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Cornmeal Griddlecakes
With buttermilk. From a box sold in Lyndhurst, New Jersey. Cornmeal Griddlecakes Into a bowl, sift together: 1-1/3 cups flour, 3 Tablespoons sugar, 1 teaspoon double-acting baking powder, and 1/2...
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Franny’s Brownies
Made with melted chocolate. From a box sold in Lyndhurst, New Jersey. Franny’s Brownies Beat until light 4 eggs, 1/4 tsp. salt. Add 2 cups sugar; cream. Fold in 4 oz. chocolate, melted, with 1/2 cup...
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Swedish Meat Balls
And a little random movie star trivia. While recipes for Swedish meatballs show up in the 1910s in American newspapers, they really started to become popular domestically at ladies’ luncheons in the...
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President Nixon’s Favorite Cheesecake
I can’t verify Nixon’s preferences here. Nixon is the subject of a larger than normal number of presidential culinary rumors, most of them intended to show his contrasting love of generalized American...
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Chocolate Chip Cookies
And bridge, and retail options in Detroit. And we meet the Arnfelds. Here’s the back: [See image gallery at yesterdish.com] This is a personalized contract bridge scoresheet, if you’ve never seen one...
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Fried Okra
From Aunt Rose. For another take on this and more on the history of okra, see the post for Yesterdish’s Country Fried Okra. From a box sold in Warren, Michigan. Click here to see the front in full...
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Corn Oysters
Dated July 1, 1955. Comparing two early recipes shows two varieties of corn oyster: one like the recipe above, which is an oval-ish corn fritter, and one that’s more of a johnnycake sort of composition...
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Asparagus Sandwich
A tea sandwich with the noblest of vegetables. It’s only fitting, really. After all, tea sandwiches are associated with classy places and events, and asparagus has been associated with finer living...
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Cooked Salad Dressing
With mustard, pepper, and butter. From the box of H.P., sold in Paradise, Arizona. Salad Dressing — cooked. 4 Tbsp. butter 2 Tbsp. flour 1 cup milk Boil until thick, then add: 1/2 cup vinegar 3...
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Tuna Dish
Huh, okay. A ten-cent bag of chips. I can do this. All we have to do is come up with an approximate date for the recipe, then figure out what a ten-cent bag of chips looked like at the time. Campbell’s...
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