From "Farm Journal's Country Cookbook"

[vanillafluffy]

Recipes from this vintage volume (Copyright 1959, revised 1972):





Got a bunch of 'maters? Here's a bunch of tomato recipes!


More 'maters---but first a few squash dishes:


And finally, a couple things to do with ground beef. What truly proves this is a vintage recipe is the note in the Jumbo Burger recipe, where it says, "If the beef is lean, add suet." Yeah, right. The other one is more or less like SloppyJoes.


There are also recipes for things like Roast Raccoon and Squirrel Stew, but let's pass on the roadkill, shall we?

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Comments

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

I have that cookbook! Mom was not a talented cook, but the best things she made came from the Farm Journal cookbook, and I was so happy some years ago to find a hardback copy in a used book shop. The Virginia Apple Pudding was a favorite I still make. (FYI: Awesome fruit cake and turkey stuffing recipes too.)

But, yeah, it's pretty much a heart attack on a plate with the meat dishes. And I avert my eyes from the wildlife cuisine. :D

I have a Farm Journal "The Thrifty Cook" cookbook that was published in the very early 1970s when there was a meat shortage and it mentions numerous times various ways to stretch "precious proteins."

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

I have a special fondness for stuff like that, and the home ec book circa 1960. I haven't actually tried any of them, but I was trying to submit them to vintage_recipes...got rejected, possibly because I did my habitual LJ cut. (Years of posting fic has made that automatic.)

If I can ever get my kitchen to where I can cookmore than fried eggs in it, I may give some of these a try, there are things that sound delicious.

[cbtreks.livejournal.com]

I love old cookbooks like that. There's a stall at our local Farmer's Market that sells old books and I've found some good ones there - including an Alaska cookbook. Lots of game. (My aunt tells about cooking squirrel pot pie when she lived up there many years ago.)

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Old cookbooks and old household hint books are two genres I love. The recipes are all loaded with fat and salt, cardiac health be damned, and the hints are so quaintly frugal, with things like suggestions for making rubber bands out of the old rubber gloves you were going to discard.