Posted on 11/30/2020 11:56:49 AM PST by mylife
There was a time when bananas were considered a perfectly reasonable option for a dish’s main component. Food in loaf form was also popular. Cookbooks with names like McCall’s Great American Recipe Card Collection and Betty Crocker’s Dinner in a Dish Cookbook trotted these dishes out as quick and easy ways to feed your family and impress your guests, and similar recipes were also featured in magazines like Family Circle and Better Homes and Gardens.
We’re not sure if dishes like these were all some sort of prank orchestrated by the editors of these magazines, or whether Betty Crocker and Better Homes were getting serious kickbacks from the mayonnaise, gelatin, and banana industries. But believe it or not, everything here was published with complete sincerity, and, presumably, some people actually cooked these recipes and fed them to their families or friends.
Here are 17 recipes from the 1971 Betty Crocker card catalogue, a collection of dishes we should be glad we’ll (most likely) never be forced to eat.
LOL
Oh, they would try to sing fast, but if they missed a part, I'd make them start over.
*** “Oh it wasn’t all bad, I lived on fried bologna sandwiches” ***
Pretty sure the first solid food I ever ate was Fried Balongna and pretty sure it was just tossed on my highchair tray
My Mom used to freak out when I told her about the stuff I could remember from back when I was just a toddler ;^)
(One room apartment back then)
In the late 60’s there was an avian flu that wiped out the poultry in the midwest.
Women would grind up pork, pack it on a stick, bread it up and fry it like a drumstick.
I have heard it called city chicken too.
Somethings are hard to forget.
“Cheeseburger pie looks good!”
I could give the Cheeseburger pie a whirl.
Also the Frank-Bean bake.
I’ve had a Sombrero pie but with a different name. Actually pretty good served with mashed potatoes.
The Lime Ribbon Delight looks pretty interesting as well.
For the two of us, we’d probably use around 18-20oz of cheeses, give or take.
“Most kitchens were in harvest Wheat..olive drab ...and brown.”
Then the 80’s gave us that terrible Avacado....everything in the damned kitchen was avocado.
I have a vintage seventies kitchen.
You got Little Sambo salt and pepper shakers?? ;)
Se had a blue & black tile kitchen, white appliances and steel & formica table with chrome tube padded chairs. And a milk chute.
I also despise that color, even as an old appliance mechanic. Ew...
I make it for my husband; he calls it “Manquiche” LOL.
Plantation it is a word for a large farm.
“Se had a blue & black tile kitchen, white appliances and steel & formica table with chrome tube padded chairs. And a milk chute.”
I had a relative who had the same table and chairs.
We had an old wooden table and wooden chairs in the old farm house.
The 70’s/80’s proved that trendy today is kitschy tomorrow.
the betty Crocker 1971 ring binder is what I learned to cook from.
Bought copies for all four kids, they all love owning it.
hard to find it vintage.
the only good lima bean is a dead and buried lima bean.
I’m a man and have my role. She’s a woman and has her role. The lord actually designed us that way. I tell people that if I want to get in touch with my feminine side, I reach for my wife. :)
Nailed it. Similar list for wife:
Support her financially
Support her emotionally
And that last one.
Oh, and it’s important to know that it is not about the nail. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaYq06nn0ps
That one was hard for me to grasp. ;)
“I also despise that color, even as an old appliance mechanic. Ew...”
How did your eyes not bleed!?
Do you still wake up sweating from dreaming about avacado appliances chasing you down demanding your services?
My mom refuses to replace something because it’s not in style. Shes more of a keep it till it dies type. She still has an avacado range/oven that refuses to give up the ghost.
She says whoever buys the place when she passes on can replace it if they want to.
She’s such a packrat she still has the refrigerator her oldest brother bought when he got married in 1951 an old Westinghouse (I believe) that has never been repaired and still works like a charm.
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