What Betty says must be word! Doublespeak and chrysanthemums. Salt shakers and silver. Candles and gravy bowls. Perfect table settings and creepy centerpieces.
Now we go into the New Dinner for Two. I've made this cooking for two a topic when I first started this blog. The book used came from Better Homes and Gardens. It was simple. Betty is the queen of overdoing things a bit. This doesn't look like date food. It looks like empty nest meals. Good luck trying to impress a date with this!
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Betty Crocker's New Dinner for Two, 1964. Believe it or not, there were several more editions of this book. One is sufficient for me though. |
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Good milk comes from happy cows. Excellent beef comes from cows that can juggle. |
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This slab of meat is so important one could almost miss the tiny perfection salad in the background or the chrysanthemums in the foreground. |
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Unidentifiable stroganoff, chrysanthemums, orange segments with cockroaches crawling on them. That will impress anybody. The yum factor is undetectable. |
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In a perfect world, everybody gets a ham loaf. |
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Right. That's why Hindu gods and goddesses have multiple arms. To hold all of the food. Stupid, Betty. Very stupid. |
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If you need to rehash a Mother Goose nursery rhyme then you have far bigger issues than planning, marketing, and cooking to fit a busy schedule. |
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I'm pretty sure a meatloaf with flair on my prettiest platter is a good sign I'm being thrifty. A few pinches of chopped parsley in a dressing is also not a good blueprint of my financial status. |
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You can arrange hot dogs in a circle all you want but it's still just hot dogs in a circle. I'm not a financial expert, but doesn't parsley get expensive? Especially since it's not going to be eaten. |
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No matter how much time and effort go into being thrifty or cooking for two, three pimento olive slices can make a meal look cheap and like it stinks up your house for three days. |
I didn't get anything significant out of this book about cooking for two. But it was still entertaining!
Until next time!
Thank you for a very entertaining page. I was looking for retro foods (I was a fifties child) I came to you through Google. I was laughing so much about the Chrysanthemums.and funnily enough that food was in those days quite tasty but then we hadn't tasted fast food apart from fish and chips. Lovely blog, well written and I enjoyed reading.
ReplyDeleteOrange segments w cockroaches....yum yum I have this cookbook! Love this post. Consider me one of the handful.
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