Hi all - I made a mistake in the 3rd recipe. I used 14.5oz of tomatoes rather than 8oz. It still turned out to be delicious, but wanted to let you know. 😂
The moment of most potent nostalgia for me in this video was the photo with the drippy candle stuck in the Chianti bottle- instantly transported to 1978!
In the early 70s, when a can of Salmon got too expensive, my Mom just began swapping out tuna. This was way before the fitness trends of the 80s and 90s when suddenly tuna became muscle food. Salmon croquettes/salmon loaf...she swapped in tuna and it working just fine. Salmon patties, mac and cheese and cole slaw is still a favorite dinner.
I love how the errant pea just disappears😂 from the cooktop. Abracadabra! Another great video and I actually have that cook book. Now I will dust it off and check out those recipes.
I have this book -got it in 1972 in a set of ten recipe books that I have used all these past 53 years of marriage & still love & use them and appreciate the old fashioned recipes so much! I have many favs, Chicken 'n dumling, Hot dog, chili soup , Bean Soup w/tamale dumplings!
I guess we're having a reunion of the Red Plaid Lunchbox Brigade here. Mine was red plaid too, but I almost always went home for lunch. That way I could eat fast and get my 30 minutes of piano practice out of the way, and not have to do it after school.
Oohhh… all these recipes were great, but I am intrigued by the salmon salad. For an additional 70’s twist, wouldn’t that salad be good with pimentos or olives added? And the ham casserole which sounded really good, I think you could easily substitute chicken. Yum! Have a great week Anna. 😊
The family gatherings for dinner on Sundays in the 60s thru 80s, I remember having a platter center table of main dish, like whole roasted chicken, whole baked ham or a beef roast (my Mom called it "rump roast" 😂😂) and then for several days that week the leftovers were the meals such as your ham casserole here and a pot of soup.
I’ve tried to find the tuna pasta salad in my family for generations. Recipe supposedly was salmon originally. It’s very simple. Tuna, Mayo, cucumber, tomato, pasta. We ate it in summer while we had lots of homegrown tomatoes. So maybe from Betty Crocker? You may have solved the mystery.
I actually had that cookbook in my hands yesterday at Goodwill but the line was very long and my friends were waiting on me.....I'm going back today and getting it!!
Anna, I adore you and thank you so much for posting recipes/cookbooks/pamphlets...from the 1950s-1960s....i was born in 1951 and spent time in the kitchen with my mother (so I didn't get into my dads toolbox and take shit apart)....I thank you for showing me recipes/foods I couldn't find when I was cooking dinners for my dad from Middle School thru High School...oy
That macaroni salad looks great! I love picnic food! The soup looked good, too, but I wonder how it would be with a smidge of cornstarch to thicken it. As for the casserole, am I the only one who likes casseroles better the next day? I prefer them when they have set up a bit. Also, that photo of the breakfast makes me want to learn how to make homemade jelly for some reason.
I own that cookbook, I'm so trying the salmon salad! The raw cabbage addition sounds great. Thank you for reminding us we don't have to deal with the mess of the "tall can" anymore unless we want to 😊
I still have the 1969 version of Betty Crocker's cookbook and it is the best! Recipes for everything you can imagine. This is the cookbook I used when learning to cook when I was 16.
I agree with al dente macaroni in a mayo style salad. It allows the mac to absorb the dressing should the cook be heavy handed with the dressing ingredients. Mac salad should never be so creamy you need a slotted spoon to serve it.
I have this one, and so many of the vintage cookbooks you have. I started collecting 20 or so years ago when these treasured cookbooks were abundant in the wild.
Just made the salmon macaroni for lunches the rest of the week, it is so good! Totally get deviled egg vibes from it. Never would have thought to put cabbage in pasta salad but it's so nice!
You chose a very interesting group of recipes with some unexpected ingredients in each. All of them I would make because they are budget friendly and still flavorful. Great job on this video. Thank you!
