Co-op Cook Book with Kitchen Tested Recipes

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Saskatchewan Women’s Co-operative Guild; Violet M. Johnsrude (Foreword). Co-op Cook Book with Kitchen Tested Recipes; Dedicated to the housewives of Canada, who destines [sic] human welfare by designating our purchasing power. [Outlook, Saskatchewan]: [Saskatchewan Women’s Co-operative Guild] | Modern Press Limited (Saskatoon), 1953. Second (Revised) Edition. pp. [1-2], 3-200. 8vo., measuring 15 x 21 cm. Illustrated beige cloth covers. Remarkable Canadian culinary title inspired by the early co-operative movement as compiled by the Saskatchewan Women’s Co-operative Guild. Comprises of an early history of the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, the origins of the Guild, their stated aims and objectives, and a rich selection of recipes with sections devoted to sweets, meats and vegetables, baked goods, soups, sauces, et al. Cloth extremities frayed, edge-worn, joints split (revealing mull beneath but holding), spotting and light foxing to some pages (unaffecting legibility of the text). Overall, good. Scarce in commerce. See Driver S100.1 (pp. 1023). This second revised edition not found in OCLC. Not found in Peel, BAC/LAC, McMaster. Limp Cloth.

Driver notes: “In the ‘Foreword’ the Outlook Guild explains why they produced this cookbook: ‘By the distribution of this book into the various homes across the prairies and beyond, we hope to aid the housewives by making the experience of others available to them, to add to their storehouse of good recipes, … and lay the foundation of a better today and a brighter tomorrow, by acquainting them with the different phases of the co-operative movement.’ The text is an ambitious collection of practical information, from nutritional facts to meat and menu charts, and the recipes, some of which have been gathered together in a section called ‘Foreign Recipes,’ reflect the immigrant makeup of the prairie population. The printer’s name, ‘Modern Press Limited, Saskatoon,’ is on the outside back face of the binding, and there is an advertisement on p 32 that states, ‘This excellent cook book was printed by Modern Press Limited Saskatoon publishers of Canada’s leading co-operative newspaper the Western Producer.’ According to the ‘Foreword’ of the 1952 edition, the women of Outlook were ‘aided [in their production of the 1946 edition] by the manager and staff of the first Cooperative Flour Mill in Canada, which was then located at Outlook, …’ Co-op Cook Book was a tremendous success, and was revised and reprinted several times in the decade following its first publication.” (#7000) $165.00