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Found a 1970s church cookbook at a yard sale in Boise

It was in a box of old books. Cost me fifty cents. Flipped through it and saw a recipe for 'Watergate Salad'. My grandma used to make that. It has pistachio pudding and canned fruit. Nobody cooks like that now. What other weird jello recipes did people eat back then?
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vera292
vera2928d ago
That Watergate salad is a total time capsule lol. The weirdest one I ever saw was a tomato aspic with shrimp and celery suspended in it, like a savory jello nightmare. My aunt used to make a "salad" with lime jello, cottage cheese, and canned pears that still haunts me. People back then really thought putting anything in gelatin made it fancy.
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the_linda
the_linda8d ago
Did they ever try putting hot dogs in jello, because I swear my grandma did that once?
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