Book of Valuable Recipes

Church & Dwight's 1915 recipe book for the great Arm & Hammer soda — which also prints a perpetual calendar, because why not.

This site is the complete 1915 book Book of Valuable Recipes, page by page as originally printed — period spelling, remedies and opinions included. About this edition →

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85 recipes

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Here and There About the House

BUTTER that fails to come after the customary amount of churning will be hastened by a teaspoonful of The Great Arm & Hammer…

Excellent Corn Bread

1 tablespoonful Butter, pinch Salt, 2 tablespoonfuls Sugar, Yolks two eggs, 34 even teaspoonful The Great "Arm & Hammer" Soda. 1…

United States Postal

The Registry System provides for special care and correct delivery. Without extra cost, every registered letter or parcel prepaid…

Plum Pudding

1 cup seeded Raisins, 2 cups fine Breadcrumbs, 1 cup sweet Milk, 1 even teaspoonful The Great "Arm & Hammer" Soda. mon. 1 cup…

Time (Pork well well done per lb)

Pork, well well done, per lb. Veal, well done, per lb. 20 min.

Fruit Bars

1/4 teaspoonful Cinnamon, 1/4 teaspoonful Nutmeg, 1 teaspoonful Salt, 6 oz. Cottolene or 1 Lard, teaspoonful The Great "Arm &…

The Perpetual Calendar

The book prints a perpetual calendar; this one actually works — any month, any year from 1583.

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Curious Facts

10 genuinely curious things this book actually says, each linked to its page.

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