Antique, Vintage and Rare Baking Books or Cookbooks: Old cookbooks that have baking as the primary emphasis. Includes baking books with patterns for creating cakes, recipes for astonishing pastries and their fillings, their delicious icings, and specialties like marzipan decorations. Includes old fashioned candy recipes.
Currently, we have: Mary Lyles Wilson’s New Cook Book, 1914; Ball Blue Book, 1941; Art in Confectionery and Pastry, 1930; Simple But Effective Cake Decorating, 1925, 1939; Kitchen Economy Candy Book, Culinary Arts Press, 1938, Three Mountaineers, Inc.; Iridor Complete Candy Making Course, Candy Manual Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4, 1931; Candies and Bonbons and How to Make Them, 1913; Mary Alden’s Cake Cookie Cook Book, 1956; Selected High Altitude Recipes: Tested in the Solitaire Kitchen, 1937, 1947; Cookie Book, compiled by Nellie Watts and published by the Culinary Arts Press in 1939; Betty Crocker Cook Book of All-Purpose Baking, 1942; Betty Bun’s Book of Baking Magic, 1986; Master Baker’s Manual, 1930; Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume Two, 1970; Choice Candy Recipes, 1930, Lucy G. Allen; Treatise on Baking, 1905, 1915; Ship’s Cook and Baker, 1944; Golden Fluffo Cookbook, 1956.
