Oct 05
Tarrant FiglioBreads, Eggs, Fruits, retro food
I have a weekend breakfast dilemma-one of my children absolutely hates eggs. The rest of us get tired of pancakes, waffles, and biscuits. This weekend we had a surplus of apples…a trip to the nursing home to visit my sister and take her fresh fruit was put off because of what is being called flamingohousebola or the horrid cold all the adults seem to have still, yet, again.
In addition, later this week our college girl will be coming home for a few days. She is the originator of Apple Pancakes in our home-from those months when she was in charge of menus, food budget and meal prep in high school. (Homeschooling Home Ec…)
We didn’t quite make it the Michelle way over the weekend, it still is roughly based on her recipe, but it turned out pretty darn good.
Baked Apple Pancake
1 T butter
3 eggs
1/4 c flour
1/2 c. milk
Cinnamon
4 apples, cored, cut into bite size chunks
1/4-1/2 cup brown sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
3 Tbsp butter
Preheat oven to 450. Spray pie plate with nonstick spray. Place 1 tablespoon butter in pie plate and place in oven until melted. Whisk flour, milk, eggs, and cinnamon together. Pour into pie plate. Bake 8 min at 450, reduce heat to 375-bake 8 more minutes. Meanwhile, saute apples in remaining butter, add brown sugar and cinnamon. Cook until softened. Remove pancake from oven…cut into 6 pieces, serve with apples on top. Serves 6.
In other news-on Retro-Food Reviews-I have a new post up You are Drop Dead Gorgeous
Nov 11
Tarrant FiglioDesserts, Fruits, Recipes, Salads, retro food
I am not sure who Norma Peterson was in relationship to my great-grandmother. I do know though that this is a fab cranberry recipe.
Cranberry Fluff
2 c. raw cranberries, ground
3/4 c. sugar
1/2 cup seedless green grapes
1/2 cup broken California Walnuts
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 cups tiny marshmallows
2 c. diced unpared tart apples
1 c. heavy cream, whipped
Combine cranberries, marshmallows and sugar. Cover and chill overnight. Add apples, grapes, walnuts, and salt. Fold in whipping cream. Chill. Turn into serving bowl or serve into individual lettuce cups. May omit apples and grapes and serve as a dessert. Takes 24 hours in all. Serves 8-10.
Nov 10
Tarrant FiglioFruits, Recipes, Salads, retro food Jell-o
This is a large large mold that doesn’t require any fresh cranberries. Yay! Boo! This one is better received among the younger folk because of it.
Holiday Cran-Pineapple Mold
2 envelopes unflavored gelatine
3 1/4 cups cranberry cocktail juice
1 tablespoon sugar
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon allspice
1 8-oz can crushed pineapple in juice
1 cup non-dairy whipped topping.
In small saucepan, combine gelatine, 1/2 cup cranberry juice, sugar, nutmeg and allspice. Cook and stir over low heat until gelatine dissolves. Drain pineapple, reserving juice. Add cranberry juice to pineapple juice to make 3 and 1/4 cups, mix in dissolved gelatine. Remove 1 1/2 cups to a small bowl. Chill until mixture mounds when stirred with spoon. Fold in topping. Coat the inside of a six-cup mold with Pam. Pour in whipped mixture. Chill until almost set. Meanwhile, chill remaining juice mixture until slightly thickened; fold in crushed pineapple. Carefully spoon over mixture in mold. Chill at least 6 hours or overnight.
Nov 09
Tarrant FiglioFruits, Recipes, Salads, retro food jell-0
And now we begin our week of cranberry recipes. Cranberries rank as one of my favorite fruits. Unfortunately, finding them out of season proves difficult. So, enjoy them now.
Cranberry and Cream Cheese Salad
1 pkg orange jello
1 pt hot water
1/3 cup sugar
1 teasp. vinegar
2 cups cranberries
1 3-oz cream cheese
Dissolve gelatine in hot water, add sugar, salt, vinegar and set aside to cool and thicken. Run cranberries through food grinder (or processor) twice. Add to gelatin. Mash the cheese fine and add to gelatin mixture. Beat with rotary beater until well blended. Chill. Serve on lettuce.
