If you believe the women’s magazines and promotional cookbooks of the 1950’s and 1960's, the way to get teenaged girls interested in cooking was by appealing to the sweet tooth that all teenagers in those days—who subsisted largely on a diet of vanilla Cokes and ice cream sodas—were known to have. Understanding moms helped their daughters’ coolness quotients by allowing them to make lots of sugar-loaded treats for slumber parties and impromptu sock hops down in the rumpus room. This chapter (from a 1967 Nestlé’s pamphlet called Plain and Fancy), guaranteed adolescent popularity with a dozen pages of instructions for teen-pleasin’ concoctions. My teeth hurt just from reading them.
Circus Flip
Place in a small bowl
-2 T. peanut butter
and blend in gradually
-¼ c. milk
Combine in a covered 1 ½ quart refrigerator container, and stir to blend
-3 ¼ c. milk
-peanut butter mixture
-8 heaping t. Nestle’s Chocolate Quik
Cover and chill. Shake well before serving. Makes 4 servings.
Choco-Scotch Treats
Combine and melt over hot (not boiling) water
-1 6 oz package (1 c.) Nestlé’s Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels
-1 6 oz package (1 c.) Nestlé’s Butterscotch Morsels
Stir in and blend well
-3 c. oven-toasted rice cereal
-1 c. salted peanuts
Press into greased 9” square pan. Chill till set. Cut into 1 ½” squares.
Scrabble Squares
Melt over hot (not boiling) water
-1 12 oz jumbo package (2 c.) Nestlé’s Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels
-2 T shortening
Combine in bowl:
-1 6 ¼ oz package (about 3 cups) miniature marshmallows
-2 c. coarsely-broken pretzels
Add and fold in carefully till blended
-Chocolate mixture
Spread evenly in foil-lined 11 x 7 ½ x 1 ½ inch or 9 inch square pan. Chill till firm. To serve, let stand at room temperature a few minutes; remove from pan, then cut into squares. Store in refrigerator.
Black-Eyed Chew-‘Ums
Combine and melt over hot (not boiling) water; stir to blend
-1 6-oz pkg (1 c.) Nestlé’s Butterscotch Morsels
-½ c. peanut butter
Remove from heat.
Add and mix till well coated
-1 ½ c. corn flakes
-1 c. miniature marshmallows
-½ c. raisins
Drop by well-rounded teaspoonfuls onto waxed paper-lined cookie sheets. Chill till set.
Well as it's early and my breakfast of coffee and nicotine isn't much better, I remember my sister making some of these (she's 8 years older) and I remember laughing when she was doing them in 80-81.(I was 5-6 and even then my idea of entertaining wasn't goop dropped on wax paper.)
ReplyDeleteI wonder who comes up with this stuff?
The last thing those teens need to to be getting hyped up on all that sugar! :)
ReplyDeleteWell, Hmmm I would imagine it's better for them then all those new high energy drinks their sucking on now... I personally don't remember any of those sticky sweet things being offered to me but I still lost teeth so maybe I did miss out on something good ;)
ReplyDeleteThe scrabble squares might be pretty good, a nice combination of sweet and salty. As for the drink, no thanks.
ReplyDeleteI know...peanut butter has its place but not in a soda.
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