School Lunches Using Farm Surpluses, 1940 Vintage Cookbook

Ever wonder what the ladies behind the school lunch counter were using for recipes? This booklet provides the instructions and recipes for using food provided to Depression-era schools via a U.S.government farm program -- we're not talking gourmet here, but baby boomers might feel a touch of nostalgia.

Filled with nutritious and cheap menu ideas for feeding a crowd of 12, 25, or 50. Emphasis on the use of cereals as important components of daily diet, and a good amount of bacon, or salt pork, cabbage, apples, beans, nuts, and cheese. Approximately 80 recipes, including "Rolled Oats (or Rolled Wheat) and Potato Soup", "Cereal, Salt Pork, and Vegetable Chowder", Scrapple, White Bread, Brown Bread, Corn Bread, "Fruit Betty," and "Meat and Vegetable Stew." Helpful advice to the organizations in charge of feeding Depression-era youngsters is historically interesting and useful still.

Great old art deco style lettering on the cover, and old-fashioned typeface in the ingredients lists.

In good condition. Pages are clean, straight, and tightly bound. Covers are whole and intact, though heat-stained on (and confined to) the front cover through page 3.