Chicago Stock Yards
1923 Chicago Stock Yards Memo Book Antique Commercial Bakery Recipe Manuscript
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Up for sale is an incredibly rare, one-of-a-kind piece of American culinary and industrial history—an official 1923 pocket memorandum ledger from Baker, Heyne & Co. Live Stock Commission Merchants (operating out of the historic Union Stock Yards in Chicago, Illinois) that was fully repurposed by a professional baker into a Master Commercial Bakery Recipe Manuscript.Historical & Advertising Value:Date of Manufacture: 1923 (Features a gorgeous, full-page printed 1923 calendar on the inside flap).Stock Yards Detail: Features the official embossed gold-gilt advertising flap for Baker, Heyne & Co. (Rooms 361-362 Exchange Building), alongside printed banking references and the official seal of the Chicago Live-Stock Exchange.The Culinary Manuscript Content:This ledger is packed page-after-page with authentic, large bulk-scale industrial bakery recipes from the 1920s using massive weight measurements (pounds and quarts) and vintage ingredients (like Arkady yeast food and compound shortening).Full Index of Handwritten Recipes Included:Doughs & Breads: Pie Dough, Puff Pastry, Danish Dough, Bun Dough, Roll Dough, D Bread, and Baking Powder Biscuits.Cakes & Specialty Pastries: Cream Puffs, Angel Cake, Devils Food Cake, Sponge Cake, Sunbeam Sponge Cake, White Cake, Macaroons, and Lady Fingers.Pies & Fillings: Pumpkin Pie, Custard Pie, Pecan Pie, Plain Custard, Lemon Custard, Dale Cream Pie, Butterscotch Pie, Chocolate Pie, Fudge Icing, and Meringue.Cookies & Muffins: Oatmeal Rocks, Sugar Cookies, Butter Cookies, and Bran Muffins.Condition Details:Excellent Antique Condition: The protective red faux-leather wallet cover is sturdy, and the gold lettering is bright. The interior pages are fully intact, clean, and bound securely, with the hand-written fountain pen recipes remaining beautifully crisp and entirely legible. Please review photos for more details.A premier cross-collectible artifact suited for museum archives, serious culinary historians, or Chicago Union Stock Yards ephemera collectors!
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