Brazil nuts in uniform!

I'm not sure how old A Parade of Brazil Nut Recipes (Brazil Nut Association) is, but considering how militaristic those little nuts look (along with the two-color printing), I'm going to guess it was around World War II.

This slim booklet's recipes mainly just add Brazil nuts to fairly standard recipes (like meatloaf or stuffed mushrooms) and to all manner of desserts that often incorporate nuts anyway (like brownies). Still, there are a few little surprises.

I wasn't sure what to expect from Baked Tuna with Brazil Nuts. I knew the tuna would be canned back then, but would this be like a tuna-noodle casserole, or maybe a tuna loaf? The answer is not really either...

It's just a white sauce with canned tuna, ground Brazil nuts, and pimientos in it, baked for some mysterious reason. I guess it would have been served over noodles for what we would now call a deconstructed tuna-noodle casserole.

I thought the Cauliflower with Brazil Nut Sauce would have a white sauce with ground or maybe chopped Brazil nuts in it. (At least, I would have if I'd seen only the title, but the picture kind of shows that I would have been wrong.)

There's no real sauce-- just cooked cauliflower with melted butter and chopped nuts on top.

I of course assumed I would see Brazil nuts encased in gelatin of some sort, and I was correct.

I just wouldn't have guessed they would be paired with lime Jell-O, ham, celery, onion, and olives. (But at least I wasn't surprised by this development. I've seen enough of these gelatin concoctions that it's hard to surprise me anymore.)

The title let me know what to expect for this final recipe. Brazil Nut Cherry Jam does indeed contain both cherries and Brazil nuts.

I'm just not used to jam having anything other than fruit in it! I imagine the Brazil nuts would be soggy by the time anyone eats the jam, but considering how often nuts appeared in Jell-O recipes (see above), I guess that didn't bother anybody back in the day. They still remembered wartime rationing and were just thankful for anything with a mountain of sugar in it, I suppose.

In any case, the Brazil nut soldiers look pretty friendly, but I'm not sure I trust them with those guns. I am going to beat a hasty retreat.