rand McNally & Company, 1920 — Complete recipes for salads with period illustrations; excellent condition
✓ 200 Tested Recipes by Olive J. Allen — Bisco brand promotional edition; vintage cover with mother-and-child illustration; "200 recipes selected from many hundreds gathered from all over the world"; classic Depression/early-mid-century recipes
✓ Miss Olive Allen's Tested Recipes — 200 — Procter & Gamble Co., Cincinnati edition; same trusted author, P&G promotional version
✓ Recipe Book of Eliza Lucas Pinckney 1756 — South Carolina Society of the Colonial Dames of America; Foreword describes Eliza Lucas Pinckney as first woman planter of indigo in South Carolina; facsimile reproduction of historic handwritten manuscript from Beltmont plantation (Charleston, S.C.); includes cross-stitch embroidered cover wrapper — PREMIUM HISTORICAL ITEM
✓ Cooking Hints and Tested Recipes — Minnered S. Carter; vintage 1920s-1930s design and typography; practical kitchen tips and recipes
BONUS: Vintage Procter & Gamble "The New Crisco" promotional booklet (1937) — "Super-Creamed Crisco" advertising and recipes highlighting brand innovations
CONDITION: Overall good to very good. Pages readable and intact, vintage patina appropriate to age. Minor wear to covers and spines. One book with embroidered cloth cover (Pinckney). Dust from age but no major tears or water damage.
WHAT YOU'RE GETTING:
• 4 authentic vintage cookbooks spanning 1920s–1950s • Social history of American home cooking and domestic life • Original brand promotional recipes (P&G/Bisco/Crisco history) • Period design and typography — Art Deco and Depression-era styling • Historic recipe documentation from trusted sources • Beautiful period illustrations and period photography • Educational material for culinary historians and researchers
IDEAL FOR:
• Vintage cookbook and food history collectors • Culinary historians and food researchers • Procter & Gamble and Crisco brand collectors • Colonial American and Southern history enthusiasts • Interior designers seeking period inspiration • Food culture and domestic history scholars • Antique dealers and auction house researchers • Recipe enthusiasts seeking authentic vintage recipes • Nostalgia collectors (1920s–1950s Americana)
CONDITION DETAILS: These are well-loved vintage books showing appropriate age. Pages are clean and readable. One features a hand-embroidered cloth cover (Pinckney). All are structurally sound with no loose pages.