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EIGHTEEN-SEVENTIES

Inventions and New Happenings of the 1870s:: General: US President Grant, followed by Hayes ｷ Colorado becomes a state ｷ P. T. Barnum's circus: "Greatest Show on Earth" ｷ Charles Darwin's "The Descent of Man" ｷ Stanley meets Livingston in the wilderness of Africa ｷ Pavlov ｷ First American zoo ｷ Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children ｷ Electric street lighting in London ｷ Telephone
Composers: Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Verdi, Bruckner, Brahms, Gilbert & Sullivan
Artists: Whistler, Rossetti, Cezanne, Pissarro, Monet, Manet, Renoir, Homer, Rodin, Morris ｷ Impressionist exhibition in Paris
Authors: Carroll, Tolstoi, Twain, James, Verne, Hesse, Anderson, Ibsen, Eliot, Flaubert, Hardy, Hugo
Religion: Jehovah's Witnesses ｷ Mary Baker Eddy's "Science and Health"
Sports: Roller-skating rink (England) ｷ International soccer game ｷ Ski club ｷ Swim across English Channel ｷ Modern lawn tennis ｷ American football clubs uniform rules ｷ U. S. National Baseball League ｷ Bicycles manufactured in US

New Cooking Gadgets
Can opener with cutting wheel
Four-tined silver fork, beginning the end of eating with knife
Square bottomed paper-bags
Food Introductions
Saccharin ｷ Cubed sugar ｷ Synthetic vanilla ｷ Rootbeer ｷ Ice cream soda ｷ Nestle's Infant Milk Food ｷ Milk chocolate ｷ Wheatena ｷ Commercial production of margarine ｷ Japanese beef-eating taboo ends
Food Companies founded
Lipton ｷ Pillsbury & Co. ｷ Grand Union Tea Co.ｷ Quaker Mills ｷ Hills Brothers ｷ F. & J. Heinz ｷ William Underwood first to register U.S. food trademark (Red Devil) ｷ Confectioner's Journal
New Commercial Gadgets
Milking machines ｷ Mechanical cream separator ｷ Pressure cooking method in food canning ｷ Porcelain rollers make roller-milling flour (wheat germ removal) standard practice ｷ Frozen meat shipments ｷ Orange crates ｷ Glass milk bottles
Farming Inventions & Milestones
Vast US acreage for farming and cattle ranches ｷ Large US agricultural exports ｷ European farm land shortage ｷ Quantity banana imports to US ｷ Long-distance cattle driving ｷ Barbed wire fences ｷ Bison herds disappearing
New Cooking Gadgets: Can opener with cutting wheel
Four-tined silver fork, beginning the end of eating with knife
Square bottomed paper-bags
Food Introductions
Saccharin ｷ Cubed sugar ｷ Synthetic vanilla ｷ Rootbeer ｷ Ice cream soda ｷ Nestle's Infant Milk Food ｷ Milk chocolate ｷ Wheatena ｷ Commercial production of margarine ｷ Japanese beef-eating taboo ends
Food Companies founded
Lipton ｷ Pillsbury & Co. ｷ Grand Union Tea Co.ｷ Quaker Mills ｷ Hills Brothers ｷ F. & J. Heinz ｷ William Underwood first to register U.S. food trademark (Red Devil) ｷ Confectioner's Journal
New Commercial Gadgets
Milking machines ｷ Mechanical cream separator ｷ Pressure cooking method in food canning ｷ Porcelain rollers make roller-milling flour (wheat germ removal) standard practice ｷ Frozen meat shipments ｷ Orange crates ｷ Glass milk bottles
Farming Inventions & Milestones
Vast US acreage for farming and cattle ranches ｷ Large US agricultural exports ｷ European farm land shortage ｷ Quantity banana imports to US ｷ Long-distance cattle driving ｷ Barbed wire fences ｷ Bison herds disappearing; Four-tined silver fork, beginning the end of eating with knife
Square bottomed paper-bags
Food Introductions
Saccharin ｷ Cubed sugar ｷ Synthetic vanilla ｷ Rootbeer ｷ Ice cream soda ｷ Nestle's Infant Milk Food ｷ Milk chocolate ｷ Wheatena ｷ Commercial production of margarine ｷ Japanese beef-eating taboo ends
Food Companies founded
Lipton ｷ Pillsbury & Co. ｷ Grand Union Tea Co.ｷ Quaker Mills ｷ Hills Brothers ｷ F. & J. Heinz ｷ William Underwood first to register U.S. food trademark (Red Devil) ｷ Confectioner's Journal
New Commercial Gadgets
Milking machines ｷ Mechanical cream separator ｷ Pressure cooking method in food canning ｷ Porcelain rollers make roller-milling flour (wheat germ removal) standard practice ｷ Frozen meat shipments ｷ Orange crates ｷ Glass milk bottles
Farming Inventions & Milestones
Vast US acreage for farming and cattle ranches ｷ Large US agricultural exports ｷ European farm land shortage ｷ Quantity banana imports to US ｷ Long-distance cattle driving ｷ Barbed wire fences ｷ Bison herds disappearing; Square bottomed paper-bags
Food Introductions
Saccharin ｷ Cubed sugar ｷ Synthetic vanilla ｷ Rootbeer ｷ Ice cream soda ｷ Nestle's Infant Milk Food ｷ Milk chocolate ｷ Wheatena ｷ Commercial production of margarine ｷ Japanese beef-eating taboo ends
Food Companies founded
Lipton ｷ Pillsbury & Co. ｷ Grand Union Tea Co.ｷ Quaker Mills ｷ Hills Brothers ｷ F. & J. Heinz ｷ William Underwood first to register U.S. food trademark (Red Devil) ｷ Confectioner's Journal
New Commercial Gadgets
Milking machines ｷ Mechanical cream separator ｷ Pressure cooking method in food canning ｷ Porcelain rollers make roller-milling flour (wheat germ removal) standard practice ｷ Frozen meat shipments ｷ Orange crates ｷ Glass milk bottles
Farming Inventions & Milestones
Vast US acreage for farming and cattle ranches ｷ Large US agricultural exports ｷ European farm land shortage ｷ Quantity banana imports to US ｷ Long-distance cattle driving ｷ Barbed wire fences ｷ Bison herds disappearing
Food Introductions: Saccharin ｷ Cubed sugar ｷ Synthetic vanilla ｷ Rootbeer ｷ Ice cream soda ｷ Nestle's Infant Milk Food ｷ Milk chocolate ｷ Wheatena ｷ Commercial production of margarine ｷ Japanese beef-eating taboo ends
Food Companies founded: Lipton ｷ Pillsbury & Co. ｷ Grand Union Tea Co.ｷ Quaker Mills ｷ Hills Brothers ｷ F. & J. Heinz ｷ William Underwood first to register U.S. food trademark (Red Devil) ｷ Confectioner's Journal
New Commercial Gadgets: Milking machines ｷ Mechanical cream separator ｷ Pressure cooking method in food canning ｷ Porcelain rollers make roller-milling flour (wheat germ removal) standard practice ｷ Frozen meat shipments ｷ Orange crates ｷ Glass milk bottles
Farming Inventions & Milestones: Vast US acreage for farming and cattle ranches ｷ Large US agricultural exports ｷ European farm land shortage ｷ Quantity banana imports to US ｷ Long-distance cattle driving ｷ Barbed wire fences ｷ Bison herds disappearing

1870, Dr. Chase's Recipes or Information for Everybody; by A.W. Chase, M.D. R.A. Beal, publisher. Ann Arbor, Michigan

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EIGHTEEN-EIGHTIES

Inventions and New Happenings of the 1880s:: General: US President Garfield inaugurated and assassinated same year ｷ Vice President Arthur becomes President followed by Cleveland then Harrison ｷ North and South Dakota, Montana and Washington become states ｷ Oklahoma opens to non-Indian settlement ｷ Buffalo Bill's "Wild West Show" ｷ Indoor electric lights ｷ Electric motor ｷ Skyscraper ｷ Brooklyn Bridge ｷ Pneumatic tire ｷ Punch cards ｷ Fingerprints ｷ Synthetic fiber ｷ Beauty contest ｷ Orient Express
Composers: Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Wagner, Strauss, Verdi, Bruckner, Brahms, Gilbert & Sullivan ｷ Metropolitan Opera House in New York ｷ Cabaret
Artists: Cezanne, Pissarro, Monet, Manet, Renoir, Van Gogh, Seurat, Sargent, Rodin, Toulouse-Lautrec ｷ Statue of Liberty ｷ Eiffel Tower
Authors: Dostoevsky, James, Tolstoi, Maupassant, Flaubert, Twain, Hardy, Longfellow, Kipling, Wilde, Yeats, Ibsen, Shaw, Stevenson, Doyle
Religion: Mormons split: polygamous and monogamous ｷ Huxley's "Agnosticism"
Sports: Golf introduced to US ｷ US Lawn Tennis Championship ｷ Football League

