Item [26] is a brochure from Candy Americana Museum and Wilbur Chocolate's factory candy outlet, Lititz, Pa. Includes map, story of Wilbur Chocolate, and illustrations of museum and factory. Notes O.S.H.A regulations prohibit visit to operating areas of factory.
Item [27] promotes Bosco malt as healthy drink for children, convalescents, and those fatigued, increasing value of milk by 30%. Information approved by Food Research Laboratories, Inc., over signature of Dr. Philip B. Hawk, president. Includes serving suggestion and product packaging illustrations and N.R.A and Good Housekeeping Institute seals. Sample recipes: Bosco tapioca and whipped cream.
Item [28] promotes Cocoamalt as diet supplement for healthy and malnourished children, convalescents, expectant and nursing mothers, and to cure sleeplessness with illustration and text for each. Includes serving suggestion and product packaging illustrations; chart of nutrients; and A.M.A. seal. Form B-21-C.
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Item [1] promotes Baker's chocolate and cocoa. Includes section of "approved chocolate receipts"; section of "miscellaneous chocolate receipts from best authorities," most of which are attributed to individuals (including Pierre Blot, Maria Parloa, Marion Harland, Mary F. Henderson, Sara T. Paul, Mrs. Blair, Matilda Lees Dods of South Kensington School of cookery, and Flora Neely) or other recipe collections (including the Dessert book and Choice receipts); favorable comparison of cocoa and chocolate with tea and coffee; advertisement for Baker's Racahout des Arabes with illustration of Arabs on camels in dessert; and cover illustration of maid in period dress serving beverages on tray. Some recipes include wine, beer, or liquor as an ingredient. Sample recipes: homœopathic chocolate, wine chocolate, and chocolate souffles. Cover signed in hand by Mary E. Mathes with address and date of death.
Item [2] promotes Baker's chocolate and cocoa. Includes description of Baker's plant in Massachussetts; remark that company won 20 medals at the Great international and other exhibitions; description of Baker's Breakfast Cocoa, prepared without "alkalies or other chemicals or dyes," with certification by James F. Babcock that it is absolutely pure; brief descriptions of other Baker products; endorsement of chocolate as a perfect food from Baron von Liebig; and illustrations of cocoa pods and medal from Paris World Exposition of 1867. Sample recipes: chocolate glacé cake, chocolate profiteroles, and sugar chocolate caramels. Covers appear to be missing.
Item [3] promotes Baker's chocolate and cocoa. Includes description of Baker's plant in Massachussetts; "Gold Medal, Paris, 1900" at top of title page; section of choice recipes by Maria Parloa similar to those in item [2]; section of recipes using Baker's Breakfast Cocoa by Elizabeth K. Burr of Boston Y.W.C.A.; endorsements of food value of cocoa and chocolate by dieticians, physicians, and medical journals; brief descriptions of Baker's products including Croquettes "for golfers, bicyclists, and tourists"; and illustrations of Baker plant, group of demonstrators (in period dress) for Baker, cocoa pods, Walter Baker & Co.'s building at Buffalo Pan-American Exposition, serving suggestions, and product packaging. Sample recipes: chocolate éclairs, Genesee bonbons, and cocoa fudge.
Item [4] is unused Walter Baker & Co. envelope with line drawing of Walter Baker & Co.'s building at Pan-American Exposition in top left corner.
Item [5] promotes Baker's chocolate and cocoa. Expanded version of item [3]. Includes introduction on company and increasing popularity of chocolate and cocoa; choice recipes by Maria Parloa; recipes specially prepared by E.K. Burr; fudge recipes; recipes by "other noted teachers": Mrs. Rorer (from "Mrs. Rorer's cook book"), Mrs. Lincoln (from "Boston cook book"), Gesine Lemcke (from "Desserts and salads"), Fanny Merritt Farmer (from "Boston Cooking School cook book"), Mrs. Salzbacher (from "Good housekeeing"), Myrtie Ethelyn Robinson, Emma P. Ewing (author of "The art of cookery"), Janet McKenzie Hill (from "Ladies' home journal"), Cornelia C. Bedford (household editor of "Table talk"), Helen Armstrong, and Mrs. Abel (from "Practical sanitary and economic cooking"); state recipes; miscellaneous recipes; endorsements of food value of cocoa and chocolate by M. Brillat-Savarin and Baron von Liebig, among others; brief descriptions of Baker's products; art nouveau decorative border on title page; illustrations of Baker plant in Dorchester, Mass., group of demonstrators (in period dress) for Baker, maid in period dress serving tray of beverages on back cover, cocoa pods, gold medal from Paris Exposition, serving suggestions, and product packaging; and index. Sample recipes: Cinderella cakes, chocolate almond strudel, and Michigan chocolate cocoanut cake.
Item [6] promotes Baker's chocolate and cocoa. Revised version of item [5]. Includes more decorative cover with border of cocoa pods and flowers, index at front instead of back, and virtually identical set of recipes. 2 copies.