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Post by colleen on Feb 12, 2021 2:54:50 GMT
I inherited “Cookery for Entertaining” when my mom passed and it has a bunch of the recipes everyone has mentioned. My personal favorite is Mexican Meatballs - they are stuffed with olives and served in a chili-wine sauce. They are delicious! Other highlights include a liver pate football, cream puff swans, velvet cheese soup, apple liver Rumaki and molded avocado pinwheel. Those meatballs sound good! Would you mind sharing the recipe? Sure!
Mexican Meatballs (A surprise in every bite!)
2 lbs lean ground beef 2 slices white bread, cut in small cubes 1 egg 2 teaspoons chili powder 48 small pimiento-stuffed olives
Chili-Wine Sauce 1 (24-ounce) bottle red chili sauce 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder 1/4 teaspoon onion powder 1 teaspoon rosemary 1 teaspoon thyme 1 bay leaf 1 cup burgundy wine
Prepare Chili-Wine Sauce; set aside. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 C). In a large bowl, mix ground beef, bread cubes, egg and chili powder until blended. Shape inot small balls. Insert an olive into the center of each ball, reshaping if necessary. Place on rack in broiler pan. Bake 12 to 15 minutes or until medium-rare. It is not necessary to turn meatballs. Do not overcook; They will continue to cook in the sauce. Add meatballs to Chili-Wine Sauce. May be refrigerated several days or frozen.
Before serving, bring to room temperature. Reheat on top of stove. Serve hot from a chafing dish (mom used a crock pot) with wooden picks. Makes 48 meatballs.
Chili Wine Sauce: In a medium sauce pan, mix all ingredients and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 45 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove bay leaf.
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Post by ScrapbookMyLife on Feb 12, 2021 2:57:27 GMT
When we were kids, we thought ritz with peanut butter on them was fancy.
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Post by yodutchess on Feb 12, 2021 2:59:04 GMT
My Mom bought a wine cheese ball and it was covered in nuts. She would get the box of crackers with assorted shapes. We also liked pigs in blankets.
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Post by colleen on Feb 12, 2021 3:03:50 GMT
I inherited “Cookery for Entertaining” when my mom passed and it has a bunch of the recipes everyone has mentioned. My personal favorite is Mexican Meatballs - they are stuffed with olives and served in a chili-wine sauce. They are delicious! Other highlights include a liver pate football, cream puff swans, velvet cheese soup, apple liver Rumaki and molded avocado pinwheel. Those meatballs sound good! Would you mind sharing the recipe? Oops, posted twice.
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Post by chendra on Feb 12, 2021 5:18:24 GMT
Always "California" onion dip--dry Lipton onion soup mix and sour cream.
We also often had smoked salmon and crackers because our grandfather fished for salmon and would send cans of it.
As kids, we hoped for the rare treat of aerosol cheese that we could squirt into a rosette on a Tricuit or Ritz cracker.
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Post by katybee on Feb 12, 2021 5:31:29 GMT
Ritz cracker with a little bit of pizza sauce and shredded mozzarella cheese baked in the oven.
First thing I ever learned to cook!
also – dried onion soup mix mixed into sour cream. We called it “dinosaur dip“.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Feb 12, 2021 5:57:41 GMT
My parents used to get those little tubs of wine/cheddar cheese spread that they would serve with the little pumpernickel bread rounds.
My mom used to make another cracker spread out of cream cheese, chopped pimientos and I don’t know what else that we would eat on Ritz crackers. I wish I knew what else was in it because I loved that stuff. I’ve looked at recipes for pimiento cheese but the pictures of it don’t look right. The stuff my mom made was more pink and the ones I’ve seen all have shredded cheddar cheese in them and this wasn’t that.
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Post by shessoaverage on Feb 12, 2021 6:20:34 GMT
When I first got married (a long time ago) someone gave me a recipe I used to take to parties. You cut the crusts off Pepperidge Farm thin white bread and cut each slice in half. Then you spread the halves with Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom soup, undiluted out of the can. You cut slices of bacon in thirds, rolled up each bread slice, wrapped it with a bacon piece, toothpicked it, and baked at 425 until the bacon browned. People scarfed them up!
It sounds a little too-much to me now. Bread wrapped with bacon and soaked with grease. Not sure exactly what the mushroom soup added to it.
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Post by tenacious on Feb 12, 2021 6:51:25 GMT
I used to take peppered salami slices and spread cream cheese in them and roll them up.
My family mostly did what we called “relish tray,” but, was pretty much charcuterie, heavy on the olives. Our neighbors always had us over for a fancy NYE party, and they would break out a million classic American apps...I looked forward to that party every year!
