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Item [2] promotes Osterizer blenders to prepare food for senior citizens. Includes advice on food and nutrition for seniors; beverage, dessert, main dish, and side dish recipes; a day-long food plan for the senior citizen of 80 or over; and an advertisement for the Oster portable electric meat grinder, can opener head, ice crusher head, Scientific Massage Instrument, and Stim-U-Lax Junior Massage Instrument. Sample recipes: beanburger meat loaf, asparagus casserole, and cream of cabbage soup. Marked: HE 7-6-60.

Item [3] promotes Osterizer blenders to prepare food for babies. Includes advice on nutrition for babies; advice for ages three, four, five, and six months and one year; advice for children who won't eat; baby food recipes; section for completing personal and physical information about baby; section for recording gifts baby received, immunizations, and feeding record; and an advertisement for Osterizer blenders and attachments. Marked: 1740.

Item [4] promotes Osterizer blenders. Contains 8 separate brochures. Includes brochure for dips, dunks, and party spreads, brochure for picnic menus, brochure with blend and store hints, brochure for gourmet cooking, brochure with festive foods for the holidays, brochure for making barbeque sauce, brochure for kitchen tricks, and a brochure putting the holiday mood in holiday menus; and recipes for each occassion. Some recipes include wine, beer, or liquor as an ingredient. Sample recipes: snappy picnic muffins, sauce remoulade, and wine barbecue marinade. Marked: 1868, 1927, HW 108-2-61, HW 98-2-61, HW 49-11-60, HE3-4-60, HE6-6-60, and 2005.

Item [5] promotes the Osterizer 8-speed push-button Liquefier-blender. Includes advice on care and use of blender; appetizer, baby food, beverage, baked good, dessert, entree, preserve, salad, dressing, spread, sauce, soup, and vegetable recipes; images of serving suggestions; servicing information; and index. Some recipes include wine, beer, or liquor as an ingredient. Sample recipes: sherry cheddar spread, golden spoon bread, and cherry whirl. Marked: 63692.

Item [6] promotes the Osterizer Cyclomatic. Includes information on specifications of and uses of blender; and images of serving suggestions. No recipes. Marked: HW1056-7-67.

Item [7] promotes the Osterizer 8-speed push-button Liquefier-blender. Item [7] is similar to item [5] but contains fewer images of serving suggestions and some variation in recipes. Marked: 67673.

Item [8] promotes the Osterizer 8-speed push-button Liquefier-blender. Item [8] is similar to item [7] but contains a different cover design and copyright date; and contains an advertisement for other Oster appliances. Marked: 69957.

Item [9] promotes the 8- and 10-speed Osterizer blenders. Includes advice on care and use of blender; baby food, beverage, baked good, dessert, entree, salad, dressing, spread, sauce, soup, vegetable, and "party favorite" recipes; and laid-in folded brochure with offers for Oster accessories, servicing information, and advertisements for multiple Oster appliances and attachments. Some recipes include wine, beer, or liquor as an ingredient. Sample recipes: frozen lime creme, shrimp étouffé, and tuna chowder. Marked: 203287--Rev. C.

Item [10] promotes the 8- and 10-speed Osterizer blenders. Item [10] is similar to item [9] but contains a different copyright date; and does not contain any inserts. Marked: 203287--Rev. E.

Item [11] promotes Joan Oster Spin Cookery salad dressing mixes. Includes descriptions of available salad dressing mixes; offer for mixes; advice on preparing salad dressings; recipes for basic mayonnaise and tartar sauce; and images of serving suggestions. Marked: 206412 Rev. D (HW 2981-8-74).