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The Homemaker's Helper. Kelvinator Wartime Idea eEchange For Home Economists. Project 7: Helps For Home Canning

Publisher: Kelvinator Division, Nash-Kelvinator Corp. (Detroit, Mich.)

Keyterm: Canning

Brand: Kelvinator Refrigerators

Copyright Holder: Kelvinator Division, Nash-Kelvinator Corp

Language: English

Donor: Sliker, Shirley Brocker

Filename: msuspcsbs_kelv_kelvinkitc12

Citation: The Homemaker's Helper. Kelvinator Wartime Idea eEchange For Home Economists. Project 7: Helps For Home Canning. The Alan and Shirley Brocker Sliker Collection, MSS 314, Special Collections, Michigan State University Libraries. Available at https://lib.msu.edu/sliker/object/3805

Copyright: Permission is granted from the copyright owner/holder.

Publication Date: 1943 (ca.)

Description: The front cover is red and black with a photo of muffins on a tray and a bowl of applesauce with roses behind them. The rest of the text is 40 prize-winning suggestions submitted by Home Economists in the National Contest sponsored by Nash-Kelvinator. The back cover is white with a paragraph on foods fights for freedom, a line drawing of a Kelvinator stove and refrigerator. The dealer Kessle & Rummel, Saginaw, Michigan and the address and phone number is below. The front end page has a letter to the housewives of America: You can shorten the war with food signed by Joan Adams, Director, Kelvin Kitchen. There are 40 tips on canning with the name of the contributor and the city and state they live in. There is information on the range and refrigerator in wartimes, using both as aids to home canning, and a variety of fresh foods on the home menu year round. There are no page numbers.