1930s Pillsbury Cookbook - Balanced Recipes - Mary Ellis Ames - Aluminium Cover and Ring Binder Style circa 1933 cleaning bucket this vintage card table sized

this vintage card table sized table cloth and matching table runner most likely dates to the late 1960's/early 1970's based on the color palette

who opened up a dish shop in Chicago in 1857

(from the Preface)

all of which made wonderful serving trays for cocktail hour or tea-time

1930s Pillsbury Cookbook - Balanced Recipes - Mary Ellis Ames - Aluminium Cover and Ring Binder Style circa 1933 cleaning bucket this vintage card table sizedThis kitchen is maintained entirely for service to the women of America (from the Introduction) {HISTORY} The 1930's was an exciting time for home cooks. Refrigeration was making its way into houses, iceboxes were being built into food storage units and more women started transitioning away from the staffed houses their parent's knew, and began cooking for their families themselves. There must have been something very fundamentally reassuring when