Vintage Cookbook Bundle: Shortcut Cooking + Home Freezing Meredith Corporation & Montgomery Ward | 1949 / 1968
$14.99
A practical little vintage cookbook bundle with strong mid-century kitchen energy.
This set pairs quick family meal ideas from Shortcut Cooking with old-school freezer guidance from Montgomery Ward’s Home Freezing.
Not fancy, not fussy. Just the kind of kitchen booklets that helped people get supper on the table and food tucked away for later.
Quick Specs
- Genre: Vintage Cookbooks, Mid-Century Cooking, Home Economics, Food Preservation
- Author: Shortcut Cooking: Meredith Corporation; Home Freezing / Freezing Foods at Home: Shirley Rolfs, Home Economist
- Publisher: Meredith Corporation; Montgomery Ward / Foshay Tower, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Year: Shortcut Cooking: 1968; Home Freezing / Freezing Foods at Home: Revised Edition 1949
- Edition: Shortcut Cooking: First Printing; Home Freezing / Freezing Foods at Home: Revised Edition 1949
- Format: Paperback / softcover booklet bundle
- Dust Jacket: No
- Pages: Shortcut Cooking: 47 pages; Home Freezing: 79 pages
- Dimensions: Shortcut Cooking: 10 x 7 in.; Home Freezing: 8 x 6 in.
- Cover: Both have blue-toned paper covers; Shortcut Cooking has a color food photo cover, and Home Freezing has a simple blue Montgomery Ward cover
- Special Features: Color food photography, quick meal recipes, broiler meals, salads, desserts, company meals, home freezer instructions, packaging materials, meat/game freezing guidance, fruit desserts, and ingredient substitution chart
- ISBN: Pre-ISBN era
Condition Grade: Good
Notes: Two vintage paperback cookbooks/booklets with visible age and handling wear. Shortcut Cooking has a bright color cover with rubbing, edge wear, corner wear, and light surface wear. Interior pages are readable with age toning; color food photos remain bright. Home Freezing has rubbing, scuffing, creasing along the spine area, corner and edge wear, and light spotting/age marks visible on the title page area. Interior pages are readable with age toning. Both books appear complete and are sold together as pictured.
See all photos for detail. Sold as pictured.
This 1968 first printing of Shortcut Cooking comes with Montgomery Ward’s 1949 revised Home Freezing guide, and the pair suits a vintage cookbook shelf. If it's the right copy for you, it's ready to come home.
- 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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