It came from the 80s

[boilermish.livejournal.com]

So after posting Mom's pepper jelly I got curious about what -was- in that box of stuff my Dad gave me. Found some goodies. Including a jell-o dessert that uses the mold that Tupperware actually still makes (I know because I bought one from my friend, it was just too retro to pass up). All are from the 1980s so not super vintage but may invoke fond memories of desserts without cool-whip and a cake cool enough to be called moon crater cake. Enjoy.

(I cut because they are large images so they are readable)


These two just sounded pretty amazing.



I had to scan the pictures, they were too good to pass up.



And here's the recipes, look whipping cream! No cool whip!



I don't recall ever making this, and feel slighted that we could've had an explosive cake experience. ;)



I believe this is ripped from a reader's digest. I wonder if its too late for me to get my free copy of their treasury of yeast baking. I also found Mom's "Fleischmann's Bake-it-easy Yeast Book" so at some point she must've written them from her reader's digest ads.

I also found a whole pile of Kellogg's recipe cards from the 80s (in her snap crackle pop recipe box) and there are some amusing ones. I'll have to scan some of those another day :)

Comments

[mshollie.livejournal.com]

Very cool recipes! I like that they use whipping cream instead of Cool Whip. I'll have to make some sometime.

[boilermish.livejournal.com]

I know, when I found out what cool whip was actually made of I wasn't such a huge fan now that I have a daughter. Not a big fan of "frankenfood" in general when I'm feeding it to her.

[mattiescottage.livejournal.com]

You can tell that Oreo ice cream recipe is old; no one nowadays dares recommend eating anything with uncooked egg yolks--even clean and uncracked ones.

[fee-parisienne.livejournal.com]

Ooh! That "Craters of the Moon Cake" sounds very similar to something my mom and grandma like to make for birthdays (because it's quick and doesn't require a separate mixing bowl).

Our recipe doesn't include milk or marshmallows, and uses vegetable oil instead of melted margarine. It's called Three-Hole cake, because you make three holes, two small and one big, in the dry ingredients. Mom makes the holes look like a smiley face :) - the two small holes are the eyes : and the big hole is more like a curved trench, forming the mouth )

I'll have to find the recipe, but I think the baking soda is mixed in with the other dry ingredients. Then you put vanilla and vinegar in the two small holes, and oil in the big hole, and pour water over the top before mixing it up and popping it in the oven. Thanks for sharing that!

[ashura-oh.livejournal.com]

Thanks a lot for these goodies, just looking at them makes me happy. ^^

[singersdd.livejournal.com]

I want to borrow kids with whom to make that Craters of the Moon cake! :)

Those Fleishmann's recipes either came from Reader's Digest or Good Housekeeping; I recognize the cartoon characters from one of the two magazines.

[boilermish.livejournal.com]

It was the readers digest size, my Mom was an avid reader of theirs.

[momflower.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much--can't wait to try these recipes!

[missabyss.livejournal.com]

I've made home made ice cream similar to that before, ice cream without the maker. My sister in law has been making it for quite a while now, she said she got it from some Eagle Brand thing she sent away for, but she just knows the recipe by heart, and now I do too:

1 1/2 cups whipping cream
1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk
1/2 cup sour cream
1 tbsp vanilla

You mix the sweetened condensed milk (which should be Eagle Brand! :)) with the sour cream and vanilla (I just use my one cup Pyrex to mix them all together). Then you whip the cream until its, well, the consistency of whipped cream (:D) and you fold the sweetened condensed mixture in in 3 batches and freeze it.

It's sooo rich and creamy! My husband and I squish fruit and jam together to swirl it in, and so far the best combo was 2 tbsp seedless blackberry jam with about 10 smashed, ripe blackberries and then you stir it in to the ice cream.
We honestly always, ALWAYS have this in our freezer!

[boilermish.livejournal.com]

sounds yummy :)

My Mom and I always liked to strain the "foam" from homemade strawberry or raspberry jam (because the foam won't set up right for jam) and save it in a separate jar in the fridge for over ice cream. Lasted about two days in our house ;)

[missabyss.livejournal.com]

That sounds sooo good!

[sultry-kitsune.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh. My mom has that one! The Christmas dough! But I cannot for the life of me remember eating it. Ever. Any of them. x.x Maybe she used it to experiment and create those cookies... The Fruit Cake ones. Hm. But I can't make the connection of how. So many things she makes from memory and only God knows where the cards are. Most of them don't even have measurements for two or more of the ingredients. Blast it all, Mother!