Meat Boats (adapted from Cooking Ideas with Portable Electric Appliances, 1960s)

Meat Boats is an odd little hot sandwich recipe well-suited for a weeknight dinner.  The recipe comes to me courtesy of Cooking Ideas with Portable Electric Appliances, a twenty-odd page pamphlet published by the Edison Electric Institute in the mid-1960s.   Folks of a certain age may remember the Edison Electric Institute for their iconic Live……

Mock Turkey (adapted from Mennonite Community Cookbook, 1950)

Many of my older cookbooks contain some variant of a “mock turkey” recipe.  Despite what our twenty-first century sensibilities might suggest, mock turkey has nothing to do with tofu or seitan and it’s anything but vegetarian.   Recipes vary but they usually agree on two core components:  ground beef and poultry seasoning.  From a health……