H4631.284A

30 specialized cookbook, mostly from various food products companies, All are small pamphlets. Inez Brooks-Myers, March 12, 2009: Item H4631.284A is called "Culinary Wrinkles: Or How to use Armour's Extract of Beef" and features a young woman with brown hair, dressed in a brown dress (with white collar and cuffs) wearing a long white apron tied at her waist. She measures a spoonful of "Armour's Extract of Beef" into an enamelled blue cooking pan. The front and back covers are printed full color lithographs. The back cover features three different scenes where the Armour product could be used or served: camping, three men standing around a campfire, canoe pulled into the shore of the river; dining in a railroad dining car, well dressed men and women seated at tables with white clothes, an African American waiter in a black suit, white shirt and white apron, comes down the aisle with trays of food; a coffee or tea shop counter where a steated woman (other women standing) and a man, wearing a "stove pipe" hat, has a mug in his hand. Hand written on the front cover in ink: "A. L. Maynard, World's Fair 1893." The inside of the small publication contains 48 receipts (using the Armour's Extract of Beef) all printed in blue on off-white colored paper.

This was probably picked up as a souvenir from the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago.

Used: California | Cooking | World's Fair ~ Chicago, Il