Item [14] promotes Watkins products. Item [14] is similar to item [11] but contains a different image for Watkins Nectar Syrups instead of Watkins Drink Flavors; and contains a slight variation in beverage recipes.
Item [15] promotes McNess products. Item [15] is similar to item [13] but contains some variation in product advertisements and images of women and children in period dress; contains no endorsements from actors/actresses/Hollywood personas; contains endorsement by Mrs. Mayme J. Haines, Oklahoma's Cake Baking Champion; and contains offer to McNess customers for free medical advice, free vetrinary advice, and free brush repair service.
Item [16] promotes Watkins products. Includes images of product packaging and men, women, and children in period dress; monthly calendars for 1937; eclipse, season beginning, and movable feast dates; advertisements for Watkins Cocoa, Watkins Shaving Cream, Watkins Medicines, and other Watkins products; baked good recipes; suggestions for use of Watkins Desserts, Watkins Spices, and Watkins Extracts; household hints; advice on hair care and beauty preparations; map showing Watkins factory and distributing points; first aid and health advice; information on stock and poultry prepartations; and order for with list of Watkins products. Sample recipe: banana cake.
Item [17] promotes Watkins Liniment. Includes image of men, women, and children in period dress; image of Watkins staff members on front steps of the Watkins Administration building at Winona, MN; song lyrics and music for several songs such as the Star-Spangled Banner, Auld Lang Syne, and the Soldier's Farewell; Watkins Liniment user testimonials; and advertisement for Watkins Liniment. No recipes. Marked: AS991.
Item [18] promotes Watkins products. Includes images of product packaging and men, women, and children in period dress; monthly calendars for 1940; eclipse, season beginning, and moveable feast dates; baked good, dessert, and miscellaneous recipes attributed to Elaine Allen; advertisements for Watkins Vanilla, Mary King Beauty Aids, and other Watkins products; advice for baby and child nutrition and care; picnic suggestions; beauty care, household hints, and first aid advice; Watkins Liniment user testimonials; list of Watkins products; farm advice; and image of Farm Bureau Picnic at Watkins Experimental Farm. Sample recipes: spice sugar cookies, veal loaf, and butterscotch ice cream.
Item [19] promotes McNess products. Item [19] is similar to item [15] but has the addition of recipes from Finland in place of a baking powder advertisement; contains some differences in advertisements for McNess products; and contains different layout of list of Watkins products.
Item [20] promotes Michigan railroads. Includes monthly calendar for 1941; holiday dates for 1941; list of populations by geographic area of country; household, weather-related, food, and miscellaneous advice; list of populations of Michigan by county; lists of Michigan city populations; list ranking states by population; railroad facts; one menu suggestion and seven miscellaneous recipes; list of Michigan politicians by office; and list of Michigan's railroads. Sample recipe: chocolate charlotte. Marked: 115. Damaged: missing upper right-hand corner of pages and covers.
Item [21] promotes Watkins products. Includes nutrition advice; menu suggestions; advice for butter and sugar substitutes and meat rationing; dessert recipes with sugar substitutes; section on saving waste paper, kitchen fat, and tin cans for war effort; soup, fish, egg, meat, poultry, salad, dressing, dessert, and soybean recipes; advice on substituting soybean for meat; advice on canning, jelly making, and saving fuel during cooking; and list of Watkins products. Sample recipes: spice corn syrup cake, lamb stew, and soybean casserole. Damaged: front cover slightly torn.
Item [22] promotes McNess products. Item [22] is similar to item [19] but contains some differences in advertisements; and does not contain the bread and muffin section.
Item [23] promotes Watkins Spices and Extracts. Includes map showing by region where spices are grown; advice on using spices; spice compatibility chart with spice descriptions and suggestions for pairing spices with different foods; appetizer, soup, meat, poultry, seafood, cheese, egg, vegetable, salad, sauce, dressing, baked good, dessert, beverage, and barbecue recipes; images of product packaging, serving suggestions, and woman in period dress; and index. Some recipes include wine, beer, or liquor as an ingredient. Sample recipes: dill codfish balls, tikir kabobs, and fried rosemary parsnips.
