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I was cleaning out the garrage today and I found my maternal grandmother's Fanny Farmer Cookbook. It was chock full of clippings from news papers and magazines, as well has hand written recipes from women I can only guess have gone on to their eternal reward. Their names, or frequently their husband's name, and a date, mostly from the 30s and 40s, fountain penned at the bottom of the paper, most often, monogrammed stationary, as opposed to index cards.
Women with names like "Mrs. E.L. Wincott, Mrs. Wm. Tewksbury, Mrs. C.J MacIntyre, Bx, NY. and Mrs. Albert Schrager (Trudy). Other than the last, few gave their first names. I find things like this interesting. I know I am not the only one.
Anyway, I came upon a recipe for Salisbury Steak. I had loved it as a child. It was a absolutely a depression or a WWII era recipe because it was stretched out with far too much "stale bread" and "eggs" along with minced onions and grated potato.
My mother revised it in the early sixties. Instead of tamerand and a pinch of allspice, she added Worscestershire. Instead of finely minced onion, she added Lipton's onion soup mix. Instread of two T of pureed tomatoes and one tsp, brown sugar, she used ketchup.
She crossed out the original by drawing a straight line through it, and added her replacement. "Stale bread" or breadcrmbs were halved and potato removed. She kept the sherry and added garlic powder. More meat of course.
I asked my husband if he remembered Salisbury "Steak", and he said "Yes! It was a Swanson TV Dinner! - I loved it!".
So I revamped in for the 21st century. It was delicious.
We had vegetarian Salibury Steak. mushroom onion gravy, with sweet corn on the cob, buttered green beans, and a tossed salad featuring Boston Lettuce. baby spinach, multi colored grape tomatoes, green onion, cucumber slices, and Manuka honey and Dijon vinaigrette.
Thank you, Mrs. Chas. Slatterly, Trinity of Morissania Epis. Church, Bronx, NY, where ever you are.
OH, we had Tapioca budding and berries for desert.
1 1/2 sloppy joes, [DH had the other half] using my multigrain sandwich thins (heated in microwave for 20 secs), then added some Cole slaw and plenty of my crushed black peppercorn pepper. Finally finished off my one bottle of Stewart's orange cream soda (3 days). Even though I bought a pack, it'll probably take me til the end of September to drink it all. I used to finish a bottle off in just one sitting.
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