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2 Linear Feet (4 small manuscript boxes)
Item [1] promotes Parker & Gannett Agricultural Warehouse and Seed Store. Includes specifications and prices for the American meat and vegetable choppers nos. 1, 2, 2 1/2, 3, 4, "B", and 5 and for Silver & Deming sausage stuffers nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4; testimonials from hardware stores; illustrations of nos. 1, 3, and 5 meat choppers and single- and double-cleared sausage stuffers; and mailing envelope. No recipes.
Item [2] promotes the "American" food chopper. Includes descriptions and illustrations of chopper pieces; illustrations with weight, capacity and height for nos. 10, 20, 30, and 40; and 17 recipes. Sample recipes: beefsteak à la tartare, sausage, and English chow chow. Marked: no. 230.
Item [3] promotes the New Triumph Meat Chopper and Tabb & Jenkins Hardware Co. Includes illustrations of model nos. 612, 605, 622, and 634, stuffing attachment, and plates with hole sizes; details of new models nos. 632 and 634; and lists of machines and parts with prices. No recipes.
Item [4] promotes Tabb & Jenkins Hardware Co. Includes specifications, illustration, and prices for Little Giant meat choppers nos. 305, 310, 320, 312, and 322; Woodruff meat cutters nos. 100 and 150; Perry meat cutters nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4; Hale's meat cutter and stuffers nos. 111, 112, and 113; Perry sausage fillers nos. 1 and 2; and New Triumph meat choppers nos. 605, 612, 610, and 622. No recipes.
Item [5] promotes the Griswold Erie food cutter. Includes illustrations and specifications of the food cutter in the small family, regular family, large family, and hotel or restaurant sizes and of the fine, medium, coarse, and nut butter reversible steel cutting knives; recipes that can be prepared using the food cutter; and illustrations and descriptions of Griswold's American and French waffle irons, Griswold's Erie cast aluminum kettle, and Griswold's Erie extra finished ware. Sample recipes: corn fritters, creamed cabbage, and walnut cake.
Item [6] is similar to item [5] except that the Griswold logo on the front and back covers is different.
Item [7] promotes Sargent's Gem food chopper. Includes illustrations of the food chopper with specifications for model nos. 16, 20, 22, and 21 with cutters included in each model listed; illustrations of steel cutters and sausage stuffer attachment; cooking suggestions and recipes by Janet McKenzie Hill, editor of Boston Cooking School Magazine; recipes from the "Kohinoor" and "Ladies Aid cook book"; pages interspersed among the 207 recipes for user to write her own recipes; table of cooking measures; and period dress illustrations. Item includes loose luggage label with illustrations of 4 sizes of Sargent's cutters with directions for use of Gem food chopper and list of what and how it chops. Sample recipes: lamb croquettes, stuffed egg plant, and apple-and-brown-bread pudding. 2 copies.
Item [8] promotes the Russwin food cutter. Includes illustrations of cook in period dress using the food cutter, the four-tooth, ten-tooth, sixteen-tooth and nut-butter cutters, and the food cutter parts; description of the cutter and its merits; recipes some of which are attributed to Mary J. Lincoln (from her "Boston cook book" and "Peerless cook book") and Adelaide Keen (from "With a saucepan over the sea"); and index. Some recipes include wine as an ingredient. Sample recipes: consommé, chicken terrapin, and suet pudding.