New Cooking Gadgets
Hand cream-separators
Ball-Mason jars
Lenox China
Food Introductions
Malted milk ｷ Powdered pea and beet soups ｷ Evaporated milk ｷ Aunt Jemima Pancake Flour ｷ Coca-Cola ｷ Moxie ｷ Dr. Pepper ｷ Thomas's English muffins ｷ Oscar Mayer wieners ｷ Salada Tea ｷ Tetley Tea ｷ Log Cabin Syrup ｷ Morton's salt ｷ Canned fruits and meat in stores
Food Companies founded
L'Ecole de Cordon Bleu ｷ R. T. French ｷ Maxwell House ｷ B. H. Kroger ｷ ConAgra ｷ White Lily Foods ｷ Lever Brothers ｷ Calumet Baking Powder ｷ Diamond Crystal Salt ｷ American Cereal ｷ Manischewitz ｷ Pillsbury-Washburn Flour Mills ｷ McCormick Spices
New Commercial Gadgets
Commercial aluminum production ｷ Efficiencies in railroad meat shipments ｷ Pea-viner and podder machine ｷ Packaging of grain commodities ｷ Ice-making plants start replacing ice-cutting industry ｷ Self-service restaurant
Farming Inventions & Milestones
Long cattle-drives end as railroads enter Texas
New Cooking Gadgets: Hand cream-separators
Ball-Mason jars
Lenox China
Food Introductions
Malted milk ｷ Powdered pea and beet soups ｷ Evaporated milk ｷ Aunt Jemima Pancake Flour ｷ Coca-Cola ｷ Moxie ｷ Dr. Pepper ｷ Thomas's English muffins ｷ Oscar Mayer wieners ｷ Salada Tea ｷ Tetley Tea ｷ Log Cabin Syrup ｷ Morton's salt ｷ Canned fruits and meat in stores
Food Companies founded
L'Ecole de Cordon Bleu ｷ R. T. French ｷ Maxwell House ｷ B. H. Kroger ｷ ConAgra ｷ White Lily Foods ｷ Lever Brothers ｷ Calumet Baking Powder ｷ Diamond Crystal Salt ｷ American Cereal ｷ Manischewitz ｷ Pillsbury-Washburn Flour Mills ｷ McCormick Spices
New Commercial Gadgets
Commercial aluminum production ｷ Efficiencies in railroad meat shipments ｷ Pea-viner and podder machine ｷ Packaging of grain commodities ｷ Ice-making plants start replacing ice-cutting industry ｷ Self-service restaurant
Farming Inventions & Milestones
Long cattle-drives end as railroads enter Texas; Ball-Mason jars
Lenox China
Food Introductions
Malted milk ｷ Powdered pea and beet soups ｷ Evaporated milk ｷ Aunt Jemima Pancake Flour ｷ Coca-Cola ｷ Moxie ｷ Dr. Pepper ｷ Thomas's English muffins ｷ Oscar Mayer wieners ｷ Salada Tea ｷ Tetley Tea ｷ Log Cabin Syrup ｷ Morton's salt ｷ Canned fruits and meat in stores
Food Companies founded
L'Ecole de Cordon Bleu ｷ R. T. French ｷ Maxwell House ｷ B. H. Kroger ｷ ConAgra ｷ White Lily Foods ｷ Lever Brothers ｷ Calumet Baking Powder ｷ Diamond Crystal Salt ｷ American Cereal ｷ Manischewitz ｷ Pillsbury-Washburn Flour Mills ｷ McCormick Spices
New Commercial Gadgets
Commercial aluminum production ｷ Efficiencies in railroad meat shipments ｷ Pea-viner and podder machine ｷ Packaging of grain commodities ｷ Ice-making plants start replacing ice-cutting industry ｷ Self-service restaurant
Farming Inventions & Milestones
Long cattle-drives end as railroads enter Texas; Lenox China
Food Introductions
Malted milk ｷ Powdered pea and beet soups ｷ Evaporated milk ｷ Aunt Jemima Pancake Flour ｷ Coca-Cola ｷ Moxie ｷ Dr. Pepper ｷ Thomas's English muffins ｷ Oscar Mayer wieners ｷ Salada Tea ｷ Tetley Tea ｷ Log Cabin Syrup ｷ Morton's salt ｷ Canned fruits and meat in stores
Food Companies founded
L'Ecole de Cordon Bleu ｷ R. T. French ｷ Maxwell House ｷ B. H. Kroger ｷ ConAgra ｷ White Lily Foods ｷ Lever Brothers ｷ Calumet Baking Powder ｷ Diamond Crystal Salt ｷ American Cereal ｷ Manischewitz ｷ Pillsbury-Washburn Flour Mills ｷ McCormick Spices
New Commercial Gadgets
Commercial aluminum production ｷ Efficiencies in railroad meat shipments ｷ Pea-viner and podder machine ｷ Packaging of grain commodities ｷ Ice-making plants start replacing ice-cutting industry ｷ Self-service restaurant
Farming Inventions & Milestones
Long cattle-drives end as railroads enter Texas
Food Introductions: Malted milk ｷ Powdered pea and beet soups ｷ Evaporated milk ｷ Aunt Jemima Pancake Flour ｷ Coca-Cola ｷ Moxie ｷ Dr. Pepper ｷ Thomas's English muffins ｷ Oscar Mayer wieners ｷ Salada Tea ｷ Tetley Tea ｷ Log Cabin Syrup ｷ Morton's salt ｷ Canned fruits and meat in stores
Food Companies founded: L'Ecole de Cordon Bleu ｷ R. T. French ｷ Maxwell House ｷ B. H. Kroger ｷ ConAgra ｷ White Lily Foods ｷ Lever Brothers ｷ Calumet Baking Powder ｷ Diamond Crystal Salt ｷ American Cereal ｷ Manischewitz ｷ Pillsbury-Washburn Flour Mills ｷ McCormick Spices
New Commercial Gadgets: Commercial aluminum production ｷ Efficiencies in railroad meat shipments ｷ Pea-viner and podder machine ｷ Packaging of grain commodities ｷ Ice-making plants start replacing ice-cutting industry ｷ Self-service restaurant
Farming Inventions & Milestones: Long cattle-drives end as railroads enter Texas

1884, The Boston Cook Book; by Mrs. D.A. Lincoln

1886, The Unrivalled Cook-Book and Housekeeper's Guide; by Mrs. Washington. Harper & Brothers, New York

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EIGHTEEN-NINETIES

Inventions and New Happenings of the 1890s:: General: US President Harrison, followed by Cleveland, then McKinley ｷ Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah become states ｷ Automobiles ｷ Diesel engine ｷ Motion-picture camera ｷ Wireless telegraphy ｷ X-rays ｷ Rubber gloves used in surgery ｷ Safety razor ｷ Daughters of the American Revolution ｷ Klondike gold rush
Composers: Tchaikovsky, Bruckner, Strauss, Engelbert Humperdinck, Puccini, Verdi, Debussy, Mahler, Gilbert & Sullivan ｷ Lottie Collins sings "Ta-ra-ra boom-de-ay" in England
Artists: Cezanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, Monet, Degas, Matisse, Rodin, Rousseau, Pissarro, Beardsley ｷ Art Nouveau ｷ US comic strip (Katzenjammer Kids) ｷ Mackintosh School of Art in Glasgow
Authors: Tolstoi, Ibsen, Wilde, Hardy, Kipling, Shaw, James, Wells, Yeats, Chekhov, Conrad, Galsworthy, Doyle
Religion: Frazer's "The Golden Bough"
Sports: New York Jockey Club ｷ Professional football ｷ US Open Golf Championship ｷ Olympics

