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Vintage Homemade Sandwich Spreads for Lunch Boxes
Little pieces of our mother’s past.
I don’t cook, but it seemed such a shame to toss these dear recipes out. The more auctions I went to, the more little recipe boxes I found. Stashing them here and there around the house, I soon found I was running out of room.
Fortunately, I discovered blogs. Now I can share my ever growing collection of old fashion recipes with everyone.
I sure hope you enjoy them. Most of these come from the 1950’s, 60’s, and 70’s, when we were all celebrating life with the great American Cookout and Carry In Dinners.
All are handwritten or typed on recipe cards.
What we ever did with our lunch boxes, I will never know. What I wouldn't give for them now.
Mom packed the best lunches, that little carton of milk, a baggie full of chips, a pleated baggie sandwich, and a pickle. Lunch was great.
I only managed to find this one vintage lunch box pictured on this page. I think, since our house was full of girls, dad must have brought this one home. It was discovered in our attic.
When I was a kid, my mom use to get up every morning, fix my lunch, pack it in a metal lunch box, and shoo me out the door. Off to the bus stop I would go, swinging my lunch box, without a care in the world.
Every year, I would get a new lunch box with my favorite TV character or TV show. What lunch box you carried was always a big deal.
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Lunch boxes and their contents were very powerful tools for social climbing in the fifth and sixth grade.
The lunch itself was all important for making just the right impressions. Trading lunches was as popular a sport then, as football is now.
Searching for that extra special treat mom would pack for me, knowing it just had to be there. A handful of chips in a baggie, a dill pickle, a sandwich in one of those Tupperware sandwich containers, ah there it was....homemade cookies, now I had trading power!
I always went for the sci-fi lunch boxes, like Star Trek, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Munsters, and Addams Family.
My sister was more refined with her Bobby Sherman's Here Comes The Brides, The Monkees, The Beatles, and the like.
Well, we don't sell vintage lunch boxes here, but if you own one, you will find homemade vintage lunch box spreads and other lunch box treats here.
These recipes are taken from handwritten recipes found in little tin recipe boxes, family members, and friends. All recipes were used in the 1950's, 60's, and 70's.
Now, here are some of those recipes.
Sigh, didn't you just love your metal lunch box in the 1950's, 60's or 70's? I know I loved each and every, now vintage, metal lunch box I ever owned.
I carried The Munsters, Bewitched, It's About Time, and The Flinstones. My sister had The Monkees, Here Come The Brides, David Cassidy, and many many more.
Read "Santa and the Magic Key", plus recipes for your holidays. A story by PenVampyre
Read "Easter and Where NOT to Hide Eggs" Memories of Easters past and a few vintage recipes.
Logan's Halloween Story -The original story won first place in sixth-eighth grade division of Southeastern Middle School, 2005 by Logan Lyon
Food and Genealogy. A story By Robin L. Wallace. Our lives, our families, our very history's are defined by the foods we eat.
Family Reunion Recipes.
"The Fourth of July and Other Disasters"
(With Apologies to Jean Shepherd)
By Robin L. Wallace
A short story by Suellen Fry. Memories of my father and his version of Kickapoojoyjuice.Memorial Day Recipes - "For me, Memorial Day was the day when we went out where relatives were buried in the tiny, local cemeteries and thoroughly cleaned up each gravesite, carrying away branches that may have fallen in the winter.................."
Grandma Irwin's Story of Courage and Swit Tater Biskits Recipe.
Homemade Remedies Recipes - Recipes our grandparents used from a poultice, mustard plasters, gargles and paste.
Thanksgiving Day recipes and story from the past.
College Foods and Other Mistakes I have Eaten.
The following is my mother's recipe for baloney spread.
She made this spread with an old meat grinder, pictured above. I remember standing there watching her every move, fascinated by the grinding process.
It was like magic, all the pickles, pimento's and baloney grinding down with the swirl of a twisting handle. Not to mention that I loved, LOVED this spread. So I watched every move she made and remember these days fondly.
First she would grind bread through the grinder, this was to clean any rust or residue from the parts.
Now, about 1 pound of baloney - She used the long rolled kind. Baloney hunks disappear into the grinder, only to reappear at the other end falling to the big bowl beneath, next came pickles, whole sweet pickles straight from a jar. Into the grinder they went. Now, a little can of whole pimentos. These were squishy, juicy and mom's hand would be covered with red juice running everywhere. I remember this so vividly...lol...such a mess.
Setting the above mixture aside, in a little sauce pan she would mix:
1 beaten egg, about 1 or 1 1/2 tablespoon's vinegar, about 1 or 1 1/2 tablespoon's water and a teaspoon or so of butter. Cooked till thick on low heat, stirring all the time. As soon as it would thicken up she would pour this mixture over the baloney-pickle-pimento combo, add a couple spoonfuls of Miracle Whip and stir it all together.
Sometimes I couldn't wait for the spread to cool and I wanted a sandwich right then, but she shooed me outside till the baloney spread chilled overnight.
We would eat sandwiches for a week. I loved this stuff and make it yet today.
Try this recipe at least once, you are going to love it!
Found in my grandmother's recipe box. She dated this recipe, December 1965
2 packages old English cheese
2 eggs
2 cans Pimentos (ground)
2/3 cups ground sweet pickles
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 Tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon mustard
Mayonnaise to suit (about 1.2 cup)
Melt cheese in double boiler, beat eggs, grind Pimentos and pickles, mix eggs, pimentos, sugar and salt to cheese. Cook in double boiler stirring constantly for about 20 minutes (or until thickens)
Let cool and add mayonnaise and mustard after cooled. The mayonnaise depends upon thickness desired. Keeps in refrigerator for weeks. Clarissa's
She did not say when to add the pickles, but I am assuming it would be at the same time as the pimentos.
