Summer is almost here, and summer means entertaining; picnics, barbeques, outdoor brunches, drinking champers before noon, you know the drill. During party season, a person can easily become overwhelmed by demands on their culinary imagination.
Luckily, when the invitations rack up and you are sick to death of bringing your “amazing peach cobbler”, Weight Watchers recipe cards from 1974 offer a little technicolor ‘inspiration’.
Check out this recipe for a Chilled Celery Log
You could eat this log. Or you could stick your hand in a rusty kitchen grinder. Yeah, have fun. (CandyBoots)
Yum! And don’t worry there are dozens more where that came from.
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eight comments
Yikes! Is it me or is that celery brown?
Posted by Andrea
May 12, 2009, 11 AM
There's are reasons people don't usually 'chill' celery, color being just one of them ;)
Posted by Mir
May 12, 2009, 11:10 AM
Eeeew!!!
Posted by D. Cole
May 12, 2009, 3:05 PM
An old roommate had a cookbook of a similar vintage that had a recipe for wilted lettuce, covered in bacon grease and bacon bits. Swear to god. People in the olden days were masochists.
Posted by Anna
May 12, 2009, 5:03 PM
Replace lettuce with bread and I'd eat it ;)
Okay no I wouldn't. Replace lettuce with grilled giant scallop and I would totally eat it...
Posted by Mir
May 12, 2009, 5:17 PM
Yeah, it's less the bacon bits than the trying to fob off wilted lettuce on your guests as a "delicacy". I love bacon bits. Bacon anything, really.
Posted by Anna
May 13, 2009, 11:11 AM
My friends have a 7Up cookbook from the same era. There is some scary stuff in there and ALL of it requires one glass bottle of 7Up for that "refreshing lemon-lime taste"!
The celery, for example, would have been soaked in 7Up and 7Up would have been mixed into the filling. :P
Posted by Nikita
May 13, 2009, 2:45 PM
I actually can't look at that photo without feeling sick to my stomach.
Posted by Teresa
May 14, 2009, 11:04 AM
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