Dishes Men Like (Food!)

[PrettySquareGal]

Hey, it's the actual title of the cook book!

Does anyone here cook with vintage recipes? I was thinking it might be fun (or maybe not, I'll soon find out) to post an old recipe, and then whoever wants to can follow it and then post their pictures of the final results! Serve it up on vintage plates, even better!

Care to play? Here's one:

Roast Beef Hash in Cups

1/3 cup chopped onion
2/3 cup diced celery
2 tbspn fat
1 1/2 cup coarsely ground left-over roast beef*
1 cup finely diced cooked potatoes
3/4 cup dry bread crumbs
1/4 cup chopped parsley
1 tspn salt
2 tspns Worcestershire sauce
1 cup evaporated milk

Cook onion and celery in hot fat until golden. Add to remaining ingredients, mix well. Pack in well-greased muffin pans. Bake in hot oven (400 degrees) 25 to 30 minutes.

Actually, if you can post any vintage recipe with the final results (your own cooking and pics) that would be most delicious!

*In my house we never have left over roast beef!

 

[PA Dancer]

The only recipe that I have that has been in our family for years calls for DreamWhip (powder like coolwhip) instead of modern refrigerated coolwhip.

When I lived in San Diego, and made this cake, trying to find dreamwhip in the grocery stores there was near impossible. I finally found it on a top shelf of a store called Vons and the box was covered in dust.

Sorry, I can't share the recipe because of family promises and my Aunt writing "Do not give to anyone" on her recipes.

..but I am sure there other recipes on the box.

 

[PrettySquareGal]

The only recipe that I have that has been in our family for years calls for DreamWhip (powder like coolwhip) instead of modern refrigerated coolwhip.

When I lived in San Diego, and made this cake, trying to find dreamwhip in the grocery stores there was near impossible. I finally found it on a top shelf of a store called Vons and the box was covered in dust.

Sorry, I can't share the recipe because of family promises and my Aunt writing "Do not give to anyone" on her recipes.

..but I am sure there other recipes on the box.

Ohhh but can you take pics of the finished recipe? My grandmother made rehab-worthy chocolate cake with Cool Whip. One bite and you were finished. Mmmmm

 

[dashiell]

rehab-worthy chocolate cake

This, I have never heard as a cake descriptor. I admit being intrigued. If you have that recipe, I would sacrifice myself so far as to turn on my oven during August to play the game.

lol

 

[PrettySquareGal]

This, I have never heard as a cake descriptor. I admit being intrigued. If you have that recipe, I would sacrifice myself so far as to turn on my oven during August to play the game.

lol

The recipe was never recorded before she passed away (RIP grandma). I do know that she put chocolate pudding in it!

 

[VegasMike]

ohhhh, that Roast Beef Hash actually sounds really good
Now if only my kitchen was big enough to cook in.....stupid tiny apartment

 

[PrettySquareGal]

ohhhh, that Roast Beef Hash actually sounds really good
Now if only my kitchen was big enough to cook in.....stupid tiny apartment

Come now, don't let the size of your kitchen deter you! We're talking Roast beef HASH. Mmmmmm

 

[PrettySquareGal]

OK, well I will bite.

I am cooking for all of you and will post pics this weekend!

 

[dostacos]

as a cook my mom made a great bookkeeper

on the other hand she had six fingers and warts...oh wait, wrong topic

she is a fantastic BAKER!!!!! all of her recipes come from her Fathers side of the family [German, from Milwaukee] BAKERY

my dad's father had a BBQ sauce recipe that is fantastic, at least to the family it's primary ingredient is sweet pickle juice. For at least 3 generations [Grandpa and all his bros and sisters were put up for adoption, good news on that is we did not lose the family tree, we go back to 1695]we ate our burgers with sweet pickles instead of dill so sweet pickle juice was available. Did I also mention that Dear old dad was an OKIE? don't know if the recipe is more from poor or more from OKIE[hey he was a PROUD OKIE] but it is good on ribs and burgers and hotdogs oh my

 

[Josephine]

I had quite the stack of old cookbooks like that, but I gave most away as they were just "taking up room". :/ I kept a few...

Well, I could only find two, one is "New Recipes for Good Eating" (softcover) put out by Crisco from 1948, and "The Family Circle Cake and Cooky Cookbook" from 1953. And cooky isn't a typo. Most of the ones I had were put out by appliance makers or brand food companies to show how thier product could be made.

I also have a 1971 revised and expanded reissue of the 1934 Hershey's cookbook.

 

[Foofoogal]

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[KilroyCD]

I'll occasionally whip up a wartime British dish called "Woolton Pie". It was meant as a savoury dish that used items that were not rationed, so it used mostly mixed vegetables. The cookbook I have with the recipe is called "The Victory Cookbook" by Marguerite Patton O.B.E., who was Britain's wartime "Julia Child" (for lack of a better description). She doesn't exactly get specific with the recipe, as there were many variations, but she describes it as being full of whatever vegetables are available with a cheesy sauce and topped with mashed potato. I prepare it in a 3" deep baking dish and I use cream of cheddar soup (concentrate) for the sauce. I'll top the mashed potatoes with grated cheddar and throw it in the oven for 30 minutes at 375 degrees. Once in a while I'll thow in some off-ration meat (like venison) to make it even more savoury.

 

[scotrace]

Big favorite - New England Boiled Dinner. Indian Pudding for dessert.

 

[Miss Neecerie]

I cannot cook this week...its 101 in my house at 7 at night....

but if i make something I will contribute...I too have a whole slew of vintage recipies and maybe if I made them....I would suddenly be popular!

 

[PrettySquareGal]

Big favorite - New England Boiled Dinner. Indian Pudding for dessert.

Ah, lobstah!

 

[PrettySquareGal]

I cannot cook this week...its 101 in my house at 7 at night....

but if i make something I will contribute...I too have a whole slew of vintage recipies and maybe if I made them....I would suddenly be popular!

That would be great!

Everyone loves gals who cook! lol

 

[scotrace]

Ah, lobstah!

Er. No.

Corned Beef.

 

[PrettySquareGal]

Er. No.

Corned Beef.

Oh. (Shows you how often I have THAT!)

 

[scotrace]

Parsnips, potatoes, onions and cabbage. Wow!

It's my "first snow of the year" dinner.*









* Wish I were making it next week!

 

[PrettySquareGal]

Parsnips, potatoes, onions and cabbage. Wow!

It's my "first snow of the year" dinner.*

* Wish I were making it next week!

Oh gosh, I think I want some NOW! Snow, too. I like winter.

I'm looking through my old magazines because I can't find the recipe I plan to use. I want to show their pic and mine after I make it. grrr