The Blender Cookbook, ABC of Casseroles and Apple Cookbook Vintage Cookbook Bundle

This is a three book cookbook bundle: The Blender Cookbook by Ann Seranne and Eileen Gaden, The ABC of Casseroles from The Peter Pauper Press, and The Apple Cookbook by William I. Kaufman, and all three shown are included in the sale.

The Blender Cookbook dust jacket and gray cloth boards look solid with light rubbing, soiling, and toning on the jacket spine and edges plus light wear along the front edge, The ABC of Casseroles jacket shows edge wear and small chipping at the top edge with offset toning on the endpapers, and The Apple Cookbook covers stay bright while the page edges carry a greenish tint and the pages are toned.

Together they cover blender cooking with more than five hundred recipes and suggested menus, alphabet casserole dinners with mid century illustrations by Ruth McCrea, and over 125 apple recipes built around apple sauce, apple juice, and apple slices, the kind of mid century kitchen shelf that mixes appliance cooking, weeknight casseroles, and dessert baking.

Genre / Subject: Nonfiction, cookbooks: blender cooking, casseroles, apple recipes

Details

• Item: Cookbook bundle of three books
• Title: The Blender Cookbook. The ABC of Casseroles. The Apple Cookbook
• Author: Ann Seranne and Eileen Gaden (The Blender Cookbook). Not confirmed from photos (The ABC of Casseroles). William I. Kaufman (The Apple Cookbook)
• Illustrator: Photographic Illustrations by the Authors (The Blender Cookbook). Decorations by Ruth McCrea (The ABC of Casseroles). Not confirmed from photos (The Apple Cookbook)
• Publisher: Doubleday and Company, Inc., Garden City, New York (The Blender Cookbook). The Peter Pauper Press, Mount Vernon, New York (The ABC of Casseroles). Pyramid Books T-2101 (The Apple Cookbook)
• Publication Year: The Blender Cookbook: copyright 1961. The ABC of Casseroles: copyright 1954. The Apple Cookbook: copyright 1967 by William I. Kaufman, Doubleday edition 1967, Pyramid edition published October 1969
• Edition and Printing: The Blender Cookbook: jacket price $4.95, code T.B.C., jacket designed and photographed by Eileen Gaden, LCCN 61-11228. The ABC of Casseroles: jacket price $1.00. The Apple Cookbook: Pyramid paperback, cover price 75 cents, LCCN 67-13142, printed in USA
• Format and Binding: The Blender Cookbook: hardcover, gray cloth boards with red script title, dust jacket. The ABC of Casseroles: small hardcover, orange and brown cookware pattern boards matching the jacket, dust jacket. The Apple Cookbook: paperback
• Dust Jacket: Present on The Blender Cookbook and The ABC of Casseroles. None on The Apple Cookbook paperback
• Pages: The Blender Cookbook 288 pages. The ABC of Casseroles 61 pages. The Apple Cookbook 166 pages
• Genre / Subject: Nonfiction, cookbooks: blender cooking, casseroles, apple recipes
• Language: English
• ISBN: Not confirmed from photos
• Dimensions: The Blender Cookbook 8 3/4 by 6 by 1 in. The ABC of Casseroles 7 3/4 by 4 3/4 by 1/2 in. The Apple Cookbook 7 by 4 by 1 in

Condition Grade: Very Good

Positives

• Graded Very Good: All three books are complete and readable, with jacket and cover wear that stays outside the recipes.
• The Blender Cookbook front and back covers look good under the lifted dust jacket, and the gray cloth boards with red script title stay clear.
• The Blender Cookbook jacket flap notes more than five hundred recipes, suggested menus, international menus, and black and white photographs including nine how-to sequences.
• Recipes and pages shown include chocolate buttercream frosting made in a blender, Cream of Mushroom Soup, Curried Fresh-Pea Soup, Potage Paysanne, and Potage Sante on pages 40 to 41, plus how to make mayonnaise in the blender on the back jacket.
• The ABC of Casseroles keeps its matching patterned boards and jacket, with mid century Ruth McCrea decorations throughout the small hardcover.
• Recipes named inside The ABC of Casseroles include shrimp and mushroom curry and Belgian meatballs with sour cream gravy, and the To the Reader intro page is shown.
• The Apple Cookbook front and back covers are in really good condition, with black and white photos of the recipes.
• Recipes named inside The Apple Cookbook include apple cinnamon applesauce cake with old fashioned caramel frosting, apple bubble loaf, and frozen apple cream salad, plus Lentil Soup, Apple Soup, Chilled Cream of Pea Soup, and Chilled Sherried Pea Soup.

Issues / Wear

• The Blender Cookbook jacket spine and edges show light rubbing, soiling, and toning, and the jacket front edge has light wear.
• The ABC of Casseroles jacket is a little worn, with edge wear and small chipping at the top edge.
• Offset or ghost image and toning appear on the endpapers and free endpaper of The ABC of Casseroles.
• The Apple Cookbook page edges are toned with a greenish tint, and the pages are toned.

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