No Name Salad

Cook 5 slices of bacon (diced) until crisp
Combine:
1 beaten egg
1/4 C minced onion
1/2 tsp salt
1/3 C Vinegar
2T water

Add to bacon. Heat to just boiling stirring constantly.
Tear 1 head lettuce. Pour hot dressing over and toss lightly
4 Servings

Perfection Salad

As I am looking through this pile of old school recipes Knox Gelatin seems to be "the cool" ingredient. Here is a link if you are curious.

http://www.kraftbrands.com/knox/knox_history.html

Perfection Salad

2 enveloped of Knox gelatin
1 C cold water
2 C hot water
1/2 C sugar
1 tsp salt
1/3 C cider vinegar
1/4 C lemon juice
1 can 6.5 oz shrimp
1 1/4 C finely chopped cabbage
3/4 C finely diced celery
1/3 C finely chopped green pepper
1/4 C diced pimento (optional)
1/4 C shredded carrots

Soften gelatin in cold water for 5 minutes. Combine hot waster, sugar and salt in saucepan and bring to simmer. Remove from heat and add softened gelatin stirring until dissolved. Add vinegar and lemon juice. Cool until mixture starts to thicken and fold in diced chopped and shredded vegetables with drained shrimp. Pour into a mold or 9x9x2 inch pan. Chill until firm. Unmold on crisp salad greens. Serve with chive cream dressing.

Chive Cream Dressing

1/2 C mayonnaise
1/2 C sour cream
1/4 C lemon or lime juice
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp white pepper
2 tsp chives

Blend ingredients together. Turn into serving dish. If desired garnish with additional chives.

WARNING - Perfection Salad is really sick and wrong. I have actually tasted it!

Rotten Fruit Cake

1 quart of last year's off color fruit blended, juice and all. Use apricots, peaches, pears or cherries.
Combine and sift
4 cups flour
4 tsp soda
1 1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp cloves

Mix together
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1/2 C oil

Add dry ingrediants and fruit to egg and sugar mixture. Blend well. Add either or all of
1 C raisins
1 C nuts
Chocolate chips

Batter will be thin. Makes 3 loaves. Bake at 350 for 45 minutes or until done.

Mustard Ring - This Is Good With Ham

4 eggs well beaten
3/4 C sugar
1 1/2 T dry mustard
1 pkg Knox gelatin
1/2 C Cold water
1 C weak vinegar
1/2 pint whipping cream
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp tumeric (for coloring)

Beat egg. Mix vinegar, sugar, salt, tumeric. Add to eggs. Cook until thick. Add gelatin. When cold fold in whipped cream and put in mold!

The note on the back of the recipe said, "these are real good recipes"

Let me know if anyone out there is brave enough to try this one.

What is Tumeric ?

tur·mer·ic [tur-mer-ik]  

–noun

1.

the aromatic rhizome of an Asian plant, Curcuma domestica  (or C. longa ), of the ginger family.

2.

a powder prepared from it, used as a condiment, as in curry powder, or as a yellow dye, a medicine, etc.

3.

the plant itself.