I watched this while I was making my own Smokey and toasty casserole from the BH&G new cook book for dinner tonight! ❤ great video as always, that soup is something we ate growing up every winter. My grandma made it in the crock pot during hunting season here in northern Michigan and my mom would bring me and my brother over to my grandparents house for dinner on those Saturdays my dad and grandpa went hunting! Some of the best memories!
I was also made in the 1970's ('73 to be exact) so I'm intrigued! =D The souuuuup oh yes. It's in the 50's during the day and that's frigid for my part of California. I'd have to sub chicken with the mac salad but I think it sounds delicious. Ham casserole...allergic to peas and green beans (I'm allergic to anything with a pod; soy, peas, green, tamarind, peanuts, etc etc) but I might sub broccoli. Hrrrmmmm. I read the novel for "Freaky Friday" as well! I think my favorite line was "Is Willa Cather dead? Yeah, I think she's dead." The things that live rent free in my head, I swear!
I love the simplicity of vintage recipes. So many recipes you find now require so many ingredients and a lot of times those are not used a lot and I think it gets wasteful. The soup sounds good - I love to have cornbread with vegetable soup. The macaroni salad looked good, but I know my family wouldn't eat the salmon. I think it would be good with some leftover rotisserie chicken. As always, thanks for sharing!
Love all the budget recipes. Thank you for doing review on all three. I just ordered the book and excited to get in mail to try more wonderful recipes from book. I too love the better home and garden thinner recipe books and all other better homes and garden cookbooks. Love from long time Ky Sub.
I have that cookbook. My kids always loved the peanut cupcakes. I like the soup you made and the hotdog casserole. I made several recipes from this book over and over when the kids were growing up . I am the only one in this family who likes salmon. I love salmon patties, also.
I’ve been soothing my soul lately by sewing aprons and I zoned right in on yours initially. It’s so great! The beef soup looks wonderful. Now, back to the video…
I’m definitely going to try that salmon macaroni salad. Different than any other Mac salad I’ve seen but sounds good! Also, not sure if this was on purpose, but when you were making that salad, your background music had a distinct 70s vibe to me. 😊💕
I've seen tongue at Piggly Wiggly. My mother said her mother used to serve it cold and sliced. So glad she never fixed it for me! Another great video. Thank you❤
Our local Super 1 has beef kidney and beef heart for sale all the time. Haven't seen tongue that I can remember. It is where I buy my chicken hearts for stew and gumbo. 😅
Celery, I just watched something that might help you - it was on Milly White Cooks where she shows how to remove strings from celery, and says it makes it taste much better and it's not as tough. She just uses a vegetable peeler on the outside of the stalks to peel of the vines. Maybe try it and see if that helps? *edited to say that I said I read it first, but I actually watched it.
I destring my celery before putting it in soups... but I also hate raw celery. Both the texture and the taste. The problem is more than just strings. But my mom loves celery and eats it with pb or something for snacks. Usually when I need celery for a recipe I get one stalk from my mom, b/c that's all I ever need at a time. 😄 And raw onions same issue. I'm with Anna on those! Lol
That soup is great for a chilly day at the state park. I used to brown my beef and onions, etc, then put everything in big pot on the fire or grill. Now the kids are grown and I don't get to do days like that much. But I can make the soup anytime!
Awesome video! l found an image of the recipe from The McCall Publishing Company 1973 recipe card l was looking for. lt's called Roast Pork With Herbs from the 'Cooking With Herbs' section of recipe cards. l am actually making it tonight as well. The only thing l am going to do differently is stuff a clove or 4 of sliced garlic into the meat. l haven't made this since the early 80s and am looking forward to this meal tonight. It's from *McCalls Great American Recipe Card Collection*
My favorite pasta to use in cold noodle salads with fish (tuna, salmon, kippers) was rainbow farfalle -- multi-color stripey bowties. I say "was", because a few years ago my friendly neighborhood Tuesday Morning store, where I used to buy such things, closed on me -- for the second time in the same shopping center. 😦
I love a great hamburger/veg soup. This one looks amazing! All 3 sound great. I had that exact soup thermos pictured in the book. It didn't work very well at keeping the soup warm though.
