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Item [7] promotes Cow Brand Soda. Includes perpetual calendar; introduction to the housewife; full-page advertisement for Cow Brand Soda (or saleratus); advantages of Cow Brand Soda; use of soda with sour milk, buttermilk or cream of tartar; household tips; tips for estimating measures, measuring cubic contents of a corn crib, and capacities of square and circular cisterns; advice on using baking soda for various household tasks and for farm animals; postage rates and regulations; tables of weights and measures and weights of a bushel of grain in 34 states; how deep to plant corn and amount of barbed wire required for fence; daily savings at compound interest; illustrations of product packaging; recipes for breads, cakes, candies, desserts, puddings, pies, soups, and sauces; and index. Sample recipes: corn dodgers, Queen Ann apple flamri, and Everton taffy. Marked: (Cow).

Item [8] promotes Karo Waffle Syrup. Includes 10 recipes and product packaging illustration. Sample recipes: maple upside down cake, baked grapefruit, and spiced apples. Marked: A-199-E.

Item [8] has an introduction by Mrs. Charles B. Knox. Includes note that she has been running the business since 1908. Has offer for women reading the message to visit the factory. Has instructions for making cottage cheese as a meat substitute. Many recipes do not include gelatine as an ingredient. Some recipes include wine as an ingredient. Has recipe for war cake. Offer for other books, including item [11].

Item [7] promotes the Garis-Cochrane dishwasher. Includes two blueprints showing detailed image of machine broken down with descriptions; and attached sheet with description of dishwashing process. No recipes.

Item [7] promotes Häagen-Dazs ice cream. Includes offer to join free rewards program by completing survey; die cut shaped like pint of Haagen-Dazs ice cream; and illustrations of man and woman in period dress, product packaging, and serving suggestions. No recipes. 2 copies.

Item [8] promotes Cream of Rice cereal. Includes endorsement letter from New York physician Dr. Harry J. Johnson, recipes, advertisement, nutrition advice, suggested menus for both regular bland diet and low residue diet, and recipe categories for low fat, egg free, low salt, milk free, salt free, and wheat free diets, and product packaging illustrations. Item includes a loose letter from the company, with a business reply envelope, asking doctors to promote the booklet to their special-diet patients. Sample recipes: apricot rice cream, chicken souffle, and baked egg in rice nest.

Item [8] is similar to item [5] but includes new school and class description attributed to Hillman; dates and price information for 1980; and does not include list of special events.

Item [7] promotes mass food production. Includes information and advice on the shipping by parcel post of fruits, vegetables, poultry, eggs, meats, dairy, nuts, and other farm products; postal regulations; advice on finding customers, taking orders, arranging prices, taking payments, and choosing shipping containers; images of products, stages of shipping process, and woman in period dress; chart of parcel-post rates; and advice on harvesting and selecting fruits and vegetables, fattening, killing, and dressing poultry, curing and chilling meats, and proper care of dairy products, eggs, nuts, flowers, and other shippable farm products. No recipes.

Item [8] promotes fish and sea food from Meletio's. Includes list of fish and sea food and time of year when in season; general instructions for preparing fish, lobster, crab, frog legs, and oysters; ways of cooking salt fish; ways of using remnants of cooked fish; chafing dish recipes; period dress illustrations; and index. Sample recipes: lobster cutlets, clam and tomato bisque, and fried fillets of halibut. Defective copy: covers missing.