Where Vintage Never Gets Old...
Bad Vintage Recipes
Part of the charm of the old cookbooks for me is how awful some of the recipes are. Even the ones that I do like, I have to adapt and cut out a lot of grease, add more spices or completely remove the aspic aspect of it. (sorry if you guys like it, but...eugh!)
I thought it would be fun to add a list of the worst recipes we've encountered.
I remember a particularly bad one my mom used to make with pork chops, ketchup and american cheese slices. Those were all the ingredients.
I thought it would be fun to add a list of the worst recipes we've encountered.
I remember a particularly bad one my mom used to make with pork chops, ketchup and american cheese slices. Those were all the ingredients.
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Permalink Reply by MTippingAtelier-Admin on -
OH, that recipe for the pork chops does sound rather....um, odd, to say the least--LOL! I do remember my mother saving all the bacon grease, which was the fat of choice (aside from Crisco) for EVERYTHING, it seemed, in a little aluminum container in the fridge. I was raised in the late 50's-60's and back then she fried everything in grease, usually to the texture of linoleum, and the only spice she knew was garlic (she was Italian, albeit lived most of her life in West Virginia, which explains a lot;).
I will have to think on some bad recipes--and I agree with you on aspic, eeeewwww! -
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Permalink Reply by NoPatternRequired on -
It is funny that you bring this up! I just had a Worst Mid-Century Recipe Contest on my blog, No Pattern Required. Readers submitted terrible recipes, and my husband, Tom and I tested out the Top 4 worst contenders. It was pretty funny. The finalists were:
Summer Salad Pie (A cheese crust, tomato/lemon gelatin filling (of pure evil!), all topped off with tuna salad. Ack.)
Lemony Salmon Tower (A glorious tribute to disgusting canned fish, this two-level, shimmering spectacle is set off by a truly repulsive selection of questionable side dishes.)
Creamed Eggs in a Corned Beef Crust (Pretty much what it advertises.)
Jellied Tongues (Yeah. That's right.)
We are voting on the winners right now, so go over and check out the awfulness!
Mid-Century Menu - Worst Recipe Contest -
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Permalink Reply by MTippingAtelier-Admin on
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HAHAHA! I was going to have lunch but these stunners put me off my feed;) HA!
M.
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Permalink Reply by Out Of The Attic 2u on
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Yuck-O-main
Now I do remember the bacan grease, haven't used it in a long time but man it does make some good eggs, the rest of the stuff made me lose my appetite and will have to eat later, maybe in a few days :) lol. Porkchops, ketchup and cheese omg icky.
But you know some of the new cookbooks are just as bad. I made this cornpie for a picnic and man it was the pits the funny thing is that it said sourcream and I put in creamcheese, no don't ask don't know why it happened, I had my glasses on lol. For the same picnick I made a strawberry cheese dessert which was an embarassment, I didn't know where to hide I mean 2 in one day!!! Glad thats over and on to some more glutton for punishments
MTippingAtelier said:HAHAHA! I was going to have lunch but these stunners put me off my feed;) HA!
M.
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Permalink Reply by MTippingAtelier-Admin on
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Now, VintageRose, don't you know you should never try a new recipe on an unsuspecting audience!? BWAHAHAHAHAH! I have done that on occasion and I was mortified...However, I think the cream cheese sounds good in the corn pie (whatever corn pie is:)! Arooooooooooooooooooooooo!
M.
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Permalink Reply by MTippingAtelier-Admin on
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Jane, not really off track--the aluminum can is, after all, VINTAGE! :))) I have had the best, bar none, clotted ice cream in Devon, and nobody does fish and chips better!...and bacon grease IS par excellence for making eggs, cholesterol be damned:)
M.
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Permalink Reply by Out Of The Attic 2u on
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You know I never learn my lessons and will probably do it again.
Than cornpie was made with kernal corn and creamstyle corn with bisquit and the sourcream which of course I used creamcheese instead, I did something wrong cause it was two thin and btw when I saw both recipes it stated it made the best crowd pleasers ever, hmmmmmmmm wonder what type of folks were they??? lol
MTippingAtelier said:Now, VintageRose, don't you know you should never try a new recipe on an unsuspecting audience!? BWAHAHAHAHAH! I have done that on occasion and I was mortified...However, I think the cream cheese sounds good in the corn pie (whatever corn pie is:)! Arooooooooooooooooooooooo!
M.
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Permalink Reply by MTippingAtelier-Admin on
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You have me chuckling:)!
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Permalink Reply by Aralis Bloise on -
OMG, your website it great! I can't believe you actually ate that stuff! I so want to make some digusting food now!
NoPatternRequired said:It is funny that you bring this up! I just had a Worst Mid-Century Recipe Contest on my blog, No Pattern Required. Readers submitted terrible recipes, and my husband, Tom and I tested out the Top 4 worst contenders. It was pretty funny. The finalists were:
Summer Salad Pie (A cheese crust, tomato/lemon gelatin filling (of pure evil!), all topped off with tuna salad. Ack.)
Lemony Salmon Tower (A glorious tribute to disgusting canned fish, this two-level, shimmering spectacle is set off by a truly repulsive selection of questionable side dishes.)
Creamed Eggs in a Corned Beef Crust (Pretty much what it advertises.)
Jellied Tongues (Yeah. That's right.)
We are voting on the winners right now, so go over and check out the awfulness!
Mid-Century Menu - Worst Recipe Contest -
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Permalink Reply by Aralis Bloise on
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You guys have probably seen this already, but in case you haven't.
http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/
no discussion of bad vintage recipes is completely without the Gallery of Regrettable Food. -
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Permalink Reply by MTippingAtelier-Admin on
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BWAHAHAHA! NoPatternRequired my mother had these very cookbooks pictured in the first picture of the contest!!! And, yes, I have them now!;) Too funny...
I just started looking through the Gallery of Regrettable Food... I'm diggin' on the cherry pie with decorative.....hatchets?--I can appreciate the connection but (and maybe this is my twisted mind), my initial reaction was that it might be a sort of taste commentary;) Off to look at more culinary delights!
M.
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Permalink Reply by NoPatternRequired on
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Thanks, guys! Glad you liked it!
If anyone is wondering about the outcome of the contest, the Jellied Tongues won, and no surprise there. :)
http://www.nopatternrequired.com/?p=10056
Surprisingly, "bad" cooking is a lot of fun. We make a terrible vintage recipe every Weds, and once you get over your fears it is actually a pretty great time.
If anyone wants to make a bad vintage recipe and do a guest post on my blog, email me at ruth@nopatternrequired.com. And we have another recipe contest coming up in Nov! -
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