300 Recipes, 300 Wrappings for Anniversary, Birthday, Christmas, and Special Occasions. 2 full-color and 48 black-and-white photographs; 28 Here's-How sketches.

This books is for every woman with a generous heart who takes pride in her cooking. Here is a wealth of recipes for every gift-giving occasion--and each with its own clever packaging. Christmas, birthdays, anniversaries, special holidays---convalescent friends, hostesses, new neighbors, youngsters and oldsters--all are remembered.

The Recipes. Each is delectable: Champagne Strawberries, Mincemeat Fudge Squares, Bittersweets, Sugared Chestnuts, Cranberry Bread, Swedish Apricot Loaf, Caterer's Lemon Pie, Mystery Melon, Upside-down Meat Loaf, Beachcomber's Spaghetti Sauce, to name a few. And there are over 43 cake specialties, from Date Bait to Diamon Angel Food for a Sixtieth Anniversary.

The Packaging. Ideas as original as they are inexpensive: A mason jar of Ginger Peach Butter goes gala with magazine cut-outs and a paper chrysanthemum. For a few cents, empty wine bottles and chemical retorts are turned into handsome cruets for Pride-of-the-House Vinegars. Everything from fish bowls to baby food jars, wallpaper samples to dime-store finds, sequins, beads and costume jewelry -- even milk cartons and ordinary paper bags --  can become attractive wrappings.