Menu Minder, A Recipe Calculator
date: label: date made
content: 1974
name: label: maker
content: Willie Enterprises
label: manufacturer
content: Proto Production Plastic
notes: label: Description
content: This rotating cylindrical table helps a cook to alter the quantities of ingredients in recipes.
label: Description
content: A three-column table on the left side indicates how quantities should be multiplied for a recipe with four servings to one with six or eight servings. The rightmost column (for four servings) has the numbers 1, 1-1/3, 2, 3, 6, 8, 10, and 12, with the numbers in the middle column ranging from 1 1/2 to 18 and the numbers in the third column from 2 to 24.
label: Description
content: A second table show how one should alter the number of cups, tablespoons and teaspoons in a recipe to change it by a factor of 3, 2, 3/4, 1/2, 1/4, 2/3, or 1/3. The cylinder has knobs at both ends for rotation. It is enclosed in a brown plastic case with a clear plastic front that has a sticker attached to it. Two windows in the sticker show the tables.
label: Description
content: A mark on the center of the sticker reads: MENU MINDER (/) A RECIPE CALCULATOR. A mark on its right edge reads; COPYRIGHT WILLE ENTERPRISES 1974. A mark on the back reads: MFG BY (/) PROTO PRODUCTION PLAS [. . .] (/) BOULDER COLO. The mark on the back is partly obscured by two of five magnets that will hold the Menu Minder to a metal surface.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Food Culture
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Mathematical Charts and Tables
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Joan P. Nichols
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2001.3103.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 2001.3103
label: catalog number
content: 2001.3103.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mathematical table
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8.5 cm x 24.7 cm x 7 cm; 3 11/32 in x 9 23/32 in x 2 3/4 in