Item [2] promotes Crisco shortening. Includes cooking hints; information on Crisco; and product packaging, period dress, and serving suggestion illustrations. Sample recipes: rolled oat wafers, vanilla wafers, English fruit cake, and rice pudding.
Item [1] promotes use of Ball jars. Includes: instruction on canning process and techniques; advertisements for Ball jars; and some recipes that include liquor as an ingredient. Pinned in: personal notes on coldpacking fruits and vegetables. Some notes on recipes written in.
Item [2] is similar to [1], but has earlier tesimonials. Has illustrations of a motor car.
Item [1] promotes housekeeping products by Haley, Morse & Co. Includes images, desriptions, and prices of the Union washing machine and clothes wringer combined, Sherman's Improved clothes wringer, the Boston carpet sweeper, the American Mangle ironing machine, and the Reliance wringer; user testimonials; and image of woman in period dress. No recipes.
Item [2] promotes Lisk's Patent Anti-Rusting Tinware. Includes illustrations and product descriptions of various anti-rust products, including pails, dippers, wash basins, dish pans [for washing dishes], tea-kettles, wash boilers [for laundry], sprinklers [watering cans], coffee-pots, tea-pots, coffee boilers, stew-pans, measures [measuring cups], cups, oil cans, bath tubs, toilet sets, and roasters. No recipes. Damaged: front cover/some pages torn, some pages stuck together, water damage near bottom.
Item [2] promotes Royal Baking Powder and was illustrated by Charles J. Coll. Includes recipes for baked desserts; children's story of fabled land; serving suggestion, product packaging, and story illustrations; and offer for "New royal cook book". Sample recipes: surprise muffins, doughnuts, and royal cinnamon buns.
Item [1] promotes vacuum-packed coffee. Includes history of coffee, how coffee grows, characteristics of coffee, advantages of vacuum-packed coffee for preserving flavor and freshness, world map showing coffee growing areas, methods for making coffee, coffee recipes, illustrations of coffee tree and coffee been, and bibliography. Sample recipes: coffee walnut cake and coffee jelly.
Item [1] promotes Blue Ribbon and Sun-Maid dried fruits from the Grand Valley of California. Includes history of raisins, dried peaches, figs, and prunes. Marked form Adv. 332-E. Form ADV 375-E laid in; Mary Dean identified as author.
Item [2] promotes Kitchen Bouquet vegetable extract. Includes 17 recipes by A. Louise Andrea and cover illustration of cook in period dress. Sample recipes: baked shad, Spanish veal, and Palisade sauce.
Item [2], a price list for dry and pickled fish, promotes fish from dealer Wm.O. Churchill & Co. No recipes.