Home Ec, Bowmansville and Washington, D.C., 1953

Our CAMZ kept newspaper clippings for many years, in pursuit of recipe excellence.

The American Weekly of January 11, 1953 had so many nuggets that she just saved the whole issue.  It's hard to scan tabloid sheets on my little scanner, but you can get the gist:

Clara made cherry pie in cherry season, with criss-cross strips of dough on top.  For pies, though, the prize goes to Florence Cichon, affectionately called "Auntie Fo-Fo."  Lemon meringue pie, chocolate pudding pie, and Scotch whiskey with tonic and lime were her specialties.

 "Spry" must be some kind of lard product.  I don't recall it, but I do recall "Crisco."  Yes, family, my Mom used Crisco, apparently.  Well!

(Crisco is of all-vegetable origin, hence less productive of flakiness in pie crust.)

 

Often she would rewrite the recipe in her preferred format and illustrate it with a clipped photo, scrapbook-style.  Very professional.  Of course, that sort of fancy work went into abeyance once Marty started stumping around the house with bells on his shoes.

President Eisenhower served two terms, 1953-1961.

There's a book illustrating the post-WW2 design revolution, in architecture, interior design, and cars:  Populuxe/the Look and Life of America in the '50s and '60S, from Tailfins and TV.  It captures the spirit and tone pretty well, I think.

Julie