Keri was looking through some boxes of things belonging to our shared Mother-in-law, Marion and she ran across a recipe book put together by the Jefferson Women's Club.
A lot of work went into the making of this book including the cover, made of linoleum floor tiles.
I chose each of these recipes for a reason. This one was chosen because of the complexity of it. That and I thought someone reading this might be inspired to try it. If so, I hope they share the experience with us.
Remember Spam? Well here is a recipe using spam. Are you ready to go buy a can? Nope. me neither. I thought I knew what Creamettes were but I looked it up to be sure and here is what Google had to say.
Minnesota Macaroni Company
Williams named his macaroni Creamette®. The Minnesota Macaroni Company manufactured the Creamette® brand until Williams bought out the firm and Creamette® became its official new name.
It seems Jefferson had its own Glen Campbell in the 1960s. The recipe looked doable too.
I worked with the contributor at the hospital in my nurse's aid days. The title alone is a turn-off!
I also was not familiar with the term top milk.
And last but not least Marion Brooker! Butch says he is not at all familiar with Chinese Chews! Sounds good enough to try sometime. I did tell Butch that I have been in the position of being asked to contribute a recipe and I usually submitted one I was currently using but not necessarily a long-standing one and that may have been the case with this one. Perhaps his sister Marlene may remember it.
I noticed the book contained many jello recipes and most of the prep times were considerably longer than current recipes. Also, notice how women were identified by their husbands? Yes, I do remember that. It was a different time.
