I chuckled when you said you added cherries to your fruit cocktail cup--any former child who remembers the bitter disappointment of a fruit cocktail can with one measly cherry in the whole can definitely could tell you added cherries! 😅 I approve! That nut bread looked perfect for breakfast. Muffins and quick breads are my favorite kind of baking.
@@tamarac5560 our brand used to put 3 in a tin, but there were two of us so someone always got an extra one and mum had to remember next time who had had the extra one last time
@@Budrica yep, mustard in the glass jar managed to piss my mom off when she was in a hurry, wanted to spread mustard, and it just got all over her hand.
We had foil dinners probably once a month in the 70s. Mom would put out all the ingredients and then us kids would make our own foil dinner and write our names on the outside. Good times.
My grandmother’s carrot salad had pineapple tidbits in it. She drank Tang every morning, because she thought if they served it to the astronauts, it must be good for you. I miss her so much!
When we would go visit my grandma and grandpa in Tipp City in the 60's, their next door neighbor would always invite my brothers and I over and she would have glasses of Tang waiting for us. It's one of the special memories of my life.
On the rare occasions when Mom would buy us Tang in the 1960s, we’d put so much powder in the glass it wouldn’t all dissolve in the water. 😂 Can’t imagine why we only got it as a special treat!
@@loriloristuffDid they stop making the orange flavored kids’ aspirin? My parents put that on the top shelf of the bathroom cupboard, I enjoyed them too much.
@@loriloristuff if you eat 10 flintstone vitamins you go to the ER and they give you activated charcoal and syrup of ipecac. I think you can guess how I know.
I love your comment that not every dish has to be mind-blowing. Sometimes we just need to feed people, save some cash, and get out the door. That said, I always enjoy your reviews and book tours and have been revisiting my fairly extensive cookbook collection thanks to your inspo.
Oh my gosh! You solved the biggest mystery! We grew up on Hot dog S’mores- only we never knew the name we called the hot dog hats! I still get hungry for them and make them! My son also grew up with them! When the recipe was passed around the entire neighborhood and the first time we had them my mom made them twice in one week! We never could find the real name of those…until now! I just made them two weeks ago and added kraut on top-well drained/squeezed dry. Awesome! Thanks, love your videos!
Honestly I don’t know what’s wrong with people because i find absolutely nothing wrong with canned beans or canned vegetables and there is nothing wrong with dried chives.
When I was 7 months pregnant taking a grade 9 class on an overnight hiking trip, I took banana nut bread, peanut butter and fruit for breakfast knowing as a staff member how busy mornings can be and knew I needed something quick and portable in case I didn’t get to eat and honestly I was struggling so much with morning sickness. One of the dad’s saw my bread sitting on the counter and started criticizing who’s parents allowed their child CAKE for breakfast. The other male teacher was telling him with his eyes. Shut up! Shut up! 😂 Then says very supportively, The 7 month pregnant one! She can eat what she wants! The poor dad was backpedaling and apologizing and stuttering. I brought a half loaf knowing that some of my students may not have breakfast and therefore I could share. I still love banana bread.
I graduated high school in 1967 and got married in 1969. I could only make snickerdoodles and popcorn lol Thank goodness for my Betty Crocker cookbook.
When I was first married 1975.I used my moms cookbooks and wedding presents to make the suggested meals for a day. From my presents I had all kinds and sizes of cooking and baking! My aunt was a avid baker and excellent cook . She gifted a kitchen pantry and stocked freezer and fridge! The food and appliances!!
Thank you! Thank you for pre-measuring the ingredients. So many videos I turn off early because they show all the prep steps, measuring, running to the back of the kitchen to get ingredients or tools. These presenters must think that their viewers have never cooked anything at all. Most viewers know how to peel veggies/fruits, butter a pan, measure ingredients using a measuring spoons and measuring cups. Thank you again for your interesting material and great videos.
@marinaabad4995 Not in today's world! Maybe people of your generation know how to do all that, but young people of today, nope! I don't mind a presenter measuring items out, but maybe if it's multiple cups or tablespoonsful of something, just skip from the first to the last, making it obvious. I've even been at friends' homes and watched them cook. Trust me, people don't know what the hell they are doing.
In Canada it's still standard and most dinner type places have it on the table, fast food places all have little packets of it too for your food. Most people use it on fries, hash, that type of stuff 🥰 Also my partner is Indonesian and he makes a spicy dip that's just white Vinegar with chillies and spices soaked in, sometimes adds some Kejep or something to it as well. I think it's nice how for our very different cuisines have our own version of the same thing (and we both use both plain vinegar and the spicy version now depending on what we're eating, I converted him to the dark side of acidic fries and he got my spice tolerance to a good level LOL)
Yes, Tang was *the* thing in the sixties! It and instant tea came in glass jars - orange for Tang and yellow for lemon tea. Gosh, I remember loving that at the time. The only thing to use Tang for now is instant spice tea!
