Wow, cookbooks sure have changed!
This 1916 beauty is actually a freebie distributed by Fred Scott Coal. Can you imagine anything like it today? And it’s not like Scott had any vested interest in people not wasting.
More to the point, World War I was raging and while the U.S. hadn’t yet entered, Americans were encouraged to conserve food by U.S Food Administration posters.
I took a picture of this Scott’s cookbook at a culinary library I visited in Watsonville, Calif. The library is the baby of Jean Fortenbery, 84, and a profile on her in the Santa Cruz Sentinel illustrates just how much more resourceful we used to be with food:
One recipe “reminds a cook to wash the mold off meat with vinegar after taking it out of the root cellar.
And to think, we throw away perfectly good food just because it has passed its “sell-by” date.
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I just found your website recently and really enjoy it. Interesting post! It seems we have a completely different approach to wartime food (and energy) consumption than we during WWI and WWII–doesn’t seem like progress to me.
Here, here. Americans made so many sacrifices during those two wars. Can you imagine this administration telling Americans to make ANY kind of sacrifice for any reason (whether because we’re at war or we’re slowly ruining the planet)?
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