Question: When Did Recipes First Appear On Food Packaging?
By: Helen Pitlick
Published: February 12, 2010

I'm writing a paper on the way home cooks access recipes has changed over the past 100 years or so. I know that sometime during the 20th century, companies started printing recipes on cans and boxes. Does anyone know when the first instance of this was?

Answers:
Anonymous

The Recipes First Appear On Food Packaging in U.S.A.in the nineteenth century.It also appeared in British books in the first decade of this century.
Anonymous

It first appeared in the USA at the end of the nineteenth century
Anonymous

It's possible that recipes have appeared on soup cans for at least 50 years.