Walter Baker's 1912 chocolate book — the story of La Belle Chocolatiere, and choice recipes for cocoa and chocolate.

About the Book

1912Published

Walter Baker & Co. Ltd.Author

138Recipes

Walter Baker & Co. of Dorchester, Massachusetts — the chocolate house behind La Belle Chocolatiere — issued Choice Recipes in 1912: the story of the trademark, then the recipes, cocoa to chocolate cake. Built from professionally keyed text.

This site reproduces the complete text of the original 1912 edition, digitized page by page from the original printing. The book is in the public domain.

Rights & ReuseThe complete text of Choice Recipes (1912) is in the public domain in the United States — like all works published before 1928 — and is free to read, download, quote, teach from, and reuse. This digital edition (its transcription, restored images, and site design) is © 2026 PhotoOpAI, and any editorial commentary we add is clearly marked as ours; the underlying public-domain text carries no such restriction.