My daughter asked for my Lasagne recipe the other day, which is in my head as I no longer follow a recipe. However, it brought me back to this recipe card which I've had since I was about 18 - the yoghurt topping was successful, although I don't bother with that any more.
My friends Alison and Jan from Aberdeen Commercial College both had the same set of cookery cards thanks to me, and we all laugh today whenever said cards are mentioned. I managed to con them into signing up as I received 2 cutlery place settings for each sign up! What none of us knew when signing up was how expensive it would prove to be. I think it took us all about 3 years to complete the set, all beautifully stored in a tray with dividers. I threw the whole lot out eventually (many years later) but kept 3. This one, a beef stroganoff recipe and a pea and ham soup recipe. Interesting choice of 'keepers', but I still use the stroganoff recipe from time to time, and I think I'll do the soup sometime this week too, as a blast from the past.
Another big storm day today - the snow has melted, the river is up and it remains to be seen what damage has been done overnight. John's away out in the dark and rain to see what's been going on.
Still offering recipes in imperial units in 1974 I can understand, but it set me wondering what happens these days. So off I went on an Internet search and here are my findings. Embracing the modern World: the BBC, Gary Rhodes, Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver. Staunchly traditionalist: Delia Smith and the Hairy Bikers.
This would have quite a different taste from the lasagna i'm used to eating. It's fun to think about some of the things that we did as young women. I have a pair of scissors that I was told could cut a penny in a half. That's all the cutlery or pots and pans that person could sell me.
It seems this was a very popular thing around the world. I remember demonstrations of cookware and other household goods at my college. They were always trying to get us to buy the sets. The only thing I bought was a moisturizer. I don't know about yogurt topped lasagne but the history of it is fun.
This made me smile as I remembered doing the exact same thing and ending up with a very attractive box full of expensive recipe cards that I very rarely used and threw away years later.
@laroque Interesting observations and not something I'd really thought about. I tend to function in the kitchen in kilos and grams, but I can still use, or at least visualise what the pounds and ounces would look like.
@onewing No, the cutlery (cheap and nasty probably) never made the cut. Must have been donated to a charity shop somewhere along the way, but I will have got good use out of them at the time, I'm sure.
@boxplayer Yes, a bit of personalisation! Ha ha. It's something I often do on recipes - I obviously started doing it early on in my cooking 'career'! ;-)
I suppose it was the thing to do back in 1974 as I too have collected many cards and kept a few. I did not receive any cutlery though.
I sure hope John is ok and fit to be out on his own and nothing serious has happened in the meamwhile.
Hope all was okay outside, John too.