I always post special recipes on this blog, but today I'm going all out and posting very special recipes.
That is the opinion of American Cyanamid Company in cooperation with the National Apple Institute, who put out Very Special Apple Recipes from America's Orchard Lands (undated, but pre-zip code, so before mid-1963). Now let's go bobbing for apple recipes!
The booklet offers various regional recipes accompanied by illustrations of the areas from which they originated.
For instance, from New York and New England...
...represented by Robert Frost getting ready to stop by some woods on a snowy evening, we have Cape Cod Baked Apples.
This is the Thanksgiving side dish to serve when you want apple pie, cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes with marshmallows, and pecan pie, but you don't have the space/ time/ energy to make all of them individually.
From the West...
...represented here at the start of a secret Russian invasion, we have Apples-on-the Half-Shell.
It's the ever-popular mid-century-fancy dish of seafood in avocado halves-- this time with apples since it's an apple cook booklet, after all.
My favorite recipes, though, are from Appalachia...
...represented here by a man pointedly ignoring a woman trying to get water from an old-timey pump. Woman, don't expect help. He's got hogs to stare at. Or maybe really misshapen, out-of-scale cows. It's hard to tell. That's why he's got to stare.
There's an Apple Potato Salad, I guess to show the West that they aren't the only ones who can randomly throw apples into popular salads that are generally apple-free.
And there's also a Saturday Night Casserole.
I guess this is to remind everybody that even if it is the day after payday, the family can't afford anything more than hot dogs to go with the home-grown apples, onions, and home-canned cabbage for dinner on a Saturday night.
This is a cozy little booklet to peruse, especially on a crisp fall day when the grocery stores are filled with fresh apples. I'm only tempted to try to find some Ginger Golds or Cortlands to eat raw, though. No recipes (very special or plain old) needed!
Do very special apples make very special animals if they eat them? I was so distracted by how misshapen the legs on the horse and the cow/pigs are. Maybe those apples are grown in very special orchards with very special (toxic waste?) fertilizer? Now apples are in a race to see which one can be the sweetest. So much for being healthy.
ReplyDeleteI'll bet they would make wicked witches very happy, though, coming pre-poisoned.
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