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:
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.
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? ;-)
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
Do people actually eat this stuff?
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
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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 respect you making a classic. I also hate it
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
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.
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.
I don't want it.
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?
Needs some bourbon and cigarettes.
do jello salads next!
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+
“””salad”””
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.
Was it the leaded gasoline that led to these crimes against humanity in culinary form to be invented, or what?
Sandwich, but hard to eat?
Definitely a fork-and-knife situation.
I would also request a spoon.
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!
Fuck yeah I'd eat that!
Gonna need a Quaalude with that
Dessert?
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