1950’s Recipes – Fun Flavors of Confidence, Security, and Achievement

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Super Pot Roast

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Super Pot Roast

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Add Cut Carrots and Potatoes 1 hour before end of cooking process.

About this Recipe:  This was one of the most popular recipes and was so easy to prepare since it used the new dry onion soup mix.  As expected, cooks added some water, mushroom soup, wine, or even tomatoes to the basic recipe.  If preparing this recipe today, you might want to use a slow cooker or Dutch Oven pot.  A note of caution:  If you use the aluminum foil wrap, make sure to seal it securely.

AND SO THE STORY GOES….
Teen parties, television, and game playing created a demand for easy-to make meals like TV dinners.  Stores started selling frozen TV dinners that had only a potatoes and meat course while other dinners had a whole meal, divided into small portion containers. The cover usually showed an attractive picture of the delicious meal.

At this time, many men were not accustomed to working in the kitchen.  So what do you think happened when they were told to just heat up a TV dinner for supper? Well, some men just popped the entire package in the oven. I know you can guess how that turned out! The bottom line is that companies became much better at writing those cooking directions and including a first step: Remove the dinner from the package.

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1950’s    Fun Flavors of Confidence, Security, and Achievement
Supermarkets Bringing in Convenience Products

 

What’s Happening?

Americans finally had the time and money to explore new directions.  This generation was driven to seek achievement, power, and status.  Education and the GI Bill became the open door for many families to improve their lives.  Fun and excitement were part of life.  Television programs exploded; Sputnik pushed scientific experiments toward a space program; Elvis brought rock ‘n roll dancing right into living rooms.  Innovations grew at a fast pace with bigger supermarkets bringing in convenience products like cake mixes, frozen juices, dry soup mixes, and bottles of sauces.  Sub sandwiches, pizza parlors, pancake houses, and hamburger joints served food favorites.  BBQ Grilling and Tail Gating parties added to the demand of great beef recipes. It was the birth of Fast Food, the Drive-In, and the flourishing business of franchises.

Did you know these were popular?  Tuna Salad Mold; Marinated Salad,

Barbecued Steak, Deviled Beef Patties, Marinated Rump Roast, Roasted Corn in Foil, Hawaiian Kabobs, Fruit Filled Pancakes, Parfait Pies, Main Dish Salads, Barbecued Ribs, Sour Cream Apple Pie, Cheese and Sausage Pizza, Gelatin Salads, Onion Soup Mix Recipes
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