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This is an original antique promotional cookbook produced by The Malleable Steel Range Manufacturing Company based out of South Bend, Indiana. About the Item Type: Advertising Ephemera / Recipe Booklet.Era: Early 1900s (typically circa 1902–1915). Purpose: These booklet style cookbooks were given away as premiums to market their signature line of heavy-duty, "non-breakable" malleable iron and steel wood/coal cooking stoves. The front cover proudly highlights the selling slogan "Fire all you're mall all you're it's non-break steel and malleable" next to an illustration of a man striking the stove with a sledgehammer to prove its durability