Vintage Bread Baking Pamphlets 250 Breads Biscuits and Rolls Fleischmann Treasury of Yeast Baking Art of Baking Bread

Three bread baking booklets, each from a different corner of the American baking trade. 250 Breads, Biscuits and Rolls is a Culinary Arts Institute volume edited by Ruth Berolzheimer, published by Consolidated Book Publishers in Chicago with a 1954 title page. The Fleischmann Treasury of Yeast Baking comes from Standard Brands, and The Art of Baking Bread is a Northwestern Yeast Company booklet from Chicago.

The Culinary Arts Institute booklet is part of the Encyclopedia of Cooking series, set out as complete in 24 volumes, and its contents run from batter breads and beautiful breads and rolls through sweet doughs and foreign breads to an index at page 51. The Fleischmann booklet keeps its color cover of a kitchen hutch with a blue and white checked cloth, and the Northwestern booklet carries Maca Yeast and Yeast Foam branding on a tan cover with a blue oval loaf.

Handwritten notes came with the lot: a recipe card for Crusty Casserole Loaf is paper clipped inside the Culinary Arts booklet, and a topping and icing note sits with it. All three pieces are complete, with mild corner curling and no major tears, though the Culinary Arts booklet shows rubbing and some splitting at the top and bottom of its spine.

Details

• Item: Three vintage bread baking booklets
• Title: 250 Breads, Biscuits and Rolls, The Fleischmann Treasury of Yeast Baking, and The Art of Baking Bread
• Author: Ruth Berolzheimer, editor, for the Culinary Arts Institute; Standard Brands Inc.; Northwestern Yeast Co.
• Illustrator: Not confirmed from photos
• Publisher: Consolidated Book Publishers, Chicago; Standard Brands Inc.; Northwestern Yeast Co., Chicago
• Publication Year: 1954 for 250 Breads, Biscuits and Rolls; the other two are not confirmed from photos
• Edition and Printing: Not confirmed from photos
• Format and Binding: Three stapled paper booklets
• Dust Jacket: None
• Genre: Bread baking and yeast cookery
• Language: English
• ISBN: None, published before ISBN use
• Dimensions: Not confirmed from photos

Positives

• Graded Good: All three booklets are complete, with their covers and every page.
• The Culinary Arts booklet covers five bread chapters and its index, with the 1954 title page intact.
• The Fleischmann booklet keeps its color cover of the kitchen hutch and checked cloth.
• Two handwritten notes came with the lot, one a Crusty Casserole Loaf recipe card paper clipped inside.

Issues / Wear

• The Culinary Arts booklet has spine rubbing with splitting at the top and bottom.
• Corners are curled on all three booklets.
• The Northwestern booklet has a vertical fold line and taped in clippings on one page.
• Page edges are toned with age.

If you collect baking pamphlets, this lot brings three bread booklets and a handwritten recipe card with them. If it's the right copy for you, it's ready to come home.

Condition Grade: Good