Lesson Great Depression (2 results)
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Winter recipes. Compliments of Minnesota Utilities Company; Spice cake -- Molasses frosting. . . refrigerator recipes; Seasons Greetings, cranberry dumplings; Lesson 82 -- Homemaker's Series -- "Making the most of apple time". . . ; Cooking School Recipes - Lesson 146 "Fruits in season". . . ; Oven dinner No. 3; Holiday recipes for your electric range refrigerator; Federal Public Service Corporation of Minnesota: Important directions for the use of your electric range. . . [Small group of mimeographed recipes, presentation bulletins, circulars, and related ephemera from the Minnesota electrification and public utility home economic demonstration cooking classes in the depths of the Great Depression].
[FOOD & DRINK -- WOMEN'S COOKING EDUCATION]. RICE, Naoma [Myrtle].
Published by Minnesota Utilities Company; Northern States Power Company - Home Service Department, Cooking School; Federal Public Service Corporation of Minnesota, [ca. 1930-1936]., [Austin & Minneapolis, MN]:, 1930
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.Zephyr Used & Rare Books
Contact seller5-star sellerEight parts. 4to. [46 pp (assorted separate numbering).], w/ most leaves printed on recto only, but 2 printed on recto & verso in mimeograph typescript, stapled at upper left corners separately, 1 part w/ "Seasons Greetings" printed in red (minor age toning, edgewear), still a VG group. A culturally significant group of mimeogra…phed recipes, instructions, and promotional flyers for the Home Economics & Cooking School demonstrations put on by Naoma Rice for three different Minnesota utility and public utility companies through the depths of the Great Depression. Spearheaded by Rice (1899-1937), the demonstrations emphasized the use and advantages of electric ranges and refrigerators as their popularity and use slowly became more widespread in the 1930's, with an emphasis on local produce and fruits. The first group of recipes includes instructions for such confections as Cranberry Sponge Cake, Cider Sherbet, Macaroon Pie, Spagetti [sic] Sauce, and Bran Refrigerator Rolls. Mixed through the other recipes, there are instructions for Crunchy Potato Chip Cookies, Apple Cheese Cake, Parmesan Veal, Frozen Pumpkin Pie, and Corn Flake Crust. Several of the recipes emphasize the use of popular Minnesota fruits, including Apple, Quince, Grapes, and others.The importance of refrigeration was also emphasized in the "Cooking School" and Model Kitchens with instructions on temperatures needed for home rangers and refrigerators, for cooked foods, meats, butter, opened jelly or preserves, cheeses, and more. Rice suffered through an unspecified childhood illness, by by the early 1920's had become a public school Home Economics Teacher, and then by 1928 was listed in Austin, MN street directories as a "Demonstrator" for home economics and cooking classes. The Minnesota Utilities Company had been created in 1917 from several smaller utilities, and my the Great Depression had grown large enough that it became subject to both the TVA, and the Rural Electrification Project as Roosevelt's New Deal programs attempted to encourage increased use of electricity and electric appliances to boost the economy. The Northern States Power Co. was based out of Minneapolis, MN, and extended across Minnesota, Michigan, into the Dakotas, and operated an extensive Home Service Dept. The Federal Public Service Corporation of Minnesota appears to have been one of the short-lived outgrowths of WPA and PWA-sponsored programs under the New Deal. This cataloguer could not locate any similar surviving documents for Naoma Rice cooking classes, or, the Minnesota-based utility companies.
