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vanillafluffy ([personal profile] vanillafluffy) wrote2010-06-29 11:11 pm
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From "Farm Journal's Country Cookbook"

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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[identity profile] cbtreks.livejournal.com 2010-06-30 01:30 pm (UTC)(link)
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.)

[identity profile] vanillafluffy.livejournal.com 2010-06-30 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
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.