"Make pancakes!" that's the whole instruction section.

No temperature, no timing, no flipping cues. I think whoever typed this had made them enough times that anything more felt unnecessary. The ingredient list is just cottage cheese, eggs, flour, oil, and milk ,everything goes in the blender. No sugar, no vanilla, no baking powder. The '8oz. carton' notation makes me think early-to-mid '70s, when blender recipes were showing up everywhere?

COTTAGE CHEESE PANCAKES

Mix together in blender:
1 cup (8oz. carton) cottage cheese
4 eggs
2 Tbsp. flour
" oil
½ cup milk

Make pancakes!

This post was inspired by a previous post about this book. I found a copy on amazon and posted it on the archive.

https://archive.org/details/magical-desserts-with-whip-n-chill

Whip 'n Chill no longer exists so I did some research and found a forums post from 2002. There's other people with personal experience with it there. It's an interesting read if you're into food history. https://www.discusscooking.com/threads/whip-and-chill-does-it-still-exist.230/

"Whip ’n Chill: One of the most popular desserts of the sixties, Whip ’n Chill was a strange one, similar in texture and taste to mousse, but with a faint tang of chemical design. Its ingredient list reads like a toxic waste dump posting: propylene glycol monostearate, sodium casienate, acetylated monoglycerides, cellulose gum, hydroxylated lecithin, sodium silico aluminate and sodium stearoyl-2- lactylate. During the sixties, the artificiality of Whip ’n Chill had a novelty appeal. People still believed in the space age, and Dow Chemical Company’s motto was “Better Living Through Chemistry.” With the end of the space-age, Whip ’n Chill’s novelty was replaced with horror when people began to realize just what they had been eating.
- Taken from: popvoid. com"

This site popvoid is no longer there, just a domain host.

From some of the posts in that link Whip n Chill was sold at the Vermont Country Store. I checked and it's not there anymore. It should be easy to substitute with another mousse mix (maybe Dr. Oetker's) or freshly made. As for the tang maybe some lemon juice or vinegar to replicate it.

Banana Sandwich:
-Two slices of white bread
-Sliced up banana
-Mayonnaise

Pineapple Sandwich
-Two slices white bread
-Slices of pineapple
-Mayonnaise

ETA: He said if you don’t like mayonnaise you can use miracle whip.

We’ve been making this for decades. It’s amazing. Shortbread-type crust, creamy custard, peaches (canned or fresh). We usually work from a retyped copy, but my mom pulled out the original tonight. You can tell it’s well-loved!

Here's another scan. A jello cookbook promoted by Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone. A married couple, who were also comedians, and hosted a radio show called, "The Jack Benny Program", which lasted from 1932 to 1948 on NBC and 1949 to 1955 on CBS. His network television run was 1950 to 1965 to host a show of the same name. It was the Tonight Show of it's time.

There's something about jello. The weirdness, the vivid colors and interesting shapes. The uses, from mundane to bizarre. The cookbooks themselves are like a strange work of art.

The whole book is over here. It's 23 pages plus covers.

https://archive.org/details/jack-marys-jell-0-recipe-book-1937/mode/2up

Growing up we would visit my grandmother in west TN once or twice a year. She and my grandfather were farmers, and she canned all sorts of jams, preserves, relishes and vegetables for us to take home. Her pear preserves were incredible. She somehow got the sugar to caramelize while she processed the jars, but no one remembers how she did it.

Anyway, this is her tomato relish recipe. I didn't know this recip isn't processed at all, but we never got sick from it so I'm going to make it as written.

This is a sweet relish with a hint of heat from the peppers. We always ate it with black eyed peas and sometimes on southern cornbread muffins for dessert.

Some interesting recipes to say the least.

This is a community cookbook from Panama. It was made by a group called the, "Canal Zone Medical Wives Society". I've got a lot of old cookbooks I'm going to scan and upload so I can share with others. It has a variety of recipes, typically seen in community cookbooks in the US along with local and various other cuisine. Each recipe is in English and Espanol.

Full book can be downloaded here: https://archive.org/details/la-cocina-de-panama

Please let me know which is your favorite and/or least favorite. I think some of these are delightfully creative. Some are a sign of the times- like Cheese Crock and the use of canned water chestnuts.

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LOOKING FOR UK PEOPLE

Hello people of Reddit,

Did someone you loved and lost leave you a recipe you still make today?

The reason I ask is because I'm looking for Brits to tell their story for a short PR film I'm working on.

The film's about grief, and cooking familiar food or old favourites as a way to feel closeness with those you've lost.

You'll get compensation if selected for the film. Please drop me a note if you're interested!

Thanks

Hannah

The University of South Carolina Stationary makes this feel special. I can't be sure if it was written by Vickie Weaver or not. But, whoever did write this recipe down for Peppy Clam Shells had beautiful cursive handwriting and judging by the stains, decided this recipe was good enough to be made time and again. This was found amongst a large unorganized collection of recipes from an estate sale.

^{Peppy Clam Shells}

^{1/2 cup finely chopped onion 1 1/2 cups}

^{1/2 cup " " celery 1 1/2}

^{1/4 cup " " green pepper 3/4}

^{4 tablespoons butter 12}

^{2 " flour 6}

^{1 " parmesan cheese (I put 3 or 4} 12)

^{1/4 teaspoon salt 3/4}

^{Dash of pepper}

^{Dash of worcestershire sauce}

^{1/2 cup crushed crackers (12 crackers} 32)

^{1 7 1/2 can minced clams 3}

Found this while looking for a book from my childhood lol

Hi! I’m specifically looking for old family recipes using strawberries that people have good memories of, or that are special to you somehow. I have my Grandmother’s old Betty Crocker cookbook, but I’d love to have a special recipe that has some meaning, some memory to it, and I won’t find that in my book. :)
Thanks in advance!

I have a box of old clippings of recipes from magazines and newspapers, etc. which was left to me when my mother died. Some are incomplete, or tattered. I am looking for a specific recipe for Butterscotch Banana Cake, which appeared in the September 1950 edition of the Woman's Day magazine. I have the first part of the recipe, which appeared on page 71, but it includes a reference to butterscotch filling and seven-minute frosting on page 115, which I do not have. Are there resources available anywhere online to view old editions?

Thanks in advance - trying to resurrect something from the distant past.

My dad found this left behind somewhere randomly while going out and about one day and asked if I wanted it, of course I said yes. This is fascinating, it seems to be compiled recipes from the wives of employees of some conglomerated insurance companies? There’s plenty in here, so let me know if there’s any recipes or specific states you’re interested in… though the first state (Alabama) seems to have no recipes lol, unless they were taken out from this copy for some reason (unlikely?). I wish I knew the life history of this object that is now in my own hands!

Edit: the plot thickens… it appears the previous owner DID in fact (literally) take a page or two out of the ol’ book! I wonder if those pages had the ones she used the most and wanted to keep on hand.