Do you remember "friendship bread"? Breakfast breads (as opposed to coffeecake, etc.,) used to be a thing, and your recipe is definitely one of them. Also; the chicken may have been meant to be extra for leftovers. "Budget homemaking" was a big thing, and cooking early in the week and multipurposing leftovers was very common. "Friendship bread" is so called because it's a "starter" bread, and you're supposed to share your starter; if you don't, you end up with a freezer full of bread that you then have to try to give away. The starter had fruit and sugar in it, but there wasn't a whole lot of additional sugar added.
Tang! When I was a kid back in the 90's I made a Russian Tea mix with this to give as Christmas presents. I'd forgotten about that, so thanks for bringing back a nice memory for me. 🎄🥰😊
Hot tang with an envelope of unflavored gelatin was what a ministers wife swore helped her to grow long nails in 1960’s. I was about 6. They stayed with us. I never forgot that she drank that every night before bed.
You are so delightful, Anna! I remember my grandma making spiced tea with Tang, instant tea and some spices, it was delicious. Brings back memories of when I was little in the 60s. I just love your channel and all the memories it evokes. More full day meals, please. Hugs and blessings!💗
This hit me so hard cuz you used the green plates that my granny had! All of the best meals of my life came on those plates. My aunt had the orange/yellow ones you have. My dad loves that carrot salad. That man eats an obscene amount of mayo every month. Has anyone else ever had frozen mixed veggies with a spoonful of mayo instead of butter? It's actually amazing. I love your decade for a day series. I appreciate your take on the chicken. I was watching Ree Drummond and she made a spicy entree, a spicy side, then a spicy sauce. No! One of those needs to be a cooling or calming dish. Meals should be a mix of textures and flavors and not all one thing. I think that chicken would have been great with a creamy or cheesy carb side. Or a flavorful rice pilaf, something like that.
You're right! I had originally planned a rice side dish to go with the chicken and green beans, but ended up not making it since I wasn't feeling the greatest. 😊
I once used frozen mixed veg in a pasta salad because I didn't have any raw veg in the fridge. I cooked them a bit in the microwave and then cooled them. And I used eggless mayo... Tasted fine.
> I remember one time on Johnny Carson, Vincent Price cooked Trout wrapped-in-foil with olive-oil & herbs. The only difference was he cooked it inside a Dishwasher !!!
I use dried chives all the time. I don’t use chives often enough so to me it’s easier to have on hand instead of buying fresh everytime. Use what you like.. don’t worry about what other people think
Oh my gosh, the carrot salad brought back memories. It was one of the first salads I learned to make as a child in the 70's, although instead of using peanuts, I was taught to make it with diced apple. The peanuts seem intriguing though and I'll definitely have to try it that way. Something as simple as a carrot salad with minimal ingredients can be so tasty. Thanks for sharing!
I think these vintage cookbooks are still full of wonderful recipes that would suit any modern palette. And so many of them can be easily modified for a change of pace. That quick bread, for instance, would also be great with almonds and a little almond extract, or adding lemon extract and a tablespoon of lemon zest; in any case, a very versatile recipe. Thanks for sharing and cooking with us. I love this series!
Fresh chives weren’t showing up in my family’s kitchen, ever. Putting dinner on the table was about feeding people, not having a restaurant worthy experience. We were lucky to have favorite foods once in a while.
My mom planted chives next to our back door back in the 60s and I'm pretty sure they were still growing when they sold their house in the 90s. Those babies grew everywhere! Definitely not an expensive or hard-to-get ingredient.
My Mom made the hot dogs covered with left over mashed potatoes and cheese then in the oven . We loved them!! i made them when my kids were little. We never put a hot dog on top . Oh and I'm a child of the 60's......
Great tip for the quick bread. Brillian even. Nice way to keep it fresh all the way through. Wow! They still make Tang! I've been craving Russian Tea, but thought Tang was a thing of the past. My Momma made those hot dog smores when the food budget was low., except she used only one hot dog. Had lots of them when my brother was in college. Thanks for the video. I enjoy the "full day" series.
I used to make the Russian tea mix all the time in the 70's and 80's. I had forgotten about it and just the other day, my husband reminded me about it. I don't know that I have the recipe for it anymore. I'd love to have it again if you would be so kind as to share the recipe.
