Cooking With Cold – Practical recipes to help you get greater use and pleasure from your new Norge Rollator Refrigerator.

“With a modern kitchen as your throne room and spoon in your hand as a scepter, you can be queen in your own right in the realm of food.  This little booklet begs admittance to your kitchen kingdom as one of your counselors in the preparations of meals for those you love best…. your family.” [Wow! What a horrific bit of writing!]

Published in 1937 by Borg-Warner Corporation.  These days Borg-Warner are known for automotive parts, but back in the day they also made Norge appliances.

As you can see, the cover illustration makes this an immediate classic. Ah yes!  The modern housewife and the, um… Eskimo.

Inside you’ll find… well, this fantastic photo of two attractive and happy women by a really wonderful looking refrigerator, full stocked with tasty treats. Boy do they look happy or what?  (or what?)  As a commercial photographer and retro freak, this photo beats the cover illustration hands down! Yowza!

On to the recipes… for the most part I understand the Cooking With Cold idea since a lot of recipes are just cold dishes.  But… baking meatloaf at 350° isn’t “cooking with cold”.  It is cooking with heat, then cooling it to make a cold sandwich.  So, if you’re a stickler for the truth… this is more about heat cooked recipes cooled with cold for cold edible delights.

That said, it is a dang cool vintage cookbook, and I’ll be adding some recipes soon.

But for now, I’d really like that refrigerator.  The happy women are welcome too.

Thanks to my dear friend Tracy for finding this and other great vintage cookbooks for me!