amylsacks' photos with the keyword: brownie

All those marchers and dancers in The Nutcracker Suite were amateurs, I tell you! Amateurs!! Gaze at the left side of the image long enough, and the desserts appear to be floating an inch or so above the tabletop. I'd give anything to know if the photographer did that on purpose. Front and back covers from a 66-page booklet published by General Foods Corporation, New York. Originally posted to flickr on February 3rd, 2011.

Ooh... Top and bottom are each other's Yin and Yang. Artsy!! From the March issue of Family Circle magazine. (Originally posted to flickr on February 2nd, 2011.)

Thoroughly modern Marie says, "Let 'em stack cake." ;) From Sunset magazine, December 1960. (Originally posted to flickr on February 3rd, 2011.)

I wonder if the "Fruit Balls" recipe was the secret inspiration for the "Walnut Fig Dough Surprise" as featured on Animaniacs. (Maybe its "cathartic" qualities inspired a certain cereal ad parody, as well.)

"...Using Instant PET as a dry ingredient, you can easily give your family extra bone-and-muscle-building nourishment-- much more than if regular bottled milk were used..." Front and back covers (above), plus two pages (below) from a 32-page booklet published by Pet Milk Co., St. Louis, Missouri. I assume that the real reason people cooked with the powdered stuff was because it was cheaper than fresh. This idea is reinforced by the bottom left page, which implies that its target audience only has the cash for one kind of baking implement. (Maybe the sequel showed how to morph a cookie sheet into a cake pan by embedding it in tinfoil or something.)

Does anyone still pass out recipes for grapefruit pudding? I'm kind of afraid to look and see.

"Every home needs a cookie jar-- one that is constantly filled with delicious homemade cookies!" As opposed to what? Firearms? Racing forms? Did Celia think she was writing for an audience which was still learning to read? Yeesh!

Other recipes included: Hot Fudge Sauce, Chocolate Frosting, Frozen Fudge Bars, Fudge Sundae Pie, assorted frostings, Strawberry Freeze (sort of like what advertisers eventually pitched as "ice milk" in my childhood), and Frozen Fruit dessert (cream cheese + canned milk + marshmallows + fruit cocktail, served in a cupcake paper. Wha--?).

I love food backdrops that look like they were shot from the inside of a lava lamp, don't you? Front and back covers of a promotional published by the Pet Milk Co., on their 75th anniversary.

Okay, these look good to me. I love meringues, and the "brownies" are technically Blondies because there's no chocolate involved... but who cares?

Menu: Cheeseburgers Minute Rice Green Beans Pimento Mixed Green Salad Frozen Brownies With Marshmallow Sauce Cheeseburgers on rice. Oh-kay. I think Minute Rice is the only brand name mentioned in the recipes. I smell a payoff. Also, those have to be the least appetizing-looking string beans in history. :/

I can't believe Kraft missed the chance to sell us ice cream that would never melt or get rock-hard, either.

"Good Afternoon, Mrs. Satin. I just stopped by to ask if you'd be interested in contributing to this year's bake sale?" "I... AM the bake sale!" From the September issue of Family Circle magazine.