1920s Cookery Books
After the First World War and the influenza epidemic of 1918, the 1920s were a time of desperate decadence. Wartime rationing was lifted or lessened, though food shortages would linger in some places until the middle of the decade. Germany suffered economically due to paying war reparations, and middle-class women across the Western world entered the job market in unprecedented numbers, impacting their expected role as homemakers. For the United States, 1920 marked the first year of Prohibition, driving the liquor market underground and leading to mob control of alcohol sales. In October of 1929, the USA's stock market crashed, putting an end to the Roaring Twenties. Baked goods and sandwiches Cakes, meat pies, fruit tarts, breads, sandwiches. Bradley, Alice. Good Things to Eat: Made with Cow Brand Baking Soda . Montreal, QC: Church & Dwight, 1924. Hill, Janet McKenzie. Cakes, Pastry and Dessert Dis...