Hi all - I made a mistake in the 3rd recipe. I used 14.5oz of tomatoes rather than 8oz. It still turned out to be delicious, but wanted to let you know. 😂
No worries. More tomatoes sounds good to me anyway. It looks really good
It’s good to know you’re human Anna ❤😂
If you let the casserole cool for 15 to 20 minutes, it should set up and not fall apart when you dish it out.
@@sebeckleyI did 😊
I was concerned the casserole would be dry when put in the oven. Using the 14.5 ounce can probably prevented that. Fortuitous mistake!!😂
The moment of most potent nostalgia for me in this video was the photo with the drippy candle stuck in the Chianti bottle- instantly transported to 1978!
I remember those too...
@ Do you remember that they sold candles specifically formulated to drip as much as possible?
Yessss!!!
Smokey and toasty 😂 good name for kittens! I laughed so hard and scared my dog …
I loved that too! Especially when you added "I don't have a kitten". 😀
Cabbage in the salmon macaroni salad sounds delicious 🎉
My mom got the better homes n gardens as well as sunset magazines
Yea the specific meats were easy because butchers were where they went ... I miss going to a butcher honestly
I love your new apron!
Thank you!! 😊
It's so bright and cheerful. Makes me think of spring (soon ...soon!)
In the early 70s, when a can of Salmon got too expensive, my Mom just began swapping out tuna. This was way before the fitness trends of the 80s and 90s when suddenly tuna became muscle food.
Salmon croquettes/salmon loaf...she swapped in tuna and it working just fine.
Salmon patties, mac and cheese and cole slaw is still a favorite dinner.
I love how the errant pea just disappears😂 from the cooktop. Abracadabra! Another great video and I actually have that cook book. Now I will dust it off and check out those recipes.
It's magic! 😆
One of my favorite cookbooks gifted when we got married in 1972, along with “Cooking for Two” also from BH&G. I still use them today!
Count me in on both of those cookbooks!! I had them too.
I received this cookbook in 1974 . I've used it VERY often. Falling apart. 😢
I wish someone had given me a cookbook when I got married in '81! I got Cooking for Two many years later and I still use it today. Great books.
I have this book -got it in 1972 in a set of ten recipe books that I have used all these past 53 years of marriage & still love & use them and appreciate the old fashioned recipes so much! I have many favs, Chicken 'n dumling, Hot dog, chili soup , Bean Soup w/tamale dumplings!
I had a red plaid lunch box just like that one shown in the cookbook. I was in elementary school in 1970-1976.
I had one, too!
I guess we're having a reunion of the Red Plaid Lunchbox Brigade here. Mine was red plaid too, but I almost always went home for lunch. That way I could eat fast and get my 30 minutes of piano practice out of the way, and not have to do it after school.
My plaid lunch box was blue!! Also early 70s.
Same! 😁
Oohhh… all these recipes were great, but I am intrigued by the salmon salad. For an additional 70’s twist, wouldn’t that salad be good with pimentos or olives added? And the ham casserole which sounded really good, I think you could easily substitute chicken. Yum! Have a great week Anna. 😊
The hard boiled egg 🥚 in that salmon pasta salad I bet is good with the mustard and cabbage and lemon juice I bet pairs well with the fish!
The family gatherings for dinner on Sundays in the 60s thru 80s, I remember having a platter center table of main dish, like whole roasted chicken, whole baked ham or a beef roast (my Mom called it "rump roast" 😂😂) and then for several days that week the leftovers were the meals such as your ham casserole here and a pot of soup.
Diigin' the new apron. I call my aprons "Bake Wear".
An Abundance of Ham would make a great band name. I love your videos!
Oop! Perfect timing. I’m always looking for good recipes for my protein pasta. That salmon Mac salad is gonna be meal prepped next week! Thanks!!
