1960s-style frosted ribbon loaf
In the middle: egg salad, sliced tomato, ham salad. “Frosted” with whipped cream cheese. From Better Homes and Gardens cook book ca. 1968.
Serving slice with time-appropriate drinks:
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You thought this was a sandwich? TURNS OUT IT WAS CAKE. The waiter who brought it to you? ALSO CAKE. Your wife of fifteen years? Cake.
The people who wrote that recipe are currently in office.
Oh, the 50's...
Credit to you for being adventureous. I wouldn't get near such a recipe.
When every kitchen concoction was quiet revenge for getting slapped around on a daily basis
Hahahaha
Is a sandwich, it feels adventurous because it's different looking.
I totally thought this was a cake.
They are called cold-cake in Brazil!
5 yr old me was very disappointed, disgusted, and may have thrown up when I found out it wasn't just some icy cake
The only thing bad about it is the presentation. Making it look like a cake and serving it in slices is playing games with people’s expectations of what sweet and savory are supposed to look like. We’d have no problem with these same ingredients served as finger sandwiches.
The cake is a lie
Looks a lot like the Swedish dish Smörgåstårta (Sandwich Cake), which is not uncommon to be served at parties.
It's really quite tasty! Also quite convenient for parties since you can buy a few in the deli section of well-stocked supermarkets.
Yes, except it was really mostly just the 50s-60s with a bit into the 70s before sanity was regained. Source: aspic, motherfuckers!
Suprised there is no gelatin involved.
So basically you thoroughly considered that aspic of the situation? ;-)
Here we called that « pain sandwich », didn’t think it existed outside of Quebec
Wow you guys are really preserving everything old.
Haha ! Personally never saw it before ten years-ish ago when my grand-mother bring one at Christmas. « We always have that at Christmas » she said, my girlfriend and I saw some on instagram but it was about all.
So not really 😅
'Pain' in French or in English?
Depends on time within the context of the specific body metabolizing it.
Pain like bread. So Pain in French
It is a popular dish in Sweden as well. They call it smörgåstårta.
That word is similar to smorgasbord, which is a word I've heard occasionally, but probably never used, so I figured I'd look it up.
Its etymology from that Wikipedia link is very interesting. Apparently "smorgas" means sandwich, and it has a weird etymology for getting there (it apparently literally means "butter goose"), while "bord" means table. Which is all very strange, because smorgasbord now means something like "buffet", and has little to do specifically with sandwiches (or butter geese).
So, I'm guessing smörgåstårta would mean something like "sandwich tart"?
Close. Tårta means cake. So it translates to sandwichcake
Both a buffet and a sandwich have a little bit of everything. That's how I made sense of it originally.
smorgastarta is an appertizer. It's inthe name - smorga-starta, the best meal starta youse can gets!
;-)
Swedish dish is always something smorgwhatever.
I would have eaten this faster than a plate full of rolled sandwiches at Christmas as a kid.
(Still missing the pickles and olives at the center to win first place. Maybe add those as toppings on the icing?)
Pickes! I'm with you. But imho you always want olives as an opt-in, not an opt-out.
Isn't that... redundant?
Yes. I think it come from the form of the thing
Cause it uses four slices?
It looks like a bread you buy at the store
Do people buy that kind of bread in Quebec? I thought they'd all eat good bread. You know, speaking French and all...
There’s full of sugar bread that are sell at grocery stores.
But like everywhere there’s bakeries
I see. Most people I've met outside the US call that type of sliced bread "toast" because that's the only thing it's good for.
In america they call it "bread" because it's all they know. Other types of bread exist here, but they're seen as "fancy," are marketed as "artisan," often have subpar recipes compared to elsewhere in the world, and a lot of people here will view you as a snob for preferring it. It's really annoying, as someone who prefers good bread.
Pain to eat?
Depend who you ask
Needs some bourbon and cigarettes.
do jello salads next!
Savory or sweet? Tomato aspic sounds 🤢
Do the one with olives and bits of tuna. Serve it with egg coffee.
Egg coffee? Dear god.
My great grandma always made this dish that me and my cousins called "pink salad". It had both Jell-O and cottage cheese in it but I can't recall the other ingredients. The texture was so unsettling to us.
edit: I think it was this. I like the ingredients by themselves but can't handle them together. +retches+
grandma behavior…mine does it with lime (green) jello and pistachios
“””salad”””
I don't want it.
And I don't call that "cooking".
Depends, if they boiled the eggs or baked the ham, cooking was involved.
Was it the leaded gasoline that led to these crimes against humanity in culinary form to be invented, or what?
Did you like it? Sounds good.
Once I got over the idea that the “frosting” is savory and not cake frosting, it was pretty good. I mean, the ingredients involved are all tasty. It’s one of those strange novelty dishes from back in the day when people wanted to impress “company”.
Gonna need a Quaalude with that
Dessert?
