Anna May Cornell (6 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. In remarkably good shape - appears ALMOST NEW aside from a small and light pencil note on the top of the front cover and the warranty portion is filled out - actually quite interesting. Anna May Cornell was a home economist and writer working within the tradition of branded domestic science publications that flourished throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Her professional background in home economics gave her work the practical authority and credibility that manufacturers sought when commissioning instructional publications intended to help consumers get the most from their appliances while building confidence in and loyalty to the brand. Home economists working in this capacity occupied a respected professional role during this period, serving as a bridge between the technical capabilities of consumer products and the practical needs and knowledge of the domestic user. Your New Westinghouse Electric Refrigerator is a promotional and instructional publication produced by the Canadian Westinghouse Company in 1949, combining practical guidance on the care and operation of the refrigerator with a collection of recipes designed to help the new owner make full use of their appliance. This type of branded appliance booklet was standard practice among major appliance manufacturers of the era, recognizing that a well informed and confident consumer was more likely to be satisfied with their purchase and loyal to the brand when the time came to replace or upgrade their appliance. A publication dated 1949 places the booklet in the postwar period of significant expansion in Canadian domestic consumption, as returning prosperity and the growth of suburban family life drove strong demand for modern household appliances. The electric refrigerator was becoming an increasingly standard fixture in Canadian homes during this period, gradually displacing the icebox that had served previous generations, and a publication helping new owners understand and enjoy their appliance would have been both practically useful and commercially astute. The care and use element of the publication would have covered the practical aspects of operating and maintaining the refrigerator correctly, including temperature management, proper food storage practices, defrosting procedures, and basic maintenance guidance aimed at prolonging the life and efficiency of the appliance. This practical content reflected the genuine complexity of operating a relatively new domestic technology that many consumers were encountering for the first time. The recipe content would have been designed to demonstrate the particular advantages of refrigerator ownership for food preparation and storage, showcasing dishes and techniques that benefited directly from reliable cold storage, including chilled desserts, jellied salads, make ahead dishes, and items requiring careful temperature control during preparation. Canadian Westinghouse as a major manufacturer had both the resources and the commercial motivation to produce a well presented and genuinely useful publication of this kind, and the involvement of a credentialed home economist such as Cornell would have ensured that the content met a reasonable standard of practical reliability and culinary good sense.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good -. Softcover with stay-flat spiral binding, undated (c1940s, "Index Revised June, 1948"), 139 pages; light cover edge wear, covers rubbed and lightly soiled, a few faded old butter-finger stains to edges and a few scattered pages, but most pages clean and unmarked. For more period Canadian cookery see also our listings for Cooking Made Easy: A Home Economics Course for users of Monarch Pastry Flour, and for Canadian Fish Recipes [Consumer Bulletin No. 3], as well as two booklets by Mary Grosvenor Ellsworth: The Golden Touch of Hospitality, and Good Taste (both from The House of Seagram and Hiram Walker - Gooderham & Worts), and for you bakers: the extremely scarce The Monarch Flour Etta Sawyer Cook Book, and the equally scarce Cream of the West Cook Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage** This book has a homemade blue and white stripped oil-cloth dust jacket which has mostly kept the decorated cardboard cover bright and clean, the front cover top corner has a small darkened patch, back cover is lightly soiled. Text is tanned at the edges, some recipes show light evidence of use (small food stains). At the back there is a pocket for the Range Instruction Card which is missing. Metal spiral binding 6 X 9" 138 pages. Undated Circa Mid-1930s. Illustrated with black/white photographs of the split-level, three oven Westinghouse Dual-Automatic stove. The recipes include all courses from appetizers to desserts as well as candy, home canning and preserves.

1946, Revised. (Coil bound) Very good. 144pp. Limp burgundy leatherette with red metal coil binding. Photographs, tables, index. Book about Electric Ranges--Westinghouse & Stoves. Identified on cover as: Electric Cookery by Westinghouse. (Cookbooks, Cookbooks, Recipes, Westinghouse).

Condition: good to very good. [xvi], 138pp. Octavo. Original spiral bound, illustrated stiff card wrappers; edges rubbed, soil marks to rear panel, closed tear to upper edge of front. Inner textblock edges browned with some soiling and foxing to pages. Pencil notes to final blank pages. Written pages, clippings and pamphlets tipped in throughout. Folding rear pocket with additional ephemera. Pages turn easily; tipped in ephemera makes this copy one of a kind. good to very good Promotional cook book for the Westinghouse Dual-Automatic Range. Personal recipes of former owner with additional pamphlets and drawings appear in text. Includes introductory notes on the use and functions of the range. Recipes for salad dressing, date bread, oatmeal cookies and drop cakes added to memoranda pages at rear. A fantastic find.

Stapled Wraps. First Edition, First Printing. Unpaginated. [pp. 28]. Oblong 8vo., measuring 10.1" x 7.25". Illustrated stapled covers in black, green, and white. A promotional cookbook ostensibly targeting housewives, published by the Canadian subsidiary of the Westinghouse Co., Limited - manufacturers of refregirators, and small household appliances - advocating for the use of their products by virtue of their ability to preserve perishable foods for longer. Features a remarkably assembled collection of recipe ingredients for every day of the year. The introductory preface states: "On the right hand of this book will be found a set of shopping lists, covering the foods needed for the menus shown on the accompanying left hand pages. Two shopping lists are given each week. The first shows the food cost with-out a Westinghouse Refrigerator, where perishable goods has to be purchased in small quantities and where it was impossible to take advantage of the week-end prices features by most [grocery] stores. The second list in each case shows the food cost WITH a Westinghouse Refrigerator, where meats, fresh fruits, salads, and vegetables as well as canned goods, cream, etc., could be purchased in economically large quantities and where it was possible to take advantage of all week-end specials offered by the [grocery] stores." Light rubbing, edgewear to the covers, contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked. Overall, very good. Exceedingly rare, unrecorded in OCLC, and unavailable in commerce at time of cataloguing. NOT in Driver. We do note the presence of two similar titles in Driver's 'Culinary Landmarks', however neither appear to be related to this title and make not mention of the publisher (Westinghouse) or author (Anna May Cornell). Rare indeed.