I’ve tried to find the tuna pasta salad in my family for generations. Recipe supposedly was salmon originally. It’s very simple. Tuna, Mayo, cucumber, tomato, pasta. We ate it in summer while we had lots of homegrown tomatoes. So maybe from Betty Crocker? You may have solved the mystery.
I actually had that cookbook in my hands yesterday at Goodwill but the line was very long and my friends were waiting on me.....I'm going back today and getting it!!
Oh I hope you get it! 🤞
I always like peas in tuna pasta salad.
Anna, I adore you and thank you so much for posting recipes/cookbooks/pamphlets...from the 1950s-1960s....i was born in 1951 and spent time in the kitchen with my mother (so I didn't get into my dads toolbox and take shit apart)....I thank you for showing me recipes/foods I couldn't find when I was cooking dinners for my dad from Middle School thru High School...oy
That macaroni salad looks great! I love picnic food! The soup looked good, too, but I wonder how it would be with a smidge of cornstarch to thicken it. As for the casserole, am I the only one who likes casseroles better the next day? I prefer them when they have set up a bit. Also, that photo of the breakfast makes me want to learn how to make homemade jelly for some reason.
I own that cookbook, I'm so trying the salmon salad! The raw cabbage addition sounds great. Thank you for reminding us we don't have to deal with the mess of the "tall can" anymore unless we want to 😊
Cornbread is great with this type of soup.
Your face during “Smokey and Toasty” was darling!
Been waiting all day for a new Cooking the Books video!!
We do love that Anna has entered her “begrudging acceptance of celery” era 😂💜
So glad you're here! 😊
@@Rhaenspots😸👌🏼
I cannot wait to try the salmon macaroni salad. It looks so delicious. Good choice. Something different ❤
My mom made the vegetable soup also. I make it now and add some rice or noodles in it.
have to try that salmon salad! looks good! keep warm-snowing here in Nevada!
Those tiny precooked frozen shrimp could sub in the salmon salad, imo. 🍤 I'd like to try that.
I still have the 1969 version of Betty Crocker's cookbook and it is the best! Recipes for everything you can imagine. This is the cookbook I used when learning to cook when I was 16.
I agree with al dente macaroni in a mayo style salad. It allows the mac to absorb the dressing should the cook be heavy handed with the dressing ingredients. Mac salad should never be so creamy you need a slotted spoon to serve it.
Agreed….. NEVER a slotted spoon!❤
I love budget goods especially if they taste good! Thanks for sharing
My childhood in a bowl! I love that ❤
Hi everyone from New Zealand ❤
I was thinking bowtie pasta (farfalle) might make the salmon deli salad look fancy 😊
I have this one, and so many of the vintage cookbooks you have. I started collecting 20 or so years ago when these treasured cookbooks were abundant in the wild.
I think the third recipe would make a great mock shepherd’s pie by putting mashed potatoes on top, which gives your starchy side dish.
Great idea. Or maybe au gratin potatoes.
Thanks, Anna. I'm looking forward to trying the salmon salad.
The ham casserole looks great, I think I'll try and make using individual ramekins.
We had that soup often when we were kids...but usually with corn instead. It was, and still is, a favorite.
Just made the salmon macaroni for lunches the rest of the week, it is so good! Totally get deviled egg vibes from it. Never would have thought to put cabbage in pasta salad but it's so nice!
I found this book at a tag sale and I love it! That soup is so good! I also like the chicken pot pie and the jelly filled biscuits!
It has been especially cold everywhere recently
Well now you HAVE to get 2 kittens! I get so many ideas from you when cooking for my 93 yr old mom! We love trying something new but also familiar.
You chose a very interesting group of recipes with some unexpected ingredients in each. All of them I would make because they are budget friendly and still flavorful. Great job on this video. Thank you!
I really need to dig out my Better Homes cookbooks out of the attic. My mother bought me a set in the 80s while I was in high school.
I love your spring-looking apron! Cold and snowy here in Michigan but you're bringing the sunshine and I appreciate that!
