Old El Paso recipes for Bean Bake and Chile shared in 1978 cookbook

From humble beginnings in 1916, Mountain Pass Canning grew into the Old El Paso brand nationally in 1955 and regionally in 1978.

To help encourage the growth of the expanding Mexican food marked, Old El Paso produced the Sun Country Mexican Cookbook that same year.

Following is some early history of the brand followed by some must try recipes:

Beginning of Mountain Pass Canning

The Deming Headlight of Sept. 23, 1921, reports the beginnings of Mountain Pass Canning:

Down in the southern part of Luna County there is an industry that has been running steadily for the past five years, an industry of which very few people in Deming know anything.

In 1916, A.C. Powell, who had been farming along other lines, took over the original plant of the Hondale cannery, when that establishmen