More than a church community fundraiser recipe book cookbook, it is a complete household digest compiled by the Centenary Methodist Church, 8th & Willow Sts, Lebanon, PA Pennsylvania. Appropriately titled Variety Fair - A Household Digest, cookbook is printed by Community Services Inc #3668-12, is dated 1948 and measures approx 5-3/4”x 8-3/4” with 64 household & cookery hints/tips pages + 16 recipe pages (38 named contributors) + 11 pages of 42 local advertising. Some drawn illustrations, no Table of Contents or Index. Cookbook is unique and full of personality … the typed-format recipes are timeless and the hints/tips are helpful, even today, … 70 years later!
Household & Cookery:
Child Training: The Daily Schedule, Learning To Eat, Preventing Fears, Destructiveness, Choice of Companions, The Child & the School, The Child & the Church, Movies, Desirable Games & Play Equipment, Safety Hints for the Child, Always A Favorite at Children’s Parties (Fruit Punch, Birthday Party Punch, Cider Cocktail - A Halloween Delight recipes).
Happy Homemaker’s Secrets, Some Good Points, Removal of Common Stains, Various Remedies are each one-sentence tips … these truly are worthwhile and interesting.
Etiquette: Introductions, Restaurant Etiquette, Good Manners at the Theatre, Telephone Etiquette, Good Manners at a Dance, Invitations, Correspondence, When You are in a Group, Preparing the Table, Setting the Table (lists important factors to remember when setting the table for a dinner party; includes diagram)
Treasured Culinary Hints: Use of Recipes, Methods of Cooking Food, Methods of Mixing Food, Measurements, Useful Facts About Starch, Points to be Observed in Cooking Starch-Rich Foods, Thickening Power of Flour or Corn Starch, Useful Facts About Sugar, Use of Sugar in Flavoring Foods, Ways in Which Sugar Affects Texture of Foods, Approx Amounts of Sugar for Various Common Dishes, Canning & Preserving, Methods of Canning, Description of the Open Kettle method, Description of the Cold-Pack Method, Cooking or Processing in the Cold-Pack Method, Acid as an Aid in Canning by the Cold-Pack Way, General Directions for Canning Vegetables by the Cold-Pack Method, General Directions for Canning Fruit by the Cold-Pack Method, General Directions for Canning Meat by the Cold-Pack Method, Caution in Using Home-Canned Foods, Time-Table for Canning with the Pressure Cooker, Fruits That May Be Canned in Pressure Cooker, Time-Table for Canning in the Hot-Water Bath.
Miscellaneous Section: A Husband’s Recipe, How to Preserve a Husband, Birthday Stones & Flowers, Wedding Anniversaries, Making Food Attractive, Food Tables- Weight Tables, Low Calorie Reducing Diet, For Serving Large Groups - Recipes for Serving 50 People (coffee, baked beans, chicken salad, macaroni & cheese) - for Serving 100 People (lists poundage & food category), Measurements, Equivalents, Safety Tips in the Home, Be a Good Conversationalist, The Art of Freezing Foods, Meat Cuts & How to Cook Them (Beef Chart, Veal Chart, Pork Chart, Lamb Chart).
