Detroit Times Recipes Vivette Cook Book Metal Binder Box

This is a Detroit Times Recipes red painted metal binder box holding The Detroit Times Cook Book of Vivette Recipes, published by The Detroit Times, 1370 Cass Avenue, with tabbed sections.

The front and back covers look pretty good with some wear, and the piano style hinge opens well. Some pages are yellowed, not all pages are present, and some pages are loose. Sold as is, as found.

Vivette is printed as formerly housekeeper for the Edsel Fords, with a call to follow her recipes every day in the Detroit Times. Inside are newspaper recipe clippings, pencil written recipes including icebox rolls and standard rolls, recipes tucked in the back, a dill pickle recipe with peppers taped inside the back cover, a Dodging Calories by Ida Jean Kain insert listing Cherry 8800, and a flour and butter substitution chart on the Breads page.

Details

• Item: Red painted metal recipe binder box with ring bound cook book pages
• Title: Detroit Times Recipes (embossed cover). The Detroit Times Cook Book of Vivette Recipes (title page)
• Author: Vivette. The Detroit Times
• Illustrator: Not confirmed from photos. Vivette portrait page is present
• Publisher: The Detroit Times, 1370 Cass Avenue
• Publication Year: No printed date. Likely 1930s or 1940s, estimated from the business phone exchanges in the ads
• Edition and Printing: Embossed DETROIT TIMES RECIPES cover. Tabbed sections including Bread Cookies Doughnuts, Meat Poultry Soups, Desserts Candy Preservation, Mixed Dishes Foreign Cookery, Salads Cocktails Hors d'oeuvre, Eggs Cheese Fish, and Cake Pie Index
• Format and Binding: Red painted metal binder box, piano style hinge, three ring binder mechanism, soft pages with index tabs
• Dust Jacket: None. Metal binder box
• Pages: Not confirmed from photos. Not all pages are present
• Genre / Subject: Nonfiction, Detroit newspaper cookbooks: Vivette recipes in a metal binder box
• Language: English
• ISBN: None
• Dimensions: Outside box 9 by 6 by 2 in

Condition Grade: Good

Positives

• Graded Good: The covers look pretty good with some wear, and the binder opens well.
• The embossed DETROIT TIMES RECIPES lettering stays clear on the red painted metal cover.
• The Vivette page names her as formerly housekeeper for the Edsel Fords and says to follow her recipes every day in the Detroit Times.
• Tabbed sections and printed recipes remain readable on the pages shown, including Sweetbread Cutlets, Lamb Stew, Shepherd's Pie, Pressed Eggs, and Vivette on Baking a Cake.
• The Breads page shows a flour and butter substitution chart, and a Dodging Calories by Ida Jean Kain insert lists Cherry 8800.
• Newspaper recipe clippings are saved inside, including a Pinwheel Meat Loaf clipping.
• Pencil written recipes appear inside, including icebox rolls and standard rolls on a tabbed page, plus recipes tucked in the back.
• A dill pickle recipe with peppers is taped inside the back cover.

Issues / Wear

• Not all pages are present. Some pages are loose. Sold as is, as found.
• Some pages are yellowed, and newspaper clippings show heavy yellowing.
• The red painted metal shows scuffs, small nicks, paint loss at edges and corners, and wear on the hinge.
• The back cover shows scratches and paint chips to bare metal.
• Old tape and a strip of red tape appear on the inside back cover around the dill pickle note.
• A previous owner's name is written on the front of the title page.

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Icebox rolls penciled on an inside tabbed page and a dill pickle recipe taped inside the back cover show a Detroit cook who kept Vivette's recipes close. If it's the right copy for you, it's ready to come home.