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Post by Legacy Girl on Feb 12, 2021 7:59:23 GMT
We had a favorite family dip that sounds disgusting but I loved. It was cream cheese, ketchup and garlic powder, which was blended together and eaten with Ruffles potato chips. I remember parties where the kids were in the basement and the parents were all upstairs and we got our own little bowls of chips and dip. So fun! My mom also makes the little green olives wrapped in cheddar dough and baked. And I still love to do the cream cheese and hot pepper jelly with Wheat Thins. One of my favorites. The first thing I thought of when I saw this thread was that my mom laughs at her life as a 1970s stay-at-home mom and volunteer. She says she knew she didn't have the patience for some volunteer roles when she went to a committee meeting for a women's group and they spent the entire meeting debating on the shape of the crackers that should be served for the big, upcoming event. Any time I have to attend a boring meeting, she reminds me that life could be worse!
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Post by lindas on Feb 12, 2021 12:31:56 GMT
Cheese Melt Aways were a must way back when we entertained. Crab meat, Mayo, minced onion and Kraft old English cheese, piled on English muffin quarters then baked. An appetizer you could make ahead and freeze.
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Post by craftedbys on Feb 12, 2021 15:09:09 GMT
Kraft pineapple cheese spread ( the stuff in the jelly jar) or pimento cheese spread on celery pieces. OMG I loved this! I still occasionally make stuffed celery even though I am the only one who eats it other than my dad. I usually just stir some pineapple jam into some softened cream cheese since it is not always easy to find the spread in the jar. Makes me want to go stuff some now, LOL.
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Post by schizo319 on Feb 12, 2021 15:45:18 GMT
My aunt always made onion rollups. Sliced ham spread with cream cheese and wrapped around a green onion. They were so pretty on a plate, but it was way too much onion for my taste.
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Post by smcast on Feb 12, 2021 16:04:45 GMT
We put cheese whiz on those oval rye or pumpernickel bread slices and topped off with sliced green olives.
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Post by snugglebutter on Feb 12, 2021 16:25:23 GMT
The version of the broiled appetizer with the little pumpernickel toasts that we had was a cream cheese, Parmesan and finely diced onion mixture. So yummy. Velveeta and Rotel cheese dip was a favorite. And in the 90s, that spinach dip in a bread bowl thing. When my New York grandparents came to visit, we had pickled herring on crackers. I’m not sure if that was something they actually liked, or if mom just thought it was fancy.
This is still pretty common in my neck of the woods, often with sausage or other additions.
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Post by littlemama on Feb 12, 2021 16:34:25 GMT
My celery gets stuffed with cream cheese mixed with quartered maraschino cherries. So, so good.
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Post by maryannscraps on Feb 12, 2021 16:40:34 GMT
My mom always made artichoke dip -- she got the recipe for it from a Wegmans flier back in the 60s. It was mayo, chopped can of artichokes, and parmesan cheese mixed together and baked. She served it with chunks of french bread for dipping. I still love it!
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Post by crazy4scraps on Feb 12, 2021 16:45:25 GMT
We had a favorite family dip that sounds disgusting but I loved. It was cream cheese, ketchup and garlic powder, which was blended together and eaten with Ruffles potato chips. I remember parties where the kids were in the basement and the parents were all upstairs and we got our own little bowls of chips and dip. So fun! My mom also makes the little green olives wrapped in cheddar dough and baked. And I still love to do the cream cheese and hot pepper jelly with Wheat Thins. One of my favorites. The first thing I thought of when I saw this thread was that my mom laughs at her life as a 1970s stay-at-home mom and volunteer. She says she knew she didn't have the patience for some volunteer roles when she went to a committee meeting for a women's group and they spent the entire meeting debating on the shape of the crackers that should be served for the big, upcoming event. Any time I have to attend a boring meeting, she reminds me that life could be worse! My BFF’s dad still makes the ketchup dip! It IS good. He makes huge vats of it because it gets devoured so fast! I keep trying to get the exact quantity of each ingredient because my DD likes it and wants me to make it, but the way he makes it is, “Put in three squirts of this and shake in about this much of that until the color is right” and I just can’t cook that way, LOL.
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Post by Merge on Feb 12, 2021 17:42:04 GMT
The version of the broiled appetizer with the little pumpernickel toasts that we had was a cream cheese, Parmesan and finely diced onion mixture. So yummy. Velveeta and Rotel cheese dip was a favorite. And in the 90s, that spinach dip in a bread bowl thing. When my New York grandparents came to visit, we had pickled herring on crackers. I’m not sure if that was something they actually liked, or if mom just thought it was fancy.
This is still pretty common in my neck of the woods, often with sausage or other additions.
Yeah, that's just when I remember it originating.
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Post by The Birdhouse Lady on Feb 12, 2021 19:16:08 GMT
As kids, we hoped for the rare treat of aerosol cheese that we could squirt into a rosette on a Tricuit or Ritz cracker. My sister and I loved that stuff!! We call is shaving cheese!! My grandparents were pretty well off and they always had that and little cans of coke for us to munch on. We thought we were so fancy!!
