[California Cookery]. Gay, Auguste — CHOICE RECIPES Simple & Inexpensive

San Francisco: Printed in the United States by The Abbott Press, (n. d.). 1st printing (presumed), ca pre-WWI. Not in Bitting, Cagle, nor Glozer [though see #112, for Gay's 1924 publication, "New Presentation of Cooking", which is also recorded by Bitting]. Not found on OCLC. Paper covers: red background, black border, lettering in white, stapled. Cover title: CHOICE RECIPES For Schilling Products. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. 47, [1] pp. Front cover with bust image of the author. 8vo. 7-13/16" x 5-1/4" From Glozer we find, "Mr. Gay, before coming to America, was a chef in England, Russia, Turkey, Vienna and, as advisor to the Food Administration (1917), won a prize for the best war-time bread known as *liberty bread.*" "A. Schilling & Company was an American foodstuffs company founded in San Francisco, California, in 1881, by German emigres August Schilling and George F. Volkmann. They engaged in the processing of coffee, tea, baking powder, spices, extracts, and other unrelated products which they supplied to the grocery trade. Schilling had processing plants at various locations in San Francisco. In 1903, the firm erected a new factory and office building at the corner of Second and Folsom Streets. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake destroyed the plant with only remnants of the brick walls left standing. Rebuilding at that location lasted about a year and during this period, goods processed in New York and elsewhere were shipped to San Francisco for distribution. The plant remained there until 1967 when the operation was relocated to 1311 Schilling Place, Salinas, California." [Wiki]. Herein Gay provides a host of recipes which incorporate Schilling products, from Pan Spiced Bread [Schilling Baking Powder & Shilling Cinammon, p. 14] to Chinese Punch [using Schilling Lemon Extract, p. 35]. Average wear, usual age-toning to paper. Very Good.