About the Book
The Butterick Publishing Company sold dress patterns. This book, copyright 1927, came out of the Delineator Home Institute — the domestic-science department behind Butterick's magazine — and it is two books bound as one.
The first is a cookbook of some five hundred recipes, written to the new standards of its decade: every measurement level, every oven given in degrees Fahrenheit rather than in the old language of slow, moderate and quick. It opens with a chapter on what food actually does, and a table of baking temperatures for every common dish.
The second is a household manual. Dollar and Time Savers collects nearly two hundred tips sent in by readers, each signed with initials and a home town — Council Bluffs, Revelstoke, Amarillo. After that come the correct customs of the table, a stain-removal chapter that names the chemical for every mark, a first-aid cabinet and the care of the complexion, the nails and the hair.
This edition is built from a dual-engine reading of the original pages, checked against the scans, with the printed reading order rebuilt from the page geometry.