THE BURNING BUSH

[telophase]

Remember that recipe I posted a few posts back, from the 1950s home ec book? The one called Burning Bush?

I HAVE PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE NOW.

But you'll first have to suffer through a couple of funny pictures of my cat and a bento.



TALK TO THE PAW!




Such a guy - always sitting with his legs sprawling out. XD




This is the bento I had on Tuesday. The rice looks dirty 'cause technically it is: I used the spoon I'd put the beans in with to pat it into shape. :D On the left: salted cucumbers, sweet simmered shiitake, turkey dumplings, grape tomatoes. On the right: black beans simmered with sugar and soy sauce, and rice. And a penguin full of soy sauce.




This is the infamous Homemaking for Teen-agers book. You can see the bilious green cover with the confused boy and his robotic date.




Before we get to the Burning Bush, have a grape salad: smear pear halves with cream cheese and stud it with grape halves, then serve on a lettuce leaf.




And some Christmas salads: gelatin and stuff wrapped up in a cream cheese bow.




HERE WE GO!! The Burning Bush! Recipe included!




And I SPARED EVERY EXPENSE in bringing you a colorized version, so we can all witness the glory that is THE BURNING BUSH! (The distortion is my fault - I photographed it at an angle to get rid of glare, then used the perspective tool to (imperfectly) restore it to semi-straightness.)




This is from another book that I forgot to photograph the cover of. It's Junior Homemaking. Note the substitution of chopped nuts for the chipped beef. COINCIDENCE OR CONSPIRACY?!

Comments

[cynthia1960]

OMG. It's right out of the Gallery of Regrettable Food.

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[piranha]

*cracks up*.

what's worse is that i remember such lovely entertainment recipes. grapes and cream cheese were ever-present.

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[telophase]

I have memories of gelatin with stuff in it. I also remember being afraid to touch them, so I don't think I ever ate any. XD

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[piranha]

gelatin with GRAPES! it looked like an alien dish.

i actually liked that. *heh*. i hated the aspics though,

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[lady_ganesh]

Green Jello with chopped carrots and apples in it.

[readsalot]

That penguin is adorable.

[telophase]

:D I fear, however, that his wings and eyes are not long for this world, as they're just stickers that go on to the bottle and for some exceedingly odd reason, they don't want to stick to the plastic in the moist confines of a bento box or while being washed. XD

[lady_ganesh]

The cream cheese and nuts at least sounds a bit edible.

How would you eat the pear salad?

[readsalot]

You could probably cut it into bits using a knife and fork. Each person gets their own pear half with stuff, so that should be workable, though messy. I didn't notice the French dressing until I just looked at it again, and I think that makes it inedible for me.

[lady_ganesh]

Yeah, the French dressing puts it over the line. Cream cheese and fruit? Sure. French dressing? What?

[tokyoghoststory.livejournal.com]

i rather have nuts..

[chisotahn]

*scroll down, scroll down, scroll d-HORRIFIED RECOIL!*

[tprjones.livejournal.com]

Wow.

Although, with that name it's begging for an altered version involving a caramelized sauce and flaming rum.

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

Note the Martyr Santa looking on with the Christmas desserts there.

OMG, the Burning Bush color photo--try focusing and unfocusing your eyes slightly on it. It's pulsating at me! AAAGH!

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

(Your cat is lolarious as well, but can't compete.)

[greenapple2004.livejournal.com]

Sweet Jesus--you serve the grape salad with FRENCH DRESSING?! Baaaarf...

this is directed at the paw

[cerusee.livejournal.com]

NO

[solarbird]

I see the Moleman has decided to burrow up from his subterranean lands to visit your table for Christmas! Shame he's coming RIGHT THROUGH GRANDMA'S CHINA the bastard

jealousy

[the-z.livejournal.com]

son wu-kong shirt!

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[telophase.livejournal.com]

It is indeed an awesome shirt. :D And I have it only because mscongeniality posted to her LJ debating whether to buy it or not, as it's from shirt.woot.com and was only available for one day. So: yay!

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[the-z.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to weed out t-shirts from my wardrobe or else I would have pounced on it!

[badnoodles.livejournal.com]

Christ, what was with this unholy love of cream cheese???

[telophase.livejournal.com]

It's WHITE and BLAND. Such a metaphor!

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

lulz!

[badnoodles.livejournal.com]

except that it's not cream chesse in the christmas salads - it's MAYO (urk)

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

I am actually a bit sad that gelatin salads have gone out of fashion! When I was studying Garde Manger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garde_Manger) we had a whole unit on aspic and jelly salads and we made some very interesting things that people would probably never eat. XD My koi fish made with overlapping radish scales was pretty!

But um, the things they used to suspend in jelly/aspic/gelatin are sort of cringe-worthy. XD

[celestriad.livejournal.com]

...wow.

they sure like their cream cheese, though.

[mundeemo.livejournal.com]

First of all your cat has no shame.

Secondly, the burning bush looks absolutely hideous. It does not even look appealing and why would you even want to eat something like that? Those wacky fifties.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

First of all your cat has no shame.

He has never found a need for it. :D