Collections : [University of Michigan Special Collections Research Center]

Item [1] promotes the Coleman Combined Evaporator, Baker, and Refrigerator. Includes discussion of the product's usefulness to women; advantages of the evaporator over traditional fruit drying methods; its use for drying fruits, baking, roasting, boiling, cooking, refrigerating, drying clothes, and storing goods; and images of the evaporator, the furnace or oven room, the drying chamber or section, a fruit parer, and a woman in period dress. No recipes.

Item [2] promotes electric ranges, refrigerators, and other small electrical appliances with some recipes contributed by Better Homes and Gardens, Good Housekeeping, McCall's Magazine, and Woman's Home Companion. Includes advice on the time saving benefits of electric ranges; instructions and recipes for oven meals; menu suggestions; techniques and recipes for meats from the oven, broiling, baking, top-of-range cooking, deep-well cooking, refrigerator and freezer cooking, small appliance cooking, and oven canning, including charts with times and temperatures; serving suggestion illustrations, illustrations of women in period dress, and images of electrical appliances; offer for additional copies; cleaning and care instructions; and index. Sample recipes: butterscotch tarts, nun's cake, and Danish goulash. Damaged: detached cover.

Item [3] promotes General Electric ranges. Includes attributed recipes submitted by women in the General Electric "Roast of the Month" Club, including the Grand Prize winning recipe (with All-Electric Kitchen Grand Prize) and the monthly recipe winners (each awarded a de luxe Stratoliner model range); recipes for beef, sea food, fowl, ground meat, ham, lamb, pork, meat specialties (organ meats), and veal; advice on preserving vitamin content in food cooking and storage; serving suggestion illustrations, illustration of woman in period dress, and image of the All-Electric Kitchen Grand Prize; and index. Sample recipes: oven-barbecued spareribs, harvest ham, and shoulder of pork with Cape Cod dressing. Marked: 340-1413, 3-42.

Item [4] promotes U shaped kitchen design, produced by the United States Dept. of Agriculture. Includes advice on design, counter space, storage space, and shelves for components of a U kitchen: mixing, vegetable-preparation, dishwashing, cooking, serving, planning centers, dining corner, storage features, and pull-out board; illustrations of people in period dress; diagrams of kitchen and kitchen components; images of kitchen areas; offer for working drawings from the extension agricultural engineer at state agricultural colleges or county extension agents. No recipes. Marked: miscellaneous publication no. 646.

Item [5] promotes Philco electric ranges, freezers, and refrigerators. Includes recipes for top of the range, deep well cooking, deep fat frying, oven cooking, baking, roasting, complete oven meals, broiling under glass, using the jiffy griddle, the freezer, and the refrigerator; illustrations of serving suggestions and women in period dress; and index. Sample recipes: peach flake crunch, company sauerkraut, and cotton tail salad. Marked: part no. 2199-2, code no. 180-3536.

Item [6] promotes Cosco step stools. Includes illustrated listing of parts and step-by-step instructions of how to assemble. No recipes. Marked: 4358-1462-01.

Item [7] promotes gas ranges by the American Gas Association. Includes household advice on nutrition, use of frozen foods, dishwashing, and shopping for gas ranges; instructions on cooking methods for steaming, sautéing, French frying, broiling, roasting, and baking; menus; use of clock controls to start and end oven use; discussions of characteristics of the food of France, Spain, Scandinavia, Russia, China, and Creole - New Orleans; time charts for cooking vegetables and roasting meats and fish; table of equivalents, proportions, substitutions, and measurement instructions; and images of woman in period dress and of prepared dishes. Sample recipes: fried oysters, ham and asparagus rolls, and peach cobbler.

Item [8] promotes KitchenAid refrigerators, ventilation, cooktops, ovens, ranges, and drawer dishwashers. Includes images of kitchens with KitchenAid appliances and of the appliances; and mail-in rebate offer for purchases of KitchenAid appliances. No recipes.