Grab an Apron

Valentines Questions

Martha — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:06:00 +0000

I wonder if Jo ever got this pattern back?

Who wouldn't love the sub/strawberry heart cake combination?

Merry Christmas

Martha — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:31:00 +0000

Have a Festive Holiday!

Don't Forget the Cookies

Martha — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:33:00 +0000

Enjoy!

Martha — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:31:00 +0000

Comfort Food

Martha — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:14:00 +0000

Betty Crocker's Good and Easy Cook Book, 1954

Main Dishes

Pot Roast
Pepper Steak
Pork Chops
Barbecued Beefies
Chicken and Biscuits
Tuck-away Meat Loaf
Salmon Rarebit Pie

Barbecued Beefies are individual meat loaves with BBQ sauce on them.

Sugar Overload

Martha — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:06:00 +0000

Better Homes and Gardens Junior Cook Book, 1963.

Tutti-frutti-ice Sparkle
"Tall tingling sparklers with colorful cubes-you'd better be ready with lots of refills"

1 1 oz. package each: orange, lime, cherry "summer drink powder" aka Kool-aid
Sugar
Waer
Chilled lemon-lime carbonated beverage aka 7Up

Mix up each Kool-aid put it in ice cube trays - go play.
When frozen mix-up the ice cubes in glasses and a pitcher and pour in the 7Up.

I made this lovely beverage when I was a kid - this is from my first cook book.

Happy Thanksgiving

Martha — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:18:00 +0000

Retro Happy Hour by Linda Everett, Collectors Press, 2003.

Have a very warm and happy Thanksgiving.

Betty Crocker's Party Book, 1960

As Thick as Pea Soup

Martha — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:00:00 +0000

Carnation Cook Book, 1937.

Cream of Split Pea Soup

1 cup dried split peas
2 quarts cold water
Small piece of fat salt pork
1/2 small onion
4 tbsps fat
3 tbspd flour
1 1/2 tsps salt
1/8 tsp pepper
1 cup Carnation Milk diluted with 1 cup water

Pick over peas, cover with cold water and soak overnight. Add the cold water, pork and onion. Simmer 4 hours, or until soft. Press through sieve or potato ricer. Meanwhile, melt the fat and add flour, stir to smooth paste. Add pea pulp, salt, pepper and milk. If too thick, add more milk. Garnish with croutons and toasted almond slices.

Julia Child with a potato ricer.

Now you can use a blender or food processor instead of a sieve or ricer.

Meat Bowl

Martha — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 15:37:00 +0000

Good Housekeeping Cookbook, 1963.

Roast-Beef Hearty Party Salad

Frozen Fench styel green beans
lima beans
turnips
carrots
Italian dressing
roast beef

"...use slightly overlapping slices to go around inside of bowl (preferably a glass one), placing them so they overhang about 1" at the top."

If anyone wants the exact measurements for this recipe, you can write to me.

No Gelatin?

Martha — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:14:00 +0000

Carnation Cook Book by Mary Blake, 1937

Noodle Ring with Creamed Chicken
1 lb. noodles
3 eggs
3/4 cup Carnation Milk diluted with 1/4 cup water
1/2 tbsp Worcestshire sauce
Dash of salt and pepper
2 tbsps catsup
1 cup cheese

Cook the noodles and drain. Beat eggs well. Combine with other ingredients. Add to noodles and pour into buttered ring mold. Set in a pan of hot water and bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees) for 45 minutes. Unmold carefully onto large platter and fill the center with creamed chicken.

Creamed Chicken
One 4 or 5 lb. chicken, cooked until tender
3 cups chicken stock or Carnation Milk, undiluted
3 tbsps finely cut celery
3 tbsps finely chopped green pepper
1 tbsp finely cut parsley
Salt to taste
1/2 cup butter or chicken fat
4 tbsps flour
1 1/2 cups mushrooms, canned or fresh, fried in butter
1/2 cup pimiento, cut in thin strips
2 egg yolks
Paprika

After chicken is cooked, remove meat from bones and cut in cubes. Fry the celery and green pepper in the bottom of the pan with a little of the chicken fat. Heat the butter, add the flour and stir until blended. Add stock or milk and cook until thickened, stirring constantly. Add chicken, celery, green pepper, mushrooms, pimiento and parsely. Just before serving, add the yolks of the eggs mixed with some of the mixture. Season with salt and paprika. Pour this into the center of the noodle ring. Over the chicken, sprinkle tiny bits of pimiento and a generous dash of paprika, and over the noodle ring finely cut green pepper. Onion cups filled with buttered carrots, bits of cranberry marmalade and parsley can be used for garnishes. Serves 8.

Treats

Martha — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:02:00 +0000

Antique Postcard

Betty Crocker Picture Cookbook, 1940.

