Chocolate Sponge

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For our office holiday party, one of the dishes I made was Chocolate Sponge, taken from Better Meals with Gel-Cookery, published by Knox. The year isn't listed, but I'm guessing 50s or early 60s.( This way to the spongey goodness ... )

Happy Holidays

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I'd like to say Happy Holidays to everyone on the list, whether you celebrate Christmas, Hannukah, Qwanza, Solstice, or just December; may it bring you everything you wish.

Thank you to everyone who has posted and commented to this community over the past year, making it such a fun place for tasty, wacky, and what-were-they-thinking recipes from years ago. And a very big thank-you to my co-moderator misstia, who works so hard to help keep the community moving along lively and vibrant- this comm wouldn't be even a third of what it is without her!

I look forward to all the fun we'll have here in 2009. Best wishes to everyone!

Frosted Honeydew Melon

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I have found the mother lode of ghastly gelatin salad recipes: Marye Dahnke's Salad Book (1954). It has eighty-three pages of molded salads.

This recipe has both that insane 1950s fussiness and the stomach-turning combination of raspberry Jell-O and French dressing (which at the time still meant a basic vinaigrette, not that sickeningly sweet orange stuff that goes by the name now). I'm only surprised that the author, a Kraft Foods home economist, didn't throw in a huge glob of mayonnaise, too. Maybe she just forgot.

( Frosted Honeydew Melon )