Local Ads:
Ail’s Amoco Service 11th & Cumberland St - Phone 1918 - Tires Batteries Repairing
Andrews Cut Rate - 8th & Cumberland St Opp. Court House, Phone 612 - Patents Toilet Articles Luncheonette
Ann’s Shops - Ann Pennypacker, Prop - Ann’s Variety Lo-Jay, Lebanon - Style Shop, Palmyra (Compliments Of)
Arnold Funeral Home, C LeRoy Arnold - 712 Chestnut St, Phone 77
Arnold’s Boot Shop - 34 N 8th St, Phone 1715 - Exclusive But Not Expensive Shoes For The Family
Automotive Trade Association of Lebanon - (Compliments Of)
Bernstein’s Flowers (Booster)
Bon Ton - Lebanon’s Greatest Store
Central Cut Rate - Store of Friendly Service (Compliments of)
Dari-Del - Lebanon’s Complete Cafeteria Luncheonette and Delicatessen - Amelia Roberts - 781 Cumberland St - Hand Dipped & Hand Rolled Chocolates, Borden’s Ice Cream
Grimes & Hauer - Cut Up Poultry Supreme Quality, Phone Jonestown 152R2 - You are invited to visit our processing plant at Fredricksburg PA Home Office
Haak Bros Department Store - Lebanon’s First Escalator (includes drawing of an escalator)
Harpel’s - The Gift Store of Lebanon - 757-759 Cumberland St - Birthdays Weddings Anniversaries China Glassware Pottery Aluminum
Hersheys Milk Distributors - Use Hersheys Homogenized Milk
Huberman’s Jewelry Store - (Booster)
Hummer’s Hot Donuts - 141 N 9th St, Phone 5474
Insurance Agents Ass’n of the City of Lebanon - Guy Geller, E E Meyer, Eugene Hoaster, J Henry Miller Co, Samuel G Kurtz, Samuel F Light, John H Sprecher, Stine & Erdman, Daniel E Walter
Kohr’s Frozen Custard - 26 South 9th St - Phone 1661 - The Biggest Quart in Town
Lawson’s Sea Food Market - Rear Court House, Phone 1032 - Wholesale and Retail Crabs Oysters Fish Clams & Other sea foods in Season
Lebanon News Agency - Samuel S Etter (Compliments Of)
Logans of Lebanon - For Smart Women’s Apparel
Kenneth V Long Groceries - Prescott PA
Mesics Food Market - Super Self-Service
John D Miller Life Insurance & Annuities - 43 N 8th St, Phone 3140
M Luther Miller Registered Architect - (Compliments Of)
Preferred Finance Service Inc - 746 Cumberland St, Phone 4701 - Compliments of OK Coffey - Loans $30.00 to $300.00
Mabyl Ramsay Shop , Women’s Accessories - 26 N 8th St, Phone 1700
Rittle Lumber Co Inc - 16th & Cumberland - Phone 1560
Rosemary Shoppe - 27 South 7th St, Phone 2448 - Hairdressing - Scalp Treatments - Hair Styling - Permanent Waving
Sander’s Confectionery - 1120 Lehman St - Phone 9166 - Magazines & Newspapers Groceries Ice Cream Soft Drinks
Schreiber Bros Plumbing & Heating - Corner 10th & Lehman Sts - Williams Oil-O-Matic Oil Burners - Stokol: The World’s Greatest Stoker
Self-Service North & South Sides 5¢ and North & South Stores 10¢ - North Side, 442 Lehman Store - South Side, 5th & Walnut St - Open Wed - Fri & Sat. Nights - Come In and Help Yourself (To What???)
