What you see here is a Valentine dinner from the 1...  ...oklet 401 Party and Holiday Ideas from Alcoa. The recipes are about what you'd expect from a marketing comp...  ...ish, ham, and other abominations. You can see the recipe for the salad and the instructions for making you...  ...the tagline "A place to ap...

We’ve had plenty of posts on the unfortunate...  ...f posts on the unfortunate cookbooks and magazine recipes of the mid-20th century. Many of those Jell-o/Mir...  ...iches. Read the rest of the rationales behind the recipes we now make fun of, at BloombergView.

Mid Century Menu is a blog where RetroRuth reprodu...  ...Century Menu is a blog where RetroRuth reproduces recipes of the 1950s and thereabouts. You know, the recipes that use Jell-o, Miracle Whip, and Campbell&rsquo...  ...rly Irish-American immigrants. And of course, the recipe...

Tell your Thanksgiving dinner guests you are think...  ...like a pie. Yum! Pie Plate Salad one of the many recipes that the makers of convenience foods like Miracle...  ...in the ‘50s and ‘60s. There are a few recipes that survive from those dark days, but Pie Plate...  ...easons. This is from a list...