Classic salad recipes

[mattl]

Came across this and thought I'd share.  Some are typical early 50's type food, like hollowed out bologna, some are truly weird like the lighted cranberry salad.  While some versions might be served today, I'd be hard pressed to serve any of these.

10 Vintage Recipes That Ruin Salads Forever

Behold, the worst salad recipes that history has to offer.

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[imperial70]

Thanks for sharing. Those are some very different salad recipes. Man pleaser salad? LOL what's up with that. Too bad this wasn't in the Dirty Laundry section.

 

[sudsmaster]

Personally when I think salad, meat doesn't spring to mind as a major ingredient.

Tuna, chicken, egg salad sandwich fillings notwithstanding.

Even cheese is sort of pushing the envelope, although various seeds and nuts are fine.

Just my point of view. I guess to me, a garden salad is the goal.

 

[petek]

Yuck. To me the worst of the worst are any Jello salads (aspics) particularly if they contain SPAM or any meats, chunky vegetables , eggs,, gross. I wan't my Jello unadulterated.

 

[tolivac]

Those jello type salads make me sick looking at them-its like you were served a beached jellyfish!Drather have my greens NOT in Jello!

 

[whirlpolf]

what's wrong with jello?

The only difference is: You can look at what you eat!
How about jello fruit desserts? How about McDumbo turbine-meat? ChokerKing's grilled pig shreds?
Meat strings and old eyeballs chopped up to uncertainty? Just the same to me.
How about frozen frothed-up chemicals sold as "deluxe" food?

That is why I love the French: They admit to having the stuff mashed up and serving it cold ("terrine")
or they show what they put in there ("glacée")

Quote: "Personally when I think salad, meat doesn't spring to mind as a major ingredient.
Tuna, chicken, egg salad sandwich fillings notwithstanding."
What the.... All three of them are animals chopped up into pieces, where is the difference? Only eggs are the forecast of animals coming to life, chopped into pieces here as well.

Be realistic: Either you are vegan or you aren't. I am not btw.

But why not try the good stuff from the very zero point upwards? Here is some Swiss cheese and sausage salad:

Tools needed: a food processor and a large bowl, some long salad spoons for turning and tossing
Ingredients:
Pork sausage (or Wieners for a substitute)
White onions
a bunch of parsley
a pound of Emmentaler cheese
pepper, salt, nutmeg
sunflower oil, some white vinegar
2-3 apples

To do:
Slice meat sausage into fine stripes (or Wieners into small thin slices)
Shred onions into thing rings or stripes
Chop the parsley into fine bits
Grate cheese into thin hair-like strands
Grate the apples in coarse bits

Toss everything with oil and vinegar and the spices, let it rest for at least 1 hour to thoroughly soak up the taste of the liquids..
Re-spice with what you have there, maybe rebalance the sour taste with a pinch of sugar or some apple juice. Don't overdo the nutmeg though.

Variations: Add freshly cut-up tomatoes. Use chopped sour cucumbers instead of onions. Add red radish roots. Substitute parsley with fresh basil but add some Italian herbs. Substitute parsley with fresh cress but in this case, use walnut oil instead.

Enjoy (and it IS fresh, not jello-coated)

 

[circlew]

Fortunately any Jello based salads my mom made were good. They contained fruit like oranges, cherries, cranberries, etc. and sometimes nuts such as pecan or walnuts. Being from the rural south, she never prepared meat in such a manner. It was something to be fried, grilled or roasted.

 

[polkanut]

One of my favorite Jell-O salads is orange Jell-O with shredded carrots and drained crushed pineapple. 

 

[sudsmaster]

Mom also found in her retirement a knack for making very tasty vegetable and fruit based aspics, or what we would call Jello molds. It is a good memory.