The “Mom’s Carrots” carrot salad recipe calls for carrots, onions, and green peppers seasoned with tomato soup, vinegar, salad oil, sugar, mustard, salt, celery leaves, basil leaves, and pepper. The can of soup and salad oil are two key ingredients that reflect how the recipes in this cookbook capitalize on prepared or canned ingredients. These ingredients also reflect the theme of the cookbook that surrounds making cooking easy and liberating the cook from the kitchen. This recipe provides both the liberated and conventional methods that the cook can choose to follow. The liberated method uses the microwave and the food processor which are two of the tools heavily relied on in this cookbook to save time for the cook. This recipe is preluded with a paragraph that entices the cook to try the recipe, explains some cooking tips, describes serving techniques, and mentions how long you can store it in the refrigerator after it has been made.

The “Turkey-Filled Crepes” recipe calls for flour, water, milk, eggs, salt, and oil to be blended together for the crepes. Onions, garlic, butter, parsley, turkey, sour cream, salt, mustard, and marjoram are blended together to make the filling. The recipe is so simple and easy to make that it does not require both a liberated method and a conventional method of instructions. The cook is encouraged to make use of left-over turkey for this recipe to reduce food waste. They are also advised that after these crepes have been made, they can be stored in the freezer and taken out as needed. Two serving from frozen methods are provided using the microwave and the conventional range to re-heat the crepes. This recipe is very concise with no extra information about Ojakangas’s preferences or special tips. The brief but detailed instructions are an example of the many recipes in this cookbook that had previously been published in the newspaper. The concise information would also be preferred by a liberated cook who only wants to read the facts about the recipe and does not have time to read the filler.