Cooking In General

The General Petroleum Girls Club was a young women's charitable organization associated with General Petroleum, an oil company which eventually became Exxon Mobile, through various mergers. 

 

The recipe pictured features vintage servingware by California-based pottery making Gladding, McBean, which also made the glazed terra cotta tile on the exterior of the General Petroleum building on Flower Street in Downtown LA (now The Pegasus Apartments).

 

Building image coutesy of the LAPL photo collection

I have cooked from this book!

 

“Peaches Poached in White Wine” by Harriet E. Rodgers

 

Vintage servingware by California-based pottery maker Gladding, McBean, which also made the exterior tiles on the General Petroleum Building in Downtown LA (now The Pegasus Apartments).