Weekly Cooking (and related issues) Thread

[Yaelle]

I’m getting a can for my mom, and putting it in a bowl where you can still see the can creases in the cranberry gel! She loves that! But she will eat the fancy stuff too, I am sure.

[Yaelle]

Now I want to bake that version of apple pie too! I haven’t done a lattice in a long time.

[Jamestown1630]

Of course, it has to go in a beautiful cut crystal bowl ;-)

(That’s what my Grandmother did.)

[Liz]

The legend goes that one year Ocean Spray decided to can the cranberry sauce sans the ridges.....but there was such a consumer outcry, they had to reinstate the ridged cans.

[Daffynition]

Loves my ridgies!

[Liz]

All the divine little ridges are there.

Gotta give Ocean Spray credit for trying---one year they canned it in a glass mold,

[Jamestown1630]

Oooh! How did I miss the glass mold?

I never realized how important those ridges are! I’ve often thought of slicing it in slabs and arranging on a platter; but I guess that just won’t do...

Re: Holiday items in Glass: I’m not finding the Kraft cheese spreads in the tiny glass jars in the store this year; has anyone seen them?

Like these - I especially like the Blue Cheese:

http://www.kraftrecipes.com/products/kraft-jar-cheese-old-english-sa-1093.aspx

[Daffynition]

How wonderful!

I had forgotten about those *glass* jars. My goodness....brings back memories.

Hope you and yours have a fantastic Thanksgiving.

We have so much to be Thankful for, this year.

[Daffynition]

Didn't you get it at the gas station, with a fill-up?

[Jamestown1630]

I do remember those; and preserves that came in drinking-glass jars.

[Jamestown1630]

Also, dishes that came in boxes of detergent.

[Liz]

Shirley Temple cobalt cereal set---bowl glass and creamer......
so precious. Might have come in cereal boxes?

[Jamestown1630]

LOL! I don’t think I ever saw those.

My first (plastic) camera came from sending out boxtops from boxes of hot chocolate. Worked a little better than a Holga, and I loved it ;-)

[Liz]

Surfing collectible sites.....find lots of goodies.

[Jamestown1630]

Didn’t the whole ‘depression’ glass fashion start out as something given away? My Granny collected the pink, and I still have some of it.

[Liz]

I think depression glass was handed out at movies....a dish a week.

[DollyCali]

when I am at wifi (not as much as Id like)and have time, this is positively the most fun thread to browse (maybe tied with gardening thread.

Loved everyones offerings.. as I browsed through just now. Printing up a few

Thank you everyone for sharing so much !

[Jamestown1630]

You’re welcome; and have a happy Thanksgiving!

[Daffynition]

There was a cherished episode of the The Mary Tyler Moore Show, where somehow Mary convinced Mr. Grant to have party at his place. She arrives to help him set up ; as she opens his cupboards she discovers he doesn't have enough drinking glasses for guests. Relying on Mary's advice on how to give a perfect party, Mr. Grant replies that he wasn't sure if he could eat enough jelly in time to get ready.

The look on her face was epic TV. :)

[Daffynition]

Or wash cloths....geez we must be older than dirt. :)