March 1933 pickle recipe book offers additional tips

I was looking for a favourite rhubarb pie recipe and came across a booklet called "New and Old Pickle Recipes that was published in March 1933 by Canada Vinegars Limited.

The picture on the cover shows the factory, located at 112 Duke Street, Toronto Canada and the caption underneath states "The largest vinegar works in America". There is a note on the back cover that the company will send 50 free copies to any grocer who undertakes local distribution to "lady customers who pride themselves in making the very finest pickles". The spot where the grocer could have put their name and address on the back cover is blank. In the middle of the book is a picture of the company's exhibit at the Royal York Hotel during the Retail Grocer's Convention - as my grandfather was working on the construction of Maple Leaf Garden's at the time, it's quite possible that he picked it up.

In addition to pickle recipes, there is information on other uses of vinegar - including beauty tips to cure oily skin and "whitening and healing hands that are stained and roughed by work". It is also recommended for an antidote for poisons (both internally and externally); can be mixed with mustard and applied for easing lung aliments and/or rheumatism; as a cure of headaches; adding lustre to hair and soothing sunburn.

You never know what you're going to learn when you visit Parry Sound and 40 Bay Street Bed & Breakfast!