TV Suppers

"Menus and meals to bring you compliments from the family -- and a long evening's viewing" made all the longer because it was spent in front of Coronation Street on the telly and canned beans on the TV tray. A 1962 booklet from England, courtesy of Heinz and its 57 varieties.

Better Homes and Gardens So-Good Meals

The pictures in this 1963 cookbook may lead you think the title should have been "No-Good Meals."

The General Foods Kitchens Cookbook

Normal, yet creepy -- like a film by...

Better Homes and Gardens Ground Meat Cook Book

Beware! This 1969 cookbook may just turn you into a raving vegetarian.

The Stampede Barbecue Round-Up for Outdoor Living

The Calgary Rotary Club, "producers of the internationally famous Stampede Barbeque" produced this cookbook in1965 or thereabouts. The Rotarians and Rotary Anns (as their womenfolk are called) certainly know a thing or two about hosting a large shindig.

The Pillsbury Convenience Cookbook

There are lots of doughy treats in this Pillsbury cookbook from the 1960's. Everything from beef tenderloin to chicken salad gets wrapped in a blanket of refrigerated convenience product (which is how the company refers to its "Poppin' Fresh" doughs).

Farm Journal's Country Cookbook

Meat and potatoes, jellied salads, homemade breads, relishes, cakes made with lard -- even though this 1972 cookbook was revised and modernized from a 1959 original, it's still full of homespun charm.