 “100 Good Apple Recipes: Use Ohio Apples,” Agricultural College Extension Service, Ohio State University, 1915. Cookbooks like this one were used to distribute knowledge about the agricultural field. “The Cooperative Extension Service system got its start in 1862 when Congress passed the Morrill Act, which provided for a university in each state to provide education to citizens in the agricultural and mechanical fields. These colleges are known as ‘land-grant universities.’ The Ohio State University is Ohio's 1862 land-grant university” (Ohio State University). For more information on apples in America, I would recommend checking out this article on apples by The Food Timeline and this podcast episode by History Bites.  “Farm Bureau Cook Book,” Ohio Farm Bureau. No date.
I think this cookbook may have been published sometime in the 1940s because it lists several recipes as “sugarless” or containing the word “victory” in the title. Rationing items like sugar was common in the United States in the 1940s due to World War II. According to the Food Timeline, “Rationing was introduced in the United States by the Office of Price Administration in 1942 as a way to equitably distribute diminishing food supplies.” The regulations on rationing sugar remained in effect from April 1942 to June 1947. A couple interesting articles I found on World War II food rationing were “WW2 Rations + Victory Gardens” from Savor Tooth Tiger and “Here’s How to Make ‘Victory Cake’ With a Recipe From the World War II Home Front” by Lily Rothman for TIME Magazine.
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 A Blue Ribbon Romance by C.M. Nascosta is a short novel featuring a high heat, slow burn romance between Violet, a human woman, and Rourke, a male minotaur. This book follows the same timeline as one of her other books, Morning Glory Milking Farm, but is told from Rourke’s perspective instead of Violet’s.
Rourke loves sweets almost as much as I do, and, at one point in the book, he orders a Triple Scoop Choco Mocha Parfait with extra marshmallows and chocolate sauce from an ice cream truck at the local weekly shopping bazaar. I had to try recreating this parfait because 1) it sounded delicious, 2) ice cream is one of my favorite foods, and 3) there was a recent spring-time heat wave in the D.C. area and I had no desire to turn on my oven and make my apartment feel even warmer than it was.  “Secrets of Making Frozen Desserts at Home,” The Peerless Freezer Company.
This undated product cookbook was published by the Peerless Freezer Company likely sometime between 1914 and 1974. It features 150 recipes for a hand cranked ice cream machine. Originally, this company was called Dana & Co. but was renamed to the Peerless Freezer Company after it was sold to the Alaska Freezer Company of Winchendon, Massachusetts in July 1914. The Alaska Freezer Company manufactured ice cream freezers and other freezers from 1902 to 1974. In 1974, the company was purchased by a group of investors and renamed White Mountain Freezer, Inc., and continued to manufacture freezers and hand cranked ice cream machines until the early 1990s. In 2019, the town of Winchendon and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency began the process of demolishing the abandoned Alaska Freezer plant because the building was literally falling apart and there were concerns about asbestos contaminating the site. “A Guide to ROYAL SUCCESS in Baking,” Standard Brands Incorporated, 1939. This product cookbook by the Royal Baking Powder Company has a variety of recipes featuring baking powder and cream of tartar. The Royal Baking Powder Company was started in 1866 by the brothers Joseph Christoffel Hoagland and Cornelius Nevius Hoagland. A couple of interesting articles I found on the history of baking powder were “Baking Powder: How Baking Powder Works – Types of Baking Powder – How To Test Baking Powder” by Linda Stradley/What’s Cooking America, and “The Great Uprising: How a Powder Revolutionized Baking” by Ben Panko for Smithsonian Magazine. |
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