Introduction

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In the early 1900s, the cookbook Robin Hood Cookbook by Mrs. Rorer became available for purchase. It is a very interesting cookbook because it attempts to be different from the other cookbooks of that period with the use of drawings and story telling. There is no date inside the cookbook but, with some research and the help of the Culinary Landmarks book by Elizabeth Driver, it can be traced to the vicinity of 1915. The cookbook has eighty-six pages in total but only seventy-eight of them are numbered. It was published by the Bulman Bros. Limited, Printers, Winnipeg, Manitoba (under permission of the publishers of Mrs. Rorer: Arnold & Company, Philadelphia, Pa). Mrs. Rorer was picked as the author of the cookbook because she was a well known and established authority on the Culinary Arts. She was an editor for the Ladies’ Home Journal and an author of many other cookbooks. In the foreword, it mentions that the Robin Hood Cookbook would be different than other cookbooks and would not be sold in a bookstore but instead only by mail in coupons. It is not clear how an initial copy of the cookbook was acquired, but to obtain additional copies there are coupons located on the last page of the cookbook, where it specifies that each coupon may be cut out and placed in an envelope with either twenty-five cents or with two coupons taken from other Robin Hood products together with ten cents.

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