The Little Cook Book Featuring Little Recipes for Little Girls and Children's Cooking Set

Access and use

Location of collection:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
Newman Library
Virginia Tech
P.O. Box 90001
560 Drillfield Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
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Phone: (540) 231-6308
Fax: (540) 231-3694
Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

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Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], The Little Cook Book Featuring Little Recipes for Little Girls and Children's Cooking Set, [ca. 1937], Ms2022-065, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Summary

Extent:
0.3 Cubic Feet 1 box
Creator:
Sears, Roebuck and Company and Heuer, Leone Ann
Abstract:
This collection contains a toy cooking set featured in the 1937 Sears Christmas Wish Book, along with a companion cookbook for young girls, The Little Cook Book Featuring Little Recipes for Little Girls by Leone Ann Heuer, a Sears, Roebuck and Co. cooking expert.
Language:
The materials in the collection are in English.
Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], The Little Cook Book Featuring Little Recipes for Little Girls and Children's Cooking Set, [ca. 1937], Ms2022-065, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains a toy cooking set featured in the 1937 Sears Christmas Wish Book, along with a companion cookbook for young girls. The toys include various pans and cooking utensils, as well as a cookbook titled The Little Cook Book Featuring Little Recipes for Little Girls, written by Leone Ann Heuer, cooking expert for Sears, Roebuck and Co. In the booklet, secrets of success are outlined-"a pinch means as much as you can hold between the tip of your thumb and first finger when pressed tightly together"-followed by ten recipes all proportioned for the small user: bread and rolls, nut bread, baking powder biscuits, orange marmalade biscuits, plain muffins, chocolate feather cake, gold coast cake, sugar cookies, pie crust, and apple pie. Utensils included are 1-cup size revolving flour sifter, graduated measuring cup, wood bread board, 10-inch rolling pin, real egg beater, cookie sheet, 4-cup muffin pan, tube cake, bread and fry pans, pie tin, various round baking pans, a potato masher, and two cookie cutters.

Biographical / historical:

Leone Ann Heuer worked for Sears, Roebuck and Company as a cooking expert.

There is a Leone Ann Heuer (1905-1992) buried in the Ascension Cemetery in Lake Forest, Orange County, California.

"Leone Ann Heuer", Findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/140145911/leone-ann-heuer, accessed September 7, 2023.

Sears, Roebuck and Co. (often shortened to Sears) is an American department store, founded in 1892.

Acquisition information:
This collection was purchased by Special Collections and University Archives in 2015.
Processing information:

The processing, arrangement, and description of the The Little Cook Book Featuring Little Recipes for Little Girls and Children's Cooking Set was completed in October 2022.