Good Housekeeping's Summer Cook Book is a pamphlet I picked up in an antiques shop the other day. I'm thinking the time frame for this is late 1940s to early 1950s. It is a book of rather pretentious recipes to the taste of that time but certainly not to modern tastes, at least not mine. I scanned a few pages for your amusement.
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| The cover shows a housewife of the period, scurrying about, getting things ready for a summer dinner party. |
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| The dish on the left features curried codfish cakes with bacon and prune delight for dessert. Most of these recipes use pantry staples which I suppose makes it easy for the harried housewife to whip up a meal for guests. Codfish cakes used to be pretty much a New England staple available at fine diners anywhere. It's rare to find them anymore and rarer still to find any good ones. |
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| On the right is one of the most unappetizing things I've ever seen. Sliced, canned tongue with bacon wrapped prunes. Never tried it and never will. What's with all the prunes, you might ask? Beats me. |
eeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwww canned tongue :\
ReplyDeletelol seen this before I started cooking rofl