Speaking of vintage recipes: Donut Prune Salad. I wonder why this recipe never took hold.

[Arkansas Granny]

http://vintagebug.blogspot.com/2006/08/doughnut-corporation-of-america.html

[Grasswire2]

1. hahahaha

I have many many old cookbooklets. Much hilarious stuff, such as making tortillas from Bisquick.

[Arkansas Granny]

2. My daughter has my mother's Household Searchlight cookbook from sometime in the 1940's.

The recipe for toast tells you to slice the bread 1/2" thick. As I recall, it goes into great detail on how to clean a chicken.

It looks a lot like this one.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Mentioned in the comments is The Gallery of Regrettable Food.

Definitely worth a read.

http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/index.html

[The Polack MSgt]

7. Thank you so much for that link

I haven't been sidetracked like that since I discovered superdickery .

http://www.superdickery.com/

[JHan]

4. omg

[becca da bakkah]

5. My Favorite is a Recipe From My Grandmother's....

....women's church group circa 1954. It's titled "Steak For Fifty People". You think, oh boy, a way to make steak stretch for a crowd. The first opening is,"Take 50 steaks......"

[Hortensis]

14. Lol. Reminded me of very old "take one pig" type

recipes, but that was immediately followed by remembering Serious Eats' instructions on how to cook a pig's head. Guess that's what happens when a busy site's covered the first couple thousand topics. 2018 or not, the recipe starts with one pig's head.

[cyclonefence]

6. "Stew four prunes for each person..."

Are they mad? FOUR PRUNES per person? Holy shit!

[The Polack MSgt]

8. To only be served to service men and women after 5 days of MREs

preferably right before they have several hours off duty.

[Vinca]

9. Donut salad is so disgusting sounding it would probably catch on if put on a diner menu.

The picture in the recipe above it at the link made me think that a donut wouldn't be a bad base for strawberry shortcake. Have to try that next strawberry season.

[spinbaby]

10. "Serve with mayonnaise"

Gag

[Callalily]

11. Thanks for sharing - this is great!

And actually, the slicing donuts in half, crisping the slices and serve with jams, jellies, etc. doesn't sound all too bad.

I save my high school Home Economics book, and still use a few recipes from it!

[dem in texas]

12. from my file of bad recipes

From a 1974 Texas Junior League Cookbook

Tuna Chili

8 oz. tomato juice
2 Tb. Williams chili mix
1 can tuna
Garlic powder to taste
1 can mushrooms
Minced onion

Mix together well and simmer for 10 minutes.

[Arkansas Granny]

13. That sounds ghastly. 😖