they come swimming in gelatinous goo and a sauce that looks like ketchup, it tastes like ketchup, but brother... It aint ketchup!
Posted on 11/26/2020 4:39:22 AM PST by mylife
The year is 1950. The Thanksgiving table is set, and before your growling stomach lies a cornucopia of show-stopping dishes: tomato aspic, jellied turkey vegetable salad, creamed spinach and whatever “cranberry surprise” is (yep, there’s mayonnaise in it).
Celia Sack, owner of Noe Valley’s 11-year-old Omnivore Books on Food, is a connoisseur of vintage recipes like these. Formerly a rare-books specialist at an auction house in San Francisco, both her personal collection and her in-store collection of antiquarian cookbooks are extensive.
So when I waltzed in one drizzly San Francisco afternoon with a strange request, Sack was more than prepared to help. I was embarking on a journey most would never choose to take: Instead of leaving the gelatinous monstrosities of ‘50s American home cooking in the past, I was determined to revive them.
With Sack’s help selecting a menu, I planned to test the boundaries of friendship by serving these dishes in an impromptu “Friendsgiving.”
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Lilek’s Wisdom
http://www.lileks.com/index.html
they come swimming in gelatinous goo and a sauce that looks like ketchup, it tastes like ketchup, but brother... It aint ketchup!
I can send you recipes but you will need to wait until summer to get nice tasty tomatoes to make them with.
Lime Jello with thinly sliced celery, shredded carrots, shredded cabbage, chopped rex apples, and pecans in it is actually very good... and refreshing if you live in a hot part of the country or if other dishes served ar on the heavy side.
https://www.cooks.com/recipe/kx8qp085/perfection-salad.html
No worries, I can look them up.
LOL!!!
That is a FABULOUS IDEA !! I WOULD BUY THAT COCKTAIL TABLE BOOK!!!
THAT bread was AWESOME !!
I LOVE LILEKS!!! Is he still alive??
LOL!!!
He’s 62.
REALLY??? He used to be on Hugh Hewitt YEARS ago...funny as hell.
Jello salad didn’t really taste that bad.. it just want good. It was something that was served in the school cafeteria. It was a do ahead salad in a time when refrigeration was limited and husbands didn’t help out in the kitchen. It wasn’t really a Thanksgiving dish at our house when we were kids. Actually my mother and Grandmother never made it. They were more in to cream sauce on everything, peas, corn, potatoes, you name it and they would put a cream sauce on it,
Mincemeat pie with actual meat wasn’t a fad, it was a treat for decades! It was made with venison and was quite good .
And who doesn’t like lime jello with cottage cheese or Snow Pudding? Actually Snow Pudding has been around as long as venison pie, maybe longer, and the original snow pudding and it’s also quite good.
https://www.denverpost.com/2014/04/15/fit-food-snow-pudding-a-light-airy-blast-from-americas-past/
I have no objection to jello salad - we have a great family layered recipe that we make for Christmas that has cherry jello, pineapple, nuts and cool whip. Family loves it.
The type of jello salad I despise is the one with lime jello, tuna, black or green olives, mayonnaise and sometimes bell peppers too. I can’t imagine any child liking that, the flavor mixture is too strange.
The mincemeat pie routine in State Fair is really funny as the mom and dad sneak back into the kitchen to put more and more brandy into the pie. But they made a winner!
Yes, but do you remember the song?
My husband does and will even act out the commercial if he's had enough to drink.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Chutney, scrod and bangers.
Williamsburg, VA a long time ago.
5.56mm
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