staplebound
1932 · Rumford, RI
by Lily Haxworth Wallace
Rumford, RI: Rumford Chemical Works, 1932. staplebound. tan printed wraps, good. 64 pages, 12.5 x 18.5 cm. The Rumford Common Sense Cook Book includes pages of recipes, cooking terms, and instructions. One page informs the homemaker of how to bake by temperature as a helpful tidbit to those who had just acquired a gas stove. Throughout are various black and white illustrations. The book is compiled by Lily Haxworth Wallace. It ends with an advertisement for Rumford Complete Cook Book (the elongated version of this book), which can be MAILED FREE FOR 10 Cards from ONE pound cans of Rumford Baking Powder. Laid in is one newspaper clipping from the (truncated)