I suspect that bananas back in the day were much smaller and the Jello packets much larger. If you would like to make us all roll on the floor again, try it with 3 bananas and 2 Jello packs. I love videos like this! Thanks so much!
I'd also reduce the amount of water used. Go with just the amount of hot water, allow it to cool down, then add other ingredients. It also appears glass was the way to go. May future attempts work better!
All these things and also there was very likely a different type of banana popular back then. If you want to know more Scishow did a pretty good video about it here on RU-vid.
@@tiggamac they were most likely the gros michel bananas that were blighted in the 1950’s and 60’s and replaced by what we now typically get which are the cavendish bananas. The gros Michel bananas tasted more like what we now think of as “banana flavoring”.
Okay, I was 4 in 1960. The mixer and directions brought on feelings of my childhood. They didn’t have silicone molds in the 60’s so a glass mold was what they were referring to. I suspect you needed to mix it more, while turning the bowl. That was one of the unsaid directions. Ripe bananas may have been called for. But all in all Jello/jelly has always been kind of gross. But a pink skull could have been perfect for Halloween! Thanks for showing this.
The skull mold was perfection in the most horendous way! 💀Especially the teeth! 😁 Loved it! 💕 You said you almost threw up. At least it would have blended in easily enough! 🤮🤣🤣🤣
I dreamed of having one of these. My mother never had one but a neighbour did and made ice-cream with evaporated milk and some sort of strawberry mixture and I was so envious of her kids. I have never had a mixer (I'm nearly 70 and LOVE baking) but soon I will move to a new house and my housewarming gift to myself will be a KitchenAid.
Just make sure you have somewhere to store it that won’t knock your back out! I am your age and I store mine underneath the counter. It gets heavier and heavier each year. 😂
@@karencramer6491 nah. Get yourself the Kitchenaid. You deserve it! Just give it a nice home on the counter, get it a pretty cover, et voila! Always ready to make something delicious! My mom was the type to keep counters clutter-free, except for her Kitchenaid. She said it was too useful to be sat in a dark cupboard. 🤷♀️
@@JoanieBC I like your thinking but my new kitchen is limited even though it has a generous pantry. Both you and the previous comment have given me something to think about. I'm giving myself 12 months to get the feel of the house and then maybe make some changes to the kitchen.
I grew up in the 50s and 60s. We had a fair amount of jello recipes, usually for dessert, but never anything like that. If bananas were used, they were just cut into slices and added to the jello after it had set a bit. (I was fine with never using bananas, because I don't like them.) I cringed when you chucked all 5 whole bananas into that bowl - they should have been cut into pieces (and fewer of them) and mixed with some kind of liquid, maybe a little milk or condensed milk, until the mixture was creamy and then strain out any lumps before mixing it into the jello (or spreading it on top) when it was setting in the fridge. The recipe may not have clarified a few things, because it was thought that most cooks of the time already knew them. (Historical recipes can be tricky. I highly recommend the Tasting History channel - I think you'd enjoy it, and the host is fun.) In any case, I always have such a good time watching all your videos. You're just a delight!
I've seen similar creations using evaporated milk and jelly. You dissolve the jelly in the evaporated milk, without water. Mix until frothy, refrigerate and it should set up a bit like a mousse. I think where you went wrong with your creation is it had too much water so it messed with the final texture.
I think you were supposed to make the Jello first and chill it in a mold and then pour the banana mixture on top of the chilled and already set Jello, or as you say Jelly, and then chill it again. 😂
So bananas were a lot smaller back in the 60s. Almost half the size, so the volume of banana puree was too high. They also looked a bit under ripe and you want really ripe bananas, nearly black, as they will blend smoother without the grittiness. The other thing is that the jello should be made up to half the volume so that when you add the banana puree the total volume is what is indicated on the packet. It still doesn't taste great but I hate bananas.
The thing is, when people were growing up in the 60s and 70s this sort of Technology was the only thing we had. My mother loved to bake and cook from scratch, her parents were from the Great Depression so she learned how to make everything from scratch. And she had one of these older mixers; I'm sure maybe you did something wrong in the recipe to make it turn out so horrible, because I know that original recipes from that era are not horrible, because I was raised on food made from scratch with those mixers! I especially miss all of the fruit and pasta salads grandma would make!
This made me laugh so hard I started wheezing (stupid covid, I’m still recovering from)! 😂 Oh my gosh, I don’t know what is funnier, the fact that it looked like vomit, or the fact that you made it in a skull!! 😂😂. I am also absolutely dying at the thought of what people would think, if you could actually show up to some fancy house party in the 1960s with this vomit-skull jello mold that you made with their recipe😂! Although to be fair, I am pretty sure that women in the 1960s purposefully created some pretty atrocious recipes as a way to passive-aggressively rebel against misogyny and patriarchy. (Because that is what I would have done! 😊).
That was hilarious and disgusting!😂 Also, you needed to blend it all together a LOT longer. Two jellies (Jell-O in the US) with less water would have worked better. This kind of thing was a staple of my childhood(born in 1954). This would have been a “dessert” mold. The dinner ones were awful! Lime Jell-O with shredded carrots and pears was the WORST!🌸
LOL OMG Okay, so my mom had Sunbeam mixers for ever. When one went down we had to get another one right away. I was born in 1955! But, praise the Jell-O gods, she never made crap like that! LOL The skull mold was hideous and perfect for Halloween!
