As with many common household products today, baking powder is so ubiquitous that we hardly imagine someone needed to invent it. But Dr. Price did, and marketed it well, along with his famous Delicious Flavoring Extracts.
Bottle embossed: “Dr Price’s Delicious Flavoring Extracts”
According to Bottlebooks.com, Dr. Price’s Delicious Flavoring Extract was a product of the partnership of V. Clarence Price and Charles R. Steele. They “were in business together from 1874 until 1883. When Steele left to go into real estate in 1887, the company was called the Price Flavoring Extract Co. They were located on Water St. in Chicago. They sold a variety of flavors.”
A more detailed story of the inventor of baking powder is available in the book published by his great grand daughter Victoria Price, daughter of actor Vincent Price.
Excerpt from “Vincent Price:
A Daughter’s Biography” by Victoria Price, 2011
1893 Ad for Dr. V. C. Price’s Flavoring Extracts
Ad for Dr. Price’s Special Flavoring Extracts, Ann Arbor Courier, April 20, 1887
Cover of Dr Price’s Delicious Desserts Cookbook,1904. Full text available at the Duke University Library website.
1922 Ad for Dr. Price’s Vanilla Extract
i have a framed original ad for Dr. Prices Vanilla Extract with a picture of a blond girl holding a plate of divinty. Any interest?
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My husband works with asphalt and concrete. In a dig today, he found 3 miniature bottles, 1 was Dr. Price’s Delicious Flavoring Extract. This was in Oak Brook Terrace, IL. This is gold to me. I collect miniature perfume bottles.
I have a booklet dated copyright 1917 by Price flavoring .
Compliments of
Fischer & Bro
609 W 6th St.
Austin,Tex.
I have a Delicious Desserts recipe book
Copyright 1917
It was compliments of
Fischer & Bro
609 W Sixth St.
Austin,Tex.
Any interest or value
I have a bottle (brown) with PRICE embossed near the neck of the bottle and DES PAT 128402 on the bottom. Can you tell me anything about it?
Thanks for reading. I don’t have any more information about that specific bottle than what I have already described here. Good luck in your research.
I just found one in a creek in St. Louis, Mo. I knew the story of Vincent Price’s grandfather after reading the biography by his daughter. I’m a huge fan of Vincent Price, and I knew he grew up in St. Louis. I picked it up wondering if there was a connection to the pharmacist Dr. Price. I’m so glad that I kept it knowing that it came from that business. The only thing is it has a screw top instead of a top for corks. It also says on the bottle “Patent appl’d. for under the Flavoring Extracts. Can you tell that this may be a later version of the bottle?
Hello! I can’t say for certain, but my guess is that you are correct. After screw top bottles were introduced, cork top bottles were phased out of production. Thanks for reading!
I’ve had a bottle (cork stopper type) in my window for about 3 decades. Nice to hear the backstory!
Found this bottle today on a sandbar in perfect condition. At LEAST A HUNDRED THIRTY FOUR YEARS OLD.