Hi Anna…..good job on the recipes, as always! I miss seeing Dottie! 🐶 🧡
Grilled cheese with that soup 😋
I Agree!! 😊
Cereal, bread,
vegetable, fruit,
meat, and milk,
And rooty-toot-toot
😂 does anyone else remember that from elementary school?
Been looking forward all weekend to this
Love the photos in the book. These recipes look like they would be some of my favorites sans cooked salmon, I'd do tuna.
I watched this while I was making my own Smokey and toasty casserole from the BH&G new cook book for dinner tonight! ❤ great video as always, that soup is something we ate growing up every winter. My grandma made it in the crock pot during hunting season here in northern Michigan and my mom would bring me and my brother over to my grandparents house for dinner on those Saturdays my dad and grandpa went hunting! Some of the best memories!
We often add cabbage to tuna salad, a can of tuna goes further with lots of veg :) the cabbage adds a nice peppery crunch!
I love that idea!
I love the cost and the💕🥣 simplicity of the recipes!!! Perfect for wintertime.👍♥️☃️
Your channel is soooo awesome!!!! ❤❤❤❤ Love, love, love your channel!!!! 📚 Going to make these budget meals! 🔥
Thank you so much!! 😊
The macaroni salad would be perfect for Lent.
I was also made in the 1970's ('73 to be exact) so I'm intrigued! =D The souuuuup oh yes. It's in the 50's during the day and that's frigid for my part of California. I'd have to sub chicken with the mac salad but I think it sounds delicious. Ham casserole...allergic to peas and green beans (I'm allergic to anything with a pod; soy, peas, green, tamarind, peanuts, etc etc) but I might sub broccoli. Hrrrmmmm.
I read the novel for "Freaky Friday" as well! I think my favorite line was "Is Willa Cather dead? Yeah, I think she's dead." The things that live rent free in my head, I swear!
This soup looks delicious! 💯
Smokey and Toasty… you’ve got the men’s cologne now! 😂
Sold as a gift set with Soft 'n' Saucy! 😂
@ I’ll be looking g for this set in time for Christmas!
I make the hamburger vegetable soup a lot. Like your Mother I throw a lot of veggies in mine. ❤️ And again- I love your channel!,,,
Loved the salmon macaroni salad!!!!
So glad you liked it! 😋
I love the dishes you use and the nostalgic recipes from my childhood and beyond!
Not wearing my glasses and just realized that those are flowers and not fried eggs on your apron. 😜
😂
😂 I thought the same thing! 🧐
Oh.... I am hungry! LOL! These look great and are perfect when you don't have a houseful of people to feed! Great job! Thank you!!! 😃
I love the simplicity of vintage recipes. So many recipes you find now require so many ingredients and a lot of times those are not used a lot and I think it gets wasteful.
The soup sounds good - I love to have cornbread with vegetable soup.
The macaroni salad looked good, but I know my family wouldn't eat the salmon. I think it would be good with some leftover rotisserie chicken.
As always, thanks for sharing!
The mac and salmon salad looks intriguing. I love salmon, too, so I'll try it.
Thanks so much for sharing I appreciate what you've shown love you ❤
Thanks for watching! 😊
My father has the same set of measuring cups that you have. I was a kid in the 70s and he had them way back then.
Love all the budget recipes. Thank you for doing review on all three. I just ordered the book and excited to get in mail to try more wonderful recipes from book. I too love the better home and garden thinner recipe books and all other better homes and garden cookbooks. Love from long time Ky Sub.
I have this book. I love the Better homes and gardens books. I collect these and the Betty Crocker books. Love the vintage pictures and illustrations
As soon as I saw your casserole dish, I saw brownies mom made in the same dish! Memory unlocked!😂 love your "Sunday meals" ideas! Thanks!
I’m so glad these videos are bringing back good memories for you! 😊
I have that cookbook. My kids always loved the peanut cupcakes. I like the soup you made and the hotdog casserole. I made several recipes from this book over and over when the kids were growing up . I am the only one in this family who likes salmon. I love salmon patties, also.
