1947 Household Finance Better Buymanship Meat Vintage Cooking Butcher Guide

1947 Household Finance Better Buymanship Meat Vintage Cooking Butcher Guide

Vintage 1947 Household Finance Corporation Better Buymanship Use and Care Meat booklet, No. 6. This fascinating postwar consumer guide was designed to help homemakers select, purchase, prepare and serve meat.

Inside are illustrated guides to beef, pork and lamb cuts, meat inspection and grading, cooking methods, carving techniques and more. Numerous black and white photographs and diagrams make this an especially interesting piece of vintage culinary and butcher shop ephemera. The series was published by the Household Finance Corporation Department of Research in Chicago.

Condition
Vintage preowned condition with age related wear. Cover and pages show toning, spotting, discoloration, edge and corner wear and other signs of age and handling. Binding remains intact. Please review photos carefully for condition and contents.

Size
Approximately 9 x 6 inches. Approximately 40 pages.

Materials
Paper

Colors
Black, white, cream, tan

Estimated Age
March 1947. The booklet is dated March 1947 internally and bears a 3/47 printing code

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