2019.030.004

A cookbook as well as a point-value table for ration points and how to spend them, from 1943. During WWII books like this became far more common than traditional cookbooks in America, as government regulated rationing created a system of ration bonds that had point values. Consumers would use these ration points to buy certain food items, but could only by specific items with a specific amount of points and in specific quantities. Books like these included tables for consumers to utilize when trying to figure out what they could buy with their rations, as well as several recipes that utilize less-used food items which were typically worth less points than big ticket items like meat and sugar.
The book is part of The Eastman Family Collection. Additional informaiton can be found here: http://wdeastman.com/the-homefront-during-wwii/