Item [1] promotes Kitchen Bouquet vegetable extract. Includes recipes; offer of free sample; and cover illustrations of cook in period dress and serving suggestions. Sample recipes: mock terrapin soup, roulades of beef, and vegetable sausages.
Item [1] promotes Schofield's cake griddle. Includes description of small griddle, for 6 cakes, and large griddle, for 8 cakes; advice on use of griddle; pricing information; and patent dates. No recipes.
Item [1] promotes Quaker rolled white oats. Includes poem about the Frolie grasshopper circus and very colorful youth-oriented illustration on each page, two of which feature patriotic themes. All pictures depict boxes of oats as props for the circus characters. No recipes.
Item [1] promotes Mazola Corn Oil. Includes foreword by Jane Ashley explaining benefits of using Mazola Corn Oil to lower cholesterol because it is rich in "L-plus" factor; tips on pan-frying, shallow frying, broiling, and deep-fat frying; how to re-use Mazola; and serving suggestion and product packaging illustrations. Sample recipes: oven-fried chicken, baked frozen vegetables, and Dutch apple cake.
Item [1] promotes wine education courses from Vintage Enterprises and led by Martin Weiner. Includes descriptions and topics lists for courses "Wines of the World" and "Wines of Bordeaux"; logistical information; prices per person and couple; address for Vintage Enterprises; telephone number for Weiner; list of other courses offered by Weiner; and images of grapes, vineyards and wine labels. No recipes. Two copies.
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 [2] is similar to [1]. List of teachers and testimonials deletes Miss Anne Barrows. "If you do not have ice set ... in cold running water." Has illustrations of packaging similar to [1]. Printer name was deleted. 2 copies.
Item [1] promotes canning and preserving. Includes instructions on domestic food production of fruits and vegetables; advice on preparing, drying, and storing foods and pest control; reasons for drying produce, including war food usage; recipes for cooking dried fruits and vegetables; offer for additional copies; and images of women in period dress and serving suggestions. Sample recipes: spinach and creamed cabbage. Damaged: some pages not cut during production, back cover slightly torn.
Item [1] promotes Collins Baking Co. Includes two die cut Easter place markers, one with illustration of chicks in a cart hauled by another chick, one with chicks reading a book. No recipes. Damaged: one portion of one die cut missing, one portion detached.
Item [2] promotes the Geneva Hand Fluter. Includes image of girl in period dress using product. No recipes.