This edition of The Chocolate Cookbook was printed in 1965, and the first printing was 1954. It is filled with cool vintage illustrations and food photography, not to mention recipes! 218 full-flavored chocolate recipes, to be exact! This cookbook was illustrated by Catherine Scholz. The Culinary Arts Institute is another famous maker of these cool vintage [...]

Today’s vintage cookbook is Good Housekeeping’s Fish and Shellfish Book – fine foods from ocean, lake and stream. Published in 1958, by none other than Good Housekeeping Magazine, this is another gem from their 20 cook-booklet collection. More vintage cookbook fun, with cool to slightly scary food photography, fun vintage illustrations with an overall “Asian” [...]

As my “free time” allows, I’m adding many new vintage cookbooks to the Retro Cookbook shop here on the site. More to follow!

Mirro-Matic Pressure Pan – Recipes, Directions, Time Tables Booklet, printed in 1958 by Mirro Aluminum Company in good old Manitowoc, WI. This booklet is the user guide which most likely came with the pressure cooker.  It is filled with directions on using the pressure cooker, as well as a lot of recipes. Pressure cookers are [...]

Creative Cooking with Cottage Cheese, published by the American Dairy Association, date unknown (late 1950′s perhaps?) Classic cook booklet!  Great illustrations, photography, and of course… fonts. If you are a lover of, um, cottage cheese, well this cookbook is for you!  Where else would you find wild recipes such as: Cottage-Borsch Cracker Dip Creole Chowder [...]

Better Cooking and Baking, published in 1956 by Robertshaw-Fulton Controls Company. Robertshaw furnished the heat controls for ovens and ranges back in the day, and apparently are still around and using that classic font and logo! Better Cooking and Baking is fine little spiral bound cookbook.  It has Tips for Successful Cooking, Cook’s Vocabulary—which will [...]

The Shrimp Cookbook – 140 Wonderful Ways to Serve Shrimp, published in 1966 by the Culinary Arts Institute. This is pushing my boundaries on what I call vintage, since it is a year older than me, but it is still a fine little cookbook to share here on the Retro Cookbook. Besides, I needed a [...]

The Kenmore Automatic Electric Fry Pan Recipe Book.  I believe this was published in 1959 since there is a receipt in the book for the fry pan, that has 1959 written on it.  This recipe booklet would have came with the electric fry pan. As you’ll see on the cover, this recipe book has cool fonts [...]