Palmer's Treasure of Personal Recipes 1957 Concordia Lutheran Church Palmer Michigan Cookbook
$24.99
Palmer's Treasure of Personal Recipes is a community cookbook from the Ladies Aid of the Concordia Lutheran Church in Palmer, Michigan, in the Upper Peninsula.
The cream cover carries a red treasure map with a sailing ship and compass rose, and the inside covers are given over to local advertising, Palmer Bottled Gas, a Pioneer insurance agency, and the Upper Peninsula Power Company among them. The recipes come with the names of the women who contributed them, and the section dividers are printed with map style illustrations.
Toward the back the book turns to diet pages, a food chart for ordering in a restaurant and a high calorie diet sheet, which is the sort of thing these church books added for their own readers.
Details
- Item: Vintage softcover community cookbook
- Title: Palmer's Treasure of Personal Recipes
- Author: Compiled by the Ladies Aid of the Concordia Lutheran Church
- Illustrator: Line illustrations and map style graphics
- Publisher: Bev-Ron Publishing Company, Kansas City, Missouri
- Publication Year: 1956, reprinted March 1957
- Edition and Printing: Reprinted March 1957, stated on the title page
- Format and Binding: Softcover with a black plastic comb binding
- Dust Jacket: None, issued as a comb bound softcover
- Genre: Community cookbook, Michigan church and regional cooking
- Language: English
- ISBN: None, published before ISBN use
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 inches
Positives
- Graded Good: The black plastic comb is intact with no broken teeth.
- Local advertising pages are present and still readable.
- Recipes carry the names of their contributors, many with Michigan towns.
- Two clipped recipe advertisements came laid in and are still with the book.
- The map style section dividers are complete.
Issues / Wear
- The covers are toned and lightly stained, most at the back cover's top edge.
- Corners show wear, with light creasing at the front cover tips.
- Pages are tanned throughout from age.
- Tape and browned adhesive marks show on a few interior pages.
This 1957 reprint keeps a whole Upper Peninsula congregation, its advertisers, and its cooks in print. If it's the right copy for you, it's ready to come home.
Condition Grade: Good
- Near Fine: Close to new. Any flaw is small and named above.
- Very Good: Light use. Every flaw is named above, and none of them get in the way of reading or display.
- Good: Complete and usable, with clear signs of use. Every flaw is named above.
- Fair: Heavy wear or damage, named above. A reading or working copy, not a display piece.
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