New Cooking Gadgets
Electric range (unreliable)
Aluminum saucepan
"Chantilly" silver pattern
Food Introductions
Flaked breakfast cereal ｷ Condensed soup ｷ Canned pineapple ｷ Knox's Gelatin ｷ Canada Dry Ginger Ale ｷ Fig Newtons ｷ Shredded Wheat ｷ Cream of Wheat ｷ Grape Nuts ｷ Postum ｷ Minute Tapioca ｷ Jell-O ｷ Swans Down Cake Flour ｷ Tootsie Rolls ｷ Uneeda Biscuits ｷ Entenmann bakery products ｷ Pepsi-Cola ｷ Cracker Jack ｷ Wesson Oil ｷ Bottled Coca-Cola ｷ Crepes Suzettes ｷ Oysters Rockefeller ｷ Published brownie recipe ｷ US brunch fashionable ｷ English lunch ｷ S&H Food Stamps ｷ Public school hot lunches
Food Companies founded
Quaker Oats ｷ Beech-Nut ｷ Beatrice Foods ｷ National Biscuit ｷ Baker's Coconut ｷ Smucker ｷ Hobart ｷ American Beet Sugar ｷ "57 Varieties" ad campaign ｷ Campbell adopts red & white labels (inspired by Cornell football uniforms) ｷ Full page food ad in national magazine (Van Camp in 1894) ｷ Coca-Cola Company bought for $2,300 ｷ US pizza parlor ｷ Diner
New Commercial Gadgets
Bottle capping machine ｷ Vacuum flask ｷ Automatic bottle-blowing machine ｷ Electric coffee mill
Farming Inventions & Milestones
US gasoline tractor ｷ Butterfat measurement ｷ Wheat futures hedging
New Cooking Gadgets: Electric range (unreliable)
Aluminum saucepan
"Chantilly" silver pattern
Food Introductions
Flaked breakfast cereal ｷ Condensed soup ｷ Canned pineapple ｷ Knox's Gelatin ｷ Canada Dry Ginger Ale ｷ Fig Newtons ｷ Shredded Wheat ｷ Cream of Wheat ｷ Grape Nuts ｷ Postum ｷ Minute Tapioca ｷ Jell-O ｷ Swans Down Cake Flour ｷ Tootsie Rolls ｷ Uneeda Biscuits ｷ Entenmann bakery products ｷ Pepsi-Cola ｷ Cracker Jack ｷ Wesson Oil ｷ Bottled Coca-Cola ｷ Crepes Suzettes ｷ Oysters Rockefeller ｷ Published brownie recipe ｷ US brunch fashionable ｷ English lunch ｷ S&H Food Stamps ｷ Public school hot lunches
Food Companies founded
Quaker Oats ｷ Beech-Nut ｷ Beatrice Foods ｷ National Biscuit ｷ Baker's Coconut ｷ Smucker ｷ Hobart ｷ American Beet Sugar ｷ "57 Varieties" ad campaign ｷ Campbell adopts red & white labels (inspired by Cornell football uniforms) ｷ Full page food ad in national magazine (Van Camp in 1894) ｷ Coca-Cola Company bought for $2,300 ｷ US pizza parlor ｷ Diner
New Commercial Gadgets
Bottle capping machine ｷ Vacuum flask ｷ Automatic bottle-blowing machine ｷ Electric coffee mill
Farming Inventions & Milestones
US gasoline tractor ｷ Butterfat measurement ｷ Wheat futures hedging; Aluminum saucepan
"Chantilly" silver pattern
Food Introductions
Flaked breakfast cereal ｷ Condensed soup ｷ Canned pineapple ｷ Knox's Gelatin ｷ Canada Dry Ginger Ale ｷ Fig Newtons ｷ Shredded Wheat ｷ Cream of Wheat ｷ Grape Nuts ｷ Postum ｷ Minute Tapioca ｷ Jell-O ｷ Swans Down Cake Flour ｷ Tootsie Rolls ｷ Uneeda Biscuits ｷ Entenmann bakery products ｷ Pepsi-Cola ｷ Cracker Jack ｷ Wesson Oil ｷ Bottled Coca-Cola ｷ Crepes Suzettes ｷ Oysters Rockefeller ｷ Published brownie recipe ｷ US brunch fashionable ｷ English lunch ｷ S&H Food Stamps ｷ Public school hot lunches
Food Companies founded
Quaker Oats ｷ Beech-Nut ｷ Beatrice Foods ｷ National Biscuit ｷ Baker's Coconut ｷ Smucker ｷ Hobart ｷ American Beet Sugar ｷ "57 Varieties" ad campaign ｷ Campbell adopts red & white labels (inspired by Cornell football uniforms) ｷ Full page food ad in national magazine (Van Camp in 1894) ｷ Coca-Cola Company bought for $2,300 ｷ US pizza parlor ｷ Diner
New Commercial Gadgets
Bottle capping machine ｷ Vacuum flask ｷ Automatic bottle-blowing machine ｷ Electric coffee mill
Farming Inventions & Milestones
US gasoline tractor ｷ Butterfat measurement ｷ Wheat futures hedging; "Chantilly" silver pattern
Food Introductions
Flaked breakfast cereal ｷ Condensed soup ｷ Canned pineapple ｷ Knox's Gelatin ｷ Canada Dry Ginger Ale ｷ Fig Newtons ｷ Shredded Wheat ｷ Cream of Wheat ｷ Grape Nuts ｷ Postum ｷ Minute Tapioca ｷ Jell-O ｷ Swans Down Cake Flour ｷ Tootsie Rolls ｷ Uneeda Biscuits ｷ Entenmann bakery products ｷ Pepsi-Cola ｷ Cracker Jack ｷ Wesson Oil ｷ Bottled Coca-Cola ｷ Crepes Suzettes ｷ Oysters Rockefeller ｷ Published brownie recipe ｷ US brunch fashionable ｷ English lunch ｷ S&H Food Stamps ｷ Public school hot lunches
Food Companies founded
Quaker Oats ｷ Beech-Nut ｷ Beatrice Foods ｷ National Biscuit ｷ Baker's Coconut ｷ Smucker ｷ Hobart ｷ American Beet Sugar ｷ "57 Varieties" ad campaign ｷ Campbell adopts red & white labels (inspired by Cornell football uniforms) ｷ Full page food ad in national magazine (Van Camp in 1894) ｷ Coca-Cola Company bought for $2,300 ｷ US pizza parlor ｷ Diner
New Commercial Gadgets
Bottle capping machine ｷ Vacuum flask ｷ Automatic bottle-blowing machine ｷ Electric coffee mill
Farming Inventions & Milestones
US gasoline tractor ｷ Butterfat measurement ｷ Wheat futures hedging
Food Introductions: Flaked breakfast cereal ｷ Condensed soup ｷ Canned pineapple ｷ Knox's Gelatin ｷ Canada Dry Ginger Ale ｷ Fig Newtons ｷ Shredded Wheat ｷ Cream of Wheat ｷ Grape Nuts ｷ Postum ｷ Minute Tapioca ｷ Jell-O ｷ Swans Down Cake Flour ｷ Tootsie Rolls ｷ Uneeda Biscuits ｷ Entenmann bakery products ｷ Pepsi-Cola ｷ Cracker Jack ｷ Wesson Oil ｷ Bottled Coca-Cola ｷ Crepes Suzettes ｷ Oysters Rockefeller ｷ Published brownie recipe ｷ US brunch fashionable ｷ English lunch ｷ S&H Food Stamps ｷ Public school hot lunches
Food Companies founded: Quaker Oats ｷ Beech-Nut ｷ Beatrice Foods ｷ National Biscuit ｷ Baker's Coconut ｷ Smucker ｷ Hobart ｷ American Beet Sugar ｷ "57 Varieties" ad campaign ｷ Campbell adopts red & white labels (inspired by Cornell football uniforms) ｷ Full page food ad in national magazine (Van Camp in 1894) ｷ Coca-Cola Company bought for $2,300 ｷ US pizza parlor ｷ Diner
New Commercial Gadgets: Bottle capping machine ｷ Vacuum flask ｷ Automatic bottle-blowing machine ｷ Electric coffee mill
Farming Inventions & Milestones: US gasoline tractor ｷ Butterfat measurement ｷ Wheat futures hedging

1890, The Conpendium of Cookery and Reliable Recipesand The Book of Knowledge, or 1,000 Ways of Getting Rich; Two Complete Volumes in One, by Mrs. E.C. Blakeslee, Miss Emma Leslie, and Dr. S.H. Hughes, The Merchants' Specialty Co., Chicago, Illinois

1891, Fountain City Cook Book. Haber Printing House, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin

1892, Science in the Kitchen; by Mrs. E. E. Kellogg, A. M. Health Publishing Co., Battle Creek, Michigan

1895 circa, Ayer's Preserve Book. Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass.

