The Modern Method of Preparing Delightful Foods

Ida Bailey Allen tells the story of American corn — Plymouth breakfasts to the Great War — and hangs a day's four meals on it, for the company that made Karo and Mazola.

The Planting

4 recipes in this part of The Modern Method of Preparing Delightful Foods.

Prologue

The Planting THROUGH my work with The National Food Administration during the Great War, I became convinced that as a Nation we were…

Recently the Corn Products Refining Company

asked me if I thought women would like to know more about Corn and its products. I knew they would, and so from seed planted ten years…

Colonial Breakfasts

THREE centuries ago in Plymouth, breakfast was served at dawn, on long, narrow, bare tables. There was one high salt shaker in the middle…

How to Measure

ALL measurements should be exact-as level as possible. Use standard, half-pint measuring cups, and standard tablespoons and teaspoons…

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