{"id":7978,"date":"2022-12-06T18:37:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T18:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/?p=7978"},"modified":"2023-06-12T16:51:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T16:51:32","slug":"the-pamphlet-collection-retro-recipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/2022\/12\/06\/the-pamphlet-collection-retro-recipes\/","title":{"rendered":"Pamphlet Collection: Retro Recipes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Library\u2019s Pamphlet Collection, housed in the gallery of the main Reading Room, comprises government reports, research papers, leaflets and circulars, and instructional manuals, to name but a few. A more surprising element of the collection is the twentieth-century pamphlets containing recipes. The shelf marks relating to Nutrition naturally furnish most of them, especially shelf marks BEXM, BEXN, BEXP and BEXY.  <\/p>\n

They include British logistical pamphlets from WWII and the 1950s on how to feed armed forces, run a meals-on-wheels service, or cook under emergency conditions. <\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
Front cover of R.A.F. Manual of Cooking and Dietary: Promulgated for the Information and Guidance of All Concerned<\/a><\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Recipe books<\/h2>\n

There are also recipe and diet pamphlets from public information campaigns by governments and research bodies. These date from the 1930s to the 1980s and show what authorities in different countries wanted people to eat. Several also lay out optimal daily menus: <\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
An Economical Budget for the Family with Menus and Recipes<\/em><\/a>, p. 9.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A<\/a>
Food for Health in Hawaii: Notes on Choosing Food and Planning Meals, with Recipes and Menus<\/em><\/a>, p. 17.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These were published a year apart in the UK and Hawaii. It seems like stew was an offering common to the two, though! <\/p>\n

Some of the covers are really evocative of the period: <\/p>\n

\"Front<\/a>
Food for Health in Hawaii: Notes on Choosing Food and Planning Meals, with Recipes and Menus<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Front<\/a>
South Pacific Cookery Book<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Aesthetic concerns aside, the content of each of these two books shows efforts by universities and colonial administrators to communicate their opinions on nutrition. For more on the South Pacific Health Service\u2019s nutrition projects, see Sarah Hartley\u2019s article on \u201cInterweaving Ideas and Patchwork Programmes: Nutrition Projects in Colonial Fiji, 1945\u201360<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n

Promotional material<\/h2>\n

Finally, we have several pamphlets circulated by various marketing bodies from the US and the UK related to specific foodstuffs. They feature some especially delightful illustrations and photographs: <\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
American Rice: My Home Cook Book<\/em><\/a>, p. 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A<\/a>
American Rice: My Home Cook Book<\/em><\/a>, p. 9.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The rice dishes above come courtesy of American Rice: My Home Cook Book<\/em>. This and \u201cMiss Fluffy Rice\u201d (pictured below) were produced by the US Rice Export Development Association in the 1960s. <\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
Let Miss Fluffy Rice haunt your wedding (and cook for two, four, or many more). From Miss Fluffy Rice:<\/em><\/a> Recipes<\/em><\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A<\/a>
They probably shouldn\u2019t look behind them. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rice is not the only foodstuff in the Pamphlet Collection, either. Both cheese and dry milk also get their time in the spotlight. The celery gratin pictured below was perhaps never going to be a looker, but the Cheese Bureau was undeterred. The Oxford English Dictionary credits the Cheese Bureau with coining the term \u201cploughman\u2019s lunch\u201d in the 1950s. Some schools of thought attribute it instead to a campaign by the Milk Marketing Board and the English Country Cheese Council in the 1960s (see the Encyclopedia Britannica<\/a>). <\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
Unclear why the Cheese Bureau didn\u2019t go for The Cheese Board. From Cheese on the Menu: Costed Recipes for Fixed Budget Caterers<\/em><\/a>, p. 12.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Often collected by the Library not long after they were first published, these pamphlets and the recipes they contain now offer a fascinating \u2013 and sometimes bizarre \u2013 glimpse into how institutions across the world imagined an ideal diet. <\/p>\n