Seyfert Orchards - Fruit in Season - Kimmerlings
A J Sharkey, Dealer, Heating Systems & Home Appliances - 41 N Ninth St, Phone 2642 & 297J - Kalamazoo Sale3 & Service
Sowers Printing Company - Over Sixty Years of Printing Service
Sunnyside Garage Melvin Hershey, Prop, 1-1/2 Miles West on Cumberland St, Phone 9177 - Used Cars & Trucks - Bought & Sold - Old Cars: $5.00 to $50.00 will be paid to any person giving information leading to all 1890 to 1912 cars that can be bought. Forward address of owner - if car is purchased the reward will be given
Sunset Market, Iren S Light - Owner & Operator
Uhrich’s Good Market - 2nd & Pershing Ave, Phone 723 - Fruits & Vegetables, Fresh Meats Smoked, Staple & Fancy Groceries, Fresh Frozen Foods - It Pays Always to Buy Your Food at Uhrich’s
Vavrous Flowers - 335 Guilford St & 512 Cumberland St - When in Need of Flowers, Think of Vavrous - We Telegraph Flowers
Weaver’s Famous Lebanon Bologna Inc - P O Box 525 - Home Smoked Hams and Bacons
Wengert’s Cream Top Dairy - Drink Wengert’s Flash Pasteurized Milk
Wert’s Book Store - Phone 2515 - Headquarters for Teachers of the Sunday School, Bible School, Kindergarten & Public School - Greeting Cards - Scripture Text & General Bibles for the purse, pocket, Pulpit
… Compliments of An Irishman
… Compliments of Ben Tuck
Contributors:
Mrs Olive S Armitstead - Raised Rolls
Aunt/Miss Fannie Atkins - Fasnachts, Cranberry Relish
Mrs William Atkins - Ninth Grade Cookies
Mrs Bertha Barr - Deviled Crab in Casserole
Mrs Minerva Basehore - Potato Balls
Mrs Ray S Bicksler Mrs Della Dempsey - Chicken Pie, Peach Delight, Bar-B-Q-Relish
Mrs Ray Feeser - Ice Box Filled Cookies
Mrs Clara Fisher - Coconut Fluff Cake
Mrs Dorothy Frey - Pineapple Mayonnaise, Milk Chocolate Cake
Elizabeth S Hain - White Birthday Cake
Mrs Anna Hean - Lemon Sponge Cake
Mrs Marcella Hershey - Custard Pie
Mrs Walter Huber - English Spice Cake, Apple Dumplings
Mrs W L Kershaw - Baked Prune Whip
Mrs Luther Long - Fudge Cake, Fudge Icing
Mrs Chas Loser - Waffles, Bread & Butter Pickles
Mrs Thelma MacKenzie - Banana Cake
Mrs Irving Martin - Salad (with Jello & Cream Cheese), Swiss Steak
Mrs Ralph Matterness - $100.00 Chocolate Cake (uses Miracle Whip)
Mrs Bertie Miller - Marshmallow Easter Eggs
Miss Blanche E Molley - Peanut Butter Cookies
Mrs Ida V Nagle - Montgomery Pie
Mrs T U Null - Chocolate Crumb Bavarian Pie
Mrs W A Parks - Spanish Noodles
Mary A Scott - Salad Dressing
Mrs Pearl Scott - Barbecued Hamburgers
Mrs Ruth Sherman - Chili Con Carne
Mrs Ernest Smith - Never Fail White Cake
Mrs Clara Sowers Mrs E U Sowers - Shoo-Fly Pie
Mrs John Sowers Mrs Marjory Sowers - Lemon Sponge Pie
Mrs Midge Spencer Mattie Swope - Cherry Pudding
Mrs Earl Zeller - Creamy Rice Pudding
Mrs Ethel Ziegler - Baked Macaroni Supreme
..... Minister’s Wives Circle - Frozen Fruit Salad
..... No Name - Banana Frosting
Condition: Covers & Pages are Good. I checked EVERY page to enter all the names! (I include ALL names in ALL fundraiser-type cookbooks because I know how frustrating it is to hope and wonder if specific contributors/recipes are included in a book, only to find out they’re not, upon receipt.) Covers and pages are attached to easy-turning plastic spiral binding with no missing pages, clean (except for couple light smudges on front cover) with no tears or chips, no highlighting, no writing ... minimal edge/corner wear & not-bad age toning to outer edge areas of some pages. Books are NOT from smoke-free or pet-free environment. Please see above NINE supersized images ... they are part of the Email with questions or requests.
Shipping: (Free Local York PA Pickup) ... Buyer pays $4.00 (NOT for typical Media/Bookrate shipping NOR ANY handling fees!) ------------>>> Seller will add to your $4.00 and pay for upgrade to FIRST CLASS/PRIORITY that will include insurance, tracking number/info, faster delivery, and more gentle handling by the USPS than Media/Bookrate to better protect the binding on your keepsake.
