Franklin Mills Flour Cookbooklet, 1950s

50 Tested Recipes Using Franklin Mills Flour

This charming little cookbooklet from the Franklin Mills Co. in Batavia, New York was published in the 1950s as a promotional tool to encourage sales of Franklin Mills Flour.  50 Tested Recipes Using Franklin Mills Flour focuses on baked goods recipes including a number of proprietary recipes like Franklin Date Buns, Franklin Cheese Sticks, Franklin Chocolate Cake, and Franklin Gingerbread, amongst others.

Measuring approximately 6" x 3 1/4" with 40 pages, this gem of a cookbook is wittily subtitled "The Story of Franklin Mills Flour, All the Wheat That's Fit to Eat".