The Story of Crisco

The Story of Crisco, 1913 — how Procter & Gamble taught America a new fat, with 250 recipes and a year of dinners to seal it.

About the Book

1913Published
Marion Harris NeilAuthor
704Recipes

The Story of Crisco (The Procter & Gamble Co., 1913) is two books in one: the company's own account of its new shortening — hotel kitchens, domestic-science lecterns and all — and a cookbook of 250 recipes by Marion Harris Neil, closing with a dated calendar of dinners for the year.

It is preserved here as printed: a landmark of American food marketing as much as of cookery.

This edition is built from a dual-engine reading of the original pages, checked against the scans.

This site reproduces the complete text of the original 1913 edition, digitized page by page from the original printing. The book is in the public domain.

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