Oct 15
Tarrant FiglioCake, Fruits, Recipes, retro food
We have an abundance of apples. From the scene at the farmer’s market this week, we aren’t the only ones. There are few things better in the fall for using up apples than an apple cake. Here is a family favorite.
Apple Cake
2 qts chopped apples in 2 qt baking dish
Cream together 1 stick butter, 3/4 cup sugar, 1 egg.
Sift together 1 1/2 cups flour, 1 tsp salt, 2 tbs. baking powder. Combine with creamed ingredients. Pour batter over apples.
Top with 3/4 cup of sugar mixed with cinnamon. Bake 45 min at 375 F.
May 14
Tarrant FiglioDesserts, Fruits, Recipes, retro food Jell-o, retro
Happy National Fruit Cocktail Day! Fruit cocktail is a favorite in this house. I don’t know why. The kids don’t even beg for the overpriced extra cherry kind. Any kind is fine. On this day though…a nice ice box pie from my head or from my mother’s head or most likely transferred there from a magazine advertisement in the 60s or 70s.
Fruit Cocktail Jell-0 Pie
Graham cracker crust
1 4-serving size box Jello (cherry or strawberry banana are favorites for this recipe)
2 cups vanilla ice cream
1 #2 can fruit cocktail
Drain juice from fruit cocktail into measuring cup. Add water to bring measure to 1 cup. Bring liquid to boil. Add boiling liquid to Jell-o powder, stir until Jell-o is dissolved. Add ice cream, stir until smooth/melted. Stir in fruit. Pour into graham cracker crust. Refrigerate until set. Top with Cool Whip. (Maybe that interesting new strawberry Cool Whip?)
Apr 30
Tarrant FiglioDesserts, Fruits, Recipes, Salads, retro food coca-cola, Jell-o, retro
You knew this was coming sooner or later–the marriage of two of my favorites in one lovely retro Jell-0 dish. Just how many recipes have all that AND GRATED cream cheese?
1 pkg raspberry gelatin
1 pkg cherry gelatin
1 large can crushed pineapple
1 can seedless white cherries (good luck finding them…I can’t…use maraschino cherries instead)
1 cup pecans
2 coca colas (partially frozen)
1 8 oz pkg cream cheese (frozen)
Dissolve gelatin in juices (heated) from cherries and pineapple. Add cokes, cherries, pineapple and nuts. Grate frozen cream cheese over the top of mold. Place in refrigerator until firm. Serves 10.
Apr 24
Tarrant FiglioDesserts, Fruits, Recipes, retro food Desserts, retro, strawberries
This is another beautiful but EASY Lady Finger recipe. I love the”serve with whipped cream or liquid” instruction.
1 1/2 qt strawberries
3/4 to 1 cup sugar–to taste
Slice strawberries, stir in sugar to taste. Cover and let stand at room temperature about 1 hour. Place several Lady Fingers on each serving dish, and cover with berries. Serve with whipped cream or liquid.
Apr 02
Tarrant FiglioFruits, Recipes, Salads, retro food Jell-o, retro
This time of year says horseradish to me. That comes from many years of attending Passover Seders. This salad, oddly, never was served. Too bad…tasty stuff here.
1 pkg lime gelatin
1 1/4 cup hot water
1 pt cottage cheese
1/2 c. mayonnaaise
1 sm can crushed pineapple
2 tbsp grated horseradish
Dissolve gelatin in hot water. Cool until syrupy. Add cheese, mayonnaise, pineapple and horseradish. Mix well; pour into mold. Serve on lettuce. Yield: 10-12 servings.
Mrs Gabriel Raba
New Underwood, S.D.
Salads, 1966
Mar 19
Tarrant FiglioFruits, Recipes, Salads, retro food Jell-o, retro
This is a classic or retro cookery-Green Jell-o with cottage cheese and pineapple. If that isn’t enough to tickle you-it also has marshmallows and Dream Whip!
1/2 c. crushed pineapple
1 pkg lime gelatin
1/2 c. water
1 c. cottage cheese
1 c. marshmallows
1 c. dessert topping mix, prepared (Dream Whip)
Drain pineapple, reserving 1/2 cup juice. Combine gelatin, water, and juice. Boil for 5 minutes. Cool. Add pineapple, cheese and marshmallows. Allow to thicken slightly. Fold in topping mix. Chill.
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