Down-on-the-Farm Cook Book (1943)

Comanche County Lamb Stew, Magnolia House Corn Pudding, Chaffee County Banana Bread, Willow Farm Devil's Food Cake:
First Edition of this Classic Wartime Cookbook Filled with Country-Style Recipes

Worth, Helen. Down-On-The-Farm Cook Book. New York: Modern Age Books for Greenberg, 1943.

Thick octavo. Hardcover. 1st Edition.

First edition of this wonderful wartime cookbook filled with country recipes, leaning heavily toward cakes, pies, and other sweets. A popular mid-century cookbook author, Helen Worth was skilled at providing accessible recipes for American favorites. The farm-style recipes in Down-on-the-Farm Cook Book often use produce that would have been present in a large Victory Garden or small farm, circumventing some of the hardship of rationing. War bonds advertisement on rear dust jacket panel. Book near-fine with only an occasional spot of soiling, fragile pictorial dust jacket very good with edge-wear and a bit of toning to spine.