New vintage cookbook for sale in our shop, Good Housekeeping’s Salads, from 1958.  Yum!  This one is in great condition!

Check out the product listing here.

Here are some items that I’ll be listing on the Retro Cookbook store:

• Vintage Cookbooks
• Used Cookbooks
• Vintage Books
• Used Books
• Vintage & Newer Comic Books
• Records, CD’s and Cassettes – Jazz, Lounge, 60′s rock, Alternative, and more
• Vintage Kitchenware
• Vintage Dishes
• Vintage Tins
• Vintage Electronics – Clocks, Radios, etc
• Vintage Cameras and Photo Equipment
• Vintage Signs
• Other Vintage Goodies

If you are looking for something specific, don’t hesitate to email me!  Interested in selling on The Retro Cookbook? Contact me for details on how we can work together.

I love the title of opening article in this cookbook… “Marvelous Meat.”   This section gets you up to speed on things like: Grading Meat, Storing Meat, and Freezing Meat.  All very important things to know if you eat meat.

The book covers: Beef, Pork, Ham, Lamb, Veal, Canned and Ready-to-Eat Meats, Leftover Meats, Sauces and Gravies, as well as tips for Cooking Meat Outdoors. At the beginning of each meat section, they discuss different cuts of meat, the amounts to buy, and other helpful tips.

As with all (or most) of the Good Housekeeping Cookbooks, the recipes actually seem pretty decent. You’ll find all the classics in the Meat Cook Book, as well as a range of ethnic dishes, and some other interesting ones.  When I say “interesting” when referring to recipes in these old cookbooks, I usually mean something more like, “bizarre”, “nasty”, or “eewww!”  You get the idea.  Here are some of the recipes included:

• Mother’s Pot Roast with Vegetables
• Sauerbraten
• Ellen’s Chinese-style Short Ribs
• Moravian Beef with Gravy
• Liver Pot Roast Imperial
• Stuffed Pork Chops Gourmet
• Ham a’la Stuffing
• Yorkshire Hot Pot
• Curried Lamb Chops
• Deviled veal Cutlet
• Tongue with Fruit Sauce
• Savory Ham in Toast Cups
• and so much more!

http://www.etsy.com/shop/retrocookbook

(I’ll also be adding them to the online shop on this site, as time allows.)

This mighty fine retro cookbook states that it is for: scouts, campers, picnickers, fisherman, and hunters… indeed it is! I’d probably add to that hobo’s, street people, and those folks with foil hats.

This baby is filled with awesome photos and mouth watering recipes that will help you make tastier campfire meals without pots, pans and dishes. I would also think this would be ideal for today’s modern, ultralight backpackers. One roll of aluminum foil (Reynolds of course) and leave the pots, pans, cup, plates, etc behind. Brilliant!

As you can see from the cover art, this is a mighty cool little cookbook. Inside you will find, boy scouts cooking in foil and making cups out of foil. You will also find manly men doing manly things. There are quite a few shots of men decked in plaid wool shirts with their rifles, or cooking up fine looking meals over the campfire. Then you have this…

Have you ever…? Well, thankfully there is text to go with this image otherwise I’d wonder what they were aiming at. I’ll leave it at that.

But seriously folks, this is a really cool cookbook which offers some serious recipes & ideas, as well as the great photos. You can learn to build a proper fire, to make breakfast, fish, meat, bread, and even “banana yum”! It even shows you how to cook a whole chicken over a campfire. (Now, did they bring the chicken with them, or were they hunting chickens? And if they were hunting chickens, I must assume a farmer was chasing them with his shotgun.) How can you pass up this awesome vintage cookbook?

{this post was originally written and produced for Gertrude’s Garret, the Premier Supporter of The Retro Cookbook.  You can find her wonderful selection of vintage cookbooks and other fabulous items for sale here: Gertrude’s Garret }