Seize this scarce book for posterity, the descendants, future generations of those who contributed the recipes ... this legacy may be all there is! … Perfect as a gift for birthdays, Christmas, newborn grandchild or just to say “I love you and cherish the memories.”
Please see my Store for MORE “Good-Read” Books and Cookbooks! 
Household & Cookery:
Child Training: The Daily Schedule, Learning To Eat, Preventing Fears, Destructiveness, Choice of Companions, The Child & the School, The Child & the Church, Movies, Desirable Games & Play Equipment, Safety Hints for the Child, Always A Favorite at Children’s Parties (Fruit Punch, Birthday Party Punch, Cider Cocktail - A Halloween Delight recipes).
Happy Homemaker’s Secrets, Some Good Points, Removal of Common Stains, Various Remedies are each one-sentence tips … these truly are worthwhile and interesting.
Etiquette: Introductions, Restaurant Etiquette, Good Manners at the Theatre, Telephone Etiquette, Good Manners at a Dance, Invitations, Correspondence, When You are in a Group, Preparing the Table, Setting the Table (lists important factors to remember when setting the table for a dinner party; includes diagram)
Treasured Culinary Hints: Use of Recipes, Methods of Cooking Food, Methods of Mixing Food, Measurements, Useful Facts About Starch, Points to be Observed in Cooking Starch-Rich Foods, Thickening Power of Flour or Corn Starch, Useful Facts About Sugar, Use of Sugar in Flavoring Foods, Ways in Which Sugar Affects Texture of Foods, Approx Amounts of Sugar for Various Common Dishes, Canning & Preserving, Methods of Canning, Description of the Open Kettle method, Description of the Cold-Pack Method, Cooking or Processing in the Cold-Pack Method, Acid as an Aid in Canning by the Cold-Pack Way, General Directions for Canning Vegetables by the Cold-Pack Method, General Directions for Canning Fruit by the Cold-Pack Method, General Directions for Canning Meat by the Cold-Pack Method, Caution in Using Home-Canned Foods, Time-Table for Canning with the Pressure Cooker, Fruits That May Be Canned in Pressure Cooker, Time-Table for Canning in the Hot-Water Bath.
Miscellaneous Section: A Husband’s Recipe, How to Preserve a Husband, Birthday Stones & Flowers, Wedding Anniversaries, Making Food Attractive, Food Tables- Weight Tables, Low Calorie Reducing Diet, For Serving Large Groups - Recipes for Serving 50 People (coffee, baked beans, chicken salad, macaroni & cheese) - for Serving 100 People (lists poundage & food category), Measurements, Equivalents, Safety Tips in the Home, Be a Good Conversationalist, The Art of Freezing Foods, Meat Cuts & How to Cook Them (Beef Chart, Veal Chart, Pork Chart, Lamb Chart).
