Amanda the Great by Amanda El-Dweek for September 26, 2023

Anything tastes good with a tin of Spam and a Jell-o mold.

those are treasures

We’ve recently tried some recipes from the 90s and even those are showing their age.

You should see the Weight Watchers recipe cards/books from the 70’s. Gross

my mom was really into Peg Bracken’s “The I Hate To Cook Book” in the 60s…

Everything was Harvest Gold and Avocado, too.

There’s a website (Mid Century Menu) that used to try recipes from the 50s. I remember they had a chocolate cake made using a can of tomato soup.

Low fat, but truckloads of sugar. No doubt an influence from the static electricity from all that polyester clothing. (Orange clothing. And not the safety vest kind.)

Your angermemnon doesn’t seem as angry today.

Old recipe books from church ladies are always a fun read.

Hey! I represent that remark!

Don’t knock it. I believe those were the first days of green bean casserole with French’s fried onions

Cook books from the ’50’s often list sour milk.

Yum, sounds like disco bar food.

I have a Fanny Farmer and a Joy of Cooking from the late ’40s. My mom gave me the FF when I moved out if the house. It has the best pumpkin pie filling ever. Bith have many recipes for croquettes.

You don’t really need cookbooks anymore. You can just look up all your favorite recipes online and print them all out.

His one big eye is kind of creepy.

Ahaaaah! 1977…a Banner Year ;=)

I doubled the amount of chocolate and halved the amount of sugar in my mom’s brownie recipe. She got her recipe from her mom and she had doubled the chocolate and halved the sugar in that recipe Gramms’s recipe was from the late 1800s early 1900s.

Anything ‘healthy’ was dry and tasteless. Everything tasty was loaded with all the stuff that’s bad for you.

I grew up in a hamburger helper and kool-aid home. Poor and cheap

My mother considered opening a can of Chef Boyardee to be cooking. She didn’t need no stinkin’ books.

I have made an old recipe for decades! A chocolate cake with no eggs, etc. its my family’s fav!

I heard that drugs were big in the 70’s. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but it does explain so much.

Sounds more like a variety of hangover cures.

Is it The Good Cook series from Time-Life books? Those are spectacular!