Remember the days when mayonnaise wasn't considered a crime against your arteries?  The days when you didn't know that using the good stuff, the real mayonnaise, contributed to every health woe from apoplexy to colon cancer to heart attacks?  The days when you didn't stop at the shelf in the grocery store, look longingly at the familiar jar with ( Read more... )

Yes, people in the 1920s apparently thought that marshmallows, mayonnaise and whipped cream made a dandy salad dressing.  Here's another Twenties salad, this one from an Ohio church cookbook dated 1923.

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I love old cookbooks, as I know a lot of people do.  The older the better, in fact -- I have a reproduction of Mrs. Beeton (1860s); two original editions of cookbooks by Marion Harland (1870s); a heavily-used and much-battered copy of A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband, with Bettina's Best Recipes (1917); and any number of church and community ( Read more... )