Negative Space: fifties
- 1950 Cherry Pudding Dessert
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A vanilla-almond custard covered with a thick cherry sauce, from a 1950 recipe calendar.
- A 1950 recipe calendar for 2023
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In October, a friend gave me this cool calendar of recipes from 1950. It turns out, 1950 is the same as 2023, right down to the date of Easter. Print it out and hang it if you wish, and happy New Year!
- Chiquita Banana’s Recipe Book
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Let the singing and teaching banana introduce you to the joys of baking and cooking with bananas: green, yellow, and brown!
- El Molino Best: Whole grains in 1953
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El Molino Mills of Alhambra, California, published a fascinating whole grain cookbook in 1953.
- A home-cooking handful from Eddie Doucette
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A glimpse at a long-lost 1954 Chicagoland television cooking show, including recipes. They were typed by a viewer, so some of them require creative interpretation.
- January birthday veal from 1950
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The Veal Rolls from the 1950 recipe calendar of Hope Lutheran Church in Chicago.
- Looking back over 1950 in vintage cooking
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While I didn’t make my goal of trying a recipe every month in the month it was meant for, following this calendar through 2023 was an interesting experience and provided some very good food.
- Something fishy in the state of Wisconsin
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Fish soup, fish salad, and fish gelatin. These are very fifties recipes—for better and for worse. Very worse.