In 1968, there was cocaine and heroin in everything, domestic abuse was the norm, and man does it show in the stuff women would feed their husbands
Sandwich, but hard to eat?
Definitely a fork-and-knife situation.
I would also request a spoon.
God that looks good.
I'm a sucker for shitty food porn
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At first I thought it might be some kind of mayo situation, but the cream cheese is somehow worse?
Honestly the cream cheese component is the only part that throws it off.
Agreed. (A slice of ham and tomato on an egg salad sandwich is where it's at btw) I do like cream cheese, but it's completely unnecessary here. At least it's not whipped cream lol.
Of all the kitchy 60s cuisine, this might be the least offensive to me. If you're gonna mke a "cake" out of a sandwich though, you need something on the outside. Which breaks the deal because you really can't use anything. Honestly cream cheese is the only thing I can even imagine. Maybe butter, but how much butter can you have lol.
Maybe, possibly, if you can make an icing out of Swiss?
I'd still rather just make canapes or something.
I wonder if you could sufficiently whip a cheese bechamel
Ugh... looks like the traditional Quebecois (family Christmas) "sandwich". Egg salad, ham salad, and chicken salad layers between horizontally sliced bread loaf... "frosted" with CheezeWiz.
Yours looks pretty good, though.
You gotta say how it was!
Pretty damn good. The “frosting” kind of wigged me out a bit, but that’s a mental thing. It tasted just fine, since it’s cream cheese.
didnt Rachel green make this dish because the recipe pages stuck together?
lady fingers and beef. mmmm
Cream cheese? Good! Ham? Good! Egg salad? Good!
It's never a proper party without voileipäkakku. Might have to make one and celebrate something. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sm%C3%B6rg%C3%A5st%C3%A5rta?wprov=sfla1
you know a dish is good when it has loaf in its name.
Be glad you've never heard of the Nutraloaf.
Fuck yeah I'd eat that!
I respect you making a classic. I also hate it
I really dislike the combination of egg salad and tomato. Ham and egg, awesome. Ham and tomato, awesome. Tomato and egg, do not want.
Fried egg (scrambled or an omelette) with diced tomato is quite nice.
I'll give you that, as well as dishes like shakshuka and whatnot. It's the egg and mayonnaise combo with tomato that I can't get my palatte around.
Tomato pie: what am I? Not good enough to dis?
https://www.southernliving.com/tomato-pie-6540052
toasted bread
mayo
Inch thick beefsteak tomato slice
salt and pepper to taste
🤤
Sorry, nope.
Daaayum! When you can't even catch a "hell no" because tomato and mayo!
I never have figured out what to do with it, but when I was a kid I mixed mayo with tomato paste and it is tasty. It should go on some sort of sandwich.
I also grew up eating ketchup on my scrambled eggs. And I'd make a scrambled egg sandwich with mayo on the bread. All tasty.
So really, for me, egg an mayo and tomato have several possible ways to make it work :)
You might like egg bhurji too then.
Not a fan of ketchup on your scrambles?
I used to make a dish with egg, sausage, parmesan, and sun dried tomato sauce. It was tasty.
OG Tabasco on mine, thanks.
The only thing I use ketchup on is onion rings, but that's a whole other quirk!
I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
..and on your cake day, no less 🥳
I had no idea. I think I'm three years old today!
Omg with the Lambrusco! Brings back the 1970s and Sunday dinners. The PBR can take a hike though.
Yeah I think the PBR was unnecessary but a friend brought it over. The Lambrusco with ice was basically a sangria. Throw it in a pitcher with some fruit and people would love it.
Reunite on ice, nice!
Would never make it myself, but it just seems like an over-the-top egg salad and tomato sandwich with ham thrown in, which doesn't sound bad. Not sure how the "frosting" factors into the texture here, but if that goes over well i can see it being palatable
The frosting was the hardest part to eat. I like cream cheese, but I had to make sure to include a little in each bite so I didn’t just get a mouthful of cream cheese. The rest of the ingredients are pretty normal and tasty.
Do people actually eat this stuff?
1960s American food was the pinacle of pretending that the nutrition facts label is the only thing one needs to have nutrition.
Drink like MadMen.
Be responsible for recipies.
As a Slav who enjoys Herrring in a Fur Coat, I am delighted to see an American "equivalent"! 😁
The egg layer reminded me of this;
https://www.indianhealthyrecipes.com/rasmalai-recipe-easy-rasmalai-in-10-mins-diwali-recipes/
Mixed the yellow liquid with cream and put the pieces of the white ?cake? in it. Then used that mixture between a normal vanilla cake.
It was probably the best cake cream layer I've had.
I vomited from this image. TIHI
I would eat it.
Doesn’t look too bad actually. Put some heat in it with some Hungarian Paprika or chopped up Italian pepper mix and I’d be all over that.