Ladies' Home Journal Dessert Cookbook - 1964

"For over eight decades women have chosen their favorite desserts from the Ladies' Home Journal. The American mother, the American housewife, the American hostess, and the American cook have wanted to keep these mouth-watering recipes. Here are over 1,000 of them, dedicated to the proposition that not only should one never underestimate the power of a woman but also never underestimate the pleasure of a sweet. Our mood when we leave the table depends to a large extent upon what we had for dessert. Desserts spell love and devotion. Meat and potatoes are taken for granted; desserts are for fun! The dessert is the last course, a proper end, not something to be added haphazardly, but a very real part of any well-planned meal..." Ladies' Home Journal was an influential woman's magazine that played a significant role in shaping American domestic culture. The recipes in this collection reflect, in their own way, the aspirational social conventions and expectations for a homemaker wife in America of that era. - Ladies' Home Journal Dessert Cookbook - Edited by Carol Truax Published 1964, Doubleday & Company, Inc. Garden City, New York Hardcover. Approx. 7.5x10.5in. 280pp. Gilt on spine is rather faded (see photo). Some wear to spine ends, board corners. Otherwise in good vintage condition.