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Need something to do with the turkey leftover from Thanksgiving? One of our 1950s advertising cookbooks put out by the Poultry & Egg National Board had 33 suggestions, including turkey and corn casseroles, turkey macaroni loaf, and something called “Turkey Red Devils.” However, the Home Economic Staff of the PENB Laboratory Kitchen (pictured below) really [...]
Continue Reading →Today’s Thanksgiving menu comes from a 1940 advertising cookbook published by Sealtest Dairy, which was a division of the National Dairy Products Corporation, a predecessor to Kraft Foods. They marketed their dairy products as having “scientific supervision unsurpassed,” and printed recipes developed in their Laboratory Kitchen. Despite the cover image showing turkey, a [...]
Continue Reading →In honor of all the cooking and eating we’re planning to do for Thanksgiving, we wanted to share a few menus and recipes from Thanksgivings past. Over the next couple of days, look for delicious posts drawing from the Hartman Center’s extensive collection of advertising cookbooks.
Today’s recipe comes [...]
Continue Reading →Our celebration of National Dessert Month has been surprisingly chocolate-free, so we’re aiming to correct that today with recipes from Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes, published around 1922. Instead of boring candy bars, we at The Devil’s Tale want our plastic pumpkins filled with Devil’s Food cake!
2 cups [...]
Continue Reading →Wonders never quite cease at the RBMSCL. If ever there were a foodstuff that we strongly believed should not be associated with dessert, it was cauliflower. And then we discovered The Dessert Book: A Complete Manual from the Best American and Foreign Authorities with General Economical Recipes (written by a Boston Lady in [...]
Continue Reading →In honor of National Dessert Month (which everyone celebrates, right?), we’ll be posting recipes from the RBMSCL’s collection every Friday this month. Last Friday—The Devil’s Tale’s first birthday—we started the celebration with a recipe for a pretty pink birthday cake.
Today’s recipe comes from an advertising brochure with a marvelous title: Continue Reading →
The Devil’s Tale’s birthday (today!) happens to coincide with National Dessert Month. In honor of these two very important occasions, we’re going to be publishing dessert recipes from our collections every Friday this month. We’ll begin today, of course, with a birthday cake recipe from Gold Medal Flour’s 1931 New Party Cakes for [...]
Continue Reading →What with all of the cold and the snow, RBMSCL folks have been craving warming beverages. Luckily, the Nicole Di Bona Peterson Collection of Advertising Cookbooks (which contains over 1800 cookbooks!) has come to our rescue. We thought we’d share this Hot Toddy recipe from Fine Cocktails Made Easy:
Place in [...]
Continue Reading →This season, as you begin to plan your holiday parties, the RBMSCL would like to offer this gem of a recipe, from 1929′s Electric Refrigerator Menus and Recipes.
1/4 lb. American cheese
1 small cream cheese
1 cup mayonnaise
6 maraschino cherries
6 green mint cherries
1/2 pint cream
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Continue Reading →Hello!
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New Rubenstein Library Materials Added to the Internet Archive- The Old flag [serial] May 2, 2012
- Trial by jury. The only genuine verbatim report of the speeches of Messrs. Hunt, Watson, Thistlewood, Preston, Clark, and others, delivered at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, July 21, 1817, at a dinner given to celebrate the aquittal of the state prisoners. By an eminent short hand writer. Including some interesting particulars relative to Watson, Junior, as narrated by Dr. Watson, tending to exculpate his character from the attack on Mr. Platt May 2, 2012
- The log of the "Thomas", July 23 to August 21, 1901 May 2, 2012
- Wer ist Schuld am Kriege? Rede des deutschen Reichskanzlers im Hauptausschusse des deutschen Reichtags am 9. november 1916 April 23, 2012
- Sound money. Bimetalism [!] a necessity of the world. The existing ratio of parity, 16, 15 1/2, 15 to 1, unalterable. The United States competent to re-establish bimetalism [!] by re-opening her mints to silver, without foreign co-operation April 23, 2012
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