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[Small Recipe and Cookbook Archive of a Norwegian-American Family]
[Small Recipe and Cookbook Archive of a Norwegian-American Family]
A small assembly of material acquired from the estate of a single Norwegian-American family including two different imprints of the same title, COOK BOOK OF POPULAR NORWEGIAN RECIPES (1924), a binder of manuscript recipes, and a child's handmade cook book.
The books were each printed by the Mohn Printing Company of Northfield, Minnesota and one bears an additional publisher, St. John's Lutheran Aid of Webster, South Dakota. The book is in OCLC as a variant title, COOK BOOK OF POPULAR NORSE RECIPES, with a couple dozen holdings, though the present title appears unrecorded. Each has occasional and unique marginalia from use pairing well with the manuscript binder of recipes which is heavy on deserts and includes entries on Minnesota Cookies, Mrs. Ed Harris's Oatmeal Cookies, etc... Finally, is a handmade children's school project titled MOTHERS RECIPE BOOK which appears to be emulating the binder. An interior inscription notes it was made by a Mary Lou Olsen "when she was in the third grade" and is composed of typed recipe cards mounted to construction paper leaves amid crayon drawings.
Physical construction of the outer binder, a gift inscription to the interior dated 1915, and a few dates to contents suggest the binder is about contemporary to the books and was added to over time. The handmade child's book is undated, though materials suggest to us possibly Depression-era.
[Food and Drink]. [Small Recipe and Cookbook Archive of a Norwegian-American Family]. Minnesota and South Dakota: (1924). Two printed books, each 82pp. and approximately 7" x 5 1/4" with beige cloth over boards. [WITH] An approximately 9" x 6" commercial three ring binder, cream cloth over boards with "RECIPES' stamped in silver to front, holding about 43 leaves of ruled notebook paper with manuscript recipe entries to rectos and many versos. [WITH] A handmade booklet of 32 numbered pages and approximately 9" x 7." Handmade, yarn-bound booklet with detached covers and heavy edgewear. Binder contents with frequent toning and random kitchen staining to pages. One of the printed books with mild handling wear. Overall group about good or better.
A small assembly of material acquired from the estate of a single Norwegian-American family including two different imprints of the same title, COOK BOOK OF POPULAR NORWEGIAN RECIPES (1924), a binder of manuscript recipes, and a child's handmade cook book.
The books were each printed by the Mohn Printing Company of Northfield, Minnesota and one bears an additional publisher, St. John's Lutheran Aid of Webster, South Dakota. The book is in OCLC as a variant title, COOK BOOK OF POPULAR NORSE RECIPES, with a couple dozen holdings, though the present title appears unrecorded. Each has occasional and unique marginalia from use pairing well with the manuscript binder of recipes which is heavy on deserts and includes entries on Minnesota Cookies, Mrs. Ed Harris's Oatmeal Cookies, etc... Finally, is a handmade children's school project titled MOTHERS RECIPE BOOK which appears to be emulating the binder. An interior inscription notes it was made by a Mary Lou Olsen "when she was in the third grade" and is composed of typed recipe cards mounted to construction paper leaves amid crayon drawings.
Physical construction of the outer binder, a gift inscription to the interior dated 1915, and a few dates to contents suggest the binder is about contemporary to the books and was added to over time. The handmade child's book is undated, though materials suggest to us possibly Depression-era.
[Food and Drink]. [Small Recipe and Cookbook Archive of a Norwegian-American Family]. Minnesota and South Dakota: (1924). Two printed books, each 82pp. and approximately 7" x 5 1/4" with beige cloth over boards. [WITH] An approximately 9" x 6" commercial three ring binder, cream cloth over boards with "RECIPES' stamped in silver to front, holding about 43 leaves of ruled notebook paper with manuscript recipe entries to rectos and many versos. [WITH] A handmade booklet of 32 numbered pages and approximately 9" x 7." Handmade, yarn-bound booklet with detached covers and heavy edgewear. Binder contents with frequent toning and random kitchen staining to pages. One of the printed books with mild handling wear. Overall group about good or better.