Recipes of days gone by (beef, dressing, best, boiled)

[DawnMTL]

Originally Posted by JrzDefector

NOTHING beats these old WW recipes:
Weight Watchers recipe cards, circa 1974

Omg: The other other OTHER white meat

Hahaha!

ETA: Even worse that it linked as "the other other white meat" as if the name of the meal wasn't bad enough.

[DawnMTL]

Originally Posted by Dirt Grinder

Esterhazy Sauce, 'nuff said.

Mmmm. I'd eat that as soup.

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by Dirt Grinder

Esterhazy Sauce, 'nuff said.

Have you ever made that?

[Dirt Grinder]

Originally Posted by Gerania

Have you ever made that?

Of course, we love it!!! I make Steak Esterhazy, and the sauce is also great on potatoes.

[TabulaRasa]

My fave cookbooks are the ones the Lutheran church I grew up in assembled out of collected recipes from congregants. Church basement potluck food, mmmmm.

[Gerania]

Hmmm. Can you point me toward a recipe?

[Dirt Grinder]

Originally Posted by Gerania

Hmmm. Can you point me toward a recipe?

This is the sauce recipe we like (it's found on a number of cooking sites)...

Esterhazy Sauce

BTW - don't let it boil or it will break.

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by Dirt Grinder

This is the sauce recipe we like (it's found on a number of cooking sites)...

Esterhazy Sauce

BTW - don't let it boil or it will break.

That's quite a bit different than the Hungarian recipes with parsnips and beets.

[Dirt Grinder]

Originally Posted by Gerania

That's quite a bit different than the Hungarian recipes with parsnips and beets.

I like to make Esterhazy Sauce. You might be referring to a particular Esterhazy dish. There are also Esterhazy tortes and Esterhazy cakes. I suppose the royal Esterhazy family of Hungary had a wide-reaching impact on the cuisine of that time.

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by gentlearts

Wow, some of those sound truly awful. My daughter won a baking contest with what looks like the same Pistachio Bundt cake, when she was about 10.

I have tons of old recipes too. They are fun to look at.

fun to look at, not always fun to make or eat.I did make Welsh (not the correct spelling) rarebit (again spelling) a few years ago: didn't like it as much as I did 50 plus years ago.

We still do carrot and raisin salad and tuna casserole. There are others I fix from time to time, but most don't have enough spices. Years ago spices were not used like we use them now. I think food may have less flavor now, so we depend on the herbs. Something I haven't made in years but always loved is Swedish meatballs.