This Vintage Recipe For "Perfection Salad" Was Perfectly Disgusting!
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- Опубліковано 8 тра 2016
- I recreated a prize winning vintage recipe for Perfection Salad and it was TERRIBLE. Watch the video to see how I ended up turning it into an award worthy Sweet Asian Slaw!
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The history lesson was so interesting. I didn't know that salads were once viewed as messy and unhygienic! We seem to have the opposite view today - the more organic, natural and rustic a salad is, the more we like it. Now I'm wondering what other concepts they developed back then. Great video! :)
+bookish I've been reading up on the history of American food and it is fascinating to see how many food theories were developed in the Victorian era that ended up being completely wrong.
Have you read the book "Perfection Salad"? I have not, but they do discuss salad as being how you just described. I really enjoyed the follow up book, "Something from the Oven". Food culture from the 1950's is fascinating.
This channel hasn’t been active in a really long time. Shame, that. I really liked the editing, idea and execution.
Yah what happened to Bethany?!
Yeah, the whole thing went bust, it looks like. The website, the web store, the Facebook page, all gone. Her Twitter is still active, but it's like hooked up to automatically report her other social media actions like liking UA-cam vids. It's a shame, this is charming stuff.
Ok hi everyone I’m her kid and I want to say that she doesn’t do it anymore because she needed to take care of us
@@ImAWeirdo666 tell your lovely Momma that people miss her. There’s an even bigger audience that would love this kind of content. There is a huge demographic for food recipes and their history. If she wants an example show her Max Miller.
The lemon jello was wrong. You should have used the plain gelatin, and added maybe some unsweetened lemon cool aid or lemon juice. That compounded with the apple cider vinegar was just too much.
I agree. I think it would have tasted better with the original ingredients.
Yeah, gelatin does not have taste by itself, it's just protein and water (there's no need to use vinegar), I still consider a interesting idea for meals for diabetic people, like my father, just the too vibrant colorant used in the 50's is totally wrong.
Knox Sparkling Jello was plain flavored. Also recipes I see for this which do add vinegar (not all of them do) use about a tablespoon. I just made a basic jello salad this week out of sheer curiousity and actually really liked it!
I just found your channel nothing like it out there! love it!
Bethany, I can watch your recipes all night. It's an insomniac's best friend. Super fun and low stress!
3:05 That expression made me almost taste that salad. Oh... my god.
I just arrived on this channel but, my dear lady, you already have my respect and concern.
Oh my gosh you deserve 100x subscribers. Excellent content and channel. love it, love you.
I feel very sorry for the generations of teenagers who suffered with this recipe! I'm sure their moms made it with all the love in the world :)
Your FACE with that first bite is priceless! And you kept on eating it! What a trouper!As far as a "Horrendous Vintage Recipe," I feel almost cruel voting for #9, the Large Jelly Salmon. It's the weirdest, but I'm strangely attracted to these bizarre jellied confections!Invest in some Pepto.
So cool! I love learning all the history behind gelatin salads.
+Bygone. It is fascinating how much food has changed in the past 50 years!
I can't believe how much of it you actually ate! Hilarious!
The salad looks awesome .... You always put a smile on my face keep up the good work .... :)
+kim bartley Yaaaaay! I love making people smile and laugh! And I swear the salad is one of the best I have ever made!
I love watching your videos. I hope you also try recreating Spaghetti-O Jello or Lime Cheese Jell-O, and make it modern. ☺☺☺
New subscriber here, I collect vintage cookware, and counter top appliances. Of course I also try the vintage recipes that came in the instruction booklets etc. Love to see anything you might do with Chafing Dish cooking, or puu puu platters at home.
+Longhairbear Fun ideas! I will add them to my list :).
I think where you went wrong is with using apple cider vinegar. This is not a mild vinegar. Maybe try it with something like rice vinegar or use much less. 1/2 cup is an awful lot of vinegar. Don't feel bad. I once made Alton Brown's mango pocket pies from hastily jotted notes--when it called for apple cider, I unthinkingly added apple cider vinegar and the resulting pickle pie was quite a shock to the system!
that first bite and the scoff lmao 2:58
I want to see you team up with the boys from SORTED food! I love your channel!
YAY! I wanted you to do another gelatinous salad-like concoction culinary nightmare! Quite interesting really.
+Lovelife090994 I have few more doozies coming up so be sure to watch out for them!
***** Thanks again, and thanks for being so courteous. I think that's the right word... haha.
Love, love, love your clothes on this series - especially that top. If you don't mind sharing, where did you get that lovely thing?
Your makeup is flawless.
Why do u only have 10,000 subscribers like wow u deserve so many
Kudos for trying the jello salad...the illustrations of those early jello salads were works of art, although not that appetizing. Your expression while eating it made me wonder how parents got their kids to eat that. Love that fresh salad, though!
+Theresa Novak It is possible the salad was supposed to be sweeter, but even with more sugar Im not sure a kid would eat it! LOL!
Actually we would pick at the jello bits and flush the rest down the toilet when our parents weren't looking. At picnics we instinctively knew better and avoided them. Best the flies get jello and not us!
At 2:17, you said you would the sugar out. Do you think it would make a difference, if you left the sugar in?
The trick to perfection salad is to make it with a can of diced sauer kraut! And it is delicious with a special sauce made of 1/2 mayonnaise and 1/2 horseradish! It is delicious. I haven't had this forty years! I bet it would be great as a side to a tuna burger.
