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BURNETT'S FOOD PRODUCTS
(1st Page - Update September 30,
2007)
FROM JOSEPH BURNETT COMPANY
THE INFORMATION BELOW REPRESENTS THE FOOD PRODUCTS OF
THE JOSEPH BURNETT COMPANY OF BOSTON,
MASS. AND IS COMPILED FROM
THE COLLECTION AND ARCHIVES OF THE SOUTHBOROUGH
HISTORICAL
SOCIETY TO DATE. NEW INFORMATION CONCERNING THESE PRODUCTS IS
WELCOME AND WE CAN BE REACHED BY EMAIL AT:
info@southboroughhistory.org
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FLAVORING EXTRACTS
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FLAVORS |
SIZES |
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Flavorettes Sample Box from a 1922 ad. Each box
contained 5 flavors in glass containers with a cork top. Each container
held enough product to flavor one dessert.
A
part of the same 1922 ad showing a display box containing flavorettes for
sale, as well as a glass flavorette bottle with cork top closure.
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Almond
Anise
Banana
Black Walnut
Brandy
Cardamom
Celery
Cherry
Cinnamon
Clover
Coconut
Garlic
Ginger
Lemon
Lime
Maple
Mint
Nectarine
Nutmeg
Onion
Orange
Peach
Peppermint
Pineapple
Pistachio
Raspberry
Rose
Rum
Sherry
Strawberry
Vanilla
Violet
Wintergreen
Some were imitation, or
came in either a pure or imitation flavor.
The list of extracts
contains all known flavors used over the years. Not all were available at
any one time.
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Sample/Flavorettes
1/2 Ounce
1 1/2 Ounce
2 Ounce
1/2 Pint
Pint
Quart
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CONTAINER TYPE
Glass bottles, the
earliest had cork tops, later bottles had metal or plastic screw-on caps.
All had paper labels.
The bottles came in their
own cardboard box.
Early extract bottles
were not boxed, but had a heavy paper wrapper which covered the bottle.
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FLAVORING EXTRACTS
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FLAVORS |
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The kit contained an
assortment of 14 different extract flavors.
The example pictured at
left is “as found” containing a ¼
oz. four “Color Kit”.
This is the
only example we have seen and, as it was called a “Flavor Chest”
we feel it originally contained only extract flavorings.
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½ Ounce
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CONTAINER TYPE
A large cardboard box
containing individually boxed glass bottles.
The bottles had screw-on
caps.
All had paper
labels.
Each extract bottle had
its own cardboard package.
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FLAVORING
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FLAVORS |
SIZES |
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Rum Syrup
This flavor has not been
included as an extract (Rum Extract is listed above), but it does appear in
Burnett’s Recipe Cookbooks as a food flavoring.
Recipes from “Rounding Out
The Meal”, 1935, with Rum Syrup as an ingredient.
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4 Ounce, no doubt there
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CONTAINER TYPE
Glass Bottle
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