The Household Searchlight Recipe Book - 1940 Edition 13th Printing unique and Woman's Club Favorites add

and Woman's Club Favorites add plenty of charm and insight into the mindset of the 1920s cook living in the land of Southern hospitality

As the first company to introduce boxed chocolates and cellophane

served in this pretty little vessel

or the messy prep work that goes into making a giant pot of winter soup) but as a very pretty light work apron

when it's founder immigrated as a young guy to America in pursuit of dish making dreams

The Household Searchlight Recipe Book - 1940 Edition 13th Printing unique and Woman's Club Favorites addIn this seven room house lives a family of specialists whose entire time is spent in working out the problems of homemaking common to every woman who finds herself responsible for the management of a home and the care of children. (from the Forward) {HISTORY} Compiled for readers of Household Magazine, The Household Searchlight Recipe Book was one of the bestselling cookbooks of the 20th century. Produced and published in Topeka, Kansas from 1931