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Post by oh yvonne on Feb 12, 2021 19:51:59 GMT
this thread takes me back! When I was a kid we made nachos but nothing like today. My mom would fry up the tortilla chips from scratch, then she'd lay them singly on a cookie sheet and we'd sprinkle jack cheese and a little chopped jalapeno on each chip and bake it. It was so tedious and took forever and hardly make any at a time. You'd have to make a bunch of trays to have enough. We also used to make lime jello salad with cool whip and pineapple. You'd have to make the jello ahead of time, then use a hand mixer to crumble it up and then add the pineapple tidbits and the Cool Whip. We loved that salad. Our family didn't drink alchohol so that rainbow sherbet and 7 up punch was super popular. Wow, memory lane.
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Post by chendra on Feb 12, 2021 19:52:07 GMT
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Post by chendra on Feb 12, 2021 19:56:45 GMT
this thread takes me back! When I was a kid we made nachos but nothing like today. My mom would fry up the tortilla chips from scratch, then she'd lay them singly on a cookie sheet and we'd sprinkle jack cheese and a little chopped jalapeno on each chip and bake it. It was so tedious and took forever and hardly make any at a time. You'd have to make a bunch of trays to have enough. Wow, memory lane. My mom made nachos the same way! We wished she would make them more often, but as you said, they were tedious. We lived in San Diego county, so whichever friend or neighbor was going to Tijuana next would bring back huge jars of jalapenos for everyone else.
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Post by oh yvonne on Feb 12, 2021 20:19:10 GMT
this thread takes me back! When I was a kid we made nachos but nothing like today. My mom would fry up the tortilla chips from scratch, then she'd lay them singly on a cookie sheet and we'd sprinkle jack cheese and a little chopped jalapeno on each chip and bake it. It was so tedious and took forever and hardly make any at a time. You'd have to make a bunch of trays to have enough. Wow, memory lane. My mom made nachos the same way! We wished she would make them more often, but as you said, they were tedious. We lived in San Diego county, so whichever friend or neighbor was going to Tijuana next would bring back huge jars of jalapenos for everyone else. lol I'm glad to hear we weren't the only ones! I remember laughing at the name 'nachos' because we knew an old man named Nacho and we thought it was funny these were named after him, lol. Ahh., I'm an old East LA girl here.
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Post by freeatlast on Feb 12, 2021 20:50:56 GMT
My mom used to make these and we kids thought they were pretty fancy. Mix together mayo, diced onions and shredded mozzarella. Place a scoop of this mixture on a small round piece of rye bread. Place under broiler until the cheese was browned and melting.
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Post by shessoaverage on Feb 12, 2021 23:03:38 GMT
I remembered two more that used to be really big when I was a "young wife." The first was oyster crackers mixed up in a Ziplock bag with a packet of dry ranch dressing, dill weed, and oil, then baked in the oven. The other one started with a store-bought pan of little dinner rolls. You sliced it horizontally through the whole thing, then spread it with mustard, layered it with cheese, ham slices, dry onion, and probably something I'm forgetting. You melted butter, mixed in poppy seeds, poured that over the top of the rolls, and baked the whole thing until it was all hot. When it was done, you cut all the rolls apart. Wow, it's all coming back to me. I think I used to go to a lot of food-intensive parties back in the 80s.
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Post by artbabe on Feb 15, 2021 16:25:20 GMT
I've got a retro one:
Shrimp dip gelatin mold. Yep- a jello mold. I grew up in the 60/70's with a mom who took home economics in the 50s. Contains cream cheese, gelatin, tomato soup, celery, onions, and tiny shrimp. I know, it sounds disgusting. I loved it when I was little- absolutely loved it. We were so excited when mom made it. I'm going to have to try to make it and see if it still tastes good to me.
I was wondering if I made up that memory, but I googled it, and yes, it definitely is a thing.
My mom always made appetizers for New Year's eve and day, just for our family. I always looked forward to it- 4 or 5 appetizers. To a little kid, it was very fancy and exciting.
We definitely had the water chestnut and bacon ones. And the cocktail weenies with the grape jelly and barbecue sauce. And the cream cheese brick with the crab and cocktail sauce. I'm trying to remember what other ones she made...
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Post by Crack-a-lackin on Feb 15, 2021 16:53:58 GMT
The other one started with a store-bought pan of little dinner rolls. You sliced it horizontally through the whole thing, then spread it with mustard, layered it with cheese, ham slices, dry onion, and probably something I'm forgetting. You melted butter, mixed in poppy seeds, poured that over the top of the rolls, and baked the whole thing until it was all hot. When it was done, you cut all the rolls apart. Wow, it's all coming back to me. I think I used to go to a lot of food-intensive parties back in the 80s. These are the infamous Funeral sandwiches
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Post by SweetieBsMom on Feb 15, 2021 17:26:55 GMT
My mom used to make the English muffins with crab and some type of cheese. I loved them.
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Post by Miss Lerins Momma on Feb 15, 2021 23:56:28 GMT
The only thing I remember was a homemade potato chip dip made with pineapple and maybe cream cheese? Good stuff. This sounds good, anyone have a recipe?! Or name I can google
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