Set of 2 Antique Mary Dunbar Cookbooks | 1930s Jewel Tea Co. Cookbooklets | Mary Dunbar's New Cook Book | Mary Dunbar's Favorite Recipes

The set includes two antique 1930s promotional cookbooks published by the Jewel Tea Company. Written by Mary Dunbar, Director of the Jewel Homemaker's Institute, each features 64 pages of recipes and tips for the home cook, promoting Jewel products including everything from tea to various spices.

This set includes: Mary Dunbar's New Cook Book and Mary Dunbar's Favorite Recipes.

ABOUT THE JEWEL TEA COMPANY (Courtesy of Wikipedia)
In 1899, Frank Vernon Skiff founded Jewel in Chicago as a door-to-door coffee delivery service. In 1902, Skiff partnered with his brother-in-law Frank P. Ross, renaming the venture the Jewel Tea Company. By 1903, they had six routes, then 12 routes in 1904 with expansion into Michigan City, Kankakee, and Kewanee. There were 850 routes by 1915. In the late 1900s, it ran a "coffee train" that composed of 40 cars carrying coffee beans that were exported from South America. In 1929, the company built a new office, warehouse, and coffee roasting facility in suburban Barrington, Illinois, creating hundreds of local jobs despite the Great Depression. The Barrington location served as the headquarters and main warehouse facility for both the home delivery and food store divisions until the completion of the new warehouse and office complex at Melrose Park in 1953.

BIXLEY NOTES
• Set of 2 Mary Dunbar Promotional Cookbooklets
• Written by Mary Dunbar
• Published by the Jewel Tea Company, 1930s
• 64 page, soft cover cookbooklets with staple binding
• Each measures 8 1/4" x 5 1/4"

VINTAGE NOTES
• In very good condition
• Covers show wear as expected with age
• Pages have yellowed a bit with a few cooking stains here and there

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