Electric Refrigerator Recipes and Menus

This beautifully illustrated, FIRST EDITION promotional cookbook was published nearly 100 years ago in 1927 to help housewives learn how to use the era's greatest innovation - the refrigerator! It not only offers recipes, it provides instructions on how to care for and use your new refrigerator. For instance, "if one forms the habit of keeping special things in the electric refrigerator , any meal may be a company meal. Soup stock may be kept in a covered glass jar and served jellied or quickly heated. Salad greens and dressings keep fresh in covered containers. White sauce which is the base for so many soups and creamed things may be made up by the pint, when there is extra milk on hand and will be ready for use." In short, imagine a time when you didn't know how to use a refrigerator!

This is a wonderful step back in time to read, but the best part are the beautiful, full-color illustrations throughout the book. This was not an inexpensive thing to do in the Roaring Twenties, so GE was making a huge commitment to their refrigerator innovation!