"Gee Dad, It's a Wurlitzer!"
-- Interesting cook book found in a thrift shop

Again, we are off the subject of mechanical music, and hope we do not
offend anyone,  but while searching through an interesting thrift shop
for Regina disks, and Ampico rolls,  I found a little black book
entitled "Wurlitzer  Centennial Cook book  1856 -1956" It is a nifty
little book with a color picture (protected with tissue paper) of the
House of the Farnys in Gvemar, Alsace.

Inside the cover is written: " Presented To:   In this 100th year of
The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company commemorating a Century of Achievement in
Musical Progress"  "Copyright 1956  The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company
North Tonawanda New York"

It is a book of recipes governing three generations of the Farny and
Wurlitzer Family and the wives of "present"  business associates.  The
book contains pictures of  Margaret Farny Strobel,  Leonie Farny
Wurlitzer, Leonie Wurlitzer Eilers, Josephine Weigand, Jeanette Farny,
Sylvia Wurlitzer Farny.

The preface of the book tells how a German boy named Rudolph, from
Saxony, came to America in 1853, and married a French girl named Leonie
Farny.  They settled in Cincinnati.  Their early years were difficult.
To make a living, Rudolph imported musical instruments from his Saxon
neighbors, and started reselling them in America.

In 1925 the Farny and Wurlitzer family gathered their choicest recipes
and published a limited edition of just one hundred copies.  In 1956
the volume was reprinted, with additions in honor of the 100th
anniversary of the Rudolph Wurlitzer company.

The book is filled with culinary memories that reach back into the
eighteenth century.  Hopefully those interested may find an old copy
of this wonderful little book.

Bruce Clark