Item [8] promotes magazines published by Treasure Chest Publications Inc. Includes "how to" advice for food, fruits, vegetables, salads, and miscellaneous food; advice on preserving, laundry tips, curtains, stains; and advice for kitchen, dining room, floors and rugs, cleaning, about flowers, clothes, sewing, and odds and ends. No recipes.
Item [9] promotes Dell Publishing Co., Inc. Includes advice on measurements and temperatures, a buying guide, housekeeping hints, and menu suggestions; beverage, bread, sandwich, soup, fish, poultry, meatless main dish, meat, vegetable, sauce, salad, and various dessert recipes; advertisements for Kre-mel, Karo, and "Fashion" magazine; offer for "Illustrated Astrology" by National Astrological Journal; and index. Some recipes include wine, beer, or liquor as an ingredient. Sample recipes: baked bean loaf, tropical ham dinner plate, zabaglione. Damaged: cover deteriorating.
Item [10] promotes Country Gentleman magazine. Includes recipes for and advice about sugar rationing and sugar substitutions; advice for food preservation and meal planning; recipes for milk and cheese, vegetables and fruits, salads, meat, fish and poultry, dried beans, eggs, breads and cereals, and a section for how "to serve a group"; suggestion for South American [theme] Party; "Little Spice Lesson" on using and substituting spices; offer for "decalomanias" of the "right foods" for decorating kitchen (Kitchen Nutrition Chart D-101); images of woman and child in period dress and serving suggestions; and index. Sample recipes: giblet soup, berry-mint punch, soybean salad.
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Item [11] promotes Woman's Home Companion and was prepared by Bernice Strawn, home equipment editor, and illustrated by Tony Venti. Includes advice on electric cooking utilizing freezer, electric range, and refrigerator; targeted at "career wife", "committee woman", and "week-end hostess"; images of women in period dress, serving suggestions, and electric appliances; 5 recipes from "Kitchen Carnival" tv show [sponsored by?] Detroit Edison. Sample recipe: nut-brown vegetable pie. Damaged: sheet tearing along creases.
Item [12] promotes Abt Institute of Natural Therapy at 188 W. Randolph, Chicago, IL. Includes advice on good health through natural living; medical advice; advice for improving eyesight, staying young, osteopathy, acquiring calicium, presbyopia, ulcers; advice for proper nutrition, caring for teeth, effects of food on health, need for reducing sugar, proper vitamin; recipes and food analysis; section describing taro root; advertisements for bottled water, soap, and shoes; offers for an eye-strengthening chart, "Road to Health" magazine, vitamin A pills and yeast pills, Cuban honey, Wheatex-B, flower blend teas, and K & K electric vegetable shredder juicer by Knuth Engineering Co.; and images of men and women in period dress.
Item [13] promotes the Pontiac Press with Lifestyle Editor Janet Odell, Consumers Power Co. with Home Service Advisor Mrs. Fredricka Woolston, and Cooperative Extension Service. Includes, attributed by initials to the Pontiac Press, Consumer Power Co., and Cooperative Extension Service companies, appetizer, main dish, salad, bread, vegetable, and dessert recipes; advertisement for Cooperative Extension Service Family Living Program; and image of woman in period dress. Some recipes include wine, beer, or liquor as an ingredient. Sample recipes: meat sticks, whoppin' hot dog slaw sandwiches, zucchini creole.
Item [14] promotes Good Housekeeping Magazine. Includes recipes and menu suggestions for bridge parties, children's parties, holiday parties, teen-age parties, special parties, breakfasts, buffets, light refreshments, outdoor meals, snacks, suppers, and teas; advice for planning successful parties, looking pretty at party, and buying for party; and images of serving suggestions and men, women, and children in period dress. Sample recipes: jellied cucumber rings with shrimp, orange-prune sherbet, cornbread stuffing. Damaged: cover torn in half at binding and dettached.
Item [15] promotes Good Housekeeping Institute. Includes appetizer, dessert, frosting and sauce, main dish, relish, and vegetable recipes; menu suggestions for hurry-up dinners, pantry-shelf dinners, and do-ahead dinners; vegtable cooking and buying chart, meat and poultry amount buying guide, and temperature and time charts; and a recipe directory. Some recipes include wine, beer, or liquor as an ingredient. Sample recipes: pears in burgundy, noodle pie, creamed potato quickie.
Item [16] promotes American Magazine. Includes two separate magazine inserts containing multiple recipes attributed by name; first sheet is Christmas Recipes from the American Magazine and second sheet is Dutch Treat Recipes; preview of next issue at bottom of back page. Sample recipes: special Santa Claus salad, bikliva, Iva Wanamaker's stuffed pig stomach. Damaged: tearing along creasing.