Electric Refrigerator Recipes Alice Bradley 1928 Eighth Edition GE Cookbook Jell-O Pamphlet

Electric Refrigerator Recipes and Menus by Miss Alice Bradley was written for the General Electric refrigerator, and this copy is the eighth edition of September 1928, printed the year after the copyright.

Bradley was principal of Miss Farmer's School of Cookery, and the book is dedicated to the modern American homemaker, with menus for afternoon tea and bridge parties, frozen desserts, salads, and the new business of cooking with a machine that made ice.

A 1928 Jell-O pamphlet came tucked inside, What Mrs. Dewey did with the NEW JELL-O, with molded salads and a back cover showing six boxes of Jell-O around a red mold.

Details

• Item: Vintage hardcover cookbook with a Jell-O advertising pamphlet
• Title: Electric Refrigerator Recipes and Menus, Specially Prepared for the General Electric Refrigerator
• Author: Miss Alice Bradley
• Illustrator: Not credited in the photos
• Publisher: General Electric Company, Electric Refrigeration Department, Cleveland, Ohio
• Publication Year: Copyright 1927, Eighth Edition September 1928
• Edition and Printing: Eighth Edition, September 1928, both stated on the copyright page
• Format and Binding: Hardcover, patterned boards with a cloth spine
• Dust Jacket: None present
• Genre: Cookbook, appliance era cooking and advertising ephemera
• Language: English
• ISBN: None, published before ISBN use
• Dimensions: 8 x 5.5 inches, pamphlet 6 x 4 inches

Positives

• Graded Good: The patterned boards and the diamond print endpapers are both intact.
• Interior pages, menus, and color illustrations remain legible.
• The Jell-O pamphlet is present, complete, and colorful.
• The dedication page and its homemaker illustration are clean.
• The menus for afternoon tea and bridge parties show the book's original purpose.

Issues / Wear

• The front cover is heavily yellowed and stained along its right edge, with scuffing to the pattern.
• The back cover has significant foxing, age spots, and darkening.
• Corners and edges are bumped and rubbed, with the board showing at the tips.
• The cloth spine is rubbed and worn.
• The Jell-O pamphlet is toned with soft creases from being kept inside the book.

This pair puts the refrigerator and the Jell-O mold on the same shelf. If it's the right copy for you, it's ready to come home.

Condition Grade: Good