Jean Robbins' Donation to the Virginia Tech Special Collections and University Archives Culinary Collections

Jean Robbins' Nov. 1, 2000 Donation to the Culinary Collection

Title Author Place Publisher Date
Pink Pantry Auxiliary Cookbook St. Mary's Hospital Rochester, Minnesota      
Mastering the Art of French Cooking, vol. 2 Child, Julia, and Simone Beck New York Knopf 1970
Craig Claiborne's Memorable Meals Claiborne, Craig New York Dutton 1985
Bicentennial Cookbook Gloucester County Extension Homemakers Clubs Gloucester, VA Richmond, VA Expert Graphics 1976
Loaves and Fishes and Other Dishes Collected by wives of the ministers of the Southern Confederacy United Church of Christ      
New Nuts Among the Berries Deutsch, Ronald M. (signed) Palo Alton, CA Bull Publishing 1977
Favorite Recipes from Sturbridge Kitchens Evening Women's Fellowship Sturbridge Federated Church Sturbridge, Mass   1976
Good Heart and Light Hand Gaskins, Ruth L. New York Simon and Schuster 1968
Nutritious and Delicious Greater Cincinnati Dietetic Association and Nutrition Council Cincinnati, OH Joerger-Vetter 1983
My Favorite Recipes Kessler, Mattie, Farm Home Service Dept. Richmond, VA Southern States Cooperative 1978
Cooking for Dimes March of Dimes Volunteers and friends Dallas TX P. M. Press 1972
Favorite Recipes of Jefferson's Country Members of Grace Church Walkers Parish Cismont VA Charlottesville, VA Wayside Press 1971
Ryzon Baking Book Neil, Marion Harris New York General Chemical 1916
Native Seafood Cookery Oyster Museum Committee, comp. Chincoteague, VA Oyster Museum  
What's Cooking in Bermuda Ross, Betsy Hamilton, Bermuda Island Press 1968
Favorite Family Recipes from the Mennonite Community Cookbook Schowalter, Mary Emma Scottdale, PA Herald Press 1972
Eskimo Cook Book Students of Shishmaref Day School, Shishmaref, Alaska Anchorage, AS Alaska Crippled Childrens' Association 1954
More Cooking in Minnesota Twin City Home Economists in Homemaking Minneapolis, MN Meyers Printing 1983
Monticello Cook Book, 3rd. Ed. University of Virginia Hospital Circle Richmond, VA Dietz Press 1967
2nd Annual Bake Off Virginia Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs, District 4     1962
Mickey's Gourmet Cookbook Walt Disney Co. New York Hyperion 1994
Famous Recipes from Mrs. Wilkes Boarding House in Historic Savannah, 2nd ed. Wilkes, Mrs.. L. H. (signed) Savannah, GA Atlantic Printing 1976
Isle of Hope Favorite Receipts Women of St. Thomas' Church, comp. Savannah, GA St. Thomas' Episcopal Church Isle of Hope 1969
Bethabara Cook Book Women's Fellowship Bethabara Moravian Church, comp. Pfafftown, NC Sharp's Printing 1976
ABC of Cookies   Mount Vernon, NY Peter Pauper Press 1961

Jean Robbins' Aug. 29, 2000 (partial) Donation to the Culinary Collection

Title Author Place Publisher Date Notes
Food, nutrition and Health McCollum, E. V., J. Ernestine Becker Baltimore McCollum and Becker (Johns Hopkins U) 1925 6th ed "mostly rewritten" Signed by the authors, 1962.
Pot Luck Randolph-Macon Woman's College Alumnae, Roanoke Chapter     [1930]  
Famous Recipes for Baker's Chocolate and Breakfast Cocoa   Dorchester, Mass Walter Baker & Co., Inc. 1928 c "La Belle Chocolatie're"
Baker's Best Chocolate Recipes   Dorchester, Mass Walter Baker & Co., Inc. 1932 c "La Belle Chocolatiere"
Famous Southern Baking Recipes for Better Baking     [Snow King Baking Powder] [192x/3x]  
Rumford Southern Recipes Wilson, Mary A., compiler Providence, R.I. Rumford Co., Dept. of Home Economics n.d.  
Metropolitan Life Cook Book   New York Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.   Metropolitan Cook Book [cover title]
Rumford Common Sense Cook Book Wallace, Lily Haxworth, compiler Providence, R.I. Rumford Co., Dept. of Home Economics n.d.  
Aunt Jenny's Favorite Recipes     [Spry]    
Old Southern Recipes (with Peach Recipes): inlcuding Historical Hones   Nashville, Ind. Bear Wallow Books 1995 c  
Calumet Treasury of Home Baking   [White Plains, N.Y.] ]General Coods Corp.] [1963]  
White Gold in Cookery Rowe, Ina B., Bess M. Rowe Minneapolis Shedd-Brown Manufacturing Co. 1939 c  
Rumford Home Recipes Farmer, Fannie Merrit, Lily Haxworth Wallace, and Mildred Maddocks, compilers [Providence, R. I.] [Rumford Chemical Works] [1913] Rumford Recipe [cover title]
Today's Woman Cook Book     Facett   Fawcett Book: No. 108
Washburn-Crosby's Gold Medal Cook Book   Minneapolis Washburn-Crosby Co. 1917 c Gold Medal Flour Cook Book [cover title]
Boston Cooking-School Cook Book Farmer, Fannie Merrit Toronto McClelland & Stewart 1941 c New Edition Completely Revised, with Illustrations; has been rebound
American Woman's Cook Book Berolzheimer, Ruth Chicago Consolidated Book Pub'rs 1943 Victory Binding of the American Woman's Cook Book Wartime Edition [cover]
Culinary Echoes from Dixie Vaughn, Kate Brew Cincinnati McDonald Press 1914 c inside cover signed by Mrs. James R. Vaughan, Roanoke, Va., Sep.15, 1915
Joy of Cooking Rombauer, Irma S. Indianapolis and New York Bobbs-Merrill 1946 c "The "Queen of Cook Books" to a member of the Royal Family of Cooks! IR"
Diamond Cook Book   Minneapolis Cream of Wheat Co. n.d.  
Practical Cookery and the Etiquette and Service of the Table Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, School of Home Economics, Dept. of Food Economics and Nutrition New York John Wiley & Sons 1947 c 21st ed. Rev.
Family Guide to Better Food and Better Health Deutsch, Ronald M. [Des Moines] Meredith 1971 c inscribed to Jean by author
Roberts' Nutrition Work with Children Martin, Ethel Austin [Chicago] University of Chicago Press 1954 c  
Making Bread at Home   Blacksburg, Va. Ag. Ext. Serv, VPI 1964 Circular 383, rev. April 1964