Does anyone else love vintage "giveaway" cookbooks and pamphlets that food producers, soap companies, and other manufacturers of home or women's items used to distribute? I remember seeing these in the kitchen drawers and bookshelves of my grandmother and some of her friends and relatives. Prominently featuring everything from a certain brand of flour to yeast brands long since absorbed, or as a promotional giveaway with certain brands of soap, they were chock-full of recipes which ran the gamut from staple to disturbing.
I found this Fleischmann's cookbook on home-made, manual bread baking at a library booksale; if I've read the "5-48" in the back cover notes correctly, it dates from May, 1948!
My early introduction to this genre was through a small Dell paperback entitled, "One Pot Cooking", which my grandmother received with a Dove soap bar purchase; as soon as I could read the title, it resonated with me on a soul level. I am now an unabashedly proud one-pot gourmand (well, as much as the sanctity of the recipe permits!). I wish I hadn't thrown it out, what an interesting re-read that would have been..
Do you have any favorite giveaway pamphelts and/or cookbooks that you are looking for or simply cannot live without?
It is indeed a bauteiful tablecloth. My first look at it, and the table setting, prompted me to say aloud, "Oh, that's so romantic!" For all the women of the past who put so much endeavor into bauteiful handmade linens, what a tribute to them that so many table cloths and napkins survived and have been lovingly kept by a new generation. After having ruined more than one delicate cloth, though, I always feel a need to caution: LAUNDER CAREFULLY. The fine work and tender, old fabrics need gentle handling and I never put them in a washing machine now although I imagine a "Extra Slow/Handwash/Delicates" setting could work for some pieces.Thanks for sharing. You seem to have an endless supply of pretty things to show us!
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