@@hippietoherbie package of instant iced tea, package of tang, package of lemonade if it wasn’t lemon flavored Iced tea, tablespoon cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon cloves. Lipton instant lemon tea has sugar. If you use unsweetened instant tea you need to use sweetened lemonade powder or add sugar to unsweetened lemon koolaid
Yay! I was recently given my Mom's binder copy of this cookbook. Funny thing is, my mom used to make those hot dogs all the time but she just put the potato and cheese on top, no extra hot dog. I think we just called them hot dog boats or something like that. I recently asked her where the recipe came from and she didn't know. Perhaps it was from this book. 🙂
I own this book! This was the book my mom cooked out of when I was a kid. It's in my cabinet now. The only recipes I use are the cookie recipe. Peanut butter cookies are the 💣
I still have Tang 🍊 (add water to taste)Reminds me of my childhood...Mom would make it when I was sick, so sometimes when I get a cold, I have a glass of tang (with ice)
I like to add sliced banana to fruit cocktail, too. Just goes so nicely with it. Fun video! I enjoy watching you day of meals from a decade videos. Thank you for the extra work that goes into this.
Grew up eating Carrot salad with Raisins. My grandma always shredded the carrots and added the raisin, then poured about a tablespoon of lemon juice and black pepper to it and let it sit til dinner time. Just before serving she added a little mayo. Delicious. The raisins plump up with the soaking in lemon juice with the carrots.
My mom used to make hot dogs topped with leftover mashed potatoes and cheese on top and baked. She would also stuff hot dogs with cheese and wrap with bacon and bake. Not the best nutritionally, but a quick easy meal we enjoyed. Fond memories.
I remember the foil packet craze of the 90s star recipe was cooking your salmon filet wrapped in foil, in the dishwasher 😂 keep in mind, "multi tasking" was the buzz phrase at the time 🥴
I actually think your cutting from the middle of the loaf is brilliant! 😄 Your carrot salad is missing one vital ingredient… peanut butter! Don’t knock it til you’ve tried it, y’all. 😁 With the addition of the peanut butter, the peanuts are not required. Otherwise, the ingredients are the same. Carrot salad is still one of the salads from my childhood that I love the most, and still make to this day.
my grandmother has always made fish in tin foil with lemon, dill, sliced onion, and salt and pepper. sometimes she would cook over the fire and the fish always had such a a great taste from the smokiness.
Love the way you cut the banana bread. Going to start doing this. Tang, love it - chilled. Grew up eating carrot/raisin salad (sans peanuts) and still make it. Canned green beans are fine! I don't like the French cut only because I think they cook too soft. Great cookbook review! My "test" for catch-all cookbooks was to check the banana bread recipe. Not enough bananas, I'm putting it back.
I love it when you do a full day of meals! They are very fun to watch and full of great recipes. I can appreciate that they must be a lot of work - but this is a great video. Having Tang with your breakfast made me laugh - very 60s. I use to drink it a lot as a kid and teen. I was not familiar with the Pillsbury Family Cookbook - the review was very informative. I can’t wait to try the recipes you’ve shared! Thank you for a great video!!
Hi from Southern California. If you loosened the skin and spread the paste directly on the flesh (both sides) it would improve the flavor. I make fresh green beans with garlic and parmesan and I'm going to try it with a little vinegar. Born in 1952, so your vids bring back memories. Glad I found your channel.
Hi there, and so glad you're here! ❤ I did loosen the skin and spread some of the butter mixture underneath, but it was edited out. I took quite a bit of time trying to make sure I got into every nook and cranny, and that section of the video was very long. 😂
The hotdog s’mores would be an easy way to use up leftover mashed potatoes. We usually end up with things like that after holidays or other big family gatherings
I appreciate your pre-measuring the ingredients ahead of time. I dislike when people waste time measuring on camera. It just seems very disorganized to me. Thank you the extra time it takes for you to do that in addition to the extra dishes!
born in 1960, never had tang until !was 17. I drank tomato juice or V-8 for breakfast when I had breakfast. I started drinking orange juice when I was 40 and diluted the juice with water. Half and half, it's the only way to drink orange juice.
