Antique 1918 Ryzon Baking Book by Marion Harris Neil Hardcover Book For Sale

This 1918 Ryzon Baking Book is a surviving piece of early American baking history, filled with period recipes, illustrations, product imagery, and the visual character of a cookbook that has been used and preserved for more than a century. Rather than reading like a modern recipe collection, it shows how baking was being taught at a time when standardized measurements and commercial baking powder were becoming part of everyday home cooking.Compiled and edited by Marion Harris Neil for the General Chemical Company’s Food Department, the book combines practical baking instruction with recipes connected to the Ryzon recipe contest. The book states that 8,379 recipes were submitted to the competition, giving it an unusual connection to the home cooks who were actively contributing recipes during the period. It also includes period factory imagery, measurement guidance, Ryzon advertising, and the story of the product itself. Four loose vintage paper clippings were found inside this copy and are included with the book as found.This is especially suited to collectors of antiquarian cookbooks, early food advertising, baking history, home-economics material, and branded recipe books. It also has strong display appeal for a vintage kitchen or culinary collection, while remaining an interesting primary-source object for anyone studying how American baking, recipe culture, and commercial food products were presented in the early twentieth century.This copy came from the Historic Fairmount Cook Book Estate Sale in Fort Worth, Texas, where it was acquired as part of a larger collection of older cooking and baking books. The four loose paper clippings found tucked inside have been kept with the book.