Description:

The wrap-around beige cover has a red, green and blue cross-stitch pattern border and two lines dividing the title and author. The back cover has the same design with "If It's Food plus Quality See Us" in the first block, "Preuss' Food Market, 308 East Grand River, Lansing, Mich." in the second, and "'The Best of Eats in the Way of Meats' Tel. 2-1635--2-1636" in the third. The front end page has "We Pride Ourselves in Helping You With Your Food Problems and Menus for Special Occasions. We Carry a Complete Line of the Ingredients Featured in This Book. Compliments of Preuss' Food Market," followed by address and phone number. The back end page has "You Can Always do Better When You Shop At Preuss' Food Market," followed by address and telephone number. At the bottom is "Where Your Dollars Have More Cents!" The title page has a green border at the top and bottom and a green and white drawing of a basket of food in the middle below the title and author. At the bottom is the company name and addresses and copyright information. The first page has a letter from Mary Blake, Director, Home Economics Department, Carnation Company, followed by a Table of Contents. A four-page introduction describes what irradiated Carnation Milk is, what it does and how to use it. There are rules for measuring and temperatures for baking, frying, making candy and jelly, and "For Simple Rules of Meat Cookery": how to broil, braise, roast and "boil." There are recipes for appetizers, cocktails, soups, entrees, vegetables, meats, poultry and game, fish, salads and salad dressings, pastry, cakes and cookies, desserts, confections, breads, sandwiches, sauces, beverages, garnishes and international dishes. There are several pages of menus for special occasions and holidays, for feeding children and feeding invalids. There are also recipes for children and invalids. There are two pages of Cookery Hints followed by an index. There are several full-page color photographs of recipes and recipe pages have headings at the top and line drawings at the bottom in blue, green or pink. There are extensive manuscript notes.