Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Frozen Valentine Rounds...

a retro recipe, 1960's style.

This is what you'd serve to your one true love on Valentine's Day fifty years ago...




Mmmmmm


it must be


LOVE!

There's not a man (or woman) alive who could resist your charms after eating this! Cream cheese, tinned fruit cocktail, gelatine, mayonnaise, marshmallows - as far as retro recipes go, this one's got it all!

If preparing this (I felt the urge to vomit long after these photos were taken!) is not a sign of the lengths you're prepared to go to for love, then I don't know what is!

(and you know it's gotta be love don't you, if your valentine actually man's-up and EATS this! It might just be a good way of checking, "sorting the wheat from the chaff" so to speak...)

Here it is in all its technicolour 60's glory


image, Better Homes and Gardens Holiday Cook Book (my copy 1969)

and

here's the recipe


because you've still got time...


Let me know if you get lucky.

x
 
 
p.s. this doesn't taste as bad as you'd think it would. Honestly.
 
p.p.s. the jury's out on its success as an aphrodisiac, hungry Anth?














37 comments:

  1. Awesome Kylie, so awesome... someone's going to be a very lucky valentine tomorrow!!. Mum gave me a couple of round versions of those milk glass plates with sweet heart edges, I should try and dig them out!. Oh and lace baubles have been found and pinned - can't believe I missed them in December, so cool :).

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  2. More delights from your kitchen Kylie...I like the addition of the chopped lettuce :)

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  3. That looks as good as I feel! ( woke with tonsillitis). The best part is the jelly heart. Happy valentines...

    Ps thanks for the lovely note, I appreciate it.

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  4. Oh my goodness..what a mess hahah! It looks good and bad. Its actually something that looks like id like to try but it looks horrible as well. Its fantastic! I scored byself a 1960's cookbook 'NOW IN COLOUR', for $2 and am looking forward to pageing through and sharing some of its glorious photos! So far the tomato soup jelly has got my attention! x

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  5. OMG that looks like something from CSI LOL

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  6. Oh my. the addition of moyonnaise. or salad dressing (even worse).
    another winner recipe Kylie.
    x

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  7. Do love the splades! I grew up with them and now have drawerful, the ultimate family cutlery item. My kids will automatically put spades on the table unless I say "knives and forks tonight". Also love those lovely 50's bowls.... mmm Sorry, there was food also?

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  8. If I just squinted my eyes and focused on the roses, rosey china, the tablecloth, and the splades, I was quite looking forward to Valentines. But alas my eyes focused and I was quite disturbed. A. I can't believe you made this. B. I can't believe you ate it. Sorry is it savoury not sweet (still confused!) C. It's just as well you're married to someone who's obviously a saint!!! Also being a 60s child (very late 60s!) I also find it disturbing when you said fifty years ago! S:)

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  9. Wow, that is amazing Kylie - longing to give that a go next time I have a seduction planned! ;-)

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  10. OMG Can't believe you made this monstrosity of a recipe Kylie. Looks like a Fanny Cradock original.

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  11. What a great Valentine's post! It is so beautifully styled Kylie, I could look at it over and over again.

    Eating it however, might be a different matter! :D Jelly, cream cheese and mayonnaise?! Did your little troupe polish the lot off?

    When we used to say 'what's for tea tonight Mum?' the answer was normally stew. And when it wasn't stew, it was casserole. Both answers were invariably followed by a groan. Braising steak and boiled carrots. No wonder we were all so slim in those days. No incentive to overeat. xxx

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  12. hi kylie...that 2nd pic is very disturbing!..as a nurse I can tell you it resembles a lot of things....none of them good sorry. We`d be sending it for a biopsy quick smart. But....the sentiment behind it is lovely. And of course the styling is fab!
    Al x

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  13. You won my heart ages ago. ...... this heart feast is delightful as is you styling....you have found your calling! Retro gastronomy stylist...there's money in that! xx

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  14. Am so scared of gelatin.....gulp.....

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  15. That's hilarious looks a bit like a brain on a bed of lettuce - (now there's another idea for a valentine special). We get two chances here in Wales as we have St Dwynwen's day on 25th Jan - went tasteful for that, so maybe I should go for the pink jelly brain next.

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  16. Nice. Not.

