I don't think anybody wanted to be there, but Elizabeth is the only one young enough to be honest about it. (Unrelated, but it's also good to know that the recipient received her copy on June 28.)
This little magazine consists of lengthy letters from various people who (maybe?) meant something to the original readers, articles with titles like "Save the Handkerchief," "Brief Encounter with a Wagon Train," and "The Sunday School Corner." (Hot tip: Most of the songs (like "This Little Light of Mine") should be geared to the pre-schoolers, but you can throw in one of the more difficult songs like "How Great Thou Art" to try to keep the older kids engaged.)
It also includes four pages of recipes. I learned that before Ben & Jerry's was popular, the idea of lemon-cheesecake ice cream was very different from what it is now.
No tiny chunks of actual cheesecake or graham-cracker-crust swirls! Just some cottage cheese added to the lemony ice cream mixture to give it a little extra tang.
I also learned that watermelon was sometimes whipped up into a chiffon (even if I'm more familiar with chocolate, pumpkin, or orange varieties).
But there was one main thing I learned from these four little pages of recipes.
ROBIN
GOT
A MICROWAVE
AND
WANTS
EVERYBODY TO KNOW!
So, congrats on the microwave, Robin! I hope the bran muffins were not nearly as rubbery as I imagine they were. And I don't really understand using dry non-dairy creamer in the carrots and broccoli, but you do you!
When checking out the description on the linked page I was curious as to what child rearing tips they gave. Outdated at best and maybe a few that would be illegal today? I know that women were told to dip a fussy baby's pacifier in alcohol to knock them out (and that you can use the cheap stuff since they don't know the difference). I wonder how many mothers finished the bottle off later.
ReplyDeleteRobin's family must have really liked bran muffins. I was trying to figure out where she could find a big enough microwave safe muffin pan to make those. Then I imagined using a large glass mixing bowl to make one giant bran muffin. Instead you eat that batch one muffin at a time for 3 weeks.
Then there's the question as to why you would brown the chicken and finish it in the microwave. The pan is already dirty (and a better way to cook it). All these details from people old enough to remember when their family got their first microwave, and the 4-H recipes that proved that while you can cook anything in a microwave you shouldn't cook certain things in a microwave.