A 1943 cookbook created by the Columbus, Indiana Chapter of Bundles for America. Includes recipes submitted by several notables of the time including Eleanor Roosevelt. During World War II, Bundles for America branches across the country worked and raised money to provide knitted garments for Army, Navy, Coast Guard, and Merchant Marine personnel and their families. SELECTED RECIPES was a fund raising project intended for the "relief of the dependent families of men in service and to buy comforts for our armed forces." With over 250 recipes, the result is a wonderful cookbook and a sterling...

Social commentary based on a 1907 cookbook published by the ladies of the Presbyterian Church of Kingston, Pennsylvania. According to Ruth Reichl, Culinary Editor, Modern Library, to fully appreciate a vintage cookbook, the challenge is not just to cook the recipes, but to "read through the recipes to the lives behind them." BUTTER SIZE OF A TURKEY EGG addressees this challenge by remembering the lives and times of the ninety-six ladies who contributed and published RECIPES. Including four-hundred and fifty of their everyday recipes.