Category: You Ate What?
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A Magical Microwave!
It’s Not Really Magic Schroeder and Sanderson 1981 Direct from the youth cookbook section, some awesome recipes that the kids can handle with those newfangled microwaves! The magic microwave can help you make: popcorn (but use your popcorn popper first! Does anyone still have a popcorn popper?) scrambled eggs soup…
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Be Bold with Bananas
Be Bold with Bananas Banana Control Board 1970 Credit goes to Book Riot for bringing this little gem to our attention. Also, my friend Brian, who sent me that link. I verified library holdings just to be sure it is an awful “library” book and not just a weird book…and…
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Vintage Recipes from Ford Motor Company
The Second Ford Treasury of Favorite Recipes From Famous Eating Places Kennedy 1954 This wonderful book showed up in a library book sale and of course I grabbed it! I looked up some of the house specialties from Michigan. (I love the idea of going to Oscoda to eat Tuna…
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Kids Cook Too
Betty Crocker’s Cook Book for Boys and Girls Crocker 2003 Submitter: We pride ourselves on having an up to date collection. Unfortunately while trying to find a cookbook for a reluctant reader who loves cooking, I found this atrocity. Granted it is a reprint from 2003, but there have been…
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Who Doesn’t Like Jell-o?
New Joys of Jell-o Brand Gelatin Recipe Book Kraft General Foods 1975 One of our readers found this book on the Woot blog and submitted it. You have to admit, some of these recipes are ridiculous. The people and decor pictured are completely outdated, too. There are plenty of libraries…
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More Awful Cookery
Soyer’s Paper-Bag Cookery Soyer 1911 Submitter: According to Nicholas Soyer, the method of paper-bag cookery “has made a great furor in England,” and, despite initial setbacks (“the paper got burnt, and soon afterwards it exploded”), is perfect for cooking nearly everything, except for “macaroni or kindred Italian pastes.” Various recipes…
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