Food Friday: The Pennsylvania Suffrage Cook Book

https://books.google.com/books?id=CT81AQAAMAAJ&dq=suffrage%20cookbook&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=true

It seems appropriate to take a look at suffrage cookbooks for Women's History Month.

Today's  Suffrage Cook Book begins:

There are cook books and cook books, and their generation is not ended; a generation that began in the Garden of Eden, presumably, for if Mother Eve was not vastly different from her daughters she knew how to cook some things better than her neighbors, and they wanted to know how she made them and she wanted to tell them. {5}

This 1915 book complied by Mrs. L. O. Kleber and published by The Equal Franchise Federation of Western Pennsylvania has a clear goal, to raise funds for the fight for suffrage five years before the ratification of national suffrage rights for women.

According to the History of Woman Suffrage: 1900-1920:

The convention of 1910 was held in Harrishburg and Mrs. Ellen H. E. Price of Philadelphia assumed the presidency. This year was organized the Equal Franchise Federation of Western Pennsylvania, later changed to Federation of Pittsburgh, its leaders destined to play a very important part in suffrage annals. Julian Kennedy was the first president, one of the very few men who served as president of a woman suffrage organization. {552}

Recipe contributors are featured in the first pages of the cook book and are not just confined to the state of Pennsylvania. They include well-known suffragists and  governors from states that embraced women's suffrage. The book also includes some portraits.

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Today's recipe comes from feminist and novelist Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) .

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