Awww. I know the recipe is 1.5 years old but the link doesn't work. :/ how sad.
Jello salads or Jello Tunas or Jello whatever savory foods can be delicious if unflavored gelatin is used. The reason why these jello recipes taste terrible as people have complained is because people are using sweet flavored jello powders that are meant for sweet dessert purposes and not meant for mixing with savory foods. In Russian dishes, they make something similar like this with meat in it, which it is a gelatin mix with the broth coming from the same meat that is in the dish and it comes out fine and edible because they are not using flavored gelatins.
Once I whipped chocolate ice cream into lime jello and served it in white porcelain bowls. It came out greenish brown and looked just like poop in those white porcelain bowls. I was inventing a new dish. I put it on the table in front of my Father and he said, "I'm not eating THAT!" It was delish but I learned a bit about presentation after that!
My wife makes a version of this which is actually interesting. Good video.
YUK! I'd hate anything with vinegar in it. But you did good to keep a straight face. (Wonder what else they ate in 1905).
I love classic perfection salad! I have only made it once from the Betty Crocker New Picture Cookbook (1950's edition) and me and hubby both liked it.
I have that cookbook! Maybe I will try the recipe again and see if it is any better.
I'm 65 and learned to cook from this book. I use it still often, and the recipes were very good. It is a great book to learn from.
Can you post recipe from Betty crocker cookbook?
The Face at 3:00 lol
+Sherry Thomas It was sooooo gross and I was really surprised! I thought I would like it because I normally enjoy Jello salad! LOL!
+Making It Modern LOL it looked horrible lol
+Sherry Thomas It really was!
+Making It Modern You like jello salad? What kind? I only like jello fruit salads (usually peach or pineapple).
+Lovelife090994 All kinds! But my favorite is cherry coke salad, which I haven't made for the show yet but was something my mother used to make all of the time!
I just bought Knox unflavored gelatin at Walmart yesterday.
Can't get over how gorgeous this woman is
I love perfection salad my grandmother made it
I wish I hadnt found your channel so late :(
Is she not making any videos anymore? On any topic?
I hope Bethany is doing well. Haven't seen her in a while
I wouldn't cut down the technique but I WOULD taste as I went along. Something I'll bet those that came before us did!
@Making It Modern have you tried the Retro Spaghetti-O Jello Mold thing? How would you make that modern? Love your videos. dbkitschen.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-first-day-of-kitschmas-spaghetti-o.html
Perfection Salad? More like... IMPERFECTION salad.
It reminds me of "head cheese"!
Green olives in Jello?!
+The Kneady Homemaker I know, right? It turns out people used to make "savory" Jello all the time!
+Making It Modern I'm scared to admit that one of my families favorite holiday recipes involves lime Jello, mayonaise, and horseradish sauce.
Just general curiosity: if it's so bad (I mean it looks so disgusting to even try to me) why continue to eat it? I never could understand chefs and cooks who do that
I'm here because this crazy lady on the Steve Harvey show made this and made him eat it!
When you do it modern, you should have to use the same ingredients but use them in a modern way. i still think it's cheating to use just only part of the ingredients and make a modern recipe .
To be fair, you did omit the sugar from the original recipe. Perhaps the assumption that the Jell-O had enough sugar to compensate was not accurate.
My gram made this with like jello and oh it was bad
You hate it but you kept eating it!! lol And that other recipe with the hard boiled egg slices a croutons..I didn't think you were going to try it at all but you did and then kept eating it!! Why torture yourself? lol :)
I started looking for a recipe for grandma's perfection jello salad and only got youtube millenials making fun of "retro food". And somehow lucked out and found a french download of something called Oeuf en gelee (egg and ham in a very fancy, made from scrap, gelatin) and then somehow to a Kosher homemade gelatin made from calve's feet, ptcha ( a garlicky, meaty gelatin). And then to something that we might call head cheese, Mongolian calf foot gelatin (which like ptcha is made from the animal's bones at home) though the meats in it are probably not from the head of any animal but more acceptable parts. To Boris' Russian meat gelatin made from pigs feet and ham hocks. (1 1/2 million views, but he's Boris after all and funny too, and not prissy at all) How ignorant Americans today are of gelatin! And how ignorant of their ignorance. But hey...
I can taste the poverty.... lol
It's so tiresome hearing and reading of young people's attitudes about previous era's foods (and music, styles, ways of doing things, etc). So much for being open minded and "tolerant".
I love to try all sorts of foods and give them a chance. That's how I was raised, to be open to all sorts of things and people. Food and music opens avenues into other people and times. 99% of the time I enjoy the foods as I learn about the times and peoples, cultures and reasons for why they made something and how and why they became traditional foods.
Lots of times the foods were made because they didn't have much to work with so used their creativity to work up new ways of using what they had. Today's generations have it too easy and are too spoiled with having everything at their beck and call in an instant. Not so with previous generations. Learn to appreciate and respect what the folks who came before you had to work with in their lives.
I remember those salads from my childhood that my mother, grandmothers, aunts and other gals from that era use to make them and I've missed eating them as they bring back memories of those ladies and times.
Right on. My mom never made them though. She was Southern so we got coconut and banana pie and cobblers.
Dude, why are you so mad about people being grossed out by gelatin salads? Relax.
I agree with Rasputin's lover. The obsession with hating gelatin has become tiring. I like jello and I enjoy it when someone takes the time to make a gelatin dessert or salad instead of peeling, slicing and throwing everything in a bowl and calling the dogs, I mean guests.