1897, Hood's Practical Cook Book. C.I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Massachusetts

1897 circa, The Tabitha Cook Book

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CHURN OF THE CENTURY

Inventions and New Happenings of the 1900s:: General: US President McKinley reelected, then assassinated ｷ McKinley succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt, then Taft ｷ Queen Victoria died, succeeded by her son, Edward VII ｷ Oklahoma open to non-Indian settlement ｷ Alaska settled ｷ Airplane ｷ Model T ｷ Zeppelin ｷ Einstein ｷ Freud ｷ Madam Curie ｷ J.P. Morgan ｷ North Pole ｷ Genetics ｷ Hormones ｷ Neon sign ｷ Motor-driven bicycles ｷ Rotary Club ｷ Kibbutz ｷ Fountain pens popular ｷ Daily comic strip "Mr. Mutt" ｷ Teddy Bears ｷ Mother's Day
Composers: Puccini, Strauss, Elgar "Pomp and Circumstance," Debussy, Lehar, Mahler, Herbertｷ Ziegfeld Follies ｷ Ragtime jazz ｷ The Cake Walk Dance
Artists: Picasso, Gauguin, Cezanne, Pissarro, Renoir, Sargent, Toulouse-Lautrec, Munch, Monet, Rodin, Klimt, Rousseau, Matisse, Chagall, Utrillo, Bellows, Kandinsky ｷ Frank Lloyd Wright ｷ Isadora Duncan ｷ Cubism ｷ "Ashcan School"
Authors: Tolstoi, Chekhov, Kipling, Butler, Mann, Norris, Conrad, Doyle, Potter, James, Shaw, London, Hardy, Hesse, O'Henry, Wells, Wharton, Galsworthy, Sinclair, Forster, Grahame, Montgomery, Stein, Pound
Religion: United Methodist Church ｷ William James "The Varieties of Religious Experience" ｷ Max Weber "The Protestant Ethic and the Birth of Capitalism" ｷ Shintoism reinstated in Japan
Sports: Tour de France

New Cooking Gadgets
Electric toaster
Drip coffeemaker
Egg beater with perforated blades
Thermos bottle
Tea bags
Dixie cups
Bakelite handles
Food Introductions
Instant coffee ｷ Decaffinated coffee ｷ Hershey chocolate bars & kisses ｷ Barnum Animal Crackers ｷ Triscuits ｷ Canned tunafish ｷ Ice cream cone ｷ Banana split ｷ Puffed rice ｷ Post Toasties ｷ French's Cream Salad Mustard ｷ Cliquot Club Ginger Ale ｷ Canada Dry Pale Ginger Ale ｷ Ovaltine ｷ "Hot dog" named ｷ Bleached flour ｷ Hydrogenation ｷ Nutritious benefit of rice germ
Food Companies founded
US Food and Drug Act ｷ Duffy-Mott ｷ Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake ｷ Sheffield Farms ｷ Drake ｷ Sunshine Biscuit ｷ Planters Nut & Chocolate ｷ Kraft ｷ Rafetto ｷ Holly Sugar ｷ Corn Products Refining ｷ American Can Company ｷ Continental Can ｷ Cream of Wheat National ad (Ladies Home Journal, 1902) ｷ Hershey ad (McClure's, 1902) ｷ Soda fountains & soda jerks ｷ Coin-operated restaurant
New Commercial Gadgets
Kerr lids ｷ Coffee in vacuum tins ｷ Homogenized milk
Farming Inventions & Milestones
Concrete grain elevator replaces wood ｷ Steam tractors for threshing machines
New Cooking Gadgets: Electric toaster
Drip coffeemaker
Egg beater with perforated blades
Thermos bottle
Tea bags
Dixie cups
Bakelite handles
Food Introductions
Instant coffee ｷ Decaffinated coffee ｷ Hershey chocolate bars & kisses ｷ Barnum Animal Crackers ｷ Triscuits ｷ Canned tunafish ｷ Ice cream cone ｷ Banana split ｷ Puffed rice ｷ Post Toasties ｷ French's Cream Salad Mustard ｷ Cliquot Club Ginger Ale ｷ Canada Dry Pale Ginger Ale ｷ Ovaltine ｷ "Hot dog" named ｷ Bleached flour ｷ Hydrogenation ｷ Nutritious benefit of rice germ
Food Companies founded
US Food and Drug Act ｷ Duffy-Mott ｷ Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake ｷ Sheffield Farms ｷ Drake ｷ Sunshine Biscuit ｷ Planters Nut & Chocolate ｷ Kraft ｷ Rafetto ｷ Holly Sugar ｷ Corn Products Refining ｷ American Can Company ｷ Continental Can ｷ Cream of Wheat National ad (Ladies Home Journal, 1902) ｷ Hershey ad (McClure's, 1902) ｷ Soda fountains & soda jerks ｷ Coin-operated restaurant
New Commercial Gadgets
Kerr lids ｷ Coffee in vacuum tins ｷ Homogenized milk
Farming Inventions & Milestones
Concrete grain elevator replaces wood ｷ Steam tractors for threshing machines; Drip coffeemaker
Egg beater with perforated blades
Thermos bottle
Tea bags
Dixie cups
Bakelite handles
Food Introductions
Instant coffee ｷ Decaffinated coffee ｷ Hershey chocolate bars & kisses ｷ Barnum Animal Crackers ｷ Triscuits ｷ Canned tunafish ｷ Ice cream cone ｷ Banana split ｷ Puffed rice ｷ Post Toasties ｷ French's Cream Salad Mustard ｷ Cliquot Club Ginger Ale ｷ Canada Dry Pale Ginger Ale ｷ Ovaltine ｷ "Hot dog" named ｷ Bleached flour ｷ Hydrogenation ｷ Nutritious benefit of rice germ
Food Companies founded
US Food and Drug Act ｷ Duffy-Mott ｷ Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake ｷ Sheffield Farms ｷ Drake ｷ Sunshine Biscuit ｷ Planters Nut & Chocolate ｷ Kraft ｷ Rafetto ｷ Holly Sugar ｷ Corn Products Refining ｷ American Can Company ｷ Continental Can ｷ Cream of Wheat National ad (Ladies Home Journal, 1902) ｷ Hershey ad (McClure's, 1902) ｷ Soda fountains & soda jerks ｷ Coin-operated restaurant
New Commercial Gadgets
Kerr lids ｷ Coffee in vacuum tins ｷ Homogenized milk
Farming Inventions & Milestones
Concrete grain elevator replaces wood ｷ Steam tractors for threshing machines; Egg beater with perforated blades
Thermos bottle
Tea bags
Dixie cups
Bakelite handles
Food Introductions
Instant coffee ｷ Decaffinated coffee ｷ Hershey chocolate bars & kisses ｷ Barnum Animal Crackers ｷ Triscuits ｷ Canned tunafish ｷ Ice cream cone ｷ Banana split ｷ Puffed rice ｷ Post Toasties ｷ French's Cream Salad Mustard ｷ Cliquot Club Ginger Ale ｷ Canada Dry Pale Ginger Ale ｷ Ovaltine ｷ "Hot dog" named ｷ Bleached flour ｷ Hydrogenation ｷ Nutritious benefit of rice germ
Food Companies founded
US Food and Drug Act ｷ Duffy-Mott ｷ Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake ｷ Sheffield Farms ｷ Drake ｷ Sunshine Biscuit ｷ Planters Nut & Chocolate ｷ Kraft ｷ Rafetto ｷ Holly Sugar ｷ Corn Products Refining ｷ American Can Company ｷ Continental Can ｷ Cream of Wheat National ad (Ladies Home Journal, 1902) ｷ Hershey ad (McClure's, 1902) ｷ Soda fountains & soda jerks ｷ Coin-operated restaurant
New Commercial Gadgets
Kerr lids ｷ Coffee in vacuum tins ｷ Homogenized milk
Farming Inventions & Milestones
Concrete grain elevator replaces wood ｷ Steam tractors for threshing machines; Thermos bottle
Tea bags
Dixie cups
Bakelite handles
Food Introductions
Instant coffee ｷ Decaffinated coffee ｷ Hershey chocolate bars & kisses ｷ Barnum Animal Crackers ｷ Triscuits ｷ Canned tunafish ｷ Ice cream cone ｷ Banana split ｷ Puffed rice ｷ Post Toasties ｷ French's Cream Salad Mustard ｷ Cliquot Club Ginger Ale ｷ Canada Dry Pale Ginger Ale ｷ Ovaltine ｷ "Hot dog" named ｷ Bleached flour ｷ Hydrogenation ｷ Nutritious benefit of rice germ
Food Companies founded
US Food and Drug Act ｷ Duffy-Mott ｷ Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake ｷ Sheffield Farms ｷ Drake ｷ Sunshine Biscuit ｷ Planters Nut & Chocolate ｷ Kraft ｷ Rafetto ｷ Holly Sugar ｷ Corn Products Refining ｷ American Can Company ｷ Continental Can ｷ Cream of Wheat National ad (Ladies Home Journal, 1902) ｷ Hershey ad (McClure's, 1902) ｷ Soda fountains & soda jerks ｷ Coin-operated restaurant
New Commercial Gadgets
Kerr lids ｷ Coffee in vacuum tins ｷ Homogenized milk
Farming Inventions & Milestones
Concrete grain elevator replaces wood ｷ Steam tractors for threshing machines; Tea bags
Dixie cups
Bakelite handles
Food Introductions
Instant coffee ｷ Decaffinated coffee ｷ Hershey chocolate bars & kisses ｷ Barnum Animal Crackers ｷ Triscuits ｷ Canned tunafish ｷ Ice cream cone ｷ Banana split ｷ Puffed rice ｷ Post Toasties ｷ French's Cream Salad Mustard ｷ Cliquot Club Ginger Ale ｷ Canada Dry Pale Ginger Ale ｷ Ovaltine ｷ "Hot dog" named ｷ Bleached flour ｷ Hydrogenation ｷ Nutritious benefit of rice germ
Food Companies founded
US Food and Drug Act ｷ Duffy-Mott ｷ Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake ｷ Sheffield Farms ｷ Drake ｷ Sunshine Biscuit ｷ Planters Nut & Chocolate ｷ Kraft ｷ Rafetto ｷ Holly Sugar ｷ Corn Products Refining ｷ American Can Company ｷ Continental Can ｷ Cream of Wheat National ad (Ladies Home Journal, 1902) ｷ Hershey ad (McClure's, 1902) ｷ Soda fountains & soda jerks ｷ Coin-operated restaurant
New Commercial Gadgets
Kerr lids ｷ Coffee in vacuum tins ｷ Homogenized milk
Farming Inventions & Milestones
Concrete grain elevator replaces wood ｷ Steam tractors for threshing machines; Dixie cups
Bakelite handles
Food Introductions
Instant coffee ｷ Decaffinated coffee ｷ Hershey chocolate bars & kisses ｷ Barnum Animal Crackers ｷ Triscuits ｷ Canned tunafish ｷ Ice cream cone ｷ Banana split ｷ Puffed rice ｷ Post Toasties ｷ French's Cream Salad Mustard ｷ Cliquot Club Ginger Ale ｷ Canada Dry Pale Ginger Ale ｷ Ovaltine ｷ "Hot dog" named ｷ Bleached flour ｷ Hydrogenation ｷ Nutritious benefit of rice germ
Food Companies founded
US Food and Drug Act ｷ Duffy-Mott ｷ Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake ｷ Sheffield Farms ｷ Drake ｷ Sunshine Biscuit ｷ Planters Nut & Chocolate ｷ Kraft ｷ Rafetto ｷ Holly Sugar ｷ Corn Products Refining ｷ American Can Company ｷ Continental Can ｷ Cream of Wheat National ad (Ladies Home Journal, 1902) ｷ Hershey ad (McClure's, 1902) ｷ Soda fountains & soda jerks ｷ Coin-operated restaurant
New Commercial Gadgets
Kerr lids ｷ Coffee in vacuum tins ｷ Homogenized milk
Farming Inventions & Milestones
Concrete grain elevator replaces wood ｷ Steam tractors for threshing machines; Bakelite handles
Food Introductions
Instant coffee ｷ Decaffinated coffee ｷ Hershey chocolate bars & kisses ｷ Barnum Animal Crackers ｷ Triscuits ｷ Canned tunafish ｷ Ice cream cone ｷ Banana split ｷ Puffed rice ｷ Post Toasties ｷ French's Cream Salad Mustard ｷ Cliquot Club Ginger Ale ｷ Canada Dry Pale Ginger Ale ｷ Ovaltine ｷ "Hot dog" named ｷ Bleached flour ｷ Hydrogenation ｷ Nutritious benefit of rice germ
Food Companies founded
US Food and Drug Act ｷ Duffy-Mott ｷ Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake ｷ Sheffield Farms ｷ Drake ｷ Sunshine Biscuit ｷ Planters Nut & Chocolate ｷ Kraft ｷ Rafetto ｷ Holly Sugar ｷ Corn Products Refining ｷ American Can Company ｷ Continental Can ｷ Cream of Wheat National ad (Ladies Home Journal, 1902) ｷ Hershey ad (McClure's, 1902) ｷ Soda fountains & soda jerks ｷ Coin-operated restaurant
New Commercial Gadgets
Kerr lids ｷ Coffee in vacuum tins ｷ Homogenized milk
Farming Inventions & Milestones
Concrete grain elevator replaces wood ｷ Steam tractors for threshing machines
Food Introductions: Instant coffee ｷ Decaffinated coffee ｷ Hershey chocolate bars & kisses ｷ Barnum Animal Crackers ｷ Triscuits ｷ Canned tunafish ｷ Ice cream cone ｷ Banana split ｷ Puffed rice ｷ Post Toasties ｷ French's Cream Salad Mustard ｷ Cliquot Club Ginger Ale ｷ Canada Dry Pale Ginger Ale ｷ Ovaltine ｷ "Hot dog" named ｷ Bleached flour ｷ Hydrogenation ｷ Nutritious benefit of rice germ
Food Companies founded: US Food and Drug Act ｷ Duffy-Mott ｷ Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake ｷ Sheffield Farms ｷ Drake ｷ Sunshine Biscuit ｷ Planters Nut & Chocolate ｷ Kraft ｷ Rafetto ｷ Holly Sugar ｷ Corn Products Refining ｷ American Can Company ｷ Continental Can ｷ Cream of Wheat National ad (Ladies Home Journal, 1902) ｷ Hershey ad (McClure's, 1902) ｷ Soda fountains & soda jerks ｷ Coin-operated restaurant
New Commercial Gadgets: Kerr lids ｷ Coffee in vacuum tins ｷ Homogenized milk
Farming Inventions & Milestones: Concrete grain elevator replaces wood ｷ Steam tractors for threshing machines

