I'm a huge fan of
Sunset and
Sunset publications, including Sunset Magazine, Sunset Cookbooks and Sunset Gardening books. So when I found this
1938 cookbook,
Sunset's New Kitchen Cabinet Cook Book at the Flea Market a few weeks ago, I snapped it up. What a treasure trove. Love, love, love the illustrations!
Here's the intro to the Cook Book:
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Now, for the first time, SUNSET'S NEW KITCHEN CABINET COOK BOOK gives you all of the recipes published over a period of nearly 10 years--from February, 1929, to June, 1938! Selected from among more than 25,000 recipes contributed by SUNSET readers, they will be found extremely reliable and practical, with a real Western "home flavor" not to be found elsewhere. Each recipe is twice-tested-first by the contributor and again by SUNSET'S own home economists. We hope that you'll like this book so well that you'll use it constantly and tell your friends and neighbors about it.
I'll be posting various recipes over the next few months, but thought I'd start with this smashing recipe for
Chocolate Marshmallow Pudding. It's a very easy recipe. I love the term ground chocolate which is not quite the same as cocoa. It pops up a lot in recipes from the 30s and 40s.
Another thing about this page in the book that caught my eye is the
Coffee Butter Frosting. It's a great chocolate frosting. Coffee is always a great counterpoint to chocolate. And, the recipe is by
J.R. of Berkeley. Me? Well, it wouldn't have been me in 1938. LOL!
