Cookbook
Mediumpaper
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (Closed): 2 × 1/16 × 2 11/16in. (5.1 × 0.2 × 6.8cm)
ClassificationsInformation Artifacts
Credit LineGift of Nora Oakes Howard
DescriptionMiniature sized cookbook titled, "5 Best Recipes, Idle Wild Farm, Pomfret Center, Conn.". The front and back covers are identical metallic silver printed with red text and the image of a stork holding a bindle and saying, ‘It’s a Hen!”
Object number2019.22.0
NotesSubject Note: Idle Wild Farm, located in Pomfret Center, Connecticut, was opened by Alphonsine "Therese" Makowsky and Jacques Makowsky after 1946. They first began raising and selling African guinea hens. In the early 1950s, the Makowsky's began cross-breeding Cornish game cocks with various chickens and game birds, resulting in the Rock Cornish game hen.On View
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