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17 Vintage Recipes From the 1970s We’re Happy Do Not Exist Anymore!
vintage everyday ^ | 11/29/2020

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.


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To: Chickensoup

Just this weekend I bought a 1965 edition of the ring binder Betty Crocker cookbook. I have the picture one and a reproduction picture one, but didn’t have the original! The 1965 one has the same 1950’s photos and recipes. Real basics!


141 posted on 11/30/2020 6:11:01 PM PST by Moonmad27
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To: Moonmad27

Great basic American cooking book. That and the old Joy of Cooking are kitchen basics. The center reference section of Joy is the best.


142 posted on 12/01/2020 1:17:04 AM PST by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Leep

The brown and harvest gold and avocado green were the more earthy and natural looks as a change from the pinks and lime greens of the 50s and early 60s


143 posted on 12/01/2020 1:24:38 AM PST by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: albie

To those of us who couldn’t boil water that was a new concept.


144 posted on 12/01/2020 1:26:31 AM PST by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Albion Wilde

Originally dishwasher salmon and other dishwasher meals were developed to use less energy during the oil crisis of the 70s


145 posted on 12/01/2020 1:33:32 AM PST by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: CJ Wolf

Very trendy now among millennials


146 posted on 12/01/2020 1:35:48 AM PST by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: mylife

70’s = “vintage”?
Lord that makes me “old”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


147 posted on 12/01/2020 1:38:09 AM PST by mrsmith (US MEDIA: " Every 'White' cop is a criminal! And all the 'non-white' criminals saints!")
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To: oldvirginian

Back when appliances were well engineered


148 posted on 12/01/2020 1:39:40 AM PST by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Chickensoup

It’s also a small city in south Florida.....................

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantation,_Florida


149 posted on 12/01/2020 5:19:10 AM PST by Red Badger (Democrats cheat. ... It's what they do. ... GUARANTEED! ... Even if it's not necessary!....)
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To: Red Badger

Now that I think of it I know someone who lives there


150 posted on 12/01/2020 5:36:38 AM PST by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Chickensoup

Cool! I did not know that. Did they recommend putting the foil-wrapped food in with the detergent and dishes? Otherwise, where’s the savings? I guess it’s possible...


151 posted on 12/01/2020 5:40:11 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice." --Donald Trump)
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To: Chickensoup

I used to live just outside there in Margate.............


152 posted on 12/01/2020 5:41:11 AM PST by Red Badger (Democrats cheat. ... It's what they do. ... GUARANTEED! ... Even if it's not necessary!....)
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To: colorado tanker

My sister’s grandkids LOVE the mac and cheese recipe from one of the Betty Crocker cookbooks from the ‘70s.


153 posted on 12/01/2020 5:44:16 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ("Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free" Galatians 5:1)
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To: Vigilanteman
"Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road"

LOLs -- I remember that!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nssSIKOrSNk

154 posted on 12/01/2020 5:44:37 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice." --Donald Trump)
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To: mylife

Chicken salad with fruit in it ... yuk. My friend brags about how everyone loves her chicken salad, and when I tried it, there were GRAPES in it.


155 posted on 12/01/2020 5:46:21 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ("Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free" Galatians 5:1)
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To: mylife
In the 1970s Pop Tarts made the scene,and we had Spatini (sp) a tomato sauce powder mixed with water. I also like fried bologna.
156 posted on 12/01/2020 5:50:24 AM PST by 4yearlurker (Freedom.....where is she?)
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To: polymuser

Fried bologna on white bread and mayo. Deelish!


157 posted on 12/01/2020 6:33:33 AM PST by albie
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Used to buy it in the store, like a giant sausage like 8 inches long but the regular bologna diameter.
Cut of a slice like 1/4 inch thick, slab it in rye bread and dijon mustard, pop a brew and off to the races!


158 posted on 12/01/2020 6:37:32 AM PST by djf (Better to be anecdotally alive than clinically dead!)
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To: Albion Wilde

Yes well wrapped with the dirty dishes


159 posted on 12/01/2020 6:46:09 AM PST by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: mylife

When all the election fraud criminal are rounded up they should be fed twice a day. Four slices of bread and two slices of baloney twice a day While awaiting their executions


160 posted on 12/01/2020 7:33:08 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) t Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay My, o. h, my, what a wonderful day)
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