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47. I think a tipoff to the recipes being unhealthy could be that the entire book is battered.

Reply to LiberalEsto (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 23, 2013, 01:22 AM

Apr 2013

Thanks, I'll be here all week.

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Reading a cook book from the 60s [View all] spinbaby Apr 2013 OP

Is it "The I Hate to Cook Book" by Peg Bracken? LiberalEsto Apr 2013 #1

Actually.. spinbaby Apr 2013 #5

When you mentioned condensed soup, I guessed! LiberalEsto Apr 2013 #7

I think a tipoff to the recipes being unhealthy could be that the entire book is battered. harmonicon Apr 2013 #47

Here you go HarveyDarkey Apr 2013 #2

Yep. My mom cooked like that in the 60s and 70s. Arugula Latte Apr 2013 #3

What is the cookbook? Many were sponsored/published by Packaged Goods Companies, Auggie Apr 2013 #4

Back in the 60's, fresh fruits and veggies were pretty much locally grown, seasonal items . Arkansas Granny Apr 2013 #6

Yep, Our Fresh Veggies Came out of the Garden in Summer dballance Apr 2013 #8

There was nothing Worried senior Apr 2013 #29

I just loved that little layer of fat in the edge of the pork chips. Arkansas Granny Apr 2013 #41

Mom still makes a pot roast with cream of mushroom soup. KamaAina Apr 2013 #31

Jello molds... pipi_k Apr 2013 #9

Jell-o ... Mmmmm ... Who could resist?! Arugula Latte Apr 2013 #13

Aughhhh!!!! pipi_k Apr 2013 #14

My mom always put either canned pineapple, fruit cocktail, Art_from_Ark Apr 2013 #48

Aaaaaaah! It has EYES! LiberalEsto Apr 2013 #18

Praise its Gelatinous Glory. Arugula Latte Apr 2013 #24

Shivers me timbers. I had no idea there was celery Jello. snagglepuss Apr 2013 #40

Peanut butter and Fluffernutter sandwiches LancetChick Apr 2013 #10

Tuna noodle casserole spinbaby Apr 2013 #11

The best thing to liven up a tuna-noodle casserole LiberalEsto Apr 2013 #19

By the early 1990s when I got to middle school... Chan790 Apr 2013 #20

There's an online gallery devoted to this kind of food: LeftinOH Apr 2013 #12

That's not food... pipi_k Apr 2013 #16

That is horrifying hifiguy Apr 2013 #33

Julia Childs... AnneD Apr 2013 #15

And fitness guru Jack Lelanne kentauros Apr 2013 #23

Ah yes... AnneD Apr 2013 #36

And the Galloping Gourmet - Graham Kerr! csziggy Apr 2013 #46

I remember the old Galloping Gourmet Art_from_Ark Apr 2013 #49

Some of the funiest reading you can find olddots Apr 2013 #17

My daughter has my mother's old cookbook, circa 1941. Arkansas Granny Apr 2013 #42

Blechh! No wonder I was such a bad eater growing up then. The food sucked and I knew it then too Populist_Prole Apr 2013 #21

post-Depression & WWII WolverineDG Apr 2013 #22

In the 80s it turned into hamburger helper. Paulie Apr 2013 #25

We weren't fat back then Sanity Claws Apr 2013 #26

I don't remember eating healthy food spinbaby Apr 2013 #27

And none of that food was GMO or laden with corn syrup. Sanity Claws Apr 2013 #28

Not only all of that, kentauros Apr 2013 #38

EeK! Yer giving me PTSD bad food flashbacks Populist_Prole Apr 2013 #35

not fat because RILib Apr 2013 #37

My parents stayed trim by fighting communism. Bucky Apr 2013 #39

I was blown away the first time I had tuna that wasn't out of a can. Nye Bevan Apr 2013 #30

this is a load of crap! (he said, smiling!) lastlib Apr 2013 #32

A grilled steak was haute cuisine. I lived in Miami Moondog Apr 2013 #34

Not fat because people walked. tavernier Apr 2013 #43

Reading a cook book from the 1140s pokerfan Apr 2013 #44

the old recipes that I find amusing are the attempts at ethnic foods. grasswire Apr 2013 #45

Now that is funny! KT2000 Apr 2013 #50