Are you heartily sick of waking up to another few inches of snow and ice? Wishing you could kick back with a milkshake on a nice summer weekend instead?
Well, the Amana Radarange Microwave Oven Microwave Cooking Guide (1968) can't magically make it summer, but it does offer a "milk shake" that will warm you right up on a cold winter weekend when the usual tea/ coffee/ hot cocoa just isn't cutting it anymore.
Enjoy a Hot Caramel Milk Shake fresh out of the microwave! The caramel is homemade-- right in the microwave! While there's no ice cream, this shake is full of hot eggs and milk, so that's ... something. Well, at least it's not microwaved fish or an attempt to convince readers that baking in the microwave is a fine idea!
Find some way to stay warm this weekend, even if it's just hot, eggy, sugary milk! We've got to appreciate anything we can get at this point.
I can't help but wonder if this would take the same amount of time (if not less) to make on the stove. Making caramel in the microwave always makes me nervous.
ReplyDeleteWith a lot of the recipes, you're not supposed to wonder whether conventional methods might be more appropriate. Once you've got a microwave, it's everything.
DeleteThat sounds like a great way to crack your Pyrex. Why didn't they go with the wonderful modern convenience products? Surely caramel topping came in cans.
ReplyDeleteBut the whole point of the early microwave cookbooks is that you could use the microwave for anything and everything! Whether there was a better/ safer/ more convenient way was entirely beside the point.
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