amylsacks' photos with the keyword: biscuit

I've already done the joke about WWII baking booklets always needing to have an aerial view of the finished food in military formation-- to show those Axis powers what for. Or have I? Covid Brain is real, I'm afraid. :o (Originally posted to flickr on January 29th, 2011)

Without any silverware to give it scale, that pink plaster heart looks menacingly huge.

Okay, I admit it. The main reason I posted this is because they used the word "Tunaroom." This is my new favorite word of all time. (Shown slightly larger than original size. Originally posted to flickr on February 14th, 2011.)

They say you never see the giant falling bread product with your name on it... Front and back of a promotional leaflet published by Ballard & Ballard Co., Inc. Jersey City, NJ & Louisville, KY (Shown slightly larger than original size. Originally posted to flickr on February 14th, 2011.)

"Swans Down Cake Flour will not only help you to achieve perfection in cake making, but it will make all your fine baking better than it could ever be, if you used ordinary flour. Swans Down will give extra crispness to your cookies-- extra lightness and tenderness to your biscuits, muffins, shortcakes, griddle cakes, and waffles-- wonderful lightness and flaky tenderness to your pastries! Follow these recipes and prove it!..."

I have no idea what that thing in the middle is supposed to be. Mrs. Crisp, help me! From Good Housekeeping's Picture Cookery .

"Three meals a day! We must eat to live, But what a thrill New dishes give." It's hard to beat the panache of the B.Y.O. Waffle Iron soiree', but the Uneeda Bakers do their best. From "Champion Peanut Butter Chops" (American cheese, cracker crumbs, and of course peanut butter sculpted to look like meat) to "Pears Olga" (canned pears with some cream, sugar, and shortbread crumbs dumped on top) there's nothing like that Thirties glamour! Front cover, plus center pages from a promo published by The National Biscuit Company, aka Nabisco, New York, N.Y.

Ha ha ha! Troubled marriages are funny!! (Yikes!)

One side of an advertising fold-out published by the Fant Milling Company of Sherman, Texas. The cartoons may be by an artist named Chas Cartwright, who drew newspaper ads for the company in the 1940s (Thanks to notyourmind at YouTube).

"...Using Instant PET as a dry ingredient, you can easily give your family extra bone-and-muscle-building nourishment-- much more than if regular bottled milk were used..." Front and back covers (above), plus two pages (below) from a 32-page booklet published by Pet Milk Co., St. Louis, Missouri. I assume that the real reason people cooked with the powdered stuff was because it was cheaper than fresh. This idea is reinforced by the bottom left page, which implies that its target audience only has the cash for one kind of baking implement. (Maybe the sequel showed how to morph a cookie sheet into a cake pan by embedding it in tinfoil or something.)

I'd be more enthused about these ideas if not for the gory uber-biscuit up top. Yikes! Was the Re-Animator doing commercial photography back then, or what? From the February issue of Family Circle magazine.

Oh boy! Who wouldn't choose a tinny, saccharin-infused peach half over fruit juice, mint candy, and butter with a biscuit under it? Clipped from the April issue of Everywoman's magazine.

During fresh strawberry season, all snark will be temporarily suspended. From the April issue of Everywoman's magazine.

Uh, why did you dump gravy on the waffle instead of the biscuit, Ma?

"Today, California produces 99 per cent of all American grown olives. Little did the Franciscan padres realize back in 1767 when they brought the first olive tree cuttings to California that they were laying the cornerstone of a tremendous industry..." Or that they'd be responsible for such delights as "Olive Chick-etti," "Piquant Olive Pie," and the timeless glory that is "Spoon Bread Tamale Bake." Front cover of a 16-page booklet published by California Foods Research Institute, San Francisco, California. (I found the year referenced here .)

It's due in part to the diminutive scale of these booklets, but I only have to squint a little to imagine almost everything on these pages as novelty buttons. The "pompons," in particular, would be fabulous marching up the front of a fluffy pink angora sweater.

The Fleet Team (upper L) bombarded the back pages of this issue with multiple ads. All of them had different graphics and a different baked good "guesting" on the box. I don't think the brand has survived, but give them points for trying, at least. Sno-White (lower L) was made by the Crown Colony folks. Finally, on the right, we have fashions for the Clone Sisters. Even Miss "fuller figure" looks to have about a 7" waist. From the August issue of Family Circle magazine.

(L) Henny Penny wouldn't be beaming like that if she knew the final fate of her poor, hapless eggs. (R) Mama took my Kodachrome™ away, and that actually makes this meal look more appetizing than it did on the cover.