Introduction

Good Bread: This Book Tells How To Make Good Bread was published in 1914 and contains twenty-eight pages. There are over fifty recipes for a variety of bread products including muffins, cakes, waffles, biscuits, various breads, and more. The book was also intended to be an advertisement for a supplement called “Vinol” which was used to treat anemia around the turn of the twentieth century. About half of the pages in the cookbook are dedicated to testimonials and advertisements promoting the product and smaller Vinol advertisements are interspersed between recipes on several of the pages. The book is quite accessible with easy-to-read pages and minus one page that is written in French, all are written in English. The recipes use either the standardized English measurement system (cups, tablespoons, etc.) or the Imperial system and are easy to follow. There are no images in the cookbook that show what the completed recipes should look like, nor are there any visuals of the process of preparing the recipes. Baking the bread products in an oven with various kinds and sizes of pans is the predominant method of preparation. There are a few recipes that require cooking on a griddle. As the book has dual purposes -- to sell a supplement and provide healthful bread recipes -- it seems to have been marketed towards women who were responsible for ensuring their families were healthy and well fed. 

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