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Vintage Recipes
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Sprinkle with MSG???!!!!! Mind you it’s probably the tasiest thing on the plate…
I usually LOVE old recipes, especially the really weird ones, I can’t wait to make those just to see how they would taste. But these all seem so AWFUL, like they’d all taste so bland or bitter. Bologna filled with peas? How flavorless could you possibly get? Not even salt or pepper to help it along.
Shades of the Gallery Of Regrettable Food… my goodness, I’ll never get used to the idea of using gelatine for *salads*. Fruit salads maybe, but green salad?
I have cookbooks of my mother’s filled with these foods that are trying to look like other foods, aspic delight. Makes you wonder how often these dishes were actually presented.
MMMM beef and cabbage cubes! I was going to give some away to Goodwill maybe I should keep these gems if only for my own amusement.
One could probably create a very interesting blog just trying out these recipes.
That’s what I call Cordon Bleurrgghh !
I lived in America for a year in the early 90s, never got used to the jello salad thing. Violently coloured and even with marshmallows! With your dinner!
For more of this, you have to visit the virtual king of retro food:
http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/
It’s a must-see with humorous commentary to boot. The book is great as well. Never understood the jello salad although it is [slowly] making its way back into cooking vogue!
You laugh at tomato aspic, but it is a staple at bridal showers in the south. Some people like tripe. Some people like sweetbreads. Some people like tomato aspic.
This all looks like british food
These look fun to try! We have a very old hand-written recipe book that has been passed down. Hubster wants to transcribe it & try the recipes but I’m not convinced – we don’t know what some of the ingredients even are now! Can they look any worse than the frankwiches though?