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[telophase]

From the cookery section of Homemaking for Teen-Agers, Book 2, 1958 edition:

Burning Bush

1 8-oz package cream cheese
1 5-oz jar dried chip beef, chopped very fine
1 grapefruit
toothpicks

Cut cheese into 1/2 inch squares and roll into balls, using butter paddles.

Toss each ball into the chipped beef, and coat.

Put a toothpick through each ball and stick into a grapefruit.

Place on a serving plate or in the center of a tray of nibbler foods.

Comments

[tehkittykat]

WUT.

I don't think commentary is possible.

[ailelie]

I detect a distinct lack of burning in those instructions.

[telophase]

Heartburn?

[ailelie]

But, it has a grapefruit! That's healthy.

[lady_ganesh]

I like how you put them in a grapefruit. 'Cause that's classy.

[vom-marlowe.livejournal.com]

This is like the salad supreme where you put a banana next to two balls of ice cream and covered the lot with whipped cream and chocolate sprinkles, isn't it?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I don't know what it is. I am flabbergasted. The pic shows them stuck into a grapefruit that's been cut in half and placed cut side down so that you get this sort of half-Sputnik affair, if Sputnik had balls of cream cheese rolled in chipped beef on it.

I have also just run across a Grape Cluster Salad, where you smear peeled pear halves with cream cheese, then stick Tokay grapes, cut in half, all over it to produce this sort of demented blobbular thing.

[tprjones.livejournal.com]

Can we get scans of these pictures? This sounds amazing.

Amazing in a bad way, I mean.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Once I get off my ass enough to take them upstairs, check them out, and bring them home, sure. :D

[celestriad.livejournal.com]

wow. not much for the name or the presentation, but it sounds like it might be tasty, at least?

[sleary.livejournal.com]

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[kittikattie.livejournal.com]

...ew?

[chomiji]

A name referring, no doubt, to the heartburn suffered by those who eat this ... .

[cerusee.livejournal.com]

That sounds revolting. I am not willing to try it out to see if it tastes better than it ought to, but I think you should!

By the way, your hotchpotch thing a while back has inspired me to try my own. Anything with bacon, beer, and butter in it has got to be tasty.

[tprjones.livejournal.com]

I can't get over that name. Dishes should never be named for a medical symptom.

[cicer.livejournal.com]

...Just reading this 'recipe' kind of made me want to throw up.

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

I don't regret not having been alive when that cookbook was written...

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

And folks nowadays wonder at how much people drank and smoked back then!

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Everything's better with smokes and booze!

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

I threw up a little in my mouth.
That's DISGUSTING!!

[seajules]

That sounds like something still served at ward potlucks in the heart of the Mormon Corridor (where jello is a salad if you put carrots in, and green beans aren't dressed until you mix them with cream of mushroom soup and top them with tater tots).

[lady-noremon.livejournal.com]

Lime Jello & shedded carrot was a popular side-dish when I went to visit my Mormon friends in Alberta even D: *you've brought back memories I had forgotten*

[seajules]

I believe the Corridor extends up into Canada (I was actually born inside it, up the Oregon way), but lots of us know the cuisine who are outcasts from the Mormon subculture. Fifty billion ward dinners will scar your psyche like that. ;-)

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

I got crabs from my cookbook!

(srsly, where does the burning come in?)