Born in 1966 and to this day I have never had Tang. I’m a tomato girl and only drank tomato juice as far back as I can remember. Now I don’t drink juice and just make green smoothies 🤷🏼♀️
I have and use the ring binder book continuously! Actually consuming the Lasagne recipe from it while watching this. Ant I love the oats and blue berries or strawberries for breakfast! You also sound exactly like my niece when you laugh! 😂
😮Those beans look nice too! All these vintage recipes are always so tasty looking and full of easy to get ingredients and less than 20 steps to make 😅maybe I'm watching the wrong things but I swear all the popular cooking vids especially short form have loads of expensive ingredients, a million steps and take an hour to prep
I usually watch your videos on my tv to learn how to cook. I love vintage cook books. After being on the market for a Pillsbury yeast donut technical manual recently, this cookbook did catch my attention and I thought I’d leave a comment. I really enjoy learning from your videos and it’s cool to see you make and review these recipes! Also props for being one of the only creators.. to not use an ugly apron LOL 😅
My mama used to make me something similar to the hotdog s’mores. She’d fry slice of bologna ’til it curled, then plopped in some mashed ‘taters, topped with cheese and broiled until the cheese was bubbly.
My mom made the Hot Dog Smores often, except we never called them that. Never knew that there was a name for it.. Sometimes she would substitute cheese with corn. We always had ours open faced. One of our favorites growing up!
Fun meals! If you lift the skin and spread the flavored butter on the meat and replace the skin, it might yield a more flavorful result, should you want to try this again. I do this with my turkey at Thanksgiving, and it works well. Thanks for the flip-through of the cookbook at the end. 😍
Buttermilk is awesome if you have chicken you want to fry. Doesn’t matter if you’re making homemade tenders, nuggets, or fried chicken. Soak your chicken in buttermilk, and it will be nice and tender, and add extra flavor.
Looking forward to seeing if my mom made any of these recipes. I'll add onto this comment if she did. Update: my mom definately made a lot of nut breads in a loaf pan using self rising flour in the 60s and 70s. My mom also frequently made carrot raisin salad but without the peanuts. My mom is 91 now and still makes it often. After microwaves were available in the 1970s we learned to put some raisins in a small dish or cup with apple juice or orange juice or water and microwave for a bit to plump the raisins up, it makes them much more pleasant to eat for people that don't like cold, hard chewy raisins. In the 60s my mom often gave my sister and I Tang and a Space Stick for breakfast and felt like she was giving us a healthy breakfast before we went to school. It had to be great for kids if it was the breakfast of astronauts, right?
Awesome video! First.. during the breakfast portion of the video, the grey shirt and your glasses look absolutely fantastic on you!! Grey looks so good on you! The music you chose at 14:15 is soo perfect! :) I love the way you explain the flavors of the recipe because I was doubting the peanuts in the carrot salad until you said they added a nice salty crunch, .. and I thought ooooohh, yeah ok - salty from the peanuts, sweet from the carrots and raisins.. now I want to try making it that way (along with the hotdog smores!). As usual, your videos are so great and I look forward to every single one you put out there. I appreciate all the thought, time, and hard work you put into them to make them entertaining and informative for all of us.
Definitely want to make the hot dog s'mores. I may do that for family night when my daughter and granddaughter come over. Also, let's talk about the Better Homes & Garden's Handyman's Book. That looks very interesting.
This is almost exactly like a recipe I got from a 1980 Air Force Wives cook book, it is named Butterscotch Walnut Bread. I half the amount of butter and add 1/4 C applesauce to cut the fat since I am going to butter that bread up! Yum!
My childhood. I have the binder edition. It is well loved😊 my mom gave us the bread hot with butter or honey. Delicious. We did the chicken in foil outside. Works great at a campfire.
I have the binder version!! It's missing a few pages and in kind of rough shape, but it is a very well loved heirloom from my late great-grandmother. I've loved seeing you try some of these recipes, it's fun to follow you along with the pages in front of me haha!
Reynolds wrap id have small cook booklets with fabulous recipes. Their potato salad is my family's go to. I reminder there was an excellent gingerbread snack cake and maybe a rice pudding that was really delicious.
I think premeasuring works for your videos. I find your videos easy to follow. That nut bread looks scrumptious. I think it needs butter. Tang! What the astronauts drink! There were other flavors in the late 60s and 70s. My favorite was grapefruit Tang. Love the carrot salad! The hot dog s'mores is kind of like something we made in Girl Scout camp. In Betty Crocker's cookbook (1950s), there's a recipe that involves cutting a hole the long way down a whole potato, sticking a hot dog in the hole, and boiling the whole mess. I like the hot dog s'mores better. I love dried chives! So versatile! Again, this is a recipe I remember from Girl Scouts. I wonder, if we learned this in the late 60s and early 70s, if the leaders leafed through cookbooks and said, "Aha! Something kids could make!" Love the Joseph Joseph scoop strainer! Thank you for another great video, and adding a highlight to my Sunday.
