Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Metropolitan Cook Book

1957 pamphlet published by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company; front cover—
Full of happy '50s food!

Period cookbook cliché it may be, but the food here is just... so darned happy!

Foodstuffs are happy on the title page:

Kitchen equipment shares the joy:


Lively food children are full of pep and wholesome hijinks:


Yes, it certainly is the 50s: Cake Mom has done her bit for the Baby [Cake] Boom!

... She does seem a bit overwhelmed: home all day with the cupcakes, while Cake Dad is away at the office...
There are merry mischief-makers:



After all, who would have expected the apple
to pie...

...a pie!

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