FREE: Vintage Duncan Hines Dessert Book 1955 SC

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this book is in good condition for its age
The Duncan Hines Dessert book--more than 500 delightful recipes chosen by America's best-known authority on good eating. This old paperback is in good condition for being almost 60 years old! Originally it sold for 35¢. It has 362 pages.

We know Duncan Hines for the cake mixes and other baking mixes we find on the grocery shelves; but before that, Duncan Hines was a published food critic. In the 1930s Hines began assembling a list for friends of several hundred good restaurants around the country. The list became so popular that he began selling a paperback book, Adventures in Good Eating (1935), which highlighted restaurants and their featured dishes that Hines had personally enjoyed in locations across America. The book proved so successful that Hines added another book which recommended lodging around the country.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Hines wrote a newspaper food column, Adventures in Good Eating at Home, which appeared in newspapers across the US three times a week (on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday). The column featured restaurant recipes, adapted for home cooks, that he had collected during his nationwide travels. This book is the best of the dessert recipes he had collected