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Item [1] promotes the use of electric appliances, compliments of Home Service Division, Edison Electric Illuminating Co. Includes description of labor-saving, cost-saving, and health benefits from the use of electric refrigerators, ranges, waffle irons, and other household and kitchen appliances; recipes for use with electric refrigerators, ranges, and waffle irons; menus; baking tips; offer for additional dessert recipes; images of period dress; and index. Sample recipes: Cleveland punch, Bostonian waffles, Mexican beef.

Item [2] promotes the use of gas appliances, including gas refrigerators, ranges and water heaters. Includes recipes for holiday dinners, fruit cakes, Christmas cookies, holiday candies, confections, Christmas breads; menus for holiday entertaining; images of period dress; offer for additional dessert recipes; and index. Some recipes include wine, beer, or liquor as an ingredient. Sample recipes: Swedish pepparkakor, lebkuchen, yule kage. Marked: 11-48-1. Damaged: cover detached.

Item [3] promotes electric appliances. Includes recipes for appetizers, beverages, breads, cookies, desserts, meat, poultry, salads, and vegetables; index. Some recipes include wine, beer, or liquor as an ingredient. Sample recipes: flaming coconut balls, celery seed bread, crown roast of weiners.

Item [4] promotes the use of electric appliances. Includes recipes for appetizers, punch, entrées, vegetables, salads, breads, desserts, and cookies. Sample recipes: olive wreath mold, Shanghai snacks, whirly-bird ham with orange pineapple sauce.

Item [5] promotes the use of electricity. Includes recipes for holidays, salads, pies, breads, cakes, cookies, and candy; tips for garnishes; images of period dress; images of four women on inside back cover: Bernice Warner, Mrs. Lucille Clover, Mrs. Marie Crook, and Bernice Krieger. Sample recipes: Montego Bay turkey supper, Moravian sugar cake, chow mein cookies.

Item [6] promotes the use of electric appliances. Includes attributed recipes for desserts, salads, breads, main dishes, appetizers and beverages; images of recipe contributors, "all graduate home economists and members of Consumers' Home Service Department": Alice Stilwell, Lorraine Haggart, Linda Rogers, Bernice Kreiger, and Lucille Clover. Sample recipes: walnut marmalade bread, turketti, cranberry goodin' puddin'.

Item [7] promotes Hotpoint electric appliances. Includes tips for home canning; description of canning equipment, including pressure cookers, jars, and utensils; instructions for water bath canning and pressure cooker canning; recipes for sugar syrups.