amylsacks' photos with the keyword: celery

One year left to enjoy fresh food before The Great Depression hits. o_0

Cottage cheese: reliably scary as the centuries roll by. Front and back covers from a promotional published by Sealtest, Inc.

Imagine the years of therapy you'd need after being served this slop at an impressionable age. Ma, it won't stop staring at meeee!!!! Published in the March issue of Western Family magazine.

They attempt to disguise the foreign influences using the traditional brown/green/white configuration of all proper American meals, but he's not fooled...

I love the aquatic-hued table cloth. It goes so well with the sea-monster entree', doesn't it? Excerpts from a 24-pager published by the Kretschmer Corporation of Carrollton, Michigan.

There are a lot of really nice illustrations in here. No artist's name given, unfortunately.

She sells small shakers for Sequoia-sized celery stalks. Or whatever. From the March issue of Everywoman's magazine.

Who else had never heard of "Celtuce," until today? o_0

Chinese cabbage aka "Celery Cabbage" aka Bok Choy, I presume, which almost rhymes with "Yum!" :D

Is that celery, or Bart Simpson's arch enemy Sideshow Bob, relaxing at the beach with some very unorthodox sunscreen and beach toys?

The stuffed celery makes your snack tray radiate like a miniature sun! Woo!

Front of a promotional fold-out published by... well, you know. Sorry if these images take forever to load. I wanted so much for the Miracle™ to be seen in its full, unclipped (possibly maiden) glory.

Corned Beef + Canned Cream of Mushroom Soup + Pickle Relish + Chopped Egg on Crappy "French" Bread (upper left) or Cut-out Beets + Cream Cheese on Crackers (lower right]) = True Love. Okey-doke. :/ From the February issue of Household magazine.

" ...In addition to making it possible to serve the family their favorite foods at any season of the year, thousands of thrifty homemakers throughout America have also reduced the family food budget very substantially through the economies resulting from the use of Crown Two Piece Mason Caps..."

"'The trouble with salads,' said one stubborn man, 'is that I like them!' And it's true that salads, traditionally a woman's dish, are rapidly losing this distinction. In fact, many a man has now learned to wield cruet and salt shaker to such good effect that he insists on making the dressing himself..." Move along, Ladies. The men have arrived to do manly things and you're in the way. You can come back when it's time to clean up. [rolleyes] Oh, and don't forget to fetch some cigars, too. Front and back covers of a 62-page hardback published by Peter Pauper Press, Mount Vernon, New York. (I'm thinking that Edna Beilenson likely wrote the text and did the compiling here, too. Though she's not credited.)

Recipes illustrated: Braised Celery, Orange Shortcake, Cream Puffs ("Very small cream puffs about 1 inch in diameter can be made for afternoon tea refreshments or for canapes... Split and fill centers with finely chopped chicken or crab salad, a savory cheese mixture, caviar blended with Mayonnaise, or cream cheese blended with strawberry or marmalade") , and Apple Pie.

"Thumbnail" illustrations clipped from an article by Mary B. Stevenson. I blew these up to show detail, and did some Photoshop touch-ups that (hopefully) don't intrude on the original style too much. From the August issue of Everywoman's magazine.

Other recipes included are: Cocktail Pizza (featuring white bread done up jelly roll style with American cheese and... uh, never mind), Lobster Delights, Crab Meat Vol-Au-Vent, Prosciutto and Melon, Chutney and Bacon, Mushrooms Stuffed With Clams, Pinwheels (jelly-rolled white bread again; this time with butter and various flavored cream cheeses), Cheese Ball, Mushrooms Stuffed With Oysters, Shrimp Pate', Cream Cheese Spread, Smoked Salmon Cones, Mussels Ravigote, Baked Cocktail Franks, Marinated Carrots, and Swiss-Smoked Beer Puffs (!!!).