These recipes come from the 1932 The Silent Hostess Treasure Book.

Here is the bizarre side dish recipe for the equally bizarre Tuna Delight Salad Mold recipe. For Cream Cheese “Pineapples” – Divide into six equal portions 8 oz cream cheese Using knife or spatula, mold each portion in shape of miniature pineapple. Chill in refrigerator. Meanwhile, cut into thin slices enough stuffed olives to yield [...]

Mmm… pink food-stuff! Well, this is not artificially pink, just the result of beets and cottage cheese. This interesting cracker dip appetizer thingy comes from Creative Cooking with Cottage Cheese. I actualy bet that this isn’t too bad.  Or at least not as bad as the Salmon Wiggle Recipe which is getting “rave” reviews (of [...]

This curious recipe comes from the ever weird and wonderful, Cocktail Companions, published in 1954.  Why this fine cookbook is no longer in print, and gracing the NY Times Best Sellers list, I will never know.  But now…. the Bologna Pie Recipe! 12 slices bologna 1 3 oz. package cream cheese 1 tsp. grated onion [...]

Bologna, baloney! Call it what you will. I even added a recipe category for the illustrious mystery meat known as… bologna… baloney! This interesting recipe comes from the 50′s-ish Mexican Cookery for American Homes from Gebhardt’s. And now, the Bologna Cushions recipe! On a slice of bologna place a heaping tablespoon of Gebhardt’s Chili con [...]