1901, The Vest Pocket Pastry Book; by John E. Meister. The Hotel Monthly Press, Chicago, Illinois

1904, Reliable Recipes, Modern Methods in Cooking. Reliable Flour Co., Boston

1907, The White House Cook Book; Hugo Zieman and Mrs. F. L. Gillette. The Saalfield Publishing Co., New York

1908, The Healthy Life Cook Book; by Florence Daniel. C. W. Daniel, London

1908, Recipes, The Borden Way. Borden's Condensed Milk Co., New York

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Inventions and New Happenings of the 1910s:: General: US President Taft, then Wilson ｷ WWI ｷ US purchases Virgin Islands ｷ US Federal Reserve ｷ South Pole ｷ Einstein ｷ Freud ｷ Gandhi ｷ Curie ｷ Manhattan Bridge ｷ Cape Cod Canal ｷ Panama Canal ｷ Transcontinental telephone call ｷ Atomic structure ｷ Halley's Comet ｷ Protons & electrons ｷ Quantum theory ｷ Cosmic radiation ｷ Chemical chain reaction ｷ Daylight Savings Time ｷ Titanic ｷ Automobile assembly lines ｷ Parachute jump ｷ Motorized taxis ｷ Grand Central Terminal ｷ RCA ｷ Woolworth ｷ Kiwanis Club ｷLion's Club ｷ US "weekend" ｷ Zippers popularized ｷ Bobbed hair
Composers: Puccini, Stravinsky, Lehar, Herbert, Mahler, Strauss, Elgar, Schonberg, Berlin, Debussy, Busoni ｷ Jazz ｷ Foxtrot ｷ Tango ｷ War songs: "Keep the Home Fires Burning" & "Over There"
Artists: Modigliani, Renoir, Braque, Matisse, Klee, Chagall, Picasso, Dufy, Sargent, Duchamp, Grosz, Gris, Munch, Miro, Kandinsky, Leger, Monet ｷ Post Impressionism ｷ Cubism ｷ Dada ｷ Bauhaus ｷ Frank Lloyd Wright ｷ Alfred Stieglitz ｷ Charlie Chaplin ｷ Sarah Bernhardt
Authors: Wells, Galsworthy, Lawrence, Wharton, Pound, Maugham, Cather, Mann, Proust, Shaw, London, Frost, Conrad, Joyce, Burroughs, Tarkington, O'Neill, Sandburg, Eliot, Sinclair, Huxley, Hardy, Hesse
Sports: National Park Service ｷ Professional Golf Association ｷ Babe Ruth ｷ Mechanical rabbit for greyhound racing ｷ Rose Bowl Football ｷ Yale Bowl

