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Item [1] promotes Rumford Yeast Powder. Almanac and cookbook. Includes moons' phases and sun rises sun sets calendar. Testimonials on the efficacy of Rumford Yeast Powder in treating nervous affections, dyspepsia, bilious diseases. Cover illustrated with turkey hiding from farmers ax. Some recipes use wine or liquor as an ingredient. Sample recipes: Corn cakes, Biscuit for dyspeptics, and Rumford Johnny cake.

Item [2] similar to item [1]. promotes Rumford Yeast Power. Expert testimony from physicians in using baking powder to treat dyspepsia, morning sickness, intemperance, seasickness. . Cover illustration of young girl holding a locket. Other illustrations include children on a picnic, mice stealing fresh baked pies and cookies, children baking birthday cake. Some recipes use liquor as an ingredient . Sample recipes: Rice buns, Custard pie, Angel cake.

Item [3] promotes Star Crystal Baking Powder. Provides a table of equivalents and table of proportions. Blank pages for additional recipes. Several newspaper recipes pasted inside. No illustrations. Includes hints on cake making. Some recipes use wine, beer, or liquor as an ingredient. Variety of recipes for breads, cakes, pastries, soup, fish, entrees. item is very fragile.

Item [4] Richard Baxter's cookbook for bakers. Inscription states that the recipes are the fruit of many years' experience as a baker. Laid inside is a type written letter from E.B. Gallagher and Company that discusses a formula for fried cakes. Illustration of Richard Baxter with signature. Blank pages for notes. Variety of recipes for cakes, sweets and rolls, cookies. Sample recipes: Lemon cookies, English muffins, Puff-paste.

Item [5] promotes Rumford Baking Powder. An eight page treatise on the constituents of baking powder; phosphates, tartrates, sodium sulphate. No recipes.

Item [6] promotes Royal Baking Powder. Laid inside is a explanation on the three different kinds of baking powders on the market. Provides a four page warning against using alum baking powders with expert testimony from chemists, physicians, and hygienist. Hints on baking and cake making. Exhibitable cover illustration of mother and daughter baking a cake and rolls. Some recipes use wine or liquor as an ingredient. Variety of recipes for cakes, pies, dumplings, puddings, sauces, meats, poultry, fish. Sample recipes: German apple cake, Spice cake, Minnehaha cake.

Item [7] promotes Dr Rice's Cream Baking Powder. Provides directions on proper storage of baking powder. Facts worth knowing on the three different kinds of baking powder; tartar, phosphate, alum. Expert testimony from Prof. Vaughan, University of Michigan, on the negative qualities of baking power made with alum. The back cover contains a warning against canvassers from the Alum Baking Powder making misleading claims. Variety of recipes for griddle cakes, breads, fish, soups, meats and poultry, vegetables, puddings, cakes, pies. Sample recipes: Saratoga chips, Bachelors pudding, Brandied peaches.

Item [8] promotes Swans Down Cake Flour. Illustrations of a variety of cookies and cakes. All recipes use Swans Down cake flour. Sample recipes: Banana nut cake, Butterscotch cookies, Cheese straws.

Item [9] promotes Cooperative grange league federation exchange. Recipes by Lucile Brewer of Cornell University. Inside cover contains a foreword by H.E. Babcock, General Manager. Hints at making good bread. Variety of recipes for bread making, puddings, cakes, cookies. Sample recipes: Clover leaf rolls, Caramel rolls, Whole wheat spice cakes.

Item [10] promotes Mountain City Hill Flour. Kitchen hints on washing greasy dishes, keeping yolks fresh, left over vegetables. Household hints on painting house, washing windows, gas stove burner care. Blank pages for additional recipes. Variety of recipes for fish, eggs and omelets, salads, breads, meats and sauces, vegetables, cakes, pies, sandwiches. Sample recipes: Cream of lima bean, Baked hash, Sandwich fillings.