As featured in
The Guardian, this timely celebration of the centenary of women winning the vote, sees an original suffrage cookbook from 1915 reissued. Dozens of vintage recipes contributed by some surprising supporters of the popular cause, including famous writers, governors and even a judge. In addition short biographies of the most important contributors and an endnote from Cheryl Robson, editor of this edition.
With none of the fads of modern-day cooking, these simple recipes range from hearty breakfasts to healthy soups, salads and meaty casseroles, alongside witty contributions such as Pie for a Suffragist's Doubting Husband and the Dumplings That Never Fail.
Why not create your own Suffrage Menu with recipes like Blanquette of Veal or Sweet Potato Souffle? Munch on some Parliament Gingerbread or a few Creole Balls? Or raise a toast to those who fought for equality of the sexes, by brewing up a Peppermint Cup?
Originally published in 1915 to help raise funds for the campaign for the vote for women. Includes biographies and photos of the top contributors including Jane Addams, Anna Howard Shaw, Carrie Chapman Catt, Ava Belmont, Mary Roberts Rinehard, and Jack London.
As featured in The Guardian, this timely celebration of the centenary of women winning the vote, sees an original suffrage cookbook from 1915 reissued. Dozens of vintage recipes contributed by some surprising supporters of the popular cause, including famous writers, governors and even a judge. In addition short biographies of the most important contributors and an endnote from Cheryl Robson, editor of this edition.
With none of the fads of modern-day cooking, these simple recipes range from hearty breakfasts to healthy soups, salads and meaty casseroles, alongside witty contributions such as Pie for a Suffragist's Doubting Husband and the Dumplings That Never Fail.
Why not create your own Suffrage Menu with recipes like Blanquette of Veal or Sweet Potato Souffle? Munch on some Parliament Gingerbread or a few Creole Balls? Or raise a toast to those who fought for equality of the sexes, by brewing up a Peppermint Cup?
Originally published in 1915 to help raise funds for the campaign for the vote for women. Includes biographies and photos of the top contributors including Jane Addams, Anna Howard Shaw, Carrie Chapman Catt, Ava Belmont, Mary Roberts Rinehard, and Jack London.
Editors:
Mrs L.O. Kleber compiled the cookbook and published it in 1915.
Born in Freeport, Pa on April 4th,1867, she moved to Pittsburgh where she lived for 40 years and was often referred to as Pittsburg’s ‘most interesting woman’. She devoted herself to public works and was years ahead of her time, organising food relief and garden projects in the city’s slum districts. Initially opposed to women having the vote,she was converted to the suffrage cause by Mrs Henry Villard, the daughter of William Lloyd Garrison, a famous slavery abolitionist.
She wrote to many famous men and women to collect the recipes for The Suffrage Cookbook which she published in 1915 to raise funds for the suffrage cause. Theodore Roosevelt was the only man who failed to send a recipe, claiming that he was too busy to do so.
Following the success of the campaign for the vote in 1920, she became the director of the Allegheny County League of Women Voters.
She died on April 4, 1939, aged 72 at her home at 1135 Murrayhill Avenue, Pittsburgh.
Cheryl Robson
Cheryl is the founder of Aurora Metro Books. She has won numerous awards for her plays, books and films.
She decided to revise and re-publish Kleber’s 1915 Suffrage Cookbook to coincide with a touring exhibition that she had produced about the suffragists’ campaign for the vote in the UK. Titled ‘How the Vote was Won’, the exhibition toured to libraries, museums and theatres in southeast England in 2018, the centenary of some women gaining the right to vote in the UK.
