Mock Duck - Neatorama

Mock Duck is "a delicious assortment of thrift store cookbooks", with scanned pictures and descriptions that will make your mouth water... NOT. This page is from a 1962 British cookbook called TV Suppers from Heinz.

Gaily coloured peppers almost make you forget you're eating beans again.

Pizza is topped with canned spaghetti and a lattice of anchovy fillets and processed cheese.

http://www.swankola.com/md/mockduck.html -via Everlasting Blort

...And I thought that "Mock Duck" was something you could order at your local Vietnamese restaurant...?

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Oh man, I love this stuff. Vintage barf!

I recomend checking out the site 'The Gallery of Regrettable Food'.

http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/index.html

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I have a couple of german cookbooks from those times for reference and for fun. The pictures are incredible. Those colours, those assortments...

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Gauldar - you beat me to it!
There's something about the colour reproduction that does it. Truly heavesome.

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There is web group dedicated to those types of cookbooks. I have lost the link - I think they are on Flkr though.
I have a big collection of cookbooks. And those ones are always the oddest.
Some recipes are just downright disgusting.

the weight watchers ones are..just.. see for yourself
http://www.candyboots.com/wwcards.html

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I still use my 1972 Better Homes and Gardens cookbook. I don't want to replace it because all the GOOD recipes just fall open since those pages have been wet so many times. The only problem is that it measures food in 16 oz cans and 12 oz boxes, which have succumbed to the grocery store shrink ray since then.

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I love the lattice work on that pie and the table setting with three mugs of heated vomit. Certainly a recipe to stand the test of time. Thanks for sharing!

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It might be be, it might be camp, but apart from the actual food, I like mass printed color mateirals form that era. I suppose it is a combination of the film process/stock used to shoot those pictures, and the technology/inks used to mass print them that gives them that certail look I kind of like.

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My mother recently gave me a cookbook she was given as a wedding present. My parents married in 1960. This book is an absolute Technicolor delight of food that just doesn't exist in the same universe as us.

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Actually, the Gallery of Regrettable Food is in the links down in the 'Spam' section of the Mock Duck site, along with links to other sites about dubious food or dubiously-presented food.

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