For a novelty cookbook I’m getting a lot of mileage out of Cooking with Regis & Kathie Lee. I picked up the cookbook out of a sense of nostalgia for the old Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee daytime show. I’d still say the book is more fun to read than it is to……
Ingredient: crushed pineapple
Curried Chicken with Rice Colombo (Oklahoma, 1920s, adapted)
Curried Chicken with Rice Colombo comes to us by way of a community cookbook published by the First Presbyterian Church of Enid, Oklahoma in the late 1920s. Originally published in the Kansas City Star, it provides an interesting window into perceptions of “exotic” cuisine in this area. Colombo presumably refers to the Sri Lankan port……
Cherry Cola Jell-O Salad with Shredded Cheese (adapted from The Best of Beta Sigma Phi Cookbook, 1991)
I’ve got to level with you: this recipe is awful. I’ve chosen to reproduce it here because it’s uniquely awful and worth preserving as a historical curiosity. The version below is lightly adapted from The Best of Beta Sigma Phi Cookbook (1991), which is a compilation of selected recipes from Beta Sigma Phi cookbooks in……
Cookies ‘N Fudge Salad (Wisconsin, 1988, adapted)
Cookies ‘N Fudge Salad is a throwback to the days a little bit of fruit made something a “salad”. If the St. Casimir Catholic Church is anything like the churches I grew up in, this sort of so-sweet-it-hurts “salads” were a fixture of potlucks and multi-family get-togethers. In some dusty corner of my brain I……
Coca-Cola and Jell-O Salad with Cherries and Pineapple (Tennessee, 1978)
The 1978 Thorn Grove Baptist Church cookbook has a dozen different variants on the gelatin salad, which is common for cookbooks in this era. I love Jell-O, and I grew up in a community that loved these sorts of salads. Most were simple mixtures of flavored Jell-O and canned fruit, sometimes with added dairy or……