Victory Recipes: Featuring Better Recipes for Wartime Cooking and Baking with Wartime Ingredients, c. 1943, Kansas City

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Victory Recipes: Featuring Better Recipes for Wartime Cooking and Baking with Wartime Ingredients, c. 1943:  If you love vintage advertising about cooking and kitchens, this is your cookbook.  Every other page of the 200 page book is a full-page ad for cooking, cleaning, or baking products, many of them specific to Kansas City.  There’s an advertisers’ index in the back that makes it easy to locate the ads.   The book was sponsered by the Independent Retail Grocers Association, with the Lee-HGF of the H. D. Lee Company the lead sponsor.  Advertisers include companies like Martha Logan of Swift & Company, Bond Bread, Town Crier Enriched Flour, Coca-Cola, Dolly Madison, Morton’s Salt, Taystee Bread, Heinz, National Biscuit Company, Cudahy Packing Company, John Morrell, American Beauty Macaroni, and many more.

If you are interested in World War II food and cooking, this cookbook is also fascinating.  Chapters include those on soups, meats, meat extenders, variety meats, versatile vegetables, salads, dressings, bread, sauces, desserts, stretching sugar, peanuts, foreign dishes, and lunches.  The cookbbok has a cardboard cover and plastic comb binding.  The cover has come loose from the bottom three teeth of the binding.  It has normal shelf wear on the cover.  All the pages are clean and clean.  If this cookbook was used, it was by an exceptionally tidy cook.