Oh, I love the old cookbooks, I collect cookbooks! Some of my favorite books are from the 30s. I even have a cookbook by some company that was promoting a product called "cottolene", I think its called, maybe from the late 1800s. A cotton oil. They said it cooked hotter, cleaner, less smoke, more digestable blah blah blah - very interesting ads. However, it must not have been that great cus I dont see it sold now, and I never heard my mom or GM talk about it.
(the book is online at manybook.net. This site has free downloads of public domain books, there are lots of old cookbooks here with very interesting recipes)sharet