Peanut Butter Cake
Sift together...
2 1/4 cup cake flour
2 1/8 regular flour
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp salt
add...
1/3 cup soft shortening
1/3 cup peanut butter
1 cup milk
beat 2 min.
add...
2 eggs
beat 2 mins.
Pour into prepared pans. Bake at 350 for 25 to 30 mins. square or oblong 35 to 40 mins.

Peanut Butter Fudge Frosting
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2/3 cup milk or cream
1/3 cup peanut butter

Cook without stirring to a soft ball stage, keeping covered the first three minutes. Remove from heat. Let stand until cool. Add peanut butter when mixture is cool

A lot of Work

Martha — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 01:39:00 +0000

Betty Crocker Picture Cookbook, 1950.

Supper Dishes

Tossed Green Salad
Spaghetti with Meat Balls
Welsh Rarebit (in fondue pot)
Sub-gum and Fluffy Boiled Rice (lower left)
Sausages, Tomato Slices with anchovy Fillets, Toast - for Welsh Rarebit.
Serving of Rarebit
Assorted Sweet Pickles
Hot Tamale Pie

Hot Tamale Pie
Picturesque dish form Old Mexico...
Cook in 1 tbsp butter until golden brown
1 medium sized onion
1 green pepper
Romove from skillet. Add and brown...
3/4 lb. ground pork
3/4 il. ground beef
Add and simmer 20 min...
the browned onion and pepper
2 cups cooked tomatoes
2 ot 3 tsp chili powder
2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp. pepper
1/2 cup ripe olives, sliced
Line bottom and sides of a 2 qt. cassarole with corm meal mush. Pour in hot meat mixture. Top with remaining corm meal mush. Bake. Serve hot. Temp. 375 for 1 hour.

Corn Meal Mush
mix 1 cup cold water with 1 cup corn meal. Stir in 3 cups boling water, 1 tsp. salt. Cook, stirring constantly, until mixture boils. Cover, cook over boiling water 30 min., stirring constantly.

High Art?

Martha — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 01:17:00 +0000

Heller Hostess-ware
Colorrama tumblers, sherbert dishes, and pitcher c.1950
Carnegie Museum of Art

Martha — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 16:09:00 +0000

Betty Crocker Picture Cook Book, 1950.

Seasonal Salad Bowls

Winter: Carrot Curls, Golden Orange Slices, Spinach, Lettuce and Celery Leaves.
Autumn: Red Apple Slices, Diced Green Celery, Lettuce Hearts, Sprigs of Parsley.
Summer: Cauliflowerets, Tomato Sections, Sprigs of Mint, Head Lettuce.
Spring: Radishes, Bermuda Onion Rings, Cucumber, Endive, Nasturtium Leaves:
Holiday Season: Green Grapes, Pomegranate Seeds, Cucumber. Watercress, Endive.

This is all I have been eating lately.

Not Much Cookin'

Martha — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 02:00:00 +0000

This pattern abviously hails from the 70's. Suave dude making moves even while he is wearing an apron.

I have been on a diet and missing all the "Grab An Apron" type foods - but none more than sour cream.

One for Dad

Martha — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 02:45:00 +0000

Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook, 1953.

Father's Day Picnic

Have a wonderful Father's Day and don't forget to make a special treat for Dad.

Picnic Season is Here!

Martha — Tue, 22 May 2007 15:55:00 +0000

Betty Crocker's Party Cookbook, 1960.

Memorial Day Picnic
Favorite Fancy Franks
Deviled Eggs
Tossed Vegtable Salad
Potato Chips
Icy Watermelon Wedges
Brownie S'Mores

Deviled Eggs
6 hard-cooked eggs
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
1/2 tsp. dry mustard
about 3 tbsp. mayo or sour cream (enough to moisten)

Cut eggs in halves. Slip out yolks. Mash with fork or eletric mixer. Add seasonigs and mayo continue mashing unitl smooth. Refill whites with egg yolk mixture.

Frank-a-bobs
Cut each frank into 5 pieces. Alternate on skewer with pineapple chuncks; brush with salad oil. Broil over hot coals, turning until browned.

Brownie S'Mores
Using mix spread batter in two greased 9" sq. pans or on 15 1/2 x 12" baking sheet. Bake 15 mins. While warm, cut the contents of each pan into 24 pieces.

At picnic, place two 1" sq. of milk chocolate candy on each half of the brownies. Toast marshmallows. Slip toasted marshmallow onto chocolate-topped brownie and cover with a plain brownie.

Spring Cakes

Martha — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:08:00 +0000

Betty Crocker New Picture Cookbook, 1961.

