[BAKING POWDER] Cook Book, USEFUL INFORMATION AND INTERESTING DATA

Hoboken, NJ: R.B. Davis Company, 1904. Staplebound. Dark blue illustrated wraps. Very good. 64 pages, 17 x 11.5 cm. The R.B. Davis Manufacturing’s Dry Yeast Baking Powder Cookbook begins with a dedication to housewives who have been misled into a purchase of Baking Powder with Cream of Tartar and to those sufferers of Bright’s Disease which they attribute to this same substance. The booklet is a combination jokebook, cookbook, advertisement for the Dry Yeast Baking Powder. It has a selection of jokes, alternating with its simple recipes for sponge cake and roast beef for the average homemaker. 1 cm chip on front cover, some rubbing at corners and spine, otherwise crisp and clear.