| Summary: | The Crescent Manufacturing Company was established in Seattle in 1883 as a small company which specialized in vanilla extract. The company expanded rapidly during the Klondike Gold Rush by selling proprietary spice packets to miners. Crescent Manufacturing grew with their novel creation of an imitation maple flavoring which would not lose flavor over time or with temperature fluctuation. Mapleine debuted at the 1908 Puyallup Fair, followed by an international introduction at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in 1909, and the product rapidly achieved worldwide success. The company went on to boast the"most modern communication" technology in their 1927 factory at 657 Dearborn, which also featured a variety of spice mills and coffee roasting equipment. Crescent Manufacturing Company produced this small cookbook of recipes made with Mapleine, its artificial maple flavoring. The booklet includes recipes for cakes and breads, as well as candies, ice creams, sauces and puddings. The introduction explains that "a 2-oz bottle makes two gallons of syrup and costs you only 35c." Each page contains a Mapleine witticism such as, "It's Selling Fast and Furious - Contains Nothing that's Injurious." 1 cookbook: 16 pages; 3 x 5 in.
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