The Art of Cooking and Serving. With 549 Tested Crisco Recipes

7 X 5" : 252 pages. Index. Illustrated with color frontispiece and black and white photographs within the text. P&G promotional cookbook for Crisco with a heavy focus on entertaining. There is a wonderful chapter dedicated to deep-fat frying with recipes from do nuts, and fried pies to French Fried Calves Liver! The first chapters focus on running a household. There is a wonderful section with photograph for the "correctly dressed maid." The Contents: Forward; Table Service in the Servantless House; Table Service in the House with a Servant; Helpful Cooking Equipment; How to Plan Your Meals; Deep Fat Frying; Soups; Cereals and Cheese; Eggs; Fish; Meat and Poultry; Vegetables; Meat, Fish and Vegetable Sauces; Quick Breads; Yeast Breads; Salads; Sandwiches; Cakes and Cookies; Pastry; Desserts and Sauces; Candy; Large Quantity Cooking; Specialty Dishes; Spring-Summer Menus; Autumn-Winter Menus; Menus for Special Occasions; Index - What to Serve and How to Serve It; The Tables and Charts; Index. Within the "What To Serve and How to Serve It" index you will dishes indexed by course, meal or event thus at your finger tips are simple to elegant dishes for an afternoon tea, or is every course for the school and picnic lunch box. A look into American food culture of the 1930's, nice copy with surface wear. Laid is a news clipping with the recipe for the German Chocolate cake served by President LBJ to Chancellor Ludwig Erhard in 1963, with respective tone. Inside the front cover is a handwritten recipe for pie crust. ; 8vo. …