The Bride's Cook Book

A wedding present from the advertisers, San Francisco, c.1918 — a young wife's whole cookery course, paid for by the Blue Bird washer, the Portland Studio and Ghirardelli's chocolate.

This site is the complete text of The Bride's Cook Book — a wedding present the advertisers paid for, printed in San Francisco for Portland, Oregon, and dated by the Food Administration letter inside it to 1918 or a little after. Everything is here as printed, advertising included. About this edition →

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The Book

2 recipes

Housekeeping Notes

3 recipes

In the Kitchen

11 recipes

Bread, Biscuits, Muffins and Waffles

45 recipes

Cakes

35 recipes

Pastry, Pies and Tarts

42 recipes

Puddings and Pudding Sauces

61 recipes

Honey, Ices and Gelatines

57 recipes

Fish

24 recipes

Shell Fish

9 recipes

Stuffings

10 recipes

Salads

21 recipes

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Highlights

Hamburg Steak

1 Pound Beef Round, Chopped Fine Teaspoon Onion Juice Teaspoon Salt Teaspoon Pepper 1 Egg Nutmeg (a little) Soup Stock Remove all…

Baked Chicken (Take a plump chicken dress)

Take a plump chicken, dress and lay in cold salt water for half hour, put in pan, stuff and sprinkle with salt and pepper; lay a…

Spice Cup Cakes

1 Cup Corn Meal 3/4 Cup Cornstarch 2 Cups Flour 1/2 Teaspoon Cloves 1/2 Teaspoons Cinnamon 1 Teaspoon Ginger 1/4 Teaspoon Nutmeg…

Skate Fish-Indian Style

Chop onion, garlic, little bacon, curry powder; add little water and fry in pan until onion is brown. Take pieces of skate and…

Chocolate Squares

Beat three eggs in one cup of sugar, one teaspoonful each of allspice, cloves, cinnamon; two tablespoonfuls chocolate…

Honey Tarts (Make pie crust cut out)

Make pie crust; cut out with an oldfashioned tart cutter. If one of these is not available, use rounds of crust with rings of the…

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