This vintage cookbook is all about useing a pressure cooker.  It gives details about what a pressure cooker is, and how to use it to prepare all types of food from meats and vegetables, to cereal and puddings.  It also gives instructions for using the pressure cooker to can your foods safely.  

The title of the book is Pressure Cookery, How To Cook With Any Type Of Pressure Pan.  The author is Leone Rutledge Carroll, and it was illustrated by Jen Freeman.  Published in 1947, this is the first printing of the book.  The publisher was M. Barrows and Company, New York.  And the printer was J J Little and Ives Company, New York.

The hardback covers are heavily worn with fraying and tears.  Inside pages have yellowed with age, have some brittleness, and rust along the spine area where they are held together with a large red metal comb binding.  The book is complete.  It would make a great addition to any vintage collection of cookbooks, or display it with a selection fo vintage pressure cookers or canning collectibles.