Local Ads:
Ail’s Amoco Service 11th & Cumberland St - Phone 1918 - Tires Batteries Repairing
Andrews Cut Rate - 8th & Cumberland St Opp. Court House, Phone 612 - Patents Toilet Articles Luncheonette
Ann’s Shops - Ann Pennypacker, Prop - Ann’s Variety Lo-Jay, Lebanon - Style Shop, Palmyra (Compliments Of)
Arnold Funeral Home, C LeRoy Arnold - 712 Chestnut St, Phone 77
Arnold’s Boot Shop - 34 N 8th St, Phone 1715 - Exclusive But Not Expensive Shoes For The Family
Automotive Trade Association of Lebanon - (Compliments Of)
Bernstein’s Flowers (Booster)
Bon Ton - Lebanon’s Greatest Store
Central Cut Rate - Store of Friendly Service (Compliments of)
Dari-Del - Lebanon’s Complete Cafeteria Luncheonette and Delicatessen - Amelia Roberts - 781 Cumberland St - Hand Dipped & Hand Rolled Chocolates, Borden’s Ice Cream
Grimes & Hauer - Cut Up Poultry Supreme Quality, Phone Jonestown 152R2 - You are invited to visit our processing plant at Fredricksburg PA Home Office
Haak Bros Department Store - Lebanon’s First Escalator (includes drawing of an escalator)
Harpel’s - The Gift Store of Lebanon - 757-759 Cumberland St - Birthdays Weddings Anniversaries China Glassware Pottery Aluminum
Hersheys Milk Distributors - Use Hersheys Homogenized Milk
Huberman’s Jewelry Store - (Booster)
Hummer’s Hot Donuts - 141 N 9th St, Phone 5474
Insurance Agents Ass’n of the City of Lebanon - Guy Geller, E E Meyer, Eugene Hoaster, J Henry Miller Co, Samuel G Kurtz, Samuel F Light, John H Sprecher, Stine & Erdman, Daniel E Walter
Kohr’s Frozen Custard - 26 South 9th St - Phone 1661 - The Biggest Quart in Town
Lawson’s Sea Food Market - Rear Court House, Phone 1032 - Wholesale and Retail Crabs Oysters Fish Clams & Other sea foods in Season
Lebanon News Agency - Samuel S Etter (Compliments Of)
Logans of Lebanon - For Smart Women’s Apparel
Kenneth V Long Groceries - Prescott PA
Mesics Food Market - Super Self-Service
John D Miller Life Insurance & Annuities - 43 N 8th St, Phone 3140
M Luther Miller Registered Architect - (Compliments Of)
Preferred Finance Service Inc - 746 Cumberland St, Phone 4701 - Compliments of OK Coffey - Loans $30.00 to $300.00
Mabyl Ramsay Shop , Women’s Accessories - 26 N 8th St, Phone 1700
Rittle Lumber Co Inc - 16th & Cumberland - Phone 1560
Rosemary Shoppe - 27 South 7th St, Phone 2448 - Hairdressing - Scalp Treatments - Hair Styling - Permanent Waving
Sander’s Confectionery - 1120 Lehman St - Phone 9166 - Magazines & Newspapers Groceries Ice Cream Soft Drinks
Schreiber Bros Plumbing & Heating - Corner 10th & Lehman Sts - Williams Oil-O-Matic Oil Burners - Stokol: The World’s Greatest Stoker
Self-Service North & South Sides 5¢ and North & South Stores 10¢ - North Side, 442 Lehman Store - South Side, 5th & Walnut St - Open Wed - Fri & Sat. Nights - Come In and Help Yourself (To What???)
Seyfert Orchards - Fruit in Season - Kimmerlings
A J Sharkey, Dealer, Heating Systems & Home Appliances - 41 N Ninth St, Phone 2642 & 297J - Kalamazoo Sale3 & Service
Sowers Printing Company - Over Sixty Years of Printing Service
Sunnyside Garage Melvin Hershey, Prop, 1-1/2 Miles West on Cumberland St, Phone 9177 - Used Cars & Trucks - Bought & Sold - Old Cars: $5.00 to $50.00 will be paid to any person giving information leading to all 1890 to 1912 cars that can be bought. Forward address of owner - if car is purchased the reward will be given
Sunset Market, Iren S Light - Owner & Operator
Uhrich’s Good Market - 2nd & Pershing Ave, Phone 723 - Fruits & Vegetables, Fresh Meats Smoked, Staple & Fancy Groceries, Fresh Frozen Foods - It Pays Always to Buy Your Food at Uhrich’s
