Search

Item [5] promotes Watkins products. Includes soup, meat, fish, cheese, egg, vegetable, baked good, dessert, salad, dressing, preserve, pickle, relish, candy, and beverage recipes; introductory sections titled "Food Preparation and Watkins Products, the Story of Flavor" and "The Watkins Dealer and Your Family"; images of serving suggestions; table of kitchen weights and measure; list of Watkins products; and index. Sample recipes: jiggs' favorite, English monkey, and creamed kohl rabi. Damaged: missing pages 31-34.

Item [6] promotes Watkins products. Item [6] is similar to item [5] but contains a different introductory section titled "The Secret of Artistic, Appealing Meals"; contains two additional recipes for three day biscuits and butter frosting; and contains advertisement for Watkins products on pages missing from 1925 copy.

Item [7] promotes Watkins spices. Includes poem by Rudyard Kipling; maps showing where spices are grown; images of men, women, and children in period and regional dress; section about spices and world history; images of spice gathering and processing, factory, and production; information on the available Watkins spices of pepper, cloves, nutmeg, allspice, mustard, ginger, cinnamon, red pepper, sage, and mixed pickling spices; images of whole spices, product packaging, and serving suggestions; advice on checking quality of spices; recipes for baked goods using Watkins spices; section on Watkins extracts and flavors; and offer for Watkins Spice Chart. Sample recipes: tropical gingerbread and amber cakes. Marked: AS992.

Item [8] promotes McNess products. Includes images of man and women in period dress, factory, product packaging, and serving suggestions; soup, meat, vegetable, salad, dressing, dessert, baked good, cocoa, sandwich, pickle, preserve, candy, and miscellaneous recipes; offer for free medical and veterinary advice and free brush repair service; list of McNess products; and advertisements for McNess Brushes, F.W. McNess' Breakfast Cocoa, and other McNess products. Sample recipes: picadilly jims, crow nest pudding, and cocoa sticks. Damaged: cover torn at binding; 2nd copy cover and first page sheet missing. 2 copies.

Item [9] promotes McNess products. Item [9] is similar to item [8] but contains image of black pepper container instead of ginger container in spice advertisement; contains different advertisement for McNess Extracts featuring Mrs. Edith Moore, Champion Cake Baker; and has some minor differences in images in other advertisements. Damaged: cover torn at binding, minor water damage.

Item [10] promotes McConnon Products. Includes introduction by "Aunt Jane"; baked good, soup, entree, vegetable, salad, dessert, pickle, and jam recipes, attributed to Jane Hankins; product descriptions; images of product packaging, serving suggestions, and men and women in period dress; user testimonials; beauty care product information; health care product information; advertisements for McConnon's Cleanser, Ak-O-Dynes aspirin tablets, and other McConnon's products; first aid, antidotes for poison, and household cleaning advice; charts for measures, average heights and weights, and pulse; parcel post rules by distance and size; and list of McConnon products. Sample recipes: jellied tuna, peach py-ade melba, and Norwegian prune muffins. Damaged: front cover detached.

Item [11] promotes Watkins products. Includes recipes tested by Dr. Minna C. Denton; images of serving suggestions, product packaging, and children in period dress; advertisements for Watkins Vanilla and Watkins Baking Powder; soup, fish, vegetable, meat, cheese, egg, salad, dressing, pickle, relish, preserve, fried food, baked good, dessert, beverage, and candy recipes; page with brief history of Watkins products and mention of Grand Prix with Gold Medal from 1928 International Exposition in Paris; advice on preparing school lunch boxes and menu suggestions for 12 boxed lunches; list of Watkins products; and index. Sample recipes: spinach emerald (or other greens), beefsteak pie, and corn bread (southern style).

Item [12] promotes Watkins products. Item [12] is similar to item [11] but has a different colored cover; and images of children in period dress have been colorized. Damaged: center pages partially torn from binding.

Item [13] promotes McNess products. Includes cake baking advice and cake recipes attributed to Edith Moore, Champion Cake Baker; endorsements, with endorsers' images, from Miss Marguerite Clark, 4-H Club Baking Expert, Hedda Hopper, Hollywood persona, Estelle Taylor, actress, Chester Morris, actor, and Leila Hyams, actress; recipes from Argentina, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland in each country's language with English translations; popular American soup, baked good, entree, vegetable, salad, preserve, candy, and dessert recipes; images of factory, product packaging, and man, women, and children in period dress; advertisements for McNess Spices, Sarsparilla and Burdock Compound, McNess' Fly and Insect Killer, and other McNess products; section about trade with the McNess dealer, listing number of years company has been in business (since founding in 1908); and list of McNess products. Sample recipes: pan paraiso, spätzle, and borju velő palacsinta (calves' brain pancake). Damaged: 2nd copy missing front cover. 2 copies.