Vintage Food Advertisements: Part Fourteen

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Once again, there are few things I enjoy more than sitting down with a cup of coffee and finding a new batch of vintage food ads in your thread, Louie.

The ads with recipes for cakes, cookies and other desserts are off the plate due to my recent membership into Club Type II, but there are a couple of non-dessert recipes which can be shoe-horned into my diet.

Reply #69: For reasons that defy logic, I enjoy making a Jello entrée salad a few times a year. This ad's Egg Soufflé Salad caught my eye. A plastic wrap-lined loaf pan, a box of Sugar-Free Lemon Jello, some hard-boiled eggs and I'm on my way!

Reply #72: Tang. I loved the stuff as a little kid, mostly because scooping out a spoonful or two of powder, carefully transferring at least most of it to a glass of water and stirring like a little madman was great fun.

Reply #73: I can make these individual meat loaves! I have Spam in the pantry as well as a jar of sugar-free orange marmalade.

Reply #80: If you grew up in the tri-state area--which in my neck of the woods means either the two Dakotas and Minnesota, or Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota depending on your exact location-- and claim to have never eaten pork chops smothered in some variation of Cream Of Mushroom soup, you're lying. Or Jewish.

Also noticed some brands I don't recall from my youth: Simple Simon pies; Puffin biscuits-in-a-can; Wolf chili.

Thanks, Louie!
 
@frigilux

Hello do you have sugar alternatives you can bake with? We have a product called Zusto it looks like sugar and leaves no aftertaste.
So far I have made cakes and you would not know it had no sugar in have done rice pudding and used Agarve syrup to sweeten and that turned out lush. Like you I am in the type 2 club and have been for some time and got totally fed up with not having anything that resembled a cake or a scone they turn out great too :)
So see what you can find I tried sweet and low years ago in a cake and it fizzed like soda so that was a no ! But the stuff out now is brilliant. Happy hunting and baking.

Austin
 
I've never heard of Carnation Simple Simon pies or Puffin biscuits, though I was very young when these ads were published.

I see Wolf Chili lots of places, but have never had it that I know of.

We never had any of the three "souper pork chops" recipes, but my mom frequently made a Campbell Soup recipe that is pork chops topped with bread dressing and mushroom soup. Haven't had it in a long time now.
 
I remember these Simple Simon frozen pies very well. They actually weren’t bad, certainly not as good as homemade, but they were a welcome treat on a weeknight for dessert.

I can remember going to my grandma’s house for an impromptu weeknight visit and she’d fish a Simple Simon pie out of her Admiral upright freezer and we’d all have dessert. The Chocolate and Coconut were tasty. But the fruit pies were the best, especially the Boysenberry.

I can still see grandma jamming a dinner fork into the top crust to vent it in several places before putting it in the oven. We never waited for them to cool off before eating them, just threw a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top to cool off the individual slices.

Eddie
 
Re: #90

Heinz Cream of Tomato soup was the ONLY tomato soup that Mom ever bought and she always prepared it with a whole milk, not water. It was delicious.  The only place I’ve seen this product for years now in on the Vermont Country Store website.

 

Eddie
 

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