Culinary Arts Institute Encyclopedic Cookbook 1965 Ruth Berolzheimer Deluxe Edition with Handwritten Recipes

The Culinary Arts Institute Encyclopedic Cookbook is a 1965 New Revised Deluxe Edition hardcover edited by Ruth Berolzheimer, published by the Culinary Arts Institute in Chicago and distributed by Grosset & Dunlap.

This copy has a taped spine, worn yellow covers, and scattered page staining, but the recipes remain readable, and several handwritten recipes and three 1983 Christmas seal greeting stamps are tucked inside.

Built as an everyday kitchen reference, this large cookbook covers everything from planning family meals and baking cakes to preserving food, preparing seafood, and setting a table. Its thumb-tabbed sections make it easy to move between recipes, menus, cooking methods, and household food information.

Details

• Item: Vintage hardcover cookbook with thumb-tabbed index and handwritten recipe papers
• Title: Culinary Arts Institute Encyclopedic Cookbook
• Author: Ruth Berolzheimer, editor, with associate editors
• Illustrator: Not confirmed
• Publisher: Culinary Arts Institute, Chicago. Distributed by Grosset & Dunlap, New York.
• Publication Year: 1965
• Edition and Printing: New Revised Deluxe Edition. Printing number: Not confirmed from photos.
• Format and Binding: Hardcover with yellow illustrated boards, orange utensil graphics, and thumb-tabbed reference sections
• Dust Jacket: None
• Pages: 974 pages plus index
• Genre: Cookbooks, American cooking, household reference
• Language: English
• ISBN: None
• Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 3 inches

Inside the Cookbook

• Food facts, cooking information, and menu planning
• Soups, chowders, breads, biscuits, rolls, and sandwiches
• Snacks, appetizers, leftovers, and egg dishes
• Fish, seafood, meat, poultry, vegetables, and potatoes
• Salads, pies, pastries, cakes, cookies, and candies
• Refrigerator desserts and other sweets
• Canning, freezing, and preserving
• Sauces, gravies, dressings, and dairy dishes
• Children's meals, lunch boxes, and meals for two
• Quick dinners and pressure cookery
• Table setting, entertaining, and carving

Among the pictured recipes are Treasure Chest Cake, Spiced Prune Loaf Cake, Baked Meringue Spice Cake, Maine Baked Haddie, Fish Chowder, and Fried Frogs' Legs.

Condition Grade: Fair

Positives

• Graded Fair: A heavily used kitchen reference with a taped spine, worn covers, and staining. The printed recipes remain readable, making this a working copy rather than a clean display copy.
• The thumb-tabbed reference sections remain present and are useful for finding recipes by category.
• The orange and black illustrated title spread is bright and readable.
• Interior pages include black and white food photography, detailed recipes, and cooking instructions.
• Several handwritten recipes and loose recipe papers were left inside by the previous owner.
• Three unused 1983 Christmas seal greeting stamps featuring Santa Claus are tucked inside the cookbook.
• The printed contents page identifies the cookbook's many cooking and household reference sections.

Issues / Wear

• The spine has been taped to hold the binding together.
• The yellow front and back boards show rubbing, spotting, discoloration, and worn edges and corners.
• The spine covering shows creasing, wear, and visible tape.
• There is minor spotting and staining throughout the pages.
• Page edges have darkened and yellowed from use.
• The thumb-tabbed page edges show handling wear and discoloration.
• Loose handwritten recipe papers have been kept between the pages, including a handwritten yeast recipe.

This 1965 cookbook still holds the handwritten recipes its previous owner saved, along with three Christmas seals from 1983. For someone who enjoys cooking from older recipes and keeping the little pieces of kitchen history that came with them, those papers are part of what makes this particular copy worth choosing. If it's the right copy for you, it's ready to come home.