2019.030.006

This is a specialty cookbook from 1942 designed to teach consumers how to can, pickle and preserve certain food items in order to prevent waste and food shortage during wartime. The author of the book stresses the importance of self-canning during wartime, as it takes weight off of the mass production of canned goods and allows some of those factories to focus on creating the required tools of war for U.S. soldier overseas. The author goes into striking detail about the process of canning, preserving and pickling at home, while always underlying its importance to the preservation of democracy during wartime, a statement that is not uncommon in books of this nature from the 1940s.
The book is part of The Eastman Family Collection. Additional informaiton can be found here: http://wdeastman.com/the-homefront-during-wwii/