Ellie Eats... The 1950s
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- Опубліковано 28 жов 2024
- Join me today as I eat my way through the 1950s courtesy of The Constance Spry Cookery Book. A first course of summery mint ice followed by the quintessential dish of the 50's: coronation chicken. All finished off with a nod to American dining by the way of American Upside-Down Cake.
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Hahaa! Loved your reading of the book of advice from the 1950"s for women, at the end of the video! Your expression perfectly reflected my feelings! Brilliant! And sad, really.
It so typifies 50s thinking, though. Which then lead to the 60s and songs like "Mother's Little Helper." ^_^
It's quite the quote isn't it?!
Glad to see you back. Good afternoon from Las Vegas where it is 102 degrees (39 for the rest of the world). You guys call them Fish Fingers, but we call them FIsh Sticks, and as usual thanks for your videos...HOWEVER...LOL you forgot the passage number 14....LOL "Don't complain if he's late for dinner or even if he stays out all night. Count this as minor compared to what he might have gone through at work. Don't shoot me....I use the Good Housewives guide when I teach the music and culture of the 50s....I get enough grief from my female students..I have to duck behind my desk for safety...
Thanks! That is really too hot for me, but hopefully you're enjoying the heat!
Judging by some of my Joy Of Cooking from multiple decades as well as other of my cook books, a lot of cakes didn't use as much sugar as is now called for. I have been enjoying your channel.
I think you're right, sugar consumption has definitely increased. I'm glad you've been enjoying it!
I can see the mint ice being a firm favourite with small children. Bright colours and vibrant flavours. But I used to try and put green food colouring in anything and everything when I was a kid, so maybe I'm biased!
I did the same, but with red colouring! Definitely agree this would be popular with children.
Ooo, that mint ice looks refreshing! I guess it would cleanse your palate from the canapes and cocktails that you'd had before dinner in the '50s? If you were that kind of person who had drinks before dinner ...
Super refreshing! One of the nicest things I've tried so far I think...
I long to be the kind of person who regularly has canapés and cocktails before dinner! Alas I am nowhere near that stage yet.
I had no idea coronation chicken was now a sandwich filling!
Thank you again for a great video. I believe that the recipes are still very much informed by rationing, which was just finally ending, judging by some of the ingredients :)
Hooray!!!
😁 thank you for your patience!
@@thepastisaforeignpantry5218 Great work! Look forward to the 60s!
I missed out on having a good look at the chicken. I guess it just looked like chicken in an apricot coloured sauce. The mint ice sounds super refreshing. I wonder if it could have less sugar and therefore be less sweet, or if that would affect how it freezes too much.
Also, that watermelon shirt is adorable.
The mint ice was the best bit of this one, I loved it! Thank you, I really like that shirt but don't get to wear it much!
What is a cold slab? I tried Googling it, kept getting cartons of beer references. 🤣 Is it marble, pottery or some sort of stone? Was it kept damp? Or just something naturally cool?
Usually a marble or stone slab kept in a pantry or in the coolest part of the kitchen to keep perishables on. At a time before big supermarkets and preservatives people bought cheese/milk etc multiple times a week as they needed it, rather than 'to just have in'. They'd be stored on the slab which would keep them cool.
You can blame the Aussies for the slabs of beer. That’s what we call it.
Marble I think
Wonderful finish! It's so unrealistic, it must have been written by someone with a nanny and housemaid!
So now I know the origins of pineapple upside down cake/pudding. Do you think it was really American or that the author wanted to add an element of "sophistication"? (Apologies to all Americans for the implied insult.)
It's very... optimistic..., isn't it?! 🤣
I think the recipe is a genuine American one because she cites an American cookbook as a source of some of inspiration for some of the recipes. I need to go back and check if American upside down cake is one of those!
@@thepastisaforeignpantry5218 Thanks
Your comment is a few years old, but I wanted to let you know that the Pineapple Upside Down Cake recipe you used looks very similar to recipes found here in the United States. The U.S. has a lot of upside down cake recipes (simple white cakes with fruit on the bottom). Pineapples were very popular in the 1950s, possibly because so many US military men were stationed in Hawaii during the second World War (where most of the world's pineapple was grown).