Baker's Best Chocolate Recipes

Baker's Best Chocolate Recipes
Adopted for Conservation by
Linda and Jay Freedman
In honor of Courteney Freedman Monroe
on November 16, 2016
Cover of Baker's best chocolate recipes

Baker's best chocolate recipes

Dorcester, Mass.: Walter Baker & Co., 1932.

Baker's Chocolate in Dorcester, Massachusetts was in business more than 150 years before Baker's best chocolate recipes was published.  Baker's became a division of General Mills in 1927 and this booklet published in 1932, offers to its customers a history of the company, as well as, an armchair history of chocolate as the "food of the gods."  There are a slew of classic chocolate baked goods in here.  What baby boomer didn't have a grandmother that made fudge with nut meats?  Based on the condition of this cookbook, this may well be where your grandmother got the recipe.  But even better than the recipes, are the very elegant and well-composed modern color lithographs that will please your eye and make your mouth water.

Condition and Treatment: 

This book is an early 20th-century staple bound cookbook. The cover has grease stains and the staples have oxidized. There is some pressure sensitive tape on the spine. Conservators will remove the staples and re-sew the cookbook through the fold. The cover will be dry cleaned using fine grade eraser crumbs. A custom enclosure will be created for this fragile item.

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Adoption Type: Preserve for the Future