250 ways to...

This booklet came from the Culinary Arts Institute, one of America's foremost organizations devoted to the science of Better Cooking. The booklet dates to 1940 and contains several pages of detailed information on cooking various types of meat.

Homemakers generally got 250 Ways to Prepare Meat as part of a newspaper cookbook promotion that worked thusly: 

She would buy a local paper, clip out a coupon offering the booklet, pay the 10-cent newspaper office fee, or order for 15 cents by mail. It was often part of a collection that culminated in a 20-volume set.

250 Ways to Cook Meat

Hungarian Goulash Old Style Salisbury Steaks Swiss Steak in Sour cream Roast of Rabbit

Mexican Tamale Pie Short Ribs of Beef Roast Leg of Lamb Roasted Squirrels

Meat & Cheese Loaf Authentic American Spanish Rice Crown Roast of Pork Stuffings for Meat

250 Ways to Cook Potatoes

Baking Your Potatoes Cream of Potato Soup Delmonico Potatoes Lyonnaise Potatoes Potato Pancakes Potato Puff Balls Glazed Sweet Potatoes Sugared Yams

Au Gratin Potatoes Long Island Potato Soup Scalloped Potatoes Potatoes O'Brien Potato and Celery Hash New Orleans Sweet Potatoes Orange Candied Sweet Potatoes

Boiled New Potatoes Creamed Potatoes Potato Dumplings Salmon Potato Cakes Duchess Potatoes Scalloped Sweet Potatoes & Apples Candied Sweet Potatoes