Series 1: Gas and Electric Companies includes recipe booklets from gas and electric companies from the 1920s-1970s, many of which were published or distributed around December to mark the celebration of Christmas. Of particular note are the numerous editions and copies of the Washington Gas Light Company's The Wonder Flame from 1944-1954.
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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.
Item [8] promotes electric appliances. Includes tips for entertaining by Marguerite Fenner; party menus; recipes for appetizers, dips, smoothies, brunch dishes, buffet suppers; images of appliances, serving suggestion, period dress. Some recipes include wine, beer, or liquor as an ingredient. Sample recipes: coconut apricot torte, chipped beef fondue, bananog.
