Jenny Wren Recipes

Lawrence, Kansas: Jenny Wren Company, 1926. Paper. Color illustrated fold-out pamphlet. Very good. 13 x 7 cm. closed. 25 x 22.5 cm. opened. Colorful, illustrated fold-out recipe pamphlet. Jenny Wren Ready-Mixed Flour featured a blend of hard and soft wheat flour and included salt and self-rising ingredients to make it useful in an assortment of recipes. In 1926, Lawrence businessman R.C. Jackman founded the radio station WREN as a way to promote his Ready-Mix Flour. The transmitter was in the storage room of the mill and the microphone stood on a stack of empty flour sacks. The flour mill operated on the riverfront of the Kaw River in conjunction with the Bowersock Mill. Very lightly soiled.