Item [29] promotes Martha Stewart Living and photographs were taken by Anthony Amos, Dana Gallagher, Gentl & Hyers, Thibault Jeanson, Stephen Lewis, and James Merrell. Includes advice and instructions on using food in decorating, such as eggs, apples, and pumpkins. No recipes.
Item [30] promotes Martha Stewart Living and photographs were taken by Reed Davis, Gentl & Hayes, Lisa Hubbard, Stephen Lewis, Victor Schrager, Simon Watson, and Anna Williams. Includes instructions for monthly crafts and two recipes; envelope; and laid-in subscription thank you and advertisement for Martha Stewart magazine, television show, national radio show, and website. Recipes for lime meltaways and valentine's lollipops.
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Item [1] promotes McCall's Magazine. Includes descriptions and illustrations of table settings and serving advice for hosting breakfast, lunch, afternoon reception, afternoon tea, sunday night supper, and dinner parties without a maid; and image of woman in period dress. Marked: 7785-222-15M.
Item [2] promotes the Woman's Home Companion. Includes frosting and cake recipes; diagrams and instructions for making paper cornets; instructions for filling pastry bag, making colored sugar, flowers, lines and scrolls, and using nut and candy decorations; advertisements for cake decorating set and similar publications from Woman's Home Companion; and images of men and women in period dress. Sample recipe: royal frosting. Marked: 25292.
Item [3] promotes Better Homes and Gardens. Includes, attributed with initials and state, bread, entree, one-dish meal, meat, salad, cake, cookie, pudding, and dessert recipes, contributed by readers of Better Homes and Gardens; and advice on food conservation, thrift, and using left-overs. Sample recipes: cheese and peanut loaf, delicious vegetarian dish, and calves liver and bacon, new style.
Item [4] promotes the Woman's Home Companion. Includes advice for performing introductions and calls, usage of calling cards, and performing invitations; advice on etiquette for travel, for guests and hostesses, table manners, and rules for marking linen and silverware; advice on behavior in hotels and restaurants, at teas and receptions, during conversations, at social dances, usage of titles and addresses, mourning customs, car excursions, and children's manners; list of other booklets offered; and image of woman in period dress. Damaged: front cover torn.
Item [5] promotes True Story Magazine. Includes relish or hors d'oeuvre, soup, fish, meat, vegetable, salad, dessert, bread, sandwich, and beverage recipes compiled from Phoebe Dane; includes two hand written recipes on inside front cover; product advertisements for food items, which may include recipes containing these items, soap, cook book, and other advice books; and contains images of men and women in period dress, product packaging. Some recipes include wine, beer, or liquor as an ingredient. Sample recipes: ham muffins, apple zwieback pudding, camp cocoa. Damaged: staining on front cover.
Item [6] promotes Ladies' Home Journal. Includes ideas for theme, holiday, birthday, and special occassion parties; ideas for showers, game nights, and fund-raising events for churches and clubs; advice for making invitations, decorations, party favors; and suggestions for menus and costumes. Sample themes: pioneer jamboree, puzzle party, pirate party (for Halloween). No recipes. Marked: JE 1032B 9899A.
Item [7] promotes Woman's Home Companion. Includes advice by Alice Bradley on measuring, adjusting recipes for flavor or number of servings; description of foundation recipes; beverage, raw and cooked fruit, cereal, hot bread, hors d'oeuvres and sandwich, soup stock and soup, egg and egg dish, fish, meat, sauce and gravy, vegetable, entree, salad and salad dressing, chilled and frozen dessert, pastry, filling and frosting recipes; sample menus; and an offer for a companion booklet, "New Desserts to Freeze in Your Automatic Refrigerator". Sample recipes: eggs a la goldenrod, mayonnaise dressing, macaroons.