Low Cost Recipes

Feeding a family well on little, 1914 - soups to cakes, with every left-over accounted for.

About the Book

1914Published
Edith Gwendolyn HarbisonAuthor
393Recipes

Edith Gwendolyn Harbison, lately of Table Talk magazine, published Low Cost Recipes with George W. Jacobs of Philadelphia in 1914 - a cookbook for the careful purse, where the soup pot watches the left-overs from every meal.

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