Baker's Coconut cookbook: Southern Style Coconut Recipes. Issued by Franklin Baker Div. of General Foods Corp. Copyright 1937.

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2010.007.0200

Scope and Content

Southern Style Coconut Recipes. Issued by Franklin Baker Division of General Foods Corporation. Copyright 1937. Booklet, 4-1/2" x 6" high, 16 pp. Decorative artwork depicting Carribean scenes, the source of this coconut (although the company also imported from its own plantations in the Phillipine Islands.) The publication promoted Baker's Southern Style Coconut, a canned product made in Hoboken at this time where Franklin Baker was based. As part of the General Foods family of products, the cookbook also promotes other products they made by brand name in recipe ingredients such as Jell-O, Baker's Unsweetened Chocolate (this was Walter Baker's, a different division), Post Toasties, Gran-Nuts Flakes, Huskies, Calumet Baking Powder and Swans Down Cake Flour. Back cover shows a typical can with label.

Acquisition

Accession

2010.007

Source or Donor

Lukacs, Claire

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Museum Collections. Gift of a friend of the Museum.

Archive Details

Date(s) of Creation

1937 - 1937

Archive Notes

Date(s) Created: 1937 Date(s): 1937

Condition

Overall Condition

Good

General Notes

Note

Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2010-10-16