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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I saw two of them but never saw Fripp :(
Ping
Canned String beans in can of mushroom soup with canned fried onions on top. My in-laws also cooked loved that one. I’m more of a fresh stringbeans almondine person.
The whole secret is its supposed to be drenched in rum.
My in-laws still serve ambrosia salad. With the cool whip.
My mom had those.
I think I finally got rid of them.
Ah got it. 👍
Madeline reports from San Francisco and as an anti American deserves no post here
Grandma made mincemeat pie with actual meat.
No mayonnaise?
I hate that dish. Waaaay too slimy.
If someone called to invite me to “Friendsgiving,” I’d hang up on them.
Mine did too, but I never liked the raisin part, mexicans and arabs do that stuff too
For a Bloody Mary I make do with Clamato & Texas Pete.
Haven’t seen Snap-E-Tom since...the 70’s?
I’m sure the logo of the Mexican with a tomato for a head was long ago condemned as wacist.
Be happy to make you a real one. Ours looks nothing like that. And it’s soaked in booze.
It’s just a bit of fun.
Thanks
Remember gelatin salad with cottage cheese? Usually green, maybe with peaches or pineapple?
Family members made using those molds. Gross. I hate cottage cheese.
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