1897 Cleveland Baking Powder

[tvini.livejournal.com]

1897 Ladies' Home Journal ad for Cleveland Baking Powder

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[splix.livejournal.com]

It's so simple, and yet so utterly terrifying, this baking powder/ostrich mashup.

[spuzzlightyear.livejournal.com]

I was thinking dinosaur myself actually.

Lets do a tally.

[splix.livejournal.com]

Like a starchosaurus? I can see that.

[tudor-diva.livejournal.com]

My first impression was something from "Alice in Wonderland."

[whoseline_wlsc]

Well of course it doesn't go so fast, you're using less of it haha. But yeah, those spoons are a little frightening.

[seamonkey-mags.livejournal.com]

It makes it sound like it doesn't work as well as the others. That was my first thought!

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

This actually seems quite modern for it's time, the fonts and layout as well as the to-the-point copy is different than the usual wordy prose and cluttered layout of ads during that time.

[crabofdoom.livejournal.com]

Chocobo baking powder!

I think it's kind of cute. At least it's insinuating that you only consume its "plumage", unlike other more disturbing quizzlings that gleefully offer their whole bodies in sacrifice.

[meezergal.livejournal.com]

I actually find this ad both cute and hilarious. :D

[her-auburn-eyes.livejournal.com]

how.....odd

[thejackaolf.livejournal.com]

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4195641/ I drew this..i dont even know..

[tvini.livejournal.com]

Heh. I like it.

[thejackaolf.livejournal.com]

thank you! I was worried it would upset some people for whatever reason

[lexixanatos487.livejournal.com]

Aaw, love it!

[hazeltea.livejournal.com]

Having to be economical about baking powder, of all things, is oddly depressing.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

I want that critter as a pet.

[cactuswren.livejournal.com]

This was the year Fannie Farmer's Boston Cooking School Cookbook was first published, with its stern instruction, "A cupful is measured level. A tablespoonful is measured level. A teaspoonful is measured level." Prior to this -- and for some time to come -- cookbook recipes matter-of-factly included such measurements as "a rounded spoonful" or "a large spoonful", a "wineglassful" of this or that, "enough to cover the tip of a knife", a "small teacupful", or "butter the size of an egg".