@@tiggamac that's exactly what I thought big bananas and silicone pans!! Definitely didn't have those to go with my mixer back in the day I still have one a red one and I still use it but with today's recipes😂😂
@@tiggamacthere are two sizes of Jello… maybe it should have been the larger one? From the look of the abomination, it looks like the mixer didn’t mix very well. I think the smaller mold set better because it was smaller AND you filled it with goo scooped from the top of the skull mold, likely more mixed.
I was a kid learning from my grandmother back in the 60s. In 1965 I was 10 years old. I don't recall anyone ever having silicone molds back in those days. Glass, yes, and Tupperware for jello salads, but never silicone. That mold is all wrong. Also, bananas were smaller. They weren't these giant hybrid ones that are large enough to have fed a dinosaur like the ones of today.
I can't decide whether it looked like really pale meatloaf or Spam when it came out the molds 😂 Either way, the imagine of the skull is definitely gunna haunt my dreams 😂
My mom had that Mix Master when i was growing up, it was great. You could drop the thing and it'd still work. She used that for years until she got a Kitchen Aid in the late 80's. Never tried the banana slime though.
Horrible Jell-o concoctions were all the rage in the 1950's and 1960's. My mom made a dreadful lime Jell-o and hotdog with coleslaw mold. We had sandwiches for dinner. lol Your attempt was entertaining if nothing else.
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I love your channel. Any chance you could recreate a stand up version of your earrings?? (Smiling avocado).
I think you weren't supposed to put the water in the jell-o. As for the mixer--that's what we had back in the day. Maybe some people had a KitchenAid, but most people couldn't really afford them. And they worked just fine to make cakes. (not so much cookie dough, though).
If this recipe was developed before the 1960s, it was intended to be made with an entirely different variety of bananas than we have available today. The Gros Michel was almost entirely wiped out by Panama disease, and was replaced by the larger, hardier Cavendish banana.
ROTFLMHO - I think it was missing a can of condensed tomato soup. As per the recipe books my Nan had. There was nothing a can of Rosella couldnt fix! lol
@@ctempleman1401 🤣🤣🤣 OMG - I know. There seemed to be nothing a 1950's/60's recipe book had that didnt contain tomato soup. I have a spoof book on it. So funny!
I love Halloween & Día de Los Muertos, that was the creepiest skull concoction ever for me. Perfect for the weird texture gross-out game peeled grapes as eyeballs,Sqwinkles (Mexican candy version of the smooth peel apart Twizzlers)mixed with jello as brains, etc. So not a total fail to me.
I couldn't even look at the final product in the skull. Except for banana bread, I hate everything banana, and that was so lumpy. But of course, I stayed and "watched" till the end 😊🤷
@@katyb2793the similar recipe my Mum used to make had cream, jelly and whole strawberries. It wouldn’t have had anywhere near as much fruit and it wasn’t pureed. You just chopped it into small pieces.
Had one in the fifties and it looked just like that one. When we put bananas in jello it was always cut up on purée. Moms always turned out great. What did you do wrong? we folded in the whip cream after jello that had started to firm up in refrigerator for a couple,e of hours
Zombie apocalypse. 😂😂😂 Maybe not the same amount of gelatin in the packet as in 1960s and 1970s? Shrinkage over the years? Sounds like a recipe I'd have done in Home Economics, they never worked out. Bananas may need beating more in smaller batches so they are smoother before other ingredients added? Beaten bananas frozen makes a great desert without anything else and doesn't feel slimy.
What you call jelly is jam here and used on toast. A lot of recipes used jelly, fruit and evaporated milk for dessert in 60s and 70s. Commonly taught in Home Economics.
Lol " we think its from the 60's". Title says 70 year old mixer.... lol it would have to have been made in 54' to be 70... just had to laugh, my mom would have been so offended as she was born in 64'.
It was mostly just a “there abouts” as I’m not actually 100% sure when this mixer is from. I tried researching and got mixed results, anywhere from 40’s-60’s so I just rounded up 😂
@@tiggamac well they did make cakes out of anything those days 😂 My hand mixer is from my great grandma and her name is Diana and she is yellow, but I'm still working with her.
1950s & 60s jello had 3 envelopes per box, so you would use ⅓ of an envelope now. Also unless it specifically says to add water you either only add just enough to bloom the gelatin or none at all. (Since this uses another warm liquid & sits i assume to bloom I don't think it requires any water.) Also you used the wrong number of bananas, this should have been around 2-3 bananas based on what they would have been using at the time. Glass mold only, but that part you knew, I'm sure. Hope that helps
It looks similar to a 'Milk' Jelly? I think where you could have gone wrong was: A. not blending the bananas smooth enough. B. possibly not using the orange flavour jelly? My late mum used to use either lemon/lime or pineapple jelly cubes (not crystals) for mixing with bananas? C. Making the jelly up with too much water? Usually, if adding fruit to a jelly, you omit some of the water as the fruit has water in it. If attempted again, try making up the jelly with the boiling water but use the banana & cream 'as' the cold water. This will stiffen up the mixture. May be try again? When not feeling too nauseous 😁🤭
😂 A zombies face fell off onto a plate 🤢 My mother used to make a milk pudding that looked like that 😅 I'm not a pudding person. The 60s were known for many things, culinary delights wasn't one of them. 😅