New Cooking Gadgets
Pyrex
Refrigerator (costly)
Pop-up toaster
Food Introductions
Fortune cookie ｷ Crisco ｷ Mazola Salad & Cooking Oil ｷ Hellmann's Blue Ribbon Mayonnaise ｷ Domino sugar ｷ Ocean Spray Cranberry Sauce ｷ Oreo Biscuits ｷ I-Scream-Bar ｷ Lorna Doone cookies ｷ Mary Janes ｷ Clark Bars ｷ Peppermint Life Savers ｷ Tastykakes ｷ Nestle Milk Chocolate Bar ｷ Contadina canned tomato sauce ｷ Kellogg's All-Bran ｷ Malt-O-Meal ｷ Old El Paso brand ｷ Veryfine brand ｷ Vichyssoise ｷ Homogenized milk accepted ｷ Drastic rise in food prices (food riots in New York)ｷ US sugar rationing ｷ "German toast" name change to "French toast" ｷ Slender figure replaces substantial figure ideal
Food Companies founded
4-H Club ｷ Prince Macaroni ｷ LaRosa ｷ Ronzoni ｷ Riviana Foods ｷ National Dairy ｷ Tasty Baking ｷ Streit ｷ Orange Crush ｷ Birdseye ｷ StarKist ｷ Peter Paul ｷ Swedish Match ｷ Campbell buys Franco-American ｷ Sugar futures market in New York ｷ Hot dog stand ｷ Self-service grocery stores ｷ Supermarket chain (Piggly-Wiggly) ｷ Mama Leone's ｷ DelMonte national ad (April 21, 1917, Saturday Evening Post) ｷ Fleischmann ad campaign to convince women to buy bakery-made bread ｷ Herbert Hoover, US food administrator, "Food Can Win the War" ｷ US President Wilson, Armistice Day, "Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness"
New Commercial Gadgets
Electric mixing machine ｷ Cellophane ｷ Cakes wrapped individually at bakery, replacing shopkeeper cutting ｷ Bread loaves bakery-wrapped ｷ Glass-lined milk railroad car ｷ Chemicals to oxidize flour: bromate; azodicarbonamide; then benzoyl peroxide ｷ Chemicals to bleach flour: benzoyl peroxide; nitrogen trichloride gas ｷ "Vitamine" named ｷ Mercury fungicide seed protector (disastrous results) ｷ Coca-Cola distinctive bottle shape
Farming Inventions & Milestones
Plow attached to tractor ｷ Cattle-herding in Model T automobiles
New Cooking Gadgets: Pyrex
Refrigerator (costly)
Pop-up toaster
Food Introductions
Fortune cookie ｷ Crisco ｷ Mazola Salad & Cooking Oil ｷ Hellmann's Blue Ribbon Mayonnaise ｷ Domino sugar ｷ Ocean Spray Cranberry Sauce ｷ Oreo Biscuits ｷ I-Scream-Bar ｷ Lorna Doone cookies ｷ Mary Janes ｷ Clark Bars ｷ Peppermint Life Savers ｷ Tastykakes ｷ Nestle Milk Chocolate Bar ｷ Contadina canned tomato sauce ｷ Kellogg's All-Bran ｷ Malt-O-Meal ｷ Old El Paso brand ｷ Veryfine brand ｷ Vichyssoise ｷ Homogenized milk accepted ｷ Drastic rise in food prices (food riots in New York)ｷ US sugar rationing ｷ "German toast" name change to "French toast" ｷ Slender figure replaces substantial figure ideal
Food Companies founded
4-H Club ｷ Prince Macaroni ｷ LaRosa ｷ Ronzoni ｷ Riviana Foods ｷ National Dairy ｷ Tasty Baking ｷ Streit ｷ Orange Crush ｷ Birdseye ｷ StarKist ｷ Peter Paul ｷ Swedish Match ｷ Campbell buys Franco-American ｷ Sugar futures market in New York ｷ Hot dog stand ｷ Self-service grocery stores ｷ Supermarket chain (Piggly-Wiggly) ｷ Mama Leone's ｷ DelMonte national ad (April 21, 1917, Saturday Evening Post) ｷ Fleischmann ad campaign to convince women to buy bakery-made bread ｷ Herbert Hoover, US food administrator, "Food Can Win the War" ｷ US President Wilson, Armistice Day, "Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness"
New Commercial Gadgets
Electric mixing machine ｷ Cellophane ｷ Cakes wrapped individually at bakery, replacing shopkeeper cutting ｷ Bread loaves bakery-wrapped ｷ Glass-lined milk railroad car ｷ Chemicals to oxidize flour: bromate; azodicarbonamide; then benzoyl peroxide ｷ Chemicals to bleach flour: benzoyl peroxide; nitrogen trichloride gas ｷ "Vitamine" named ｷ Mercury fungicide seed protector (disastrous results) ｷ Coca-Cola distinctive bottle shape
Farming Inventions & Milestones
Plow attached to tractor ｷ Cattle-herding in Model T automobiles; Refrigerator (costly)
Pop-up toaster
Food Introductions
Fortune cookie ｷ Crisco ｷ Mazola Salad & Cooking Oil ｷ Hellmann's Blue Ribbon Mayonnaise ｷ Domino sugar ｷ Ocean Spray Cranberry Sauce ｷ Oreo Biscuits ｷ I-Scream-Bar ｷ Lorna Doone cookies ｷ Mary Janes ｷ Clark Bars ｷ Peppermint Life Savers ｷ Tastykakes ｷ Nestle Milk Chocolate Bar ｷ Contadina canned tomato sauce ｷ Kellogg's All-Bran ｷ Malt-O-Meal ｷ Old El Paso brand ｷ Veryfine brand ｷ Vichyssoise ｷ Homogenized milk accepted ｷ Drastic rise in food prices (food riots in New York)ｷ US sugar rationing ｷ "German toast" name change to "French toast" ｷ Slender figure replaces substantial figure ideal
Food Companies founded
4-H Club ｷ Prince Macaroni ｷ LaRosa ｷ Ronzoni ｷ Riviana Foods ｷ National Dairy ｷ Tasty Baking ｷ Streit ｷ Orange Crush ｷ Birdseye ｷ StarKist ｷ Peter Paul ｷ Swedish Match ｷ Campbell buys Franco-American ｷ Sugar futures market in New York ｷ Hot dog stand ｷ Self-service grocery stores ｷ Supermarket chain (Piggly-Wiggly) ｷ Mama Leone's ｷ DelMonte national ad (April 21, 1917, Saturday Evening Post) ｷ Fleischmann ad campaign to convince women to buy bakery-made bread ｷ Herbert Hoover, US food administrator, "Food Can Win the War" ｷ US President Wilson, Armistice Day, "Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness"
New Commercial Gadgets
Electric mixing machine ｷ Cellophane ｷ Cakes wrapped individually at bakery, replacing shopkeeper cutting ｷ Bread loaves bakery-wrapped ｷ Glass-lined milk railroad car ｷ Chemicals to oxidize flour: bromate; azodicarbonamide; then benzoyl peroxide ｷ Chemicals to bleach flour: benzoyl peroxide; nitrogen trichloride gas ｷ "Vitamine" named ｷ Mercury fungicide seed protector (disastrous results) ｷ Coca-Cola distinctive bottle shape
Farming Inventions & Milestones
Plow attached to tractor ｷ Cattle-herding in Model T automobiles; Pop-up toaster
Food Introductions
Fortune cookie ｷ Crisco ｷ Mazola Salad & Cooking Oil ｷ Hellmann's Blue Ribbon Mayonnaise ｷ Domino sugar ｷ Ocean Spray Cranberry Sauce ｷ Oreo Biscuits ｷ I-Scream-Bar ｷ Lorna Doone cookies ｷ Mary Janes ｷ Clark Bars ｷ Peppermint Life Savers ｷ Tastykakes ｷ Nestle Milk Chocolate Bar ｷ Contadina canned tomato sauce ｷ Kellogg's All-Bran ｷ Malt-O-Meal ｷ Old El Paso brand ｷ Veryfine brand ｷ Vichyssoise ｷ Homogenized milk accepted ｷ Drastic rise in food prices (food riots in New York)ｷ US sugar rationing ｷ "German toast" name change to "French toast" ｷ Slender figure replaces substantial figure ideal
Food Companies founded
4-H Club ｷ Prince Macaroni ｷ LaRosa ｷ Ronzoni ｷ Riviana Foods ｷ National Dairy ｷ Tasty Baking ｷ Streit ｷ Orange Crush ｷ Birdseye ｷ StarKist ｷ Peter Paul ｷ Swedish Match ｷ Campbell buys Franco-American ｷ Sugar futures market in New York ｷ Hot dog stand ｷ Self-service grocery stores ｷ Supermarket chain (Piggly-Wiggly) ｷ Mama Leone's ｷ DelMonte national ad (April 21, 1917, Saturday Evening Post) ｷ Fleischmann ad campaign to convince women to buy bakery-made bread ｷ Herbert Hoover, US food administrator, "Food Can Win the War" ｷ US President Wilson, Armistice Day, "Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness"
New Commercial Gadgets
Electric mixing machine ｷ Cellophane ｷ Cakes wrapped individually at bakery, replacing shopkeeper cutting ｷ Bread loaves bakery-wrapped ｷ Glass-lined milk railroad car ｷ Chemicals to oxidize flour: bromate; azodicarbonamide; then benzoyl peroxide ｷ Chemicals to bleach flour: benzoyl peroxide; nitrogen trichloride gas ｷ "Vitamine" named ｷ Mercury fungicide seed protector (disastrous results) ｷ Coca-Cola distinctive bottle shape
Farming Inventions & Milestones
Plow attached to tractor ｷ Cattle-herding in Model T automobiles
Food Introductions: Fortune cookie ｷ Crisco ｷ Mazola Salad & Cooking Oil ｷ Hellmann's Blue Ribbon Mayonnaise ｷ Domino sugar ｷ Ocean Spray Cranberry Sauce ｷ Oreo Biscuits ｷ I-Scream-Bar ｷ Lorna Doone cookies ｷ Mary Janes ｷ Clark Bars ｷ Peppermint Life Savers ｷ Tastykakes ｷ Nestle Milk Chocolate Bar ｷ Contadina canned tomato sauce ｷ Kellogg's All-Bran ｷ Malt-O-Meal ｷ Old El Paso brand ｷ Veryfine brand ｷ Vichyssoise ｷ Homogenized milk accepted ｷ Drastic rise in food prices (food riots in New York)ｷ US sugar rationing ｷ "German toast" name change to "French toast" ｷ Slender figure replaces substantial figure ideal
Food Companies founded: 4-H Club ｷ Prince Macaroni ｷ LaRosa ｷ Ronzoni ｷ Riviana Foods ｷ National Dairy ｷ Tasty Baking ｷ Streit ｷ Orange Crush ｷ Birdseye ｷ StarKist ｷ Peter Paul ｷ Swedish Match ｷ Campbell buys Franco-American ｷ Sugar futures market in New York ｷ Hot dog stand ｷ Self-service grocery stores ｷ Supermarket chain (Piggly-Wiggly) ｷ Mama Leone's ｷ DelMonte national ad (April 21, 1917, Saturday Evening Post) ｷ Fleischmann ad campaign to convince women to buy bakery-made bread ｷ Herbert Hoover, US food administrator, "Food Can Win the War" ｷ US President Wilson, Armistice Day, "Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness"
New Commercial Gadgets: Electric mixing machine ｷ Cellophane ｷ Cakes wrapped individually at bakery, replacing shopkeeper cutting ｷ Bread loaves bakery-wrapped ｷ Glass-lined milk railroad car ｷ Chemicals to oxidize flour: bromate; azodicarbonamide; then benzoyl peroxide ｷ Chemicals to bleach flour: benzoyl peroxide; nitrogen trichloride gas ｷ "Vitamine" named ｷ Mercury fungicide seed protector (disastrous results) ｷ Coca-Cola distinctive bottle shape
Farming Inventions & Milestones: Plow attached to tractor ｷ Cattle-herding in Model T automobiles

