4 Souper Beef Dishes from Campbells plus Budget Beaters

5 Vintage Crisco Recipes

While browsing 'The Art of Cooking and Serving' by Sarah Field Splint, the 1927 edition, I found the following recipes that appeared interesting. All recipes involve Crisco, which was then a Proctor & Gamble product. The first one just grossed me out. The second sounded good. The third I'd never try but the title was kind of neat. The fourth and fifth I may actually try.

Fried Eels

Skin eels. Split down middle and clean. Cut in 3 inch lengths and wipe dry. Roll in crumbs, dip in slightly beaten diluted with 2 tablespoons water, and roll again in crumb. Fry in deep hot Crisco 6 to 8 minutes. Garnish with parsley and slices of lemons.

Sweet Potato Croquettes

2 cups hot mashed sweet potato
2 tablespoons Crisco
1 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup fine bread crumbs
2 tablespoons water

Mix sweet potato with Crisco, salt, pepper, sugar and one well-beaten egg. Beat well. If mixture is too stiff, add a little hot milk. Shape into croquettes. Roll in crumbs, dip in beaten egg diluted with water, and roll again in crumbs. Fry in deep hot Crisco until brown and drain on unglazed paper.

A nice accompaniment to baked ham.

Ring-Tum-Diddy
1/2 pound grated American Cheese
1/2 teaspoon salt
Few grains cayenne
1 can tomato soup
Toasted crackers

Mix cheese in a saucepan over a low fire. Add salt, cayenne and tomato soup. Stir until well mixed and heat thoroughly. Sever on toasted crackers.

Molasses Crisps

1/4 cup Crisco
1/2 cup sugar
3/4 cup molasses
1 cup flour
3/4 teaspoon salt

Melt Crisco, add sugar and molasses and bring to boiling point. Cool slightly and add flour and salt. Drop by teaspoons 2 inches apart on a greased sheet. Cook in moderate oven (325 degrees F.) 15 minutes. Remove from the pan when beginning to cool and turn quickly around the finger to form rolls.

This recipe makes about 36 cookies.

Marshmallow Frosting
1/2 pound marshmallows
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup water
1 egg white
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Few grains salt

Cut marshmallows in pieces and melt over hot water. Cook sugar and water together to 240 degrees F. (or until the syrup forms a rather firm ball when tested in cold water). Pour the syrup slowly over the stiffly beaten egg whites and beat until stiff. Add melted marshmallows and beat until smooth and thick enough to spread. Add vanilla and salt.

Browsing Extractions

I recently discovered a spiral bound cookbook while cleaning up and cleaning out the top of mom's garage where we store so much. I reckon she picked it up at some garage sale, estate sale, yard sale or some kind of sale. It is one filled with contributed recipes, in this case for First Lutheran Church of Waco, Tx. to herald their centennial: 1884-1984. When I peruse cookbooks I am often intrigued at the concoctions therein. This one is no different. Many titles and, or, ingredients, will prove interesting. Oft times I really want to try something, but rarely do. More often than not, as intriguing as a recipe sounds, there are ingredients I either detest or are too chicken to try, such as hot and spicy elements. I found in this First Lutheran cookbook as few interesting recipes, but only one of them I may actually try.

Prairie Fire Cheese Dip

contributed by Evelyn Aga

1 can (1 lb.) Kidney beans, drained

1c. butter

1/3 lb. sharp cheese, grated

2 bottles hot peppers, chopped fine and

 1 tsp. juice

medium onion, grated

2 cloves garlic, minced

Mash beans. Mix all ingredients in top of double boiler and heat until blended. Serve warm with assorted crackers.

Now, I don't do peppers and other hot stuff. The name is what drew me to it. I can see why it has such a title. Best to probably keep the phone handy in the event the fire department needs to be called.

Next...

Ruth's Railhead Cheese Soup

contributed by Diane Palan

1/4 c. butter

1/2 c. carrots, diced

1/2 c. onion, diced

1/2 c. celery, diced

1/4 c. flour

4 1/2 tsp. cornstarch

1 qt. chicken stock

2 c. milk

1/8 tsp. baking soda

18 slices American cheese

Melt butter in saucepan and cook vegetables over low heat until soft. Add flour and cornstarch and cook until bubbly. Add chicken stock and milk and cook until smooth. Add baking sod and American cheese and cook until cheese melts. Add salt and pepper to taste. Serves 8 to 10.

The following I intend on trying. Sounds really good. Spam is an acquired taste and I have acquired it.

Spam Salad

contributed by Elenora Smith

1 can Spam, chopped

3 hard boiled eggs, chopped

1 c. Miracle Whip salad dressing

1/2 c. diced sweet pickles

grated onion, to taste

Mix well and refrigerate until serving time.

