Purity Flour Cook Book

WARNER, Miss E.

Published by Western Canada Flour Mills, Toronto & Winnipeg, 1917

About this Item

[10], 158 p. 22 cm. About 20 illustrations, including colour title page and five colour plates. Advertising decorations throughout. Cloth spine and paper covers. Staplebound. Circular tie in top corner. Chips and tears and light soiling to covers. Signature on title page and verso. Occasional spots and tears. Chipped bottom corner to p. 15 with loss of text. Title continues: "A General Purpose Publication on the Culinary Art, with Valuable Information and Recipes on Various Methods of Food Preparation. Bread, Rolls, Buns, Cakes, Pies, Fish, Poultry, Meats, Vegetables, Salads, Fruits, Pickles, Sauces, Beverages, Candies, Preserves, Etc., Etc." The author of this cookbook, the first to promote Purity Flour, has not been positively identified. She may be the Miss. Elizabeth A. Warner who graduated in 1908 from the Macdonald Institute of the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph. An Elizabeth Warner lived in Winnipeg at the time this book was published, possibly the author collaborating with the chemists in charge of the company's Winnipeg laboratory. Western Canada Flour Mills, maker of Purity Flour, was formed in 1905 during a merger. Its new Winnipeg mill opened in 1906 and was said to be the largest in Canada at the time. Seller Inventory # 115247

Bibliographic Details

Title: Purity Flour Cook Book

Publisher: Western Canada Flour Mills, Toronto & Winnipeg

Publication Date: 1917

Binding: Staplebound

Condition: Good