The Institute cook book
Subtitle: planned for a family of four : economical recipes designed to meet the needs of the modern housekeeper : including chapters on entertaining, paper-bag cookery, casserole cookery, fireless cookery, chafing-dish cookery, meat substitutes
By: by Helen Cramp.
Contributors: Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress)
Publisher: International Institute, Dept. of Domestic Science]; Smithsonion Co., authorized distributors
Published: 1913
Place of publication: [Philadelphia, Pa; Oakland, Cal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 108
Subjects: Cookery; Dummies (Bookselling) -- Specimens
Notes: Bitting, K.G.  Gastronomic bib., p. 105
Salesman's dummy. According to p. [100], the cook book was given free to members of the International Institute, Dept. of Domestic Science. In lieu of the usual blank pages found at the end of saleman's dummies for signing up subscribers and recording their payment, there are 8 blank pages for enrolling members in the institute for dues of $2.25 per year.
The full 507-page cook book was published under various titles: The institute cook book, The Winston cook book, The universal cook book, White ribbon cook book; all have subtitle: Planned for a family of four.
Source: Gift of A.W. Bitting, presented in memory of Katherine Golden Bitting, Oct. 6, 1939.