3 hours ago, ElsieD said:I sure wish I had the recipe booklet that came free with flour in the 1950s. All my googling has been for naught. It had the recipe for the best oatmeal cookies. They had shredded coconut in them and they were really crispy. Sigh.
Was that the Five Roses Flour cookbook, by any chance? I grew up with that cookbook and it was pretty useful when I was first learning to cook. This one:
Edited to add: I just noticed you mentioned a booklet and the Five Roses one was definitely a full cookbook when we had it. But it was published in Canada from 1913 or something and underwent changes throughout the years. I think we got a free copy or nearly free with some flour or other grocery store purchase in the early 70's or so.
Edited again to say: You can check the index on Amazon (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) to see if any of the cookie recipes sound like the right one. 🙂
Edited yet again to say: There was also the Purity Flour Cookbook in Canada from 1917 or so. The text of it is available here, but it's awkward to read the table of contents. The recipes are there, though.
And then there is Robin Hood Flour. They had a cookbook but also issued booklets almost every year.
https://www.robinhood.ca/En/Recipe-Booklets And you can check their recipe index at the website also.
But maybe you have already searched all these? 🙂
