Documents 6, 7, and 8: Three Documents from A Recipe Book

Documents 6, 7 and 8 are excerpts from a General Electric monitor top refrigerator cookbook from 1927. Read and analyze the three documents. Answer the questions in complete sentences on another sheet of paper.

Document 6: “An Interesting Proof of Food Preservation,” from GE Electric Refrigerator cookbook, 1927

Questions:

   1. Why did General Electric create this particular document?

   2. Why do you think they entitled it “An Interesting Proof”?

   3. What was the test conducted for this article? What were the results?

   4. What questions might you ask about this test and document?