The LSHTM Archives hold wartime leaflets from the Ministry of Food, including Christmas recipes<\/a>. The Library catalogue is searchable for titles and authors of articles from several domestic science publications from the mid-19th<\/sup> to the mid-20th<\/sup> centuries. These include Good Housekeeping<\/em><\/a> and Harper\u2019s Bazaar<\/em><\/a>, hosted by Cornell University Library. The full repository is accessible free here<\/a> for those who prefer to browse. <\/p>\n

Bibliography<\/h2>\n

If you’d like to take a look for yourself at some recipe pamphlets, below is a bibliography including direct links to the Library catalogue:<\/p>\n

Cookbook pamphlets:<\/strong> <\/p>\n

  Rational Diet with Local Recipes<\/em><\/a>. Bathurst: Gambia Nutrition Committee, 1939. BEXN.146 1939<\/strong> <\/p>\n

  Wijnhoven, A.T.E., and K. Ezekoye. <\/em>Recipes Used for Nutrition Education in the Home Gardens Project Ilesha, Nigeria<\/em><\/a>. 2nd ed. Amsterdam, 1970. BEXN.149 1970<\/strong> <\/p>\n

  Good Food Recipes in Child Nutrition<\/em><\/a>. Entebbe: Mwanamugimu Nutrition Services, 1987. UXR 1987<\/strong> <\/p>\n

  Sister Prisca. <\/em>Preparing Food: 100 Gold Coast Recipes.<\/em><\/a> 2nd ed. Cape Coast: Catholic Mission Press, 1948. BEXN.148 1948<\/strong> <\/p>\n

  Miller, Carey D. (Carey Dunlap), and Helen Yonge. Lind. Food for Health in Hawaii: Notes on Choosing Food and Planning Meals, with Recipes and Menus<\/em><\/a>.<\/em> Honolulu: University of Hawaii, 1942. <\/p>\n

  Hoar, June W. South Pacific Cookery Book<\/em><\/a>.<\/em> Suva, Fiji: South Pacific Health Service, Nutrition Section, 1961. <\/p>\n

  Cathcart, Ed. P. An Economical Budget for the Family with Menus and Recipes …<\/em><\/a> London: University of London Press, n.d. BEXP.46 ?<\/strong> <\/p>\n

  Ridgway, U.A., and E.A. Webb. From the Farm and Garden to the Kitchen and Store Cupboard<\/em><\/a>. Leicester: Leicestershire and Rutland Federation of Women\u2019s Institutes, 1938. BEXN 1939 <\/strong> <\/p>\n

Wartime and emergency:<\/strong> <\/p>\n

  R.A.F. Manual of Cooking and Dietary: Promulgated for the Information and Guidance of All Concerned<\/a><\/em>. S.l: s.n., n.d. BEXN (p.) 1942<\/strong> <\/p>\n

  A Companion to Emergency Cooking<\/a><\/em>. London: W.V.S., 1957. BEXN 1957<\/strong> <\/p>\n

  Handbook on Meals-on-Wheels<\/a><\/em>. London: H.M.S.O., 1958. BEXN 1958<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Promotional material:<\/strong> <\/p>\n

  American Rice: My Home Cook Book.<\/em><\/a> S.l: My Home, 1960. BEXN 1960 <\/strong> <\/p>\n

  Cheese on the Menu: Costed Recipes for Fixed Budget Caterers<\/em><\/a>. London: The Cheese Bureau, 1960. BEXN 1960s? <\/strong>   <\/p>\n

  Reynolds, Mary. Miss Fluffy Rice: Recipes<\/em><\/a>. London: U.S. Rice Export Development Association, 1963. BEXN 1963 <\/strong> <\/p>\n

  How to Use Whole and Nonfat Dry Milk<\/em><\/a>. Washington, D.C: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1949. BEXN 1949<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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