Stepping stone recipes, part 4

I know that my mushroom soup recipe, in the previous post, was from the 1974-76 period because those recipes are all on index cards which each have two words printed on the back. I was on a self-improvement kick. I ran every day, I rode my bicycle as much as possible, I added to my recipe collection and learned to cook better - and I learned two words a day. That was the plan, but I remember that the word-learning did not last long. The idea was to write down two new words on the back of a recipe, flip it over a couple times while I was cooking and by the end of the meal I would have stretched my vocabulary.

Mushroom soup has on its back side "exemplars" and "ostentation."

My poor dinner guest, whoever he or she was.