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Item [20] is similar to item [18] but excludes one short advertisement for Bovinol on "standard farm necessities" page. Marked: Adv. 2 - 1- 16 - 25.

Item [21] promotes Perfection Oil Cook Stove from Perfection Stove Company. Includes menus from six cooking experts with a short introduction of each contributor with their opinion on Perfection Stoves and culinary backgrounds: Mrs. Sarah Tyson Rorer (cooking editor of Ladies' Home Journal), Mrs. Kate Brew Vaughn, Miss Rosa Michaelis (demonstrator of New Orleans Housewives' League), Miss Margaret Allen Hall (nutrition expert at Battle Creek College in Michigan), Mrs. Belle De Graf (instructor in New York Cooking School), and Miss Lucy G. Allen (principle of Boston School of Cookery). Includes menus with quantity served and illustrations of dishes. Includes index and instructions on canning vegetables. Includes advertisement with product illustrations for Perfection Oil Cook Stoves and Ovens, Perfection Broiler, and Perfection Toaster.

Item [1] promotes Cook's Flaked Rice from American Rice Food and Mfg. Co. Includes coupon for company giveaways, illustration and description of items offered: children's books, table ware, and jewelry. Sample offers: The Three Little Kittens (sent post-paid for two coupons and two-cent stamp or 10 coupons), fruit knife (sent post-paid for 5 coupons and 50 cents or 60 coupons), jeweled hat pins (sent post-paid for 5 coupons and 10 cents or 15 coupons. Includes recipes by Rorer. Sample recipes: flaked rice griddle cakes, mock oysters, cream of rice soup, Jerusalem pudding.

Item [2] promotes Indian corn or maize and the Illinois Women's Exposition Board, by Rorer. Produced for 1893 Chicago World's Fair or World's Columbian Exposition. Includes preface, recipes, and index. Cover illustration shows product, exhibitable. Preface includes benefits of product use. Sample recipes: Zuni bread, Adirondack corn bread, Victoria corn bread, hominy, dandy pudding, plunkets. Rorer acknolwedges Frank Hamilton Cushing from the Smithsonian Institution and Harriet Pond for recipe assistance.

Item [3] promotes Shredded Wheat Biscuits from Cereal Machine Co. Includes directions for serving and stuffing, illustrations of men and women in period dress. Includes recipes by Rorer. Sample recipes: shredded cereal coffee gelatin, cream chicken hash, stuffed tomatoes, asparagus in ambush.

Item [4] promotes Cottolene, Fairy Soap, and Gold Dust Washing Powder from N.K. Fairbank Company. Includes advertisments; illustrations show product packaging, racial caricatures including African Americans picking cotton, and exhibitable illustration of Rorer. Includes household hints and advice on dinner invitations, wine pairings, table setting, tea making, stain removal, etc.; includes chart of seasonal fish availablity and diagram of table glassware. Includes index, product testimonials, quotations and proverbs throughout booklet. Includes recipes by Wister, Parker, Rorer, Corson, Parloa, Lincoln, Harland, Owens, and Gillette. Sample recipes: cream of celery soup, oyster short cake, jugged rabbit, curried eggs, gooseberry pudding.

Item [5] promotes F.Schumacher brand and Quaker brand cereals from American Cereal Company. Products include Quaker Oats, F.S. Rolled Avena, F.S. Parched Farinose, F.S. Grains of Gold, F.S. Cracked Wheat, F.S. Pure Wheat Farina, and F.S. Hominy. Exhibitable cover illustrations show Lady Liberty with two globes on front, Quaker Oats product packaging on rear; multiple illustrations of product packaging in color or blue-and-white. Includes index, recipes by Rorer, and household hints and advice on cooking oats, management of kitchen fire, tidy kitchens, reducing waste, etc. Includes hinged in recipe for Pettijohn's hygienic bread and stamped reciped for Pettijohn muffins. Sample recipes: Quaker breakfast porridge, Quaker Oats tomato soup, farina puffs, fried hominy, hot cross buns.

Item [6] promotes Gem Freezer Clamps and Crown Ice Chipper from North Brothers Mfg. Co. Includes instructions for freezing and moulding. Advertisements include product illustrations for Gem Freezer Clamps, "Crown" Ice Chipper, American Fluting Machine, "Yankee" spiral-ratchet screw driver no. 20, etc. Includes recipes by Rorer, index. Sample recipes: walnut ice cream, ginger water ice, cherry sherbet, frozen custard.

Item [7] promotes 1835 R. Wallace Silver Plate flatware from R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co. Includes instructions on table setting for daily meals. Includes list of 1835 R. Wallace Silver Plate flatware items (spoons, forks, knives, ladles, misc.) with illustration of teaspoons from patterns offered. Damaged: missing rear cover.