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This book was copyrighted in 1933. It has 740 pages. It is filled with basic scratch recipes, food preparation instructions, cooking instructions. It has 96 pages of black and white photos (this was before color film) of food preparation "how to" illustrations and showing the different results from various cooking procedures. It has sections on canning, preserving, and freezing foods. The book was used in many schools in its day. It has a green hard back cover and an illustrated dust cover. It is one of the best cook books my mother left me. It is hard to find one in excellent condition because these books were heavily used by the owners.

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