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[–] 48 points 10 months ago (17 children)

I live in the midwest and collect old cookbooks. Every "salad" section is about half recipes comprised of mixed vegetables and the like, and half recipes that sound like someone took all the desserts in their house and mixed them in a big bowl with some whipped cream and jello.

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  • [–] 39 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (15 children)

    Be glad. I have my grandmother’s cookbooks. She had one, that I only keep for proof, comprised entirely of mayonnaise recipes. I think it was published by Hellmans. It is full of some of the worst atrocities to food I have ever read about.

    I know I don’t really like everything I’m served, but I swear this cookbook is like for a black-site prisoner encampment that gets deliveries twice a year.

    EDIT: found it.

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    Oh my god that’s amazing. I think you might not know how valuable that is to those of us under the spell of God’s cream.

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Allow me to whet your appetite once more, that you may be fulfilled.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I need to know what the closest dish in that image is! (Presuming the furthest back is Pink Cloud Mold, and the middle is the Salmon-Dill Mousse)

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    I was browsing the local thrift store for 70s-90s cookbooks and in several of them there were fruit soups which were just blended fruit cocktail recipes. I'll post a picture after work. My favorite was cantaloupe soup.

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