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Vintage Cookbooks and Advertising Leaflets

Colorful and informative, this in-depth pictorial review and price guide includes over 850 color photographs of cookery pamphlets and advertising memorabilia from the 1860s to the 1950s. Through the use of these materials, food companies achieved brand name exposure while providing consumers with new and exciting ways to use their products. Featured in the book are chapters on brand-name foods, wartime-era cookbooks, black memorabilia, highly collectible die-cut books, children’s books, and more. In addition, the authors provide helpful suggestions for getting started with your own collection, identifying dates, and caring for these entertaining and delightfully illustrated collectibles. If you’ve overlooked advertising cookbooks in the past, you’ll certainly take a closer look now!

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Vintage Cookbooks Holiday Cookies

Enjoy 25 of my favorite holiday cookie recipes! From my Grandma’s Fudge to fast and easy favorites involving chocolate and peanut butter, there is something for everyone to enjoy at holiday occasions. Most have been adapted from vintage cookbooks. Find more recipes and some retro crafts on the Vintage Cookbooks and Crafts blog at http://www.amyalessio.com.

Amy Alessio also has a series of mystery stories and novellas with more vintage recipes, featuring antiques mall bookkeeper Alana O’Neill. Those stories in order are: Treasures, Missing Andy, Felled by Fruitcake and a novella in the title Hearts and Daggers: Three Valentine Mystery Novellas.

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Old-Fashioned Cookbook – Great Grandmother’s Recipes

183 recipes originally published in 1876 as ‘Westminster Cookbook’, this collection is both nostalgic and practical. Learn how cakes, pickles, breads, desserts, soups and meats were made in a simple time. Discover the recipes your great grandmother used but never wrote down after she learned it.

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