New(ish) recipes!

I'm not really sure why I have Recipes: Homemade Happiness (compiled by Rev. and Mrs. Floyd Miller (Marie) for the Archdale, NC Wesleyan Women). It's from 1994-- later than what I usually pick up. Maybe I just thought the cover looked old and picked it up without checking?

It does have the overwhelming brownish tone that photos from the 1970s often exhibit. Or maybe somebody gave it to me at some point? In any case, I've got a community cookbook from the '90s that looks like it could be from the '70s, and I'm going to make you lunch.

Everybody loves a burger, and since I like you, I'm making Fancy Hamburgers!

You know, the kind with the applesauce and Lipton onion soup mix in them? And of course, the Ritz crackers! That's what makes them fancy. 

If you want pickles on your burger, I've got something inspired by the applesauce in those burgers.

Admittedly, I'm not sure how well Red-Hot-flavored cukes will go with the burgers, but I've never been a fan of pickled anything. I hear that people like Cincinnati chili, so I imagine cinnamony pickles on an oniony burger will be fine. (For someone else, obviously.)

Now we'll need a salad to get some veggies into you. Cincinnati chili often gets slopped over spaghetti, so how about all the spaghetti salad you can eat?

Seriously-- feel free to take home an extra gallon or two to feed family, friends, neighbors, enemies... Hell, use it to make an oily freeform art project for all I care. Just eat all you can and take a bucket to go.

And for dessert, something easy and SWEET.

Yep-- Twinkie Dessert involves Twinkies. All I had to do was cut 'em up, lay 'em in a 9x13, and cover with instant pudding, Cool Whip, and butter brickle bits. (Well, sourcing the butter pecan instant pudding was the hardest part of the recipe. I was lazy and threw some finely chopped pecans into butterscotch pudding and called it a day, but there's a recipe to make a homemade mix for the very specific demographic of people who are not willing to make their own sponge cake but eager to throw together homemade instant pudding mixes.)

I hope you enjoyed lunch! And if not, enjoy something else from 1994.