The Depression Era Cookbook
Meal stretchers and from‑scratch recipes from the hard times, each one with its story, what it cost in 1933, and what it costs per serving today.
What we publish
Practical non-fiction for people who intend to do the thing: cook the dish, learn the skill, identify the object in their hand.
Every book is built on one rule — nothing gets asserted that a reader can’t verify. If a claim can’t be tested at a kitchen table, or checked against a published figure, it doesn’t go in the book. That is also why the prices, weights and timings in our titles are written to be looked up rather than taken on trust.
The books
Eight titles, published on Amazon in the United States.
In the kitchen Around the house Old things, identified Paperwork, in plain English
In the kitchen
Cookbooks for a real weeknight: ordinary ingredients, honest timings, and the numbers printed where you need them.
The Super Easy Renal Diet Cookbook After 50
Kidney‑friendly home cooking with the sodium, potassium and phosphorus figures printed on every recipe, so they can be taken to the person who actually advises you.
The Super Easy Bread Machine Cookbook
Bread machine recipes written for a working week: ordinary supermarket ingredients, the right cycle for each loaf, and what to do when the crumb comes out wrong.
Hispanic Food Cookbook for Beginners
Over a hundred dishes from a whole continent, each called by the name the people who cook it use, with the steps most beginner books quietly leave out.
Around the house
Skills and remedies that used to be passed down at the kitchen table, written out properly so they can be passed down again.
Lost Skills of Our Grandparents
Seven rooms of forgotten home skills — mending, preserving, fixing, growing — taught properly, one skill to a page, to learn and to pass down.
Remedios Naturales Olvidados de la Abuela
A visual manual of household herbal preparations from the Spanish‑speaking kitchen: what goes in each one, how it is made, and what is actually known about it.
Old things, identified
Field guides for telling a genuine piece from something merely old — photographs to compare against, and tests you can run yourself.
Error Coin Values Book
U.S. coins, and the line between a genuine mint error and ordinary post‑mint damage — with close‑up photographs and technical diagrams, printed in full color.
Paperwork, in plain English
The documents nobody explains, walked through one step at a time, with the questions worth asking before you sign.
The Stress‑Free Living Trust & Estate Planning Guide
A plain‑English walk through what a living trust is, what paperwork it involves, and which questions to put to a lawyer before signing anything.
New titles appear here as they are published.
Coming soon
Books that are written and in production. No pre‑orders, no waiting list, nothing to sign up for — they simply appear above when they go on sale.
In production
250 Years of American History
An illustrated keepsake for the semiquincentennial: sixty moments of the American story, each with the painting, photograph or document it is remembered by, chosen to be handed down rather than shelved.
The book is not on sale yet. Its companion material already is: the keepsake sheet, sixty questions to ask at the table, all 136 pictures with the free links to the originals, and a timeline poster for the wall.
Free companions
Every recent book comes with printable material that would have made the book unwieldy: checklists, planners, charts — and in one case the whole picture archive behind a book that is not out yet. It is free, it stays free, and it is one click away — no purchase, no account, no email required.
- The keepsake sheet, sixty questions and 136 pictures — 250 Years of American History
- The Sixty‑Second Checklist — Error Coin Values Book
- Depression Era companion pack — The Depression Era Cookbook
- Lost Skills companion pack — Lost Skills of Our Grandparents
- Renal‑friendly downloads — The Super Easy Renal Diet Cookbook After 50
The names on the covers
Each name is a line of books rather than a person: one subject, one method, one voice. Author pages go up as each line grows.
- Vera Holcomb — identification guides for ordinary collectors. Author page →
- Hazel Calloway — old home skills and heritage cooking.
- Allison Monroe — everyday cooking with the numbers on the page.
- Mariana Torres — Latin American home cooking.
- Sofía Almenara — household herbal traditions, in Spanish.
- Michael Aldridge — paperwork and planning, in plain English.
Plain facts about this press
- The author names are pen names. The books are written and published under them by Bayside Press. They are not the legal names of people you could look up, and no claim is made otherwise.
- AI tools are part of how these books are made, including the cover artwork and the author portraits. Every title is reviewed and laid out before it is published, and each book carries its own declaration on Amazon.
- Nothing is for sale on this site. The books are sold on Amazon; the companion downloads here are free and always will be. This site sets no advertising cookies and runs no trackers.
- No advice, no affiliation. Nothing published here is medical, legal or financial advice, and nothing is affiliated with or endorsed by any agency, association or institution named in the books.
Write to us
Found a mistake in one of the books? A measurement that doesn’t work, a figure that looks wrong, a step that skips something? Say so — that is how the next edition gets better.
What we can’t do: tell you what your coin is worth, what you should eat, or what to put in your will. Those answers come from someone looking at your actual situation, not from a publisher reading an email.