Name/Title
FOODS AND HOME MAKINGEntry/Object ID
96.64.1.6Description
Book: "Foods and Home Making" by Carlotta C. Greer (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1928), 635 pp. Hardcover, without dust jacket, with a dark grey cover (a) and a recipe (b). The front cover has text in the upper right in white ink with a white box around it. Text on the spine is in white ink. The author was head of the home economics department of John Hay High School in Cleveland. The book is a text for a home economics class. Units are on breakfast, modern housewifery, luncheon or supper, dinner, health and child care, food preservation, and hospitality. Appendices are for body porcessing of food, weights and measures, selecting utensils, destroying pests, references for pupils and teachers, and recipes. The recipe, for cucumber sandwich filing, comes from an unidentified newspaper. The book is in poor condition with discolored pages, fading of the cover text, and soiling and stains on the cover. The recipe is in good condition.Handwritten in ink in the inside front cover, upper left, "Hazel M. Williams/Senior Highschool." Handwritten in ink in the inside front cover, upper center, "my mottoe:/forward march!!/place your goal always in front/of you/-not in back of you-". Below this, partially erased, is, "and strive always to reach it. . ." The rest is unreadable.Lexicon
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Cookery, Home economicsSearch Terms
Three-dimensional, Books, Allyn and Bacon [Firm]
