Boisson

1942 · réf. 63580 — New York: Macmillan Co. 1942. 8vo. xx 2 147 1 pp. Blue publisher’s cloth red & white printed title label mounted front cover w/ d.j. minor scuffing front cover affecting a couple letters couple minor closed tears still a NF/G copy from the library of Margaret E. Love w/ ownership markings on ffep. First edition 1st printing stated of this concise and straightforward cookbook targeting housewives on the home front during World War II Wartime rationing. Winn-Smith 1892-1991 has adopted and translated rationing and “thrifty” recipe techniques from those used during the Revolutionary War Civil War and World War I. She advises cooks to use just one crust rather than double pie crusts for pies reuse rendered fat in a variety of different recipes or instead of mixing chocolate chips into the batter simply decorate on top with them substitute ingredients and more. She worked as a fashion designer of millinery and wedding trousseaus in Olympia & Seattle was interior decorator for Gump’s in Honolulu and later head of the Art & Picture Dept. at Meier & Frank Department store in Portland OR and later became a noted landscape painter while her husband Xenephon Smith was librarian at Arizona State the Library of Congress and the US Postal Service Chief Librarian. Macmillan Co., hardcover