Silver Jubilee Super Market Cook Book by Edith Barber - 1955 Anniversary Edition
"She's such a good cook." That's a compliment that every woman likes to hear even in this modern age." (from the Preface)
{HISTORY}
First published in 1940, just ten years after the birth of the country's first supermarket style grocery store, Edith Barber set out to teach Americans how to cook utilizing all the conveniences located at the novelty of an idea - the supermarket. With the option of having all ingredients available, all the time, under one roof (thus eliminating the idea of having to stop at the bakery and then the fish monger and then the butcher, etc,) the time saved shopping made home cooking all the more exciting and manageable. Literally, the concept of the supermarket refreshed and reinvigorated the mindset of home cooks everywhere.
Edith's cookbook features that type of excitement - where it is possible and plausible to make 500 pages of recipes for all three meals of the day utilizing products that came from one place and were made with the availability of defining price and quantity before shopping.
Cooking in the 1950's was all about modernization and efficiency with the dawn of pre-packaged convenience foods. All of Edith's recipes are based on homemade foods with occasional forays into canned ingredients or pre-packaged items. Having said that Edith firmly believed that good cooking involved the individual's touch with fresh, quality ingredients, not a pre-packaged wonder made by someone else.
{SPECIAL FEATURES}
- Over 500 pages of recipes
- Special sections include menu suggestionss, party planning recipes, a carlorie counter, a weights and measures chart and various additional guides for the beginner cook like a list of pantry supplies and cooking utensils as well as cup conversions for various can sizes, etc.
- Interesting midcentury kitchen stories and history mingle with each recipe chapter throughout
- A complete selection of recipes... from the exotic Frog Leg's Meuniere to classics like Lady Baltimore Cake to fun pre-dinner cocktails and a bevy of midcentury marvels of the aspic and home-canned fruit and vegetable relish sort.
- Very clean interior pages
{CONDITION}
The exterior of the cookbooks is a little worn around the edges but the interior is completely clean and unmarked save for a previous owner's name written on the front end paper and a paste smudge on the inside cover where a book plate was most probably once attached. The spine is tight and all pages are intact. A lovely gem of a 65-year-old cookbook.
{SIZE}
Measures 5.5" inches (width) x 8.5" inches (length) x 1..25" inches (depth)
{WHY YOU NEED IT}
Because it is a complete volume of classic recipes that is ideal for beginning cooks and inspirational for seasoned cooks. There is a little bit of something for everyone in here and all ingredients are easily attainable at any supermarket today.
-- Silver Jubilee Super Market cook Book by Edith M. Barber. Published by Super Market Publishing Co, New York. 1955 Edition. 528 pages.