1910, Home Helps; by Mary J. Lincoln, Lida Ames Willis, Sarah Tyson Rorer, Helen Armstrong, and Marion Harland. the N. K. Fairbank Co., New York

1910, Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties; by Janet McKenzie Hill. Little, Brown and Co., Boston

1912, Lowney's Cook Book; by Maria Willet Howard. The Walter M. Lowney Co., Boston

1913 circa, New Harbor Cook Book; compiled by members of The Young Ladies' Society of New Harbor and vicinity, Maine

1913 circa Woman's Club Cook Book

1914, reprint 1963, Battersea College of Technology Cookery Recipes; Battersea College of Technology, London, S.W. 11

1916, Little Lessons in Scientific Eating; by Eugene Christian. corrective Eating Society, Inc., New York

1916, A Cook Book of Tested Recipes; compiled by ladies of Second Congregational Church, Kennebunk, Maine

1918, Economical Cookery; by Marion Harris Neil. Little, Brown & Co., Boston

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1920s -- NINETEEN-TWENTIES

1920 circa, Proven Recipes, Showing the uses of the Three Great Products from Corn. Corn Products Refining Co., New York

1922, The Herb Doctor and Medicine Man, A Collection of Valuable Medicinal Formulae and Guide to the Manufacture of Botanical Medicines; by Joseph E. Meyer. Indiana Botanic Gardens, Hammond, Ind.

1922, Jelke Good Luck Margarine Recipes. John F. Jelke Co., Chicago, Illinois

1922, The Metropolitan Life Cook Book. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.

1922, Reliable Recipes, 28th Edition. Calumet Baking Powder Co., Chicago, Illinois

1923, The Farm Cook and Rule Book; by Nell B. Nichols, M.S. The Macmillan Company, New York

1923, The Calorie Cook Book; by Mary Dickerson Donahey. The Reilly & Lee Co., Chicago

1923, Food Economy, Recipes for left-overs and Plain Desserts; by Mrs. Knox. Charles B. Knox Gelatine Co., Inc., Johnstown, New York

1924, The Story of Canned Foods; by James H. Collins. E.P. Dutton & Company, New York

1924, Dainty Desserts for Dainty People. Knox Gelatine

1925, Heinz Book of Salads. H. J. Heinz Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1925, La Cuisine Rationnelle, des Bien Portants et des Malades; by Mme Augusta Moll-Weiss. Librairie Delagrave, Paris

1925, Royal Cook Book. Royal Baking Powder Co., New York

1926, French Home Cooking; by Claire de Pratz. E.P. Dutton & Company, New York

1926, 199 Selected Recipes; by Sarah Field Splint. Proctor & Gamble, Cincinnati, Ohio

1926, Pies and Pastry, Icings and Frostings; by Sarah Field Splint. Proctor & Gamble, Cincinnati, Ohio

1926 circa, Canning. Wear-Ever.

1926, Adding Variety to the Menu. Minute Tapioca Company

1927, Prize Winning Recipes to Vary Your Menus. Minute Tapioca Company

1927, The Swans Down way to perfect cakes. Postum Co.

1929, Lorain Cooking; issued by The Research Kitchen of American Stove Co., St. Louis, Mo.

1929, New Delineator Recipes, Including Ten Exclusive Recipes by Ann Batchelder. Butterick

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1930, The Rumford Complete Cook Book; by Lily Haxworth Wallace. Dept. of Home Economics of the Rumford Co., Rumford, Rhode Island

1930 circa, Cheese, and Ways to Serve it. J.L. Kraft & Bros. Co.

1930, Happier Days from Better Breakfasts. General Foods

1930, Quick Easy Jell-o Wonder Dishes. General Foods

1930 circa, How to Use the New Speedo Super Juicer. Central States Mfg. Co., St Louis, Mo.

1930, The Secrets of the Jam Cupboard. General Foods

1931, The Art of Cooking and Serving; by Sarah Field Splint. Proctor & Gamble, Cincinnati, Ohio

1931, Knox Gelatine, Dainty Desserts, Candies, Salads. Charles B. Knox Gelatine Co.

1932, Meals for Three; by Mrs. Charles B. Knox. Charles B. Knox Gelatine Co.

1932, The World's Modern Cook Book for the Busy Woman; by Mabel Claire. The World Syndicate Publishing Co., Cleveland, Ohio

1933, Good Cooking Made Easy and Economical; by Marjorie Heseltine and Ula M. Dow. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston and New York

1933, Keep on the Sunny Side of Life, A New Way of Living. Kellogg Co., Battle Creek, Michigan

1933, Magic! The Most Amazing Short-Cuts in Cooking You Ever Heard Of. The Borden Company, New York

1933, Your Frigidaire, Recipes and other Helpful Information. Frigidaire Corp., Dayton, Ohio

1934, The Latest Cake Secrets. General Foods

1934, Modern Modes in Meat Cookery. National Live Stock and Meat Board, Chicago, Illinois

1934, Choice Recipes for North Atlantic Sea Foods. The Federated Fishing Boats of New England and New York, Inc.

1934, Tea Cult of Japan, An Aesthetic Pastime; by Yasunosuke Fukukita. Board of Tourist Industy, Japanese Government Railways

1934, Soups and Sauces; by Virginia Elliot and Robert Howard Jones. Harcourt, Brace and Co., New York

1935, Recipes of All Nations; edited by Countess Morphy. Wm. H. Wise & Co., New York

1935, Making the Most of your Electrolux with Practical Recipes. Servel, Inc.

1935, Your Frigidaire, Recipes and Other Helpful Information. Frigidaire Corp., Dayton, Ohio

1936, Successful Baking for Flavor and Texture; by Martha Lee Anderson. Church & Dwight Co., Inc., New York

1936, Be An Artist at the Gas Range, Successful Recipes by 'the Mystery Chef'. Longmans, Green & Co.

1937, The Aunts' Cook Book. Horace Carr, Cleveland, Ohio

1937 circa, Deep Sea Recipes, Delicious Dishes made with Gorton's Sea Foods. Gorton-Pew Fisheries Co., Gloucester, Mass.

1938 circa, 'Devils' Fun'! Number 4, Series 2. General Mills

1938, The 'Nameless' Cake, First Prize $5,000.00 for Naming This Cake, Number 4, Series 7. General Mills

1938, Your Guide to Home Canning. Kerr Glass Mfg., Corp.

1938 circa, Delicious Reliable Flour Recipes. Reliable Flour Co., Boston

1938 circa, Modern Cooking with American Oven Heat Controls. American Thermometer Co., St. Louis, Mo.

