28 Pages of Recipes Excerpts Including Handwritten Additions, 1937

Excerpts from Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book with 28 pages of recipes both typed and handwritten. 1937. Measure 6 x 10 inches with several smaller leaves inserted. Recipes include Southern Sugar Pie, Pickled Eggs, and Salmon Souffle. Handwritten pages include recipes with personalized notes including, "Ketchup-Mother's very good." Better homes and Gardens launched in 1922 under the name Fruit, Garden and Home, offering articles, recipes, cooking techniques and contests. Considered one of the "seven sister" of women's service magazines, its target market was women who were homemakers, wives and mothers whose attention to domestic life was integral to the broader invention of the nuclear family as a hallmark of twentieth century American life. Pages are detached with some light foxing and damp stains throughout. First page includes pocket for loose recipes with the text, "Use this envelope to hold recipes and food information you obtain from Better Homes and Gardens...Recipes should be filed and indexed regularly each month." Overall good condition. (Inventory #: 18398)