I found this little booklet 5" X 71/2", 63 pages at a garage sale a couple of years ago. The front cover is missing and there's no date on the 1st page. but that page has "Table of measures" and lists various oz.s and weights used today. Under that though it has "Oven Temperatures", and states, " slow oven requires 1 burner halfway on. moderate oven requires 2 burners halfway on. hot oven requires 2 burners on full. If the oven is equiped with a heat control, follow directions given by the manufacturer."
I love seeing that.
One of the catagories in Table of Contents is "Invalid Cookery"
and some of the recipes are "Rice Gruel", Rice Water", "Albumen Beverages", "Irish Moss Lemonage", "Mutton Broth".
Then there's the catagory "The Lunch Box" and those are like whole meals.
The title is "The Metropolitan Life Cook Book" (they seperated the word cookbook)
It's was common back '30's, 40's, 50's, to have companies put these out and today they are treasures. I'd love to have more.
My grandmother's recipes, which look like scraps of paper are too kryptic to figures out; "use the whole thing", "add special blend".
What the heck does that mean?
Those recipes are lost forever. Like her saurbraten. Never had it like her's since.