The Calumet Baking Book (Calumet, no date, looks 20s or 30s).

Calumet is a brand of baking powder and this booklet contains all the recipes you’d expect would have baking powder in them: biscuits, muffins, quick breads, cakes, cookies, and other baked goods, plus a few pie and pudding recipes and a couple of main dish recipes for such things as beef stew with dumplings. No real surprises here, except perhaps the suggestion that you put baking powder in pie crust and the Double-Acting Baking Powder Effectiveness Test. Nice illustrations, though.

Graphic Design: Plain, straightforward, uninteresting.

Illustrations: Nice cover with an illustration of baked goods on the front and a really huge can of baking powder on the back. Lots of attractive full-color illustrations of baked goods on the inside.

What's the deal with the monkey figurine?

You want a few more griddle cakes with that butter, maybe?

Calumet: Look for the king-sized can!

Great Recipe Names: Maple Curlicue Biscuits, Calumet Pocketbook Rolls, Dixie Waffles, Patty’s Birthday Cake, Lightning Layer Cake, Stone Jar Molasses Cookies [the “stone jar” refers to this final instruction: “Store in stone jar.”], Magic Pudding with Preserves.

The Great Double-Acting Baking Powder Effectiveness Test:

“Put two level teaspoons of Calumet Baking Powder into a glass, add two teaspoons of water, stir rapidly five times, and remove the spoon. You will see the tiny, fine bubbles rise slowly, half filling the glass. This is Calumet’s first action––the action that takes place in your mixing bowl when you add liquid to the dry ingredients. After the mixture has entirely stopped rising, stand the glass in a pan of hot water on the stove. In a moment, a second rising will start and continue until the mixture reaches the top of the glass. This is Calument’s second action––the action that takes place in the heat of your oven.”

Sample Recipe:

Potato Puffs

1/2 cup sifted flour
1 1/2 teaspoons Calumet Baking Powder
1/4 teaspoons salt
Dash of white pepper
1 cup mashed potatoes
2 eggs, well beaten

Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder, salt, and pepper, and sift again. Combine potatoes and eggs, and add flour. Drop by teaspoons into deep fat (385° F.) and fry until golden brown. Makes 18 puffs.