Hamburgers (flavor enhanced with msg.!this)
Bottled peaches, pears and cherries
Homemade plum jam
Cookies made from leftover pancake batter, hot cereal or anything needing to be used up.
Meatloaf (ground chuck, onions, egg, bread crumbs, cream of mushroom soup, salt). We kids mixed it with our hands and made a finger ditch down the middle to catch the grease so it could be poured off.
Making pancake syrup from the recipe on the box of Mapleine imitation maple flavoring.
Usually bisquick pancakes, but sometimes buckwheat.
Fried mush (leftover cream of wheat, sliced, fried and served with butter and syrup). I liked it then, but can't duplicate.
Trifle (I believe she learned this from Sister Hay & Sister Burns)
Leftovers soup...always good.
Sunday dinner made in the pressure cooker...often roast and potatoes.
Sunday dinner rolls heated in a paper bag that had been patted with water on the inside.
Jello with fruit...all manner. Sometimes with Dream Whip on top.
Often just water with Sunday dinner.
Tomato soup and melted cheese sandwiches for dinner after Sacrament meeting while we watched Bonanza or Wonderful World of Color
Pizza (usually from a box of Chef Boyardee pizza mix...before the days of frozen pizza, or premade dough or crust).
Frozen twinkies and Hostess Cupcakes
Bisquick biscuits
Peach cobbler with bisquick topping
Money cakes for birthdays
Coming home from school for lunch: Soup (Campbells chicken noodle, scotch broth, vegetable beef, alphabet, tomato etc.), Sandwiches (tuna with sweet pickles, p.b. and honey or jelly, cheese, etc.), cottage cheese and applesauce, bottled fruit or cut up fruit and veggies, potato chips, leftovers cookies. Mom fixed lunch for us pretty much every day.
Dad would get "blue plate specials". He liked bottled cherries, cold sliced beets, dates and things we generally avoided.
Spam: I know we ate it, but can't remember what it was put in... pasta? sliced and panfried for breakfast? spaghetti? sandwiches?
Keeping bread from drying out by sucking air out of bag before closing it (fortunately, this not necessary in New York).
Eggs Goldenrod" (Hard boil eggs, chop whites into a white sauce, served over buttered toast and topped with sprinkles of mashed egg yolks).
Picnics: Often cold pork & beans, sandwiches (tuna or p.b.packed into bread bags, chips, hydrox or other store bought sandwiches, carrot and celery sticks, lemonade or koolaid.
Well, this has sure brought back a lot of memories. You surely can come up with more. Many of these foods became incorporated into my own kitchen as I tried to create that feeling of home for
my own children.
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