Vavrous Flowers - 335 Guilford St & 512 Cumberland St - When in Need of Flowers, Think of Vavrous - We Telegraph Flowers
Weaver’s Famous Lebanon Bologna Inc - P O Box 525 - Home Smoked Hams and Bacons
Wengert’s Cream Top Dairy - Drink Wengert’s Flash Pasteurized Milk
Wert’s Book Store - Phone 2515 - Headquarters for Teachers of the Sunday School, Bible School, Kindergarten & Public School - Greeting Cards - Scripture Text & General Bibles for the purse, pocket, Pulpit
… Compliments of An Irishman
… Compliments of Ben Tuck
Contributors:
Mrs Olive S Armitstead - Raised Rolls
Aunt/Miss Fannie Atkins - Fasnachts, Cranberry Relish
Mrs William Atkins - Ninth Grade Cookies
Mrs Bertha Barr - Deviled Crab in Casserole
Mrs Minerva Basehore - Potato Balls
Mrs Ray S Bicksler Mrs Della Dempsey - Chicken Pie, Peach Delight, Bar-B-Q-Relish
Mrs Ray Feeser - Ice Box Filled Cookies
Mrs Clara Fisher - Coconut Fluff Cake
Mrs Dorothy Frey - Pineapple Mayonnaise, Milk Chocolate Cake
Elizabeth S Hain - White Birthday Cake
Mrs Anna Hean - Lemon Sponge Cake
Mrs Marcella Hershey - Custard Pie
Mrs Walter Huber - English Spice Cake, Apple Dumplings
Mrs W L Kershaw - Baked Prune Whip
Mrs Luther Long - Fudge Cake, Fudge Icing
Mrs Chas Loser - Waffles, Bread & Butter Pickles
Mrs Thelma MacKenzie - Banana Cake
Mrs Irving Martin - Salad (with Jello & Cream Cheese), Swiss Steak
Mrs Ralph Matterness - $100.00 Chocolate Cake (uses Miracle Whip)
Mrs Bertie Miller - Marshmallow Easter Eggs
Miss Blanche E Molley - Peanut Butter Cookies
Mrs Ida V Nagle - Montgomery Pie
Mrs T U Null - Chocolate Crumb Bavarian Pie
Mrs W A Parks - Spanish Noodles
Mary A Scott - Salad Dressing
Mrs Pearl Scott - Barbecued Hamburgers
Mrs Ruth Sherman - Chili Con Carne
Mrs Ernest Smith - Never Fail White Cake
Mrs Clara Sowers Mrs E U Sowers - Shoo-Fly Pie
Mrs John Sowers Mrs Marjory Sowers - Lemon Sponge Pie
Mrs Midge Spencer Mattie Swope - Cherry Pudding
Mrs Earl Zeller - Creamy Rice Pudding
Mrs Ethel Ziegler - Baked Macaroni Supreme
..... Minister’s Wives Circle - Frozen Fruit Salad
..... No Name - Banana Frosting
Condition: Covers & Pages are Good. I checked EVERY page to enter all the names! (I include ALL names in ALL fundraiser-type cookbooks because I know how frustrating it is to hope and wonder if specific contributors/recipes are included in a book, only to find out they’re not, upon receipt.) Covers and pages are attached to easy-turning plastic spiral binding with no missing pages, clean (except for couple light smudges on front cover) with no tears or chips, no highlighting, no writing ... minimal edge/corner wear & not-bad age toning to outer edge areas of some pages. Books are NOT from smoke-free or pet-free environment. Please see above NINE supersized images ... they are part of the Email with questions or requests.
Shipping: (Free Local York PA Pickup) ... Buyer pays $4.00 (NOT for typical Media/Bookrate shipping NOR ANY handling fees!) ------------>>> Seller will add to your $4.00 and pay for upgrade to FIRST CLASS/PRIORITY that will include insurance, tracking number/info, faster delivery, and more gentle handling by the USPS than Media/Bookrate to better protect the binding on your keepsake.
Seize this scarce book for posterity, the descendants, future generations of those who contributed the recipes ... this legacy may be all there is! … Perfect as a gift for birthdays, Christmas, newborn grandchild or just to say “I love you and cherish the memories.”
Please see my Store for MORE “Good-Read” Books and Cookbooks! 
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