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An immense time capsule in a small package, Good Housekeeping’s Book of Menus, Recipes, and Household Discoveries highlights domestic life in the 1920s and all the programs, procedures, and foods that ruled that decade’s heart and house.

A trusted, go-to resource for home cooks of the 1920s, this antique book was compiled by the Department of Cookery at the Good Housekeeping Institute. It contains over 250 pages of recipes, helpful homekeeping tips, and suggested menus, all thoroughly vetted, tested, and tasted by experts in the test kitchens of Good Housekeeping magazine. 

A treasure trove of interesting information is included here, offering insight into 1920s domestic efficiencies, creativities, and practicalities on all fronts from cooking to laundry, household organization to sewing projects, homekeeping tricks to child-rearing. Menus for every meal of the day across an entire year showcase not only good nutrition but also the importance of seasonal variety in one's diet. And the recipes themselves feature an array of foods that combine old-fashioned favorites with modern 1920s-era interest and  innovation. 

Potted Carp, Nut Pancakes, Apple Tree Dulcet, Grated Sweet Potato Pudding, Manhattan Pudding, Baconized Meat Balls, Roast Chicken in Charleston Style, Uxbridge Mustard Pickle, Burnt Sugar and Banana Pie, Pimento Cheese Soup, Rye & Corn Puffs, Victory Meat Loaf, Green Tomato Preserve, Polish Muffins, Honey and Nut Gingerbread, Loganberry Cake, Corn-Flake Waffles, and Rye Cakes with Honey are just a sampling of the interesting and unusual recipes featured.

The goal of the Good Housekeeping Institute, first established in 1900 as the Good Housekeeping Experiment Station, was to test products, techniques, applications, and recipes for usefulness, validity, and importance to the overall health and well-being of the home and its household members. Renamed the Good Housekeeping Institute in 1910, they tested everything from appliances to cleaning products, dishware to food products to ensure that consumers were utilizing the best equipment,  product,  and methods available to care for home and family. All products that passed their rigorous scrutiny were awarded the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval, a designation still in effect today.

It was that attention to detail, along with the care and commitment of the cookery department back in the 1910s and 1920s, that set Good Housekeeping on the path to becoming one of the longest-running, most well-known brands in American history and has kept their recipes on the kitchen counter for more than a century.  

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• Published in 1922
• 254 pages 
• Lovely aged aesthetic

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With a gorgeous aged aesthetic, this cookbook looks like it has been around for 105 years. With a tanned spine, scuffed and stained coverboards, and random cooking spots throughout, it was a well-loved pal in the kitchen. The interior front coverboard is separating from the spine seam, but all the pages are firmly intact. Despite a few random, minor cooking spots, all the interior pages are otherwise clean and bright with delicate tanning around the edges. Please see photos.

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Measures 7.5" inches (length) x 5" inches (width) x 1 inch (thickness) and weighs 12 oz.