Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech
The Little Cook Book Featuring Little Recipes for Little Girls and Children's Cooking Set
Sears, Roebuck and Company
Heuer, Leone Ann
Ms.2022.065
0.3 Cubic Feet
1 box
[ca. 1937]
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.
The materials in the collection are in English.
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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.
Source of Acquisition
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.
Biographical Note - Leone Ann Heuer
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.
Administrative History - Sears, Roebuck and Co.
Sears, Roebuck and Co. (often shortened to Sears) is an American department store, founded in 1892.
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.
Related Materials
A digitized copy of the 1937 Sears Christmas Wish Book, featuring this children's cook set and booklet on page 16, is available online from the Internet Archive.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
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The Little Cook Book Featuring Little Recipes for Little Girls and Children's Cooking Set by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/).
Ann Hertzler Children's Cookbooks and Nutrition Literature Collection
History of Food and Drink
Home economics
Ephemera
Toys
"The Little Cook Book Featuring Little Recipes for Little Girls"[ca. 1937]11Wooden Bread Board11Small Baking Sheet12Small Rolling Pin13Wooden Potato Masher14Child's Egg Beater15Child's Revolving Flour Sifter16Rabbit-Shaped Tin Cookie Cutter17Chicken-Shaped Tin Cookie Cutter18Child's Tin Graduated Measuring Cup19Child's Fry Pan110Child's Four-Cup Muffin Pan111Child's Jiffy Jell Jello Mold112Child's Tube Cake Pan113Child's Bread Pan114Child's Pie Tin115Child's Bundt Pan116Child's Pie Pan117Child's Round Tin Baking Pan118Child's Round Tin Baking Pan119Child's Round Tin Baking Pan120Child's Round Tin Baking Pan121Child's Round Tin Baking Pan122Child's Round Tin Baking Pan123