YUM!!! That salad looks great!!!
Thank you, Anna!🙂✨
You're welcome! 😊
I’ve been soothing my soul lately by sewing aprons and I zoned right in on yours initially. It’s so great! The beef soup looks wonderful. Now, back to the video…
I like these recipes from BH&G. I too have several in my collection. Very good recipes.
I’m definitely going to try that salmon macaroni salad. Different than any other Mac salad I’ve seen but sounds good! Also, not sure if this was on purpose, but when you were making that salad, your background music had a distinct 70s vibe to me. 😊💕
I have that book used it a lot when I was first married. Trying the chili beef potato soup this week.
I have a good housekeeping book from the 70s with alot of interesting recipes in it, it also calls ketchup, catsup lol
The three recipes all sounded interesting.
Love this video! I'm awlays looking for a good variation on macaroni salad.
I've seen tongue at Piggly Wiggly. My mother said her mother used to serve it cold and sliced. So glad she never fixed it for me!
Another great video. Thank you❤
Our local Super 1 has beef kidney and beef heart for sale all the time. Haven't seen tongue that I can remember. It is where I buy my chicken hearts for stew and gumbo. 😅
The hamburger soup looked so good. My husband would love the salmon macaroni salad. This is a very good video. I really enjoyed it.
Love your videos. I like your new stove.
Mm veg soup sounds good. I want to try your recipe. Haven’t put chili powder in my veg soup and I think it would be good. Love the budget meals
I like this apron on you. The bright yellow complements you reallys well. It's nice.
Another great trio of recipes. You and BH&G never disappoint!
I named my cat back in 78 Smokey. He was the best. Also, I have the pattern on the last plate you used on some of my plates.
Very nice video! All three dishes look very good, and I’m eager to try. This budget series has been excellent. Thank you!
Celery, I just watched something that might help you - it was on Milly White Cooks where she shows how to remove strings from celery, and says it makes it taste much better and it's not as tough. She just uses a vegetable peeler on the outside of the stalks to peel of the vines. Maybe try it and see if that helps? *edited to say that I said I read it first, but I actually watched it.
I destring my celery before putting it in soups... but I also hate raw celery. Both the texture and the taste. The problem is more than just strings. But my mom loves celery and eats it with pb or something for snacks. Usually when I need celery for a recipe I get one stalk from my mom, b/c that's all I ever need at a time. 😄
And raw onions same issue. I'm with Anna on those! Lol
That soup is great for a chilly day at the state park. I used to brown my beef and onions, etc, then put everything in big pot on the fire or grill. Now the kids are grown and I don't get to do days like that much. But I can make the soup anytime!
The three recipes you made are a good chose, very good like most of the things I see on here. all 3 amazing . KEEP GOIN I love it!!!!!
Awesome video!
l found an image of the recipe from The McCall Publishing Company 1973 recipe card l was looking for. lt's called Roast Pork With Herbs from the 'Cooking With Herbs' section of recipe cards. l am actually making it tonight as well. The only thing l am going to do differently is stuff a clove or 4 of sliced garlic into the meat. l haven't made this since the early 80s and am looking forward to this meal tonight. It's from *McCalls Great American Recipe Card Collection*
Sounds like a fantastic dinner! 😋
I’ve always thought bow tie pasta was more fancy.
Very cool cook book recipes today
My favorite pasta to use in cold noodle salads with fish (tuna, salmon, kippers) was rainbow farfalle -- multi-color stripey bowties. I say "was", because a few years ago my friendly neighborhood Tuesday Morning store, where I used to buy such things, closed on me -- for the second time in the same shopping center. 😦
A great video, as always. The new apron is fabulous! 💛💚🤍🖤
Thanks so much! 😊
I love a great hamburger/veg soup. This one looks amazing! All 3 sound great. I had that exact soup thermos pictured in the book. It didn't work very well at keeping the soup warm though.
I might try that ham dish in the style of potatoes au gratin. That would feed an army
Awesome ❤