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Item [19] promotes the Wards Signature hand mixer. Includes advice on care and use of mixer; cake, frosting, candy, cookie, dessert, pie, bread, and miscellaneous recipes; offer for Gourmet International cookbooks; and images of serving suggestions. Sample recipes: lemon cake custard, creamy garlic dressing, cherry nut frosting. Marked: 86-45702 86-45703 011-3002902.

Item [20] promotes the Cuisinart food processor. Includes advice on care and use of food processor; appetizer, soup, meat, vegetable, dessert, and three classical puff shell paste recipes; and laid-in inserts for Cuisinart kitchen scale and cooking club. Some recipes include wine, beer, or liquor as an ingredient. Sample recipes: pate and terrines, seafood medallions grand duke, and gougere.

Item [21] promotes Cuisinart food processors. Includes miscellaneous recipes. Some recipes include wine, beer, or liquor as an ingredient. Sample recipes: pate-style meat loaf, Konigsberger klops, and pineapple surprise.

Item [22] promotes the Wards Signature blender. Includes advice on care and use of blender; and beverage, cake, dessert, main course, bread, baby food, salad, dressing, sauce, soup, spread, dip, and waffle recipes. Sample recipes: pep & vitality drink, old colonial carrot loaf, and frankfurter spread.

Item [23] promotes the General Electric Electric Slicing Knife model EK-4. Includes advice on care and use of knife; advice on slicing various foods; and advertisement for General Electric Deluxe Toast-R-Oven T93 and Stainless Steel Peek-A-Brew coffee maker P33. No recipes. Marked Pub. No. 33-6433.

Item [24] promotes the Silex electric bun and food warmer. Includes advice on care and use of bun and food warmer; suggestions for usage during morning, noon, and night; laid-in factory approved service and parts centers insert; and advertisement for Silex bun and food warmer. No recipes. Marked: 42-692.

Item [1] promotes Ekco Products Company's Ekco Pressure Cooker, model numbers 6002, 6022, 6004, 6024. Includes information on the advantages of pressure cooking; illustrated step-by-step instructions on pressure cooking; do's and don'ts on caring for the pressure cooker; timetables for pressure cooking; recipes for many types of dishes and meals in minutes; illustrated lists of parts with prices; order form for parts; and illustrations of serving suggestions and woman in period dress . 2 copies of an eight page insert in Swedish on Ekco-Kokning. Sample recipes: beets piquant, jellied veal loaf, and cornmeal mush. Damaged: loose cover.

Item [2] promotes Maid of Honor saucepan pressure cooker. Includes guarantee notice; information that pressure cooker is convenient, fast, and economical; description of pressure cooker; general instructions and care of cooker; illustrated steps in cooking; time tables for cooking; ten recipes; illustrated list of parts; repair parts list with prices; instructions of using the cooker for sterilizing; and illustrations of serving suggestions, man and woman in period dress, and Maid of Honor logo. Sample recipes: Swiss steak, chop suey, and bread pudding. 2 copies.

Item [3] promotes Minitmaid cooker, manufactured by Advance Aluminum Castings Corporation. Includes letters of testimony from customers; instructions on assembling and using; illustrated step-by-step instructions; offer for Wow cleaning pads and Wow cooking utensil cleaner and polisher; recipes for variety of dishes; canning instructions; time tables for fruit and vegetable processing; catalog of Minitmaid parts; brief history of the company; and illustrations of magician conjuring meals from the Minitmaid, woman in period dress, product packaging, and Rockford and Chicago manufacturing plants. Sample recipes: ox tongue with spinach, fresh thuringer and red cabbage, and cracked wheat with figs. Damaged: detached front and back covers.