Cakes to Carry

Golden Layer cake
Marble Angel Food cake with thin chocolate icing
Applesauce cake
Jellyroll
Sour Cream cupcakes
Chocolate Butter-Mallow cake
Lemon Loaf cake

Chocolate Butter-Mallow Cake
1/3 cup soft shortening
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar (packed)
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
2 sq. unsweetened chocolate
1 3/4 cups cake flour
1 1/2 tsp. soda
3/4 tsp. salt
1 cup buttermilk
1/4 cup water

Heat oven to 350. Grease and flour oblong pan, or two layer pans. Cream shortening, sugar, eggs, vanilla and cooled chocolate until fluffy. Beat 5 min. on high speed. Measure flour by dip-level-pour method or by sifting. Blend flour, soda, and salt. Add alternately in three additions with buttermilk. Finally, blend in water. Pour into pan(s). Bake oblong 35 to 40 min., layers 30 to 35 min. Let stand 10 min., remove from pan (s). Cool. Finish with Marshmallow frosting.

Marshmallow Frosting
2 egg whites
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/4 tsp. cream of tarter
1 tbsp. light corn syrup
1/3 cup water
1/4 lb. marshmallows, quartered
1/2 sq. unsweetened chocolate, melted.

Combine egg whites, sugar, cream of tarter, syrup and water in top of double boiler. Place over boiling water and beat with electric or rotary beater until mixture stands in stiff peaks. Scrape bottom and sides of pan occasionally. Remove pan from heat and add marshmallows. COntinue beating until frosting is thick enough to spread. Frost top and sides of cake. Dip back of spoon in melted chocolate and swirl over top of marshmallow frosting.

Mother's Day Gift Idea

Martha — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:44:00 +0000

Make your Mom an apron. Make your Dad one too but save it until Father's Day.
Catch the dog! He stole the frankfurters!

Happy Easter

Martha — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:12:00 +0000

Betty Crocker's Party Book, 1960.

Easter Basket Cake

Orange Chiffon cake in 10" tube pan. Decorate cake as basket. Fill basket with green-tinted coconut "grass" and candy Easter eggs.

Basket: Shape a nest for eggs by using a sharp knife to cut a sloping slice from edge to center of cake. Cut center no deeper than 1/2." Fill hole made by tube pan with cut cake.

Frosting: Make basket weave pattern in frosting on the sides of cake by drawing inch-long horizontal and vertical lines with tines of fork. Cover top of the basket with green tinted coconut.

The Nector of the Gods

Martha — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 01:27:00 +0000

Betty Crocker's Good and Easy Cookbook, 1954.

Easy Fruit Desserts

1. Pineapple Upside-down Cake
2. Apricots and cookies
3. Fruit Ambroisa
4. Tapioca Cream with Peaches
5. Cherry Puffs
6. Strawberry Shortcake

Fruit Ambrosia
Make it with almost any fruit you have on hand.
Sprinkle the fruit (such as cut-up orange slices, bananas and apples, or pineapple) with confectioners' sugar. Chill. To dress up, top with plain or toasted shredded coconut, salted peanuts, or maraschino cherries just before serving.

Tea and Cake

Martha — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:11:00 +0000

Shower Tea

Next time you are obligated to have a shower for someone - consider a tea. A great opportunity to use those cups and saucers!

Happy New Year!

Martha — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 02:59:00 +0000

Have a great new year (don't be the "wallflower").

Holiday Treats

Martha — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 02:49:00 +0000

Have a Merry Christmas.

Candied Fruit

Martha — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 01:59:00 +0000

The General Foods Kitchens Cookbook, 1959.

Fruited Christmas Tree Bread

1/2 cup raisins
1/4 cup chopped candied cherries
1/4 cup chopped citron
1/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup boiling water
1 tbsp lemon juice
2 cups sifted cake flour
2 1/2 tsps baking powder
3/4 tsp salt
3 tbsps sugar
5 tbsps shortening
1 tsp grated lemon rind
1 egg slightly beaten
1/3 cup light cream

To make the filling: Combine raisins, cherries, citron, 1/3 cup sugar, the boiling water, and lemon juice. Cook and stir over low heat until sugar is melted and mixture is well blended. Cool.

To make the dough: Measure sifted flour, add baking powder, salt, and 3 tbsps of sugar, and sift together. Cut in shortening. Add lemon rind. Combine egg and cream. Add to flour mixture, stirring only until soft dough is formed (20 strokes). Turn out on lightly floured board; knead about 1/2 minute.

To make the tree: Divide dough in half. Roll each half into a triangular tree-shaped piece, 1/8 inch thick. Trim off a narrow strip from base of each triangle; cut each strip in half.

Place one of the triangles on greased baking sheet. Fasten 2 of the strips at bottom to form a tree trunk. Spread the filling evenly over entire tree, leaving a 1/4 inch edge of pastry. Mosten edge. Arrange second triangle and remaining 2 strips on top; press edges together. Cut 4 or 5 slits on each side of tree. Twist tips upward to resemble branches (filling will show). Bake in hot oven (400 degrees) for 20 minutes.