The Larkin Company operated a booming mail order business that sold soap, packaged foods and other household products to millions of American housewives. This cookbook is filled with prize-winning recipes submitted by Larkin customers to the company’s recipe contests.
By the late 1800s, sandwiches had found their place in American lunchboxes and on dinner tables. This cookbook, originally published in 1894 by well-known cookbook author Sarah Tyson Rorer, was the first American cookbook focused solely on sandwiches.
