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This year, we'll be making our way through Modern Meal Maker (Martha Meade for Sperry Flour Co., 1935).
Martha Meade had a radio show about cooking for Sperry Flour on the West Coast in the 1930s, so that's why the cover makes sure to prominently specify the recipes are by Martha Meade.
Spanish rice needs some seasoning beyond salt.)
Since this is a recipe book from a flour company (and since a lot of recipes would require flour anyway, not just as a dough ingredient, but as part of a meat dredge, sauce thickener, etc.), it's no surprise that flour makes a regular appearance.
{SPECIAL FEATURES}
- 1961 First Edition
- 184 pages including detailed index
- Contains original dust jacket
{CONDITION}
In absolutely beautiful vintage condition , this cookbook looks practically brand new.
What's cooking? Maybe by the end of the year she'll have us all wearing our "I 💓 Wheat!" shirts. (I suspect that this recipe desperately needs some chili powder at the very least, though. Average families in the 1930s apparently didn't expect (couldn't afford?) meat at every meal, and some of the options are more interesting than the usual brick-like loaves of leftover veggies glued together by eggs and breadcrumbs that older cookbooks tended to offer as meatless meals.
As a Spanish rice lover, I have to admit to being halfway tempted by the thought of Spanish rice cakes topped with melty cheese sauce!
Unlike West Coast Martha Meade, Southern Martha L. Meade worked for the federal government and collected recipes on the side as a way to soothe her homesickness for the Southern cooking she knew and loved. Do you want your entire breakfast in one compact disk? I'm sure it's a valiant effort to make a nutritious dessert, but perhaps taking the name "brownie" out of the title would make it less of a disappointment?
Interesting recipes include Crackling Corn Bread, Gumbo File, Peanut Soup, Beaten Biscuits, Stuffed Roast Beef, Fried Country Ham with Red Gravy, Buckingham Eggs, Deviled Oysters on the Half Shell, Baked Bananas. You'll notice there are way more menus than recipes 1115 v. I guess I can see why it got that title.
In any case, I am excited to see a year's worth of Martha Meade's ideas!
the spine is tight and all pages are intact.
{SIZE}
Measures 8.5" inches (length) x 5.75" inches (width) x .75" inches (thickness) and weighs just under 1 lb.
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Cooking Shows in Old Time Radio
Old time radio shows featuring cooking, baking, and meal preparation were in high order during the height of the golden age of radio.
Cooking shows were a natural progression to try to capture the homemaker market, many of whom were at home all day taking care of the kids and the house.
The first Martha was a popular spokesperson for Sperry Flour during the first half of the 20th century. Why use plain old flour to make rich, sweet, chewy brownies when you can make Brownie Pudding?
Wouldn't the kids rather have wheat germ cereal with prunes and egg white folded in, and just enough chocolate that you can maybe convince them that it's actually chocolate-flavored?
In other words, I have the whole book! When I initially picked up this book, I saw the "Winter/ Spring" designation on the cover and worried that I'd still have to track down the Summer/ Autumn book, but then when I flipped through, I realized that the fronts of the pages are printed with winter and spring; the backs are summer and autumn.