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Item [1] promotes Pillsbury's Best Flour. Includes recipes and preparation instructions for breads, desserts, and appetizers that are intended for teaching children to cook using knives, stoves, and ovens; story about Pillsbury Flour and children's poems; advertisement for Pillsbury's Vitos; product packaging, children, period dress, and factory illustrations; and offer for Pillsbury's "A book for a cook". Sample recipes: creamed potatoes, sponge cake, and ginger bread. Damage: cover detached and white residue partially obscuring recipes on p. 8, 9, and 10.

Item [2] promotes Royal Baking Powder and was illustrated by Charles J. Coll. Includes recipes for baked desserts; children's story of fabled land; serving suggestion, product packaging, and story illustrations; and offer for "New royal cook book". Sample recipes: surprise muffins, doughnuts, and royal cinnamon buns.

Item [3] promotes Beech-Nut brand products. Includes recipes for breakfast, luncheon, entrees, and desserts attributed to Ida Bailey Allen and are organized into seasonal and event menus; introduction by Ida Bailey Allen, history of Beech-Nut Company; product list; advice on nutrition, balanced menus, and serving meals; serving suggestion, product packaging, children, period dress, original art by Edward Gay, and table setting illustrations; and loose card from Beech-Nut Company offering tour of the Beech-Nut Plant in Mohawk Valley, N.Y. Sample recipes: Beech-Nut savory scrambled eggs, Beech-Nut baked fillets of fish, and Beech-Nut club salad. Marked: H-43.

Item [4] promotes Occident flour and Calumet Baking Powder and was illustrated by Frances Tipton Hunter. Includes recipes for desserts attributed to Helen Harrington Downing and are organized by event; letter written by Helen Harrington Downing to mothers; nutritional information on Occident flour; description of party games for children; product packaging, period dress, and children illustrations; and offer for additional copies. Sample recipes: raisin cup cakes, taffy apples, and marble cake. Damaged: edge of pages watermarked.

Item [5] promotes Dr. Price's Phosphate Baking Powder. Includes recipes for baked goods such as breads and desserts; children's story of fabled land; and product packaging, serving suggestions, and children illustrations. Sample recipes: butterscotch curls, flap jacks, and cocoa raisin muffins. Damaged: cover and pages detaching from binding, writing in pencil on front cover, and stained pages.

Item [6] promotes Ralston Purina Company food products. Includes recipes for breakfast, bread, and dessert; diet, nutritional, medical, and child care advice; first aid instructions; diagram of wheat grain; baby growth chart and two height and weight tables for boys and girls; serving suggestions, product packaging, children, and period dress illustrations; and offer for Devonware "Find the Bottom" bowl. Sample recipes: jack's pudding, boy blue brown bread, and mother hubbard macaroons. Marked: CX--2624A--1500--824.

Item [7] promotes Van Camp's Puréed fruits and vegetables, Creamtex vegetable shortening, and evaporated milk. Includes recipes for entrees, salads, breads, soups, vegetables, relish, desserts, beverages, and breakfast; menus for every day of the week; information on Van Camp's Puréed Food products and their facilities; advice on diet, nutrition, and infant feeding; serving suggestion, product packaging and factory illustrations; and endorsement from the American Medical Association. Sample recipes: spinach timbales, apricot mousse, and cream of carrot soup.

Item [8] promotes the Kroger Food Foundation. Includes recipes for beverages, entrees, salads, and desserts; menus for school children; advice on adequate diet and nutrition in children; list of five good habits; and a loose insert titled "Wheat substitute recipes" recommended by U.S. Food Administration and issued by the J.L. Hudson Company of Detroit, MI with substitution list. Sample recipes: orange nog, salmon croquettes, and prune whip. Marked: Bulletin No. 13.

Item [9] promotes Gerber's Strained Cereal and Strained Vegetables. Includes foreword by Lillian B. Storms, Ph.D., Director of the Department of Nutrition at Gerber Products Company of Fremont, MI; history of Gerber's; description of product preparation; diet, nutritional, and medical advice for mothers on the care and feeding of babies and children; list of Gerber's Strained foods; product packaging illustration; and index and bibliographic references. Damaged: stains on p. 40 and 41. Marked: Form E 5.