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Showerthought: my mom's old 1980s slow cooker cookbook from Cincinnati had a whole section on gelatin molds, which I found while cleaning out her attic last month.
It made me wonder if anyone else has a weird old recipe from a family member that they've actually tried to make work in a modern slow cooker, like a savory tomato aspic or something (I haven't been brave enough yet).
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knight.oscar7mo ago
My grandma's handwritten card for "ham loaf" called for a whole can of tomato soup and two cups of bread crumbs. I tried it in my Crock-Pot last year, and it was basically a warm, meaty brick. The texture was all wrong without the dry heat of an oven. What was the weirdest ingredient in your mom's gelatin section?
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grant_ross277mo ago
My mom's lime Jell-O mold had shredded cabbage in it. The recipe card just said "1 cup cabbage, finely cut" like that was normal. It gave the whole thing a weird, wet crunch. I tried making it once and the cabbage bled green water into the gelatin. That section of her recipe box was a time capsule of bad ideas.
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