Thursday, April 12, 2012

Old Cookbooks: Why, God, Why?

I've been collecting old cookbooks for years and years and years and years.  Just lots and lots of years.  Lots of them. 

I have good cookbooks, average cookbooks, old cookbooks, and new cookbooks...but mostly, I have weird cookbooks and I have very, very BAD cookbooks.

Here's a few of the weird ones. 


I got this one at a YMCA thrift store in Sequim. Sequim, for those of you unfamiliar with the PNW, is where lifelong residents of the Northwest go to die. Now we know how.


The title is 'Cooking With Condensed Soups'. Ladies and gentlemen, there is a CAKE on the cover.



I haven't even cracked the thing yet. I just love knowing I own it.



You gotta clickie for the biggify on this one. It's worth it.

This is like a bad acid trip you'd have after reading the Wizard of Oz books. Seriously, if you opened your oven and found these things climbing around inside it you'd ask the landlord for a refund on your cleaning deposit, wouldn't you? Irregardless of which, you really want the recipe, don't you.
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9 comments:

  1. *drags in fire hose and cam corder*
    I heard the dumpster was alight again... Oh no... You're just roasting duck... Hey Nations.... did you know that your oven's full of little red army munchkins? That featherless little fucker's going to end up high in there the way they're stabbing him with all them syringes...
    You got a recipe for canned soup cake? I lost the last one I had and they don't print them on the side of the can anymore...

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  2. Electric cookery porn...now I've seen everything.

    Mistress MJ has a small old cookbook collection which an emphasis on vintage Jell-O pamphlets.

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  3. Somethings are best left to the imagination.

    Somemone in this house other than me has hoarded a bunch of regular boring cookbooks...I walk past them morning noon and night and dream of the day when I can pay-it-forward and I can pass them on to one of my kids and then they can sit in their kitchen for a generation.

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  4. I have a 30 year plus Betty Crocker cook book. I use it. Now my younger sister has been collecting recipes for years and is planning on putting them all together under the title "Child Abuse Foods". I know one of them is tuna casserole from our childhood. People are asked to donate their own child abuse recipe. eat it or I will shove it down your throat....but i will puke....E A T it! awww memories.

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  5. Well, I definitely don't want a drumstick!

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  6. Where do you find this awesome stuff? Where???

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  7. Imp-on-duck porn. I'm sure there's a site for it somewhere.

    I've heard of tomato soup cake, though I've never tried it. It's supposed to do something to the texture. If you think about it, it's not any stranger than putting three bottles of red food dye in your cake and calling it "velvet."

    I demand that you make one of these cakes and write out a full report!

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  9. Princess: I'm genuinely scared to look for the recipe. But fear not! The next few posts will be: Recipes Of Terror, or Why Everyone My Age In America Is Diabetic, Has High Blood Pressure, And Is The Size Of The Fucking Goodyear Blimp

    MJ: I'll see you those Jello cookbooks and raise you a Kix Cereal cookbook. *full body shudder*

    Wurdin: They do tend to take over. I have two regular cookbooks that I refer to and I tend to keep then hidden from guests because they look like they've been dropped in soup and then used for batting practice.

    Gale: Man, I can furnish her with some doozies. I've found that casserole. And the 'Swiss Steak'. and the Velveeta pizza. And....

    IX: Smart decision. I think we should huck some over the neibors' fence and see if their dog will eat it. Just to be sure. Bring your cameraphone.

    Panda: Garage sales in old people neiborhoods, church rummage sales in small towns, and down-at-heel thrift stores. And as long as you stay down in SnoKing and I cover the Skagit-Whatcom beat I won't have to piss a line across I-5. Dealsies?

    DaNator: Yeah, Ive seen that too! It's a chocolate cake and it's supposed to be really good. And you present an interesting challenge....

    Mago: You've been eating the Velveeta pizza, haven't you.

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