Item [8] promotes use of Arm & Hammer and Cow Brand Baking Sodas as a dentifrice and features commissioned illustrations of birds by Louis Agassiz Fuertes from the ninth and tenth series of "Useful birds of America". Includes common name, scientific name, and habitat information for each bird. No recipes. Each card numbered by series.
Item [9] is a history of the Rumford Chemical Works. Includes history of the company; biographies of founders Eben N. Horseford and George F. Wilson and of Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford; illustrated descriptions of past and present company facilities and baking powder manufacturing techniques; and quotations from the works of Count Rumford. No recipes.
Item [10] promotes Rumford Baking Powder. Includes introduction about cooking with baking powder; advantages of Rumford all-phosphate baking powder; illustrations of product packaging, people in period dress and serving suggestions; recipes for vegetables, meat, fish, cheese, eggs, desserts, icings, and candy; and index. Sample recipes: tomato bisque, French meat sandwich, and lemon pie filling. Marked: K-104. I-31.
Item [11] promotes Rumford Baking Powder. Notebook with blank graph-paper pages and covers with advertisements for Rumford Baking Powder. Includes product packaging illustration. Marked: A.62. Damaged: covers loose.
Item [12] promotes Rumford Baking Powder. Includes recipes compiled by Henrietta C. Beeks for biscuits, breads, muffins, cakes, cake icings and fillings, puddings, confectionary, and ice cream; table of weights and measures; tips on measuring; offer of "Rumford complete cook book" by Lily Haxworth Wallace for 10 cards from one-pound Rumford Baking Powder cans; advice on reading the label; and illustrations of child on front cover, Rumford factory, and product packaging. Sample recipes: steamed Boston brown bread, Rumford marigold cake, and cream tutti-frutti. Name handwritten on front cover. Marked: P-49.
Item [13] promotes Clabber Girl Baking Powder. Includes anonymous testimonials; comments on origin of baking; illustrated table of 7 vitamins and their sources; tips for perfect baking results; recipes for biscuits, muffins, quick breads, cakes, cookies, cake frostings, pastries, desserts, noodles, and dumplings; and illustrations of standard beef cuts, women in period dress, product packaging, and serving suggestions. Sample recipes: Clabber Girl biscuits, orange nut bread, and pumpkin chiffon pie.
Item [14] promotes K C Baking Powder. Includes recipes, some by Janet McKenzie Hill, for self-rising flour, breads, cakes, muffins, biscuits, pancakes, puddings, desserts, and cookies; qualities of K C Baking Powder; facsimile of award given to company for service during First World War; product guarantee; tips on oven temperature regulation; tables of proportions and equivalent weights and measures; and illustrations of company laboratory, serving suggestions, and product packaging. Sample recipes: K C German coffee cake, K C berry puffs, and K C oatmeal macaroons.
Item [15], by Elsie Stark, director of Home economics dept., R.B. Davis Company, promotes Davis Baking Powder, Davis Dry Yeast Baking Powder, and Cocomalt. Includes classifications of batters and doughs; characteristics of the pastry group; method of mixing and essential ingredients of biscuit or pastry dough; descriptions off members of the pastry family; standard biscuit recipe; table showing relationship of certain pastry doughs; general directions for pastry; physics of pastry making; pie crust recipe; puff paste recipe; recipes for baking powder biscuits, pies, and vol-au-vents; and list of other booklets in the series. Sample recipes: bran biscuits, lemon pie, and chicken à la king vol-au-vents. Marked: A.
Item [16], produced by R.B. Davis' Home economics dept., promotes Davis Baking Powder, Davis Dry Yeast Baking Powder, and Cocomalt. Includes table of smoking temperatures of common fats; classification of fats; list of equipment for deep fat frying; list of foods that may be cooked in deep fat; temperatures and time table for deep fat frying; recipes for doughnuts, crullers, fritters, and croquettes and list of other booklets in series. Sample recipes: vanilla and mace doughnuts, corn fritters, and potato balls. Marked: C.
Item [17], produced by R.B. Davis' Home economics dept., promotes Davis Baking Powder, Davis Dry Yeast Baking Powder, and Cocomalt. Includes history of bread; notes on physics and chemistry of bread; definition of baking powder; general rules for making quick breads; general proportions for batters and doughs; recipes using batters and doughs; and list of other booklets in the series. Sample recipes: popovers, waffles, and shortcake. Marked: G.