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Item [1] promotes Diamond Crystal Shaker Salt. Includes entree, soup, salad, and dessert recipes with name, address, house specialty, and image of contributing New York City restaurant; list of other recommended restaurants; portrait and introduction by Kate Smith; product packaging and period dress illustrations. Sample recipes: maraschino frosting, Vermont steak, and aristocratic Irish stew. Marked: 4165.

Item [2] promotes Carey's Salt and includes images from U.S. Dept. of Agriculture and Ball Bros. Co. Includes pickling recipes; illustrated instructions for dry salting, weak brining, strong brining, making sauerkraut, and pickling fruits and vegetables; canning instructions; salting, brining, and pickling home equipment illustrations; factory and production illustrations; product list; section on salt's value in diet by Stena Marie Holdahl; advice on salting, brining, and pickling fruits and vegetables; advice on using salt in cooking meat and vegetables, processing and sorting pickles, sealing containers and selecting spices; tables for salting and brining vegetables, canning fruits and vegetables, salt equivalents, and brining formulas; offer for "Carey's Butchering Guide and Favorite Meat Curing Recipes"; advertisement for Carey's Seasoning and Sugar Cure Meat Salt; and product packaging, serving suggestion and period dress illustrations. Sample recipes: Old English chutney, chow-chow, and ice water pickles.

Item [3] promotes Diamond Crystal Shaker Salt and was prepared for use in Home Economics classes. Includes advice and instructions on the proper use of salt in preparing poultry, meat, fish, eggs, vegetables, desserts and cooked cereals; tables for meat and poultry roasting times and vegetable boiling times; suggested experiments; role of salt in human health; illustrations of the process of producing salt and production equipment; and illustrations of salt particle sizes and product packaging. No recipes. Marked: 8305.

Item [4] promotes Diamond Crystal low sodium, very low sodium and sodium free soup, sauce, and seasoning mixes. Includes table of contents with sodium and calorie counts; product list and descriptions; envelope and order form; images of product packaging and serving suggestions; recipes for soups, spreads, side and main dishes; and illustration of woman in period dress. Sample recipes: beefy spread, stuffed chili taters, chicken tetrazzini.

Item [5] promotes Baker's Extracts food flavorings and Baker's Color Pastes food colorings. Includes list of flavors (like almond, checkerberry, maple, rose, wintergreen); recipes for soups, entrees, cakes, cookies, icings, fillings, pies, pastries, creams, custards, gelatines, puddings, sauces, candies, ice creams and ices; list of colors and directions for use of color pastes; and images of product packaging and period dress. Sample recipes: baked bean soup, apple fritters, economy cake.

Item [6] promotes Spice Islands brand seasonings, arrowroot, beef stock base, and vinegar. Four leaflets include seafood, vegetable, meat and bread recipes. Three of the leaflets include an offer for a Spice Islands folio to hold the recipe leaflets. Sample recipes: prawns Madrid, dill sauced dumplings, cinnamon crunch swirl loaf.

Item [7] promotes the American spice trade, and was prepared by Bernard L. Lewis, Inc. It includes a quote by Walter Raleigh; detailed timeline of spice history from 50,000 B.C. to 1959; detailed history of the spice trade; and a bibliography of suggested readings. No recipes.

Item [8] promotes chervil and other Spice Islands products. Includes offer and order form for additional Spice Islands recipes; and has recipes for soups, salads, side and main dishes using chervil. Sample recipes: chervil souffle, sauce verte, chicken chasseur.