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.
There are children starving in China!....We shoulda’ve ignored the bastards.
Oh, fried spam is a staple in my house today.
Spam, it’s what’s for dinner!
That is a mutant bean! take it away!
The gallon jug thing cracked me up, we each had a mason jar, koolaid for the kids and sweet tea for mom and dad. Always stopped at those rural highway picnic areas which consisted of a couple of cement tables and benches and no facilities.
Everything but the Seafood Coquilles looked good to me. I like my seafood breaded and deep fried...lot’sa tarter and cocktail sauce.
And, for dessert, I’ll take a big slice of the Lime Ribbon Delight cake with a glob of vanilla ice cream.
Heck, the truth be known, our little old church ladies were still serving some of this stuff at Wednesday night potluck dinners until the COVID struck.
The ex and I would have fondue every two or three weeks.
Using her 1970s vintage enameled pot she inherited from her parents or the whatever.
LOLOLOL
Most of the 70’s looked kind of weird...that hadn’t quite perfected modern clothing....look like a lot of designs were made by people dropping acid.
Watch the tv shows from the 70’s.
Weird i tell ya.
What about cheese fondon't for those who don't like cheese fondue?
back when the Dorothy Hamill haircut was all the rage
Didn’t see anything especially terrible and I’m pretty sure I ate at least a few of these at various banquets and church get togethers back in the day.
Be an American, not an American’t
There’s a cookbook for that: “Manifold Destiny”.
Probably outdated, given the current engines, and lack of free space under the hood...
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I have my mom’s Fanny Farmer cookbook.
I collect old cookbooks. I have tons, including ones from Fanny Farmer and from the Harvey House which served railroad stop meals. They were all published before cholesterol was discovered and are fun to read and try when I get ambitious and nostalgic. I also have recipes passed down through the generations of my and my husband’s families, including ones I had to force grandmothers to make in front of me while I jotted down the ingredients and estimated the amounts.
I have that cookbook too and others from 70s. You are right, nothing wrong with the cookbook, great basic recipes. Every cookbook has some questionable recipes, from every time frame.
The Frank Bean bake is pretty silly. Dump some franks and beans in a casserole dish. Bake for 30 minutes at 300. Serve
I don’t even bother to read articles like that. They can’t keep their nonsense out of anything.
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