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In reply to the discussion: Remembering the food of my childhood [View all]Retrograde
(10,132 posts)16. Well-aged herbs and spices!
c. 1970 spice racks were a big thing (I got one as a wedding present): collections of small matching bottles filled with all the dried herbs and spices anyone would want - and they all looked and tasted pretty much the same.
Salt, pepper (from a can), celery salt, garlic salt - what more do you need? I currently have a c. 1930s collection of spice jars that came unlabeled, so I can fill them with things I actually use, bought in bulk.
What I do miss from that time, though, are freeze-dried basil and freeze-dried bell peppers: they were handy when you were out of the fresh stuff.
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Fried Spam with cheese on top was occasionally on our table, but we were a military family so
japple
Jan 2020
#9
My grandmother bought some kind of weird pie crust that came pre-made in sticks like butter.
Vinca
Jan 2020
#23
I love those, too. This summer I'm definitely going over there to sit on the beach and
Vinca
Jan 2020
#69
Succotash to me came straight from the devil. Even had a creepy name.
Laura PourMeADrink
Jan 2020
#50
The only appetizers were cheese and pimento spread on crackers. And only for very special
Cousin Dupree
Jan 2020
#54