How about a nice Candle Salad?
Posted on 04/25/2022 9:19:09 PM PDT by algore
If you ever browsed an old cookbook, you probably have stumbled upon some sort of strange recipe that makes you go “What?”. These sorts of recipes usually try to combine completely incompatible ingredients and pass the whole thing off as being “savory” or “piquant” when in reality “absolutely disgusting” sounds more suiting. And we’re not talking about things like salt and caramel. We’re talking about bananas and mayo, or cheese and lime.
Here’s a challenge for you: find a vintage cookbook in your grandparents’ home and try looking for the weirdest and most bizarre recipe you can think of. Now try to actually recreate that meal and serve it to your friends – we’re sure they’ll be pleasantly surprised when they get a nice plate of frozen cheese salad or almonds in a haystack. Don’t forget to serve everything with a nice cold glass of Seven-up milk – bone apple teeth!
Check out the most bizarre vintage recipes in the gallery below!
#1 Banana Candle
#2 Seven-Up In Milk
#3 Ham And Bananas Hollandaise
#4 Almonds In A Haystack
#5 Terrine Of Garden Vegetables
#6 Igloo Meatloaf
#7 Cup Steak Puddings
#8 Lettuce Salad
#9 Lime Cheese Salad
#10 Celery Victor
1 bunch celery
1 cup water
1 beef bouillon cube
1/4 cup low calorie Italian salad dressing
Pimiento strips
Trim root end off celery but do not separate stalks. Remove leaves and coarse outer stalks. Cut celery bunch crosswise once so bottom section is 5 inches long. Cut bottom section crosswise into quarter; tie quarters with string.
In skillet, heat water to boiling; dissolve bouillon cube in water. Add celery bundles. Cover; heat to boiling. Cook about 15 minutes. Drain celery; place in shallow glass dish. Pour salad dressing over celery. Refrigerate 3 hours, turning bundles twice.
To serve, place a bundle cut side down on each salad plate; remove string. Top with pimiento strips. 4 servings (30 calories each).
CELERY VICTOR II
Pour 1/4 cup low calorie Italian salad dressing over 2 cans (16 ounces each) celery hearts, drained, and 2 medium tomatoes, cut into wedges, in shallow glass dish. Cover; refrigerate 2 hours. To serve, arrange vegetables on Bibb lettuce. 6 servings (25 calories each).
#11 Ham ‘N’ Lima Bean Sadness Casserole
Image source: frauhoad
#12 Crown Roast Of Frankfurters
#13 Philadelphia Cream Cheese
#14 Ham In Aspic
#15 Tuna Mold
#16 Potato Fudge
#17 Frozen Cheese Salad
2 2/3 cups cottage cheese
8 ounces blue cheese
1/2 cup buttermilk
2 tablespoons chives
2 teaspoons grated lemon peel
1 teaspoon barbecue spice
My mother was gifted a “Good Housekeeping” cookbook as a wedding present from her father (1968.)
I still have it.
The weekly shopping list is amazing.
Nothing like seeing 2 lbs of Lard on the weekly shopping list.
Seems like a lot of work for boiled celery salad. However, the crown roast of frankfurters at least sounds entertaining.
#8 Lettuce Salad. Obama’s arugula recipe?
“Nothing like seeing 2 lbs of Lard on the weekly shopping list.”
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It might be a good idea to return that 2 lbs of Lard to your shopping list. It’s a good clean, healthy fat and with the upcoming cooking oil shortage it might be a good thing to have around for cooking.
And a lit birthday candle in a jar of lard or shortening is a winter heat source for a small space. Burns for hours.
You need lard to make a really tasty, flaky pie crust. No kidding.
And refried beans!!
This is not a complicated recipe but according to unmatchables, many years ago my buddy and I finishing a night of drinking until the bars closed, we came back to his kitchen and topped it off with toasted peanut butter and onion sandwiches (burp). Seemed to taste really good then for some reason.
Onion Jello.
no racoon terrine??
pb and dill pickle
How about a nice Candle Salad?
Avocado Toast?
:)
#29 Piquant Herring Salad is actually pretty good. Their version is missing the dried cranberries though.
The lard is a lot safer than the crap the government has been telling you for the last 50 years to eat instead.
In the Middle Ages, they rubbed the dough over their bodies before making the meal, thinking that will keep their man.
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