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Franklin Baker Co.
Known for turning coconuts into a pantry staple, this historic company published a small recipe collection built around its signature ingredient. Its booklet offers a glimpse of early 20th-century American home baking and food marketing.
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Baker's Coconut Recipes
by Franklin Baker Co.
About the author
Franklin Baker Co. was not an individual author but the company behind Baker's Coconut Recipes, a cookbook-style promotional booklet now preserved by Project Gutenberg. The business is closely associated with the Franklin Baker Company, a long-running coconut products manufacturer founded in Philadelphia in the late 19th century.
The company became well known for popularizing desiccated coconut in American kitchens. Recipe booklets like this one were part cookbook, part advertisement, giving home cooks practical ways to use the product in cakes, pies, candies, and other desserts.
Today, the booklet is interesting not just for its recipes but also as a piece of food history. It captures how branded recipe pamphlets helped shape everyday cooking and introduced new packaged ingredients to a wide audience.