The title of the next recipe had me doing a double take. I really read what I saw.

Yummy--But Yucky Fruit Salad

contributed by Marion Truitt

1 can pineapple chunks

1 can fruit cocktail

1 pkg. vanilla instant pudding

1 can mandarin oranges, drained

3 bananas

lemon juice

1 small jar maraschino cherries, chopped

Drain pineapple and fruit cocktail. Mix vanilla pudding with juice. Then add the pineapple, fruit cocktail and oranges. Slice bananas and sprinkle with lemon juice and add to the fruit. Add cherries. Refrigerate until cool.

Lastly...

Black "Eyes of Texas" Casserole

contributed by Joyce Heckmann

1 (15 1/4 oz.) can jalapeno black eyed peas, drained

1 1/2 lb. lean ground beef

1 large onion, chopped

2 cloves garlic, chopped

1 (10 oz.) can tomatoes with green chilies

1 (10 3/4 oz.) can cream of chicken soup, undiluted

1 (10 3/4 oz.) can cream of mushroom soup, undiluted

1 (10 oz.) can enchilada sauce

1/4 tsp. liquid hot pepper seasoning

1 1/4 dozen corn tortillas, cut into halves

2 c. sharp Cheddar cheese, grated

Saute ground beef, onion and garlic until lightly browned, stirring to crumble the meat. Stir in remaining ingredients except tortillas and cheese. Alternately layer the mixture of meat and tortillas, beginning and ending with meat mixture, in a greased 13x9x2 inch pan. Sprinkly with cheese. Bake at 350 degrees F. for 35 minutes or unto bubbly.

Yield: 8

Note: freezes well.

A1 Steak Sauce Recipes

This is a vintage pamphlet of A1 Steak Sauce recipes that folds.

POUND CAKES

I love pound cakes! Of all the cakes to bake, the pound cake is the best. More often than not it's better the second day. Following are some pound cakes recipes I have discovered among my collected recipes. Enjoy!

2 sticks? margarine, perhaps.

Souper Sandwiches

This advertisement, like the others I will be posting, go back as far the 1940's and up into the 1970's. I can't place a date on all of them; however, a few have a penciled in date. I spent the last few days scanning ads, that's why I have posted so much lately. Enjoy!
Below the recipes will be the actual ad. The sandwiches below are in order as they appear (top-bottom) in the ad.

Oatmeal Recipes

Well, three posts a day should suffice. These cards at one time were all connected, and some still are. Because of the perforations, and time, I can see why they separated. Of course, they could have been intentionally separated. While I am not sure I have them in the correct order, except for those still attached, I do feel the card regarding oatmeal as breakfast porridge would have been the first. In addition, it is at the top of this card that it is mentioned these are sized to fit a recipe file. I also have no way of knowing if any cards in this set are missing as these are all I have.

TAP/Baked Custard

I'm gonna keep rolling along. I hope you can keep up. But, hey there is the archive.

What is TAP? Texas Agricultural Products. You should be able to read the card to find it what it means. On the backside, or perhaps this was the backside, is a recipe for Baked Custard.

I don't know if eggs are so marked anymore. I reckon I should pay more attention to the cartons.

Evelyn's Apple Pie Filling/ Argo

Well, I have been fortunate enough to be able to scan most of what I find. I know eventually I'll have to transcribe, despite the arthritis, which is why I am so glad I'm able to scan so many. Enjoy!

"No-Cook" Peanut Butter Fudge

This was an ad for a Karo cookbook, with a recipe, that was found in a bag with a mix of recipes in various forms. It is in bad shape, though the recipe is not marred. I am first showing the whole ad. I had to tape it in places just to get it on the scanner in one piece. This is a great illustration as to why we should never fold magazine pages, rather, it would be worth it to buy a pack of sheet protectors and place an ad in one, if it will fit of course. Doesn't fit? Consider placing it, again if it will fit, in a pocket found in the front and back of most notebooks. Doesn't fit? Well, I am at a loss. This would have fit in a notebook pocket. Below the full page image, I split the ad to better show the top and bottom, where the recipe is, portions.

Molasses Applesauce Drop Cookies

This is one of those inserts that came with gas bills. Many years ago, back into the last century, here in Waco, Tx., we had the Lone Star Gas Co., now Atmos Engergy. I don't know if this one came with a Lone Star Gas bill or a bill from some other gas company. I have found many of these tucked in cookbooks or with a hodge-podge of various recipes such as these inserts, handwritten & clipped recipes and even those from food comapnies in zip-lock bags, or in boxes, which were bought at garage sales, estate sales and yard sales over the years. We, to the best of my knowledge, never saved any of our own.