Do you like vintage recipes? Then you are bound to love this one. It first appeared in a 1934 church cookbook, From Ridgewood Kitchens. One of the fun things about old cookbooks is that the ingredients are sometimes a bit hard to understand.
Category: Jello Salad
Retro Monterey Soufflé Salad
Today is National Retro Day. What does that mean exactly? Hermelinda Aguilar, Robert Duran and Tina Duran founded National Retro Day as a day set aside to look back on how life was before social media, the internet and the Smartphone ruled our lives. The point of today is to pick a time before the disconnect, a time when people talked face to face rather than text to text, when families gathered around the dinner table and children were entertained with games that did not require an internet connection. Celebrate the activities of that time. Turn off the electronic if you can.
Pistachio-Pineapple Delight aka Watergate Salad
Once upon a time a man by the name of Richard Nixon resigned as President of the United States, the only President to do so. His resignation resulted in the first unelected President in the country’s history – Gerald Ford. Nixon appointed Ford as his Vice President after then VP Spiro Agnew resigned from office. While Gerald Ford might not have been his first choice for VP, Ford was someone Congress was willing to confirm. When Nixon resigned, VP Gerald Ford became President. And so it was that a man who never ran for the highest office in the land became both VP and President of the United States.
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The Pink Stuff
What is it about this simple Jello Salad that is so popular? Seems like at every family gathering throughout the summer; someone brings a big bowl of “the pink stuff”. Be it Auntie May or Cousin Mary. When families get together for a pot-luck in warm weather, someone always pipes up with “Oh, and I’ll make the pink stuff.” Or the question is raised “Who’s making the pink stuff?” It’s expected, like Uncle Bob grabbing you in a headlock and rubbing the top of your head or Aunt Virginia kissing everyone and leaving a big, red impression of her lips on your cheek. At the end of summer, the Pink Stuff is gone, only to reappear at the Thanksgiving or Christmas Table, then poof, gone again until the following summer.
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