The Little Book of Excellent Recipes and Cooking Tips, 1932

By "The Mystery Chef," sponsored by the R.B. Davis baking powder company in Hoboken, New Jersey. The cover is from abebooks' seller The Book Store by Jim Thorpe in Pennsylvania; my copy is missing a cover. A few years later the book cover had color....






It's quite a generous book -- and there's a generous archive offering pictures of some other items from the same company, accessible through https://hoboken.pastperfectonline.com/bysearchterm?keyword=R.B.+Davis+Company :

My book sometimes calls for Cocomalt, which seems to be a chocolate milk mix rather like Ovaltine, if I understand correctly. Here's an old brochure from the same company: