nice cookbook!

We've made a few things from here and they are simple, fun ways to get the boys involved with cooking. And my boys love the pictures and crack up with the names of the dishes.

my kids really enjoyed the recipes in this book.

Looking through this book, I realized why folks were skinny in the 50s: food was mostly unappetizing crap.

Take this suggestion from the "Ideas for making more kinds of candies and ready-in-a-hurry cookies" page:"Eat-right-away Cookies...Mix 2 tablespoons honey with 1/2 cup coconut. Spread on 12 salted crackers. Put on a cooky sheet and bake in a 375 [degree] oven for about 7 minutes."

This coconut and honey concoction spread onto saltines sounds like something that might be whipped up late at night in a dorm room by someone with an eating disorder who's spent all the spending money, not like something that should be in a cookbook.

Other winning dishes include "Super soup" (a mixture of 1 can condensed cream of chicken soup, 1 can condensed vegetable-beef soup, 1 can milk, and 1 can water) and "Magic white-sauce supper" (can you say "shit on a shingle"?).

NOTE: My copy of this book comes from the FreeCycle Windfall and has no ISBN (that I could find). Mine is a revised edition from 1963, first published in 1955.

I had a version of this as a kid. It has some very odd recipes, but some good ones as well. The homemade eggnog, while it is not at all the holiday treat you would expect, is a great high protein breakfast. And by "great" I mean that it is probably an acquired taste.

I have my Mom's original copy. Always loved reading this and trying the recipes as a child.