Posted on 01/02/2022 8:22:22 AM PST by mylife
McCall’s was a monthly American women’s magazine that enjoyed great popularity through much of the 20th century, peaking at a readership of 8.4 million in the early 1960s. From 1973 through the early 1980s, the magazine created the Great American Recipe Card Collection “capturing the spirit of America through its recipes” by bringing “together the famous dishes… from the 50 states.” It was created by the editors of McCall’s and Random House.
The collection consisted of a plastic recipe card case featuring a bald eagle behind a red, white and blue shield surround by a plentiful food bounty. There are twenty four sections that each had twenty four recipe cards which became 600 cards in total. On each section divider card there is the title of the section, a little illustration pertaining to the theme in the top right corner, a full color photo on the front while on the back was a little blurb about the section’s theme. Lastly there was an index booklet that had a quick reference for all the recipes in the collection. These were available starting in 1973 all the way through the early 1980s.
There were two ways to obtain this collection. The first was to send the card found in the newspaper and McCall’s magazine to Random House. In return you would get the Bicentennial recipe card case, the 24 divider cards and the first set of twenty four cards called “Our Rich Heritage” for a free 14 day trial examination. If you liked the card and wanted to keep going, then you would pay one dollar for the initial set and then get sent the rest of the cards one by one and eventually in small groups at a charge of one dollar per set.
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White Onion is assumed.
THANX!
Dukes
I always said “Son, If you can master the egg, you will never be hungry, or sad”
My mother made chess pie. As I recall it was pretty tasty.
When you see old photos of crowds in the 1950s and everyone was so thin, NOW WE KNOW WHY!!!!!!
Indeed. See my above post.
yup, basically a milk based pie
I’ve made women mad when I tell them that I don’t eat anything that looks like somebody already did.
custard pie!
amen
My favorite is cherry jello with redhots and applesauce.
Lime jello, tropical skittles, pineapple and Spam!
The two chocolate ones look good.
Interesting in a quick glance, I didn’t see any with bacon.
It is hard to mess up bacon or chocolate.
That’ll ruin it - maybe some garlic.
I have that set somewhere... They weren’t all bad. ;)
It is pretty good as a post desert treat in hot weather.
The ham and cheese loaf.. maybe, if I knew what was in it.
Everything else.. not so much. Were these recipes put together after a decade of drug use?
Vietnamese iced coffee... Yom
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