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Just No Gelatine!

June 2, 2022 Holly You Ate What? 20 comments

The Knox Gelatine Cookbook
Rutledge Books, Inc, Knox Gelatine, Inc
1977

Submitter: Just in time for those summer gelatine/Jello salads – who wouldn’t want calico corn relish, creamy cranberry relish, or a zesty seafood appetizer in gelatine? The pictures just make my…mouth water would not be the right phrase. This one is off to the sale cart.

Holly: That corn thing looks disgusting, and I’ll eat just about anything! What was the obsession with gelatine in the 70s?? Especially paired with weird things like fish.

Mary: Jell-o-type products should only be used with fruit cocktail and maybe some whipping cream, if you want to be fancy. Even reading a recipe of one of these “savories” makes me gag.

Salad Days

March 15, 2017 Mary Kelly You Ate What? 26 comments

Salads Recipes On Parade Favorite Recipes Press 1966 All the salads you can possibly imagine are here in this book. Very few recipes featuring traditional greens, but of course the staples of potato salad, macaroni salad and our good friend

Gourmet Jell-o Recipes

February 2, 2017 Mary Kelly You Ate What? 18 comments

Joys of Jell-o
General Foods
1960 (est)

I’ll admit it. I have a certain fondness for the old cookbooks, especially the ones with molded food. We have featured quite a few over the years, but I think this one might be a favorite. Nearly every page has a recipe or two that takes creative to a whole new level. You can see the yellow frozen jello loaf below. Looks okay so far. Then we move to the next picture, which has a melon filled with jello. Unfortunately we can’t tell from the black and white picture what flavor of jello was inflicted upon the poor melon, but the recipe suggests lime or red. I shudder to think what flavor is “red,” rather than cherry or strawberry.

But wait, there is more! Now we jump to some savory jello recipes featuring tuna, tomatoes, and cabbage.

Your Friend Mayonnaise

August 13, 2015 Mary Kelly You Ate What? 28 comments

Correct Salads for All Occasions General Foods Corporation 1931 We haven’t featured an old cookbook in a while so I was glad I found this little gem in my library travels. I think the idea that a salad could be

Be a Budget Foodie

November 13, 2014 Mary Kelly You Ate What? 16 comments

The Low-Cost Cookbook Favorite Recipes 1971 Straight from a library shelf to your kitchen! You will love recipes like chicken cacciatore with prunes or a molded apple blue cheese salad. I am sure your mouth is watering from all of these

The Big Salad

August 28, 2013 Mary Kelly You Ate What? 15 comments

Salads
Famous Recipes of America
1968

You know I love a cookbook. I don’t actually cook, but I like to “window shop.” Well, straight from the 1960s we have a lovely array of salads. Truth be told, there are not a whole lot of fresh veggies in the recipes, but certainly a lot of interesting shapes. I think I lost my appetite when the word “congealed” was used. Time to pack your knives and go.