Betty is back too. In fact, this book has been glaring at me for the past few months. I've made sure it's been pushed back further and further in my queue of books to be used. I've made recipe cards and a refrigerator my priority. Now, I must tell Betty's Chafing Dish tale so I can retire it alongside the other Betty Crocker books that I have.
This book doesn't try to make you want to be perfect. I don't think it wants to try at all. It wants to laugh at you as you burn the hair off your hands in a misguided Sterno accident or suffer third degree burns from a ladle full of Seafood Newburg splashing on your wrist. It wants you to lift the lid and get your eyebrows singed and your face boiled like a lobster.
For those who don't get the chafing dish idea, they used to be compact and kitschy. Now they are used more in buffet type settings. I did see a chafing dish at a thrift store but I did not get it. Maybe it would have changed the way I know food? I'll never know.
It's time...Enjoy.
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Betty Crocker's Dinner in a Dish, 1965 |
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Obligatory beginning of the book letter from the cordial Betty Crocker. Betty Crocker called me "her" friend. |
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This Lobster Elegante is so proud of itself and so vain that it needs to keep preening in front of a mirror. |
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Fruited Ham Dinner. I'm just don't know if I want to know what heated bananas taste like. Color, odor, consistency. Especially with ham. |
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Vegetables perfectly diced, colorful, meatballs plump and round, and--OMG look at that color! |
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That is the busiest display of California Chipped Beef I have seen. And I have seen enough California Chpped Beef to know this. Okay, this s the only one ever. Do I really need to see another? |
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This chili probably looks the same going in and out. Which side burns more is the question. |
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This is a sad pizza even in the world of Betty Crocker. Sigh... |
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I have a table and ladle that looks exactly like this and whenever I make oriental food, I just push it out.What true and just woman of the Americana household doesn't? |
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It takes someone special to arrange wieners in a fashion that they almost look like a star. Wienies are very versatile and can bent to look like a stop sign. |
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Veal Di Napoli. This is probably the 5th time I've seen it in a Betty Crocker cookbook. |
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The most normal depiction of salmon in any book. |
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Summer Salad Pie. Lemon gelatin, tomato sauce, spices, onion, etc. Served with Tuna Salad on top.Not the kind of pie I could imagine eating.. |
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I probably don't need to know. It's supposed to be a drawing of how to detuhd (devein) a shrimp, but it kind of looks like a crazy act of fornication on a finger. |
U.N.T
1. What is "Creamed" cottage cheese? Do you cream it with a hand mixer?
ReplyDelete2. Mayo and fruit is disgusting. Mayo is for savory dishes only. IMHO.
1. I just HAD to look it up. It has cream in it instead of that thin liquid. I don't know which is worse, whipping it into a creamy flop with a hand mixer or making sure the curds are floating around in cream.
Delete2. I'm going to take your word on that.
3. I am not eating for the rest of the day!
I'm also using chafing dish during special occasions. It is great for serving food if you have many guests.
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