MSN--recipes from the Betty Crocker era

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There are some good, old-fashioned comfort food recipes all in the same place here because too complicated to divvy the article up and post separately in each category.


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[buystoys]

My mom used to make her own mincemeat.  She would make a pie every year for Thanksgiving and Christmas.  Her dad loved it, but no one else did.  There was always most of a pie left over.

That's one holiday staple I don't miss!

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Nov 12, 2020 10:20:00 GMT -5 buystoys said:

My mom used to make her own mincemeat.  She would make a pie every year for Thanksgiving and Christmas.  Her dad loved it, but no one else did.  There was always most of a pie left over.

That's one holiday staple I don't miss!

My grandmothers made their own mincemeat, too. One made sandwich cookies using a scant spoonful of mincemeat.

There were only a few ways I could handle it...one was if the pie was warmed and served with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream.

The others were in recipes I discovered on the None Such mincemeat jar for mincemeat drop cookies and mincemeat in fruitcake. 

I doubt that anybody makes fruitcake anymore. When I was a kid, both my grandmothers made them in October, they were drenched in brandy or rum, wrapped in cheesecloth, and stored in the cold room in the basement. Both iced and decorated them and served them on Christmas Eve, after supper on Christmas night, again at New Year's. 

Funny, there was no such thing as leftover fruitcake. Maybe it was because sweet treats weren't as common back then, so holiday cookies/cakes/pies really were treats.

[Tennesseer]

As old as it is, I still like green bean casserole.  Good comfort food.

One year I made a green bean casserole in a blue cheese sauce.  Very rich - and very well received by the dinner crowd.

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Tennesseer Do. Not. Mess. With. Green. Bean. Casserole.

I have a cookbook called "Back of the Box Gourmet" that has the original recipes for a bunch of time-honored recipes. Green Bean Casserole is one of them. I'm sorry if you don't want cream of crap soup in yours, but there are some things that are just sacrosanct, and the original green bean casserole is one of them. To me that would be akin to making egg nog using liquid coffee creamer and/or ersatz eggs. I don't even want store brand french fried onion rings on my green bean casserole. Gotta be French's.

[thyme4change]

The cover photo is a jello mold.

I closed the link immediately.

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Nov 12, 2020 14:55:49 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

The cover photo is a jello mold.

I closed the link immediately.

thyme4change Now that was funny! I can't stop laughing

C'mon. They aren't all that bad. Okay. Most aren't that bad. There's slide #10...that one's for sweet potatoes with the marshmallow crap on top; it's worse than #8 for the Jell-O mold (which even provides a recipe).

But Grasshopper Pie, Baked Alaska, stroganoff? Yum.

[thyme4change]

Nov 12, 2020 15:04:20 GMT -5 @missrigby said:

Nov 12, 2020 14:55:49 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

The cover photo is a jello mold.

I closed the link immediately.

thyme4change Now that was funny! I can't stop laughing

C'mon. They aren't all that bad. Okay. Most aren't that bad. There's slide #10...that one's for sweet potatoes with the marshmallow crap on top; it's worse than #8 for the Jell-O mold (which even provides a recipe).

But Grasshopper Pie, Baked Alaska, stroganoff? Yum.

I don't like either sweet potato casseroles, nor green bean casseroles. Why would you do that to a green bean. They are delicious just as god gave them to us.

[swamp]

Nov 12, 2020 15:44:08 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

Nov 12, 2020 15:04:20 GMT -5 @missrigby said:

thyme4change Now that was funny! I can't stop laughing

C'mon. They aren't all that bad. Okay. Most aren't that bad. There's slide #10...that one's for sweet potatoes with the marshmallow crap on top; it's worse than #8 for the Jell-O mold (which even provides a recipe).

But Grasshopper Pie, Baked Alaska, stroganoff? Yum.

I don't like either sweet potato casseroles, nor green bean casseroles. Why would you do that to a green bean. They are delicious just as god gave them to us.

No, they are canned grean beans which kind of suck.   cover them with cream of crap soup, some canned mushrooms, some whole milk, and sauteed onions,  and it's delicious. 

I once made green bean casserole with fresh beans from our garden.   Non GMO, organic, etc.    It was vile.    Those beans are perfect the way god gave them to us. 

[swamp]

sweet potato casserole is way too sweet, I like naked or deep fried sweet potatoes.

We still do deviled eggs, mealoaf, and swedish meatballs at my house.  



My mom used to make this monstrosity every Christmas called "ribbon salad."  She got the recipe from a magazine like Good Housekeeping or something like that.  Sounds ymmy, right?  No.  It was a layer of green jello on the bottom, a layer of red jello on top, and some horrible white shit in teh middle.  It had mayo, marshmallows, whipped cream and pineapple (I think) as the middle layer.  It looked great and when I first had it, I thought the middle layer was whipped cream.  Nope, nope, nope.  

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swamp I remember something like that, too. It was a dessert-y thing. There was another one that was supposed to be a "salad" that had sliced green olives in it. among other things...diced celery, Bell pepper, grated carrots...and was slathered with mayo. After the first time, I knew to keep passing that one when it was passed to me. Blech.

I used to make a sweet potato casserole that had apples in it and no marshmallows on top. Another sweet potato recipe around here somewhere that has crushed pineapple (no marshmallows on that one, either). I might break one of those out this year and just cut the ingredients by half. 

50s food wasn't all bad.

[busymom]

I love green bean casserole!  Now when we're together for the holidays, DD insists that's "her" dish to make.  


Which reminds me, I've noticed our local mall isn't set up for the annual Hickory Farm stand.  I may need to order their goodies online this year for our holiday table.

[buystoys]

Did anyone even really like those salads?  I remember the ribbon salad going around and around and no one taking any of it.  There was also a wilted salad that did the same thing.

[Tennesseer]

When we were young, my mom made a shredded cucumber lime jello salad for the Happy Holidays.  I believe it contained...Miracle Whip!!

Maybe a Depression era dish?

[Tennesseer]

I bet this adwill win the advertising industry's 2020 Clio Award of the year.

[thyme4change]

Nov 12, 2020 17:45:08 GMT -5 swamp said:

Nov 12, 2020 15:44:08 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

I don't like either sweet potato casseroles, nor green bean casseroles. Why would you do that to a green bean. They are delicious just as god gave them to us.

No, they are canned grean beans which kind of suck.   cover them with cream of crap soup, some canned mushrooms, some whole milk, and sauteed onions,  and it's delicious. 

I once made green bean casserole with fresh beans from our garden.   Non GMO, organic, etc.    It was vile.    Those beans are perfect the way god gave them to us. 

If they aren't fresh, I will just skip green beans. Life is too short for gross green beans.