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1940, World Famous Chefs' Cook Book, Rare Old Recipes Arranged for the Homemaker; edited by Irene Hume Taylor. Ford Naylor and Associates, Inc. Chicago, Illinois

1940 circa, Holyoke Vocational School Evening Practical Arts Classes for Women, Cooking Dept., Printed by the boys of the Day School

1941, A Book of Hors d'Oeuvre; by Lucy G. Allen. Bramhall House, New York

1942, How to Cook a Wolf; by M.F.K. Fisher. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York

1944, Zero Storage in your Home; by Boyden Sparkes. Doubleday, Doran & Co., Garden City, New York

1945, Kitchen Fugue; by Sheila Kaye-Smith. Harper & Brothers, New York

1947, The Essentials of Food Preparation; by Madge Miller and Mary Barnhart. Wm. C. Brown Co., Dubuque, Iowa

1948, The Pocket Cook Book; by Elizabeth Woody and members of the Food Staff of McCall's Magazine. Pocket Books, Inc., New York

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1950, Chafing Dish Cookery; by Florence Brobeck. m. Barrows and Co., New York

1951, The New Fannie Farmer, Boston Cooking-School Cook Book; revised by Wilma Lord Perkins. Little, Brown and Co., Boston

1952, Good Food for Bad Stomachs; by Sara M. Jordan, M.D. and Sheila Hibben. Doubleday & Co., Garden City, New York

1952, Cuisine D'Amour, a Cook Book for Lovers; compiled by Charles F. Heartman. Boar's Head Books, New York

1954, Ann Pillsbury's Baking Book; by Ann Pillsbury. Pocket Books, Inc., New York

1955, The American Family Cook Book; by Lily Wallace. Books, Inc., New York

1956, Cape Cod Cook Book (booklet); The Picture Book Press, Cotuit, Massachusetts (Check out other booklets)

1958, Betty Crocker's Dinner for Two Cook Book. Golden Press, New York

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1962, The Joy of Eating Natural Foods, The Complete Organic Cookbook; by Agnes Toms. The Devin-Adair co., Conn.

1962, The Art of Jewish Cooking; by Jennie Grossinger. Bantam Books, New York

1963, An Herb and Spice Cook Book; by Craig Clairborne. Harper & Rowe, New York

1963, How to be Healthy with Natural Foods; by Edward E. Marsh. Gramercy Publishing Co., New York

1963, Vineyard Fare; compiled by the Vineyard Haven Branch of the Martha's Vineyard Hospital Auxiliary, Vineyard Haven, Mass.

1964, Hunza Health Secrets for Long Life and Happiness; by Renee Taylor. Award Books, New York

1964, The American Heritage Cookbook, Illustrated History of American Eating & Drinking, Vol. 1 & 2; by the Editors of American Heritage. American Heritage Publishing Co.

1964, Never in the Kitchen when Company Arrives; by Theresa A. Morse. Doubleday & Co., Garden City, New York

1967, A Gold Mine in Your Kitchen, Home Baking for Pleasure and Profit; by Helen Scott. Crown Publishers, Inc., New York

1967, The Casserole Cookbook; by Myra Waldo. Collier Books, New York

1969, Better Homes and Gardens Vegetable Cook Book; Meredith Press, New York / Des Moines

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1970, Zen Macrobiotic Cooking, Oriental and Traditional Recipes; by Michel Abehsera. Avon

1970, Eat and Grow Younger; by Lelord Kordel. Macfadden-Bartell.

1970, Yoga Natural Foods Cookbook; by Richard Hittleman. Bantam Books, New York

1970, How to Eat Better for Less Money; by James Beard and Sam Aaron. Simon and Schuster

1971 (1832 reprint), The American Frugal Housewife; by Mrs. Child. Carter, Hendee, and Co., Boston

1971, The New Hunza Health Plan for Lasting Youth, Vitality and Longer Life; by Renee Taylor. Award Books, New York

1971, Better Homes and Gardens Five Seasons Cranberry Book; Meredith Publishing Services, DesMoines, Iowa

1971, Health Foods and Herbs; by Kathleen Hunter. Arco Publishing Company.

1971, Herbs, The Magic Healers; by Paul Twitchell. Lancer Books, New York

1971, The Care and Feeding of a Yogi; by Joann Sherwood. The Ashram, Salem, Massachusetts.

1971, Culpeper's Herbal Remedies; by Dr. Nicholas Culpeper. Wilshire Book Co., N. Hollywood, California

1972, The Harvest Home Natural Grains Cookbook; by Eden Gray and Mary Beckwith Cohen. The Stephen Greene Press, Brattleboro, Vermont

1972, Love your body, live food recipes; by Viktoras Kulvinskas, M.S. OMango d'Press, Wethersfield, Conneticutt

1973, Healing Ourselves; by Naboru Muramoto, edited by Michel Abehsera. Avon Books

1973, The Potato Book; by Myrna Davis. William Morrow & Co., New York

1974, The Back to Eden Cookbook; by Jethro Kloss. Lifeline Books

1974, Uncle John's Original Bread Book; by John Rahn Braue. Pyramid Books, New York

1974, Cosmic Cookery; by Kathryn Hannaford; Starmast Publications, Stocton, California

1974, Good Food with a Blender; by Ann Seranne. William Morrow & Co., New York

1974, The New York Times Natural Foods Dieting Book; by Yvonne Young Tarr. Ballantine Books, New York

1974, Herbs, How to Grow Them and How to Use Them; by Helen Noyes Webster. Charles T. Branford Co., Newton, Mass.

1975, From Julia Child's Kitchen; by Julia Child. Alfred A. Knopf, New York

1975, Cooking with Conscience; by Alice Denjamin and Harriett Corrigan. Vineyard Books, Noroton, Connecticut

1975, The Green Tomato Cookbook; by Paula Simmons. Pacific Search, Seattle, Washington

1975, Mrs. Simms' Fun Cooking Guide, New Orleans, Creole, French & Cajun Country Recipes; by Myrtle Landry Simms

1976, 1976 Wilton Yearbook of Cake Decorating. Wilton Enterprises, Inc., Chicago, Illinois

1976, Cooking for Life; by Michel Abehsera. Avon Books, NewYork

1976, The Book of Miso; by William Shurtleff & Akiko Aoyagi. Autumn Press

1977, What's Cooking down in Maine; by Willan C. Roux. Down East Publication

1977, A Concise Guide in Color, Herbs; by Dr. Frantisek Stary and Dr Vaclav Jirasek. Hamlyn Publishing group, New York

1977, Old Fashioned Recipe Book, An Encyclopedia of Country Living; by Carla Emery. Bantam Books, New York

1978, Light Eating for Survival; by Marcia Madhuri Acciardo. Omango D'Press, Wethersfield, Conn.

1978, All Maine Seafood, No. 1; edited by Loana Shibles and Annie Rogers. Courier of Maine Books, Courier-Gazette, Inc.

1978, Natural Snacks 'n' Sweets, The Good Goodies; by Stan and Floss Dworkin. Rodale Press, Inc., Emmaus, Penn

1978, Recipes for a Small Planet, the Art and Science of High Protein Vegetarian Cookery; by Ellen Buchman Ewald. Ballantine Books, NewYork

1979, Wonderful Ways to Prepare Chinese Dishes; by Jo Ann Shirley. Playmore, Inc. New York

1979, Wilton Yearbook, 1979, Cake Decorating. Wilton Enterprises, Inc., Woodredge, Illinois

1979, Brown Bagging It: The Lunch Box Idea Book; by Adeline Garner Shell and Kay Reynolds. Sovereign Books, New York

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1980, The Complete Book of Yogurt; by Shaun Nelson-Henrick. Collier Books, New York

1980, About Yeast, A Unique and Concentrated Natural Food; by P.E. Norris. Thorsons Publishers, Ltd., Wellingborough, Northamptonshire

1981, The International Cheese Recipe Book; by Evor Parry. Ventura Books, New York

1981, Kathy Cooks Naturally; by Kathy Hoschijo. Bantam Books, New York

1981, Sunset Menus & Recipes for Vegetarian Cooking; by the Editors of Sunset Books and Sunset Magazine. Lane Publishing Co., Menlo Park, California

1982, Sweet and Sugarfree, An All-Natural, Fruit-Sweetened Dessert Cookbook; by Karen E. Barkie. St. Martins Press, New York

1983, American Wholefoods Cuisine; by Nikki #amp; David Goldbeck. New American Library, New York

1983, The Blender Cookbook; by Mary Norwak. Ward Lock Ltd., London

1984, On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen; by Harold McGee. MacMillan Publishing Co., New York

1984, Farm Journal's Best-Ever Vegetable Recipes; by the Food Editors of Farm Journal. Farm Journal, Inc., Philadelphia, Penn.

1984, 1984 Gourmet Engagement Calendar. Gourmet, Inc. New York

1984, Food Editors' Hometown Favorites Cookbook, American Regional and Local Specialties; edited by Barbara Gibbs Ostmann and Jane Baker

1985, McCall's Cookie Collection; by the Food Editors of McCall's. Advanced Publishers, Orlando, Florida

1986, Perfection Salad, Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century; by Laura Shapiro. Henry Holt and Co., New York

1986, The Yoga of Herbs, An Ayurvedic Guide to Herbal Medicine; by Dr. Vasant Lad and David Frawley. Lotus Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1987, Corn, Meals & More; by Olwen Woodier. Storey Communications, Inc. Pownal, Vermont

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