    Every time I see one these retro recipes I wonder how the hell we survived the 60's and 70's without copious vomiting.

    The photos do also give me twinge of nostalgia though, and memories of my grannies in 'tea cozy hats', and crocheted handbags, and family get-togethers. So that's pretty cool. :)

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  17. Oh boy. And they served it on a bed of lettuce? I am totally confused. Looking for it to contain salmon but no it is a dessert, that looks like a placenta? Your family may need therapy after this one. I am still gagging, and that is just from the visuals. Very relived we do not celebrate valentines at our place. mel x

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  18. Your whole table layout is too hilarious! And nothing says 'Amore' more than sliced iceberg lettuce.

    I love you! Be my Valentine! You are too, too funny.

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  19. Oh my...I couldn't think of anything worse...and I know for a fact that my sweetheart would just laugh in my face and refuse to partake.....what were they thinking!!!! xx

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  20. ha ha ha Oh My god it makes me ill just looking at it. Bless you your great fun for making it and i agree if he eats that or even trys it, it must be true love :-) Have a great day lovely, dee x

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  21. I'm sorry I couldn't bring myself to read the recipe yet because I am still feeling a bit vommy from the photos. I was just thinking about you and your hilarious retro cook offs this week!

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  22. I'm still laughing!! Happy "VD Day" as my Hubby calls it -cheeky bugger that he is!

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  23. I grew up eating concoctions like this at holiday meals. My grandmother (the one who wasn't a good cook) loved to make "Jello salads." My favorite part about yours is the wonky heart. :) Thanks for another great recipe!

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  24. Oh my goodness, is it alive?!? Mayo and marshmallows in one dish.... Pretty sickening! You're so good at finding this great retro stuff, Kylie:-)

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  25. I just have got to say I love your plate. It is so pretty and perfect for serving up a pink and red fluffy and jelly sort of sweet n tasty treat.

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  26. Oooooo, yeah, vomity goodness!
    I'm just reading "Toast", Nigel Slaters food memories of growing up in the 60's, and he talks about all kinds of similar stuff! Makes me stomach curdle! Looks amazing, however! XXX

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  27. Brain? Placenta? Vomit-inducing? These people are MEAN, Kylie, after you went to all that trouble to make something delightfully romantic....
    That said - it's bit vile, isn't it? But it a totally retrotastic way! As always, you are Queen of the Retro Kitschen, my friend, and I'm sure Anth agrees.
    PS? Is it really not as bad to,eat as it looks? REALLY?! xxxxx

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  28. Ha. Love it, in all its lettucy frozen mayonnaisey glory. Well done you, brought a smile to my face. You've got a good man there too, not sure mine would, more chaff when it comes to food. Happy VD

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  29. Oh my word! So much pink, jelly and of course love.
    The first shot is hilarious - the lovely rose atop of the jelly fare on the iceberg lettuce!! Food matches made in heaven.
    Happy Valentines Day to you.x

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  30. How did I miss? You broke out the vintage recipe box again. Naughty girl.

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  31. kylie, another retro-gasto-barf-triumph!
    your table looks beautiful, the jelly and the lettuce i would nibble on for sure, but try as i like to imagine that thing as a lolly stuffed pink ice cream-mousse type thing i just cant get past the unhealthy/sweaty/ill 'skin' it appears to have. that'd be the gelatin i guess?!! all i can think is raw sausage meat starting to go off...
    you really are one in a million kylie, in so many ways!
    happy valentines x

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  32. The dress arrived on Tuesday and it's fabulous! Thank you also for the cute deer. So kind of you. Thank you. Love Natasha xxx

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  33. Good lord, you have a brave man and a true love there if he ate that! (not that it doesn't look fabulous, in a crazed Barbie-esque kind way). I'm having a hard time figuring out whether this is supposed to be sweet or savoury? I think a new career in food photography awaits though.
    Hope you had a lovely V day (and no one was ill!)
    xxx

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  34. Poor fellow that hubby of yours, loved the tablecloth and the dishes oh, and the gelatin hearts.

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  35. Am LOVING the table setting. Those roses are one of my fav pattern. However that dish is...ummm...I am lost for words...Spammy??! It looks like vomit put into a mold. Lol.

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  36. oh my goodness, i'm just not sure i'm liking that haha table looks good though!!

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