Sounds more like a toddler’s Grimoire than a cookbook

[sailorjupiter28titan]

Sounds more like a toddler’s Grimoire than a cookbook

Discussion

[Sublingua]

I’d try that–leave out the nuts though and use sliced bananas or shredded carrots or canned mandarin slices. Yup. (Though in the South, they’d probably sub sliced hard boiled eggs for the nuts and make it for luncheon.)

[Fkingcherokee]

So what I’m reading is that I can re-create 3-2-1 Jello from the 90’s with cream cheese and soda.

Edit: it was 123 Jello, dyslexia was bad as a kid.

[Akitiki]

Can someone tell me what “put in mold” in this context means???

[cadfaelia]

Jello concoctions were a huge deal from like WW2 to around the 80s, and continued to be a tradition in the south and in Texas up until about y2k. My great grandparents loved a dish called Tomato aspic, which is basically tomato soup jello, and it was served in fancy restaurants in the area I grew up until about 15-ish years ago.

If a dish was made with traditional gelatin instead of agar, then it was meant to impart proteins like collagen into the diet to keep people healthy inexpensively. I had a Better Homes and Gardens cookbook from 1963 that had a section that explained how to balance all the nutrients a person needed for a day, and desserts were included in this because many older desserts would have gelatin and dairy to help balance out the diet with proteins, calcium, and vitamin D. Also, my great grandparents told me a lot about the Great Depression and WW2, various hardships over the years, and how people made it through them (along with foods eaten to survive).

I really have nothing to explain the Coke salad other than maybe capitalism. Coke probably originally released this recipe themselves in a coupon book or sales ad, and women wrote it down and incorporated it into their own family cookbooks. Lots of brands did this back in the day, to promote the sales of their products.

[depthnoir]

Are you supposed to make the jello with the coke instead of water? Can that even work?

[vholecek]

This sounds like some of the “potions” I made in the yard as a child.

[xyzqvc]

I have absolutely no idea how the final product will taste or look. Cream cheese with orange cola flavor. Very interesting

[DimitriVogelvich]

I’m really glad this was found. In my family cook books, there are some newspaper recipes glued to the pages and there are a lot of Coca-Cola themed baking things, usually cakes. Just how much of a theme was there. I’ve seen redbull and MtDew as ingredients.

[MelancholyMushroom]

I never thought I’d have to ask but what was the old definition of *salad*?

[epicarcanoloth]

Yeah in the 70s salad could be anything cold and in a bowl.

[GlitteringFig5161]

Nope. Nope.

[AngelaPisky]

That made me laugh!—nervously, for I have had toddlers

[LaPyramideBastille]

It’s a potion for diabetes.

[WeeklyYoghurt4617]

Is this ‘White Trash Cooking’ ? It’s not actually that old. Some scary stuff in there.

[Super-Diver-1585]

I have one of those too, but this recipe beats anything in mine. All of my salads have at least one thing that is, or once was, produce, even if it’s just grapes, or a handful of lettuce, or both.