Pimento cheese Spread
1 Wedge of long horn cheese
1 Small can pimento
1 Small jar sweet pickles
Put this thru food grinder, add mayonnaise
2 T. Sugar
1 T. Flour
1 T. Butter
1 Egg
1/2 tsp. Salt
1/4 Cup Vinegar
1/4 Cup Water
Go - Smith Junior High School, located in Chillicothe, Ohio circa 1968 or 69..
Who was your favorite?
1 cup ground cooked ham
2 teaspoons horseradish
1 teaspoon instant minced onion
1 Tablespoon finely chopped parsley.
1/4 teaspoon salt
Dash cayenne pepper
Dash pepper
1/4 cup mayonnaise
Mix until combined. Refrigerate several hours before serving so everything can mix.
Delicious with corn chips. Makes 1 1/4 cups.
"Hi,
I was looking at your site because of the old bullwinkle lunchbox you had on there, and I inadvertently saw the picture that was taken in the early 60 of the McDonalds that was built over the highway. I saw where you said you didn't remember where it was.
I think I know where this particular McDonalds is. If I am correct it is right outside of Vinita, Oklahoma about 1/4 way between Joplin, Mo. and Tulsa, Oklahoma on Interstate 44 (Will Rogers Turnpike between Joplin & Tulsa). Its the only McDonalds that I'm aware of that was built over a highway.
Just thought if you hadn't figured out where this McDonalds was, it might be something neat to pass on to you where it was located at.
Hope this helped you,
Thanks,
Dave Schlesing
Joplin, Mo."
I just got to thinkin, when they destroy a place that holds your memories, they destroy a little piece of you. My dad is 92 and when we go somewhere, he will say - that's where me and your mom did this or I use to work there when it was a kid. Now all those places are gone.
My dad was born in 1915 and when the great depression began in 1930, he was only 15. He's told me endless stories of crossing the whole country traveling by railcar, bumming rides, panhandling in Chicago, working the riverboats in New Orleans. Traveling through the dust bowl states, marveling at Yellowstone National Park, sleeping in the deserts and visiting other fantastic place.
He lived through WW2 during the 40's, had the suburban life of the 50's, witnessed the frantic 60's and 70's while operating his truck stops. Enjoyed the 80's. Lost his wife in the 90's and now is tiptoeing through beginnings of this century. I guess I am just beginning to understand what life really means. Just that....life and when they destroy a place that holds your memories, part of you is gone too.
Take lots of photos is all I can say. Below is a photo of my dad taken during the 70's.
Do you know he watched as street after street, in Washington DC was changed from gas street lights to electric ones! He said night after night you could witness the progress coming right up the streets towards you, till it swept overhead and passed by.
1 large can of a good brand name tuna
1 medium onion - chopped
A rather large spoonful of Miracle Whip Salad Dressing
Several boiled eggs - chopped (I use only eggs from my sister's chickens - feed organic feed and they are free range.)
Another rather large spoonful of Sechler's Diced Sweet Salad Pickles (I like these pickles because they are not made with corn syrup. I don't care what they say, you can tell the difference)
After adding a little celery salt and paprika, we are good to go here.
Just remember when preparing foods, the ingredients you use will change the taste. Never, ever go cheap on ingredients for recipes.
By the way, my grandmother didn't have indoor plumbing, she had an outhouse down the tow path. And I think we have it rough!
This is her recipe for Bologna Salad, sometimes my mom used ham instead of bologna. I love when my mom made this bologna salad. It was the best.
Use for Bologna and Ham Salad
Best for Bologna
Decade of the 1960's in Chillicothe, Ohio, but then I can't say how old the recipe was when my mom taught it to me.
2 Whole Eggs
2 Egg Whites - Beat Well
1 Tablespoons Good White Sugar
1 Tablespoons Churned Butter
1 Tablespoons Good Apple Cider Vinegar - possibly 1/2 more
2 Tablespoons Water
Cook on stove at medium temperature until thick, Stir constantly until thick. Add 2 tablespoons or more Mayo, mix. Put in fridge.
Grind up a pound or more of bologna, a jar of primtoes, and as many sweet pickles as you like.. Mix this with the above salad dressing.
The lunch carried from home requires thought in planning so that it will be satisfying, nutritious and appetizing. The container used plays a large part in keeping the lunch in good condition. The lunch box should be dust-proof, well ventilated and easily washed. Metal boxes have these advantages, and when collapsible they are easy to carry home. Some are arranged in compartments and are equipped with thermos bottles. Baskets are not easily cleaned and unless the food is well wrapped, it dries out quickly. Fiber boxes are cheap, but they are absorbent and therefore hard to keep clean. Wax paper, paper napkins, paper plates and containers, paper or collapsible metal cups, thermos bottles and seal tight jars all aid in preparing lunches. The container should be lined with a paper napkin and each article wrapped separately in waxed paper, and placed in the order in which the food will be eaten. Articles should be packed compactly so that the food cannot be shaken about.
The lunch box menu should be planned to include a substantial food, a juicy fruit or vegetable, a simple dessert and a beverage.
Sandwiches, which are usually included, should be made from day-old bread, which may be graham, whole-wheat, rye, rolls, or white bread. In cutting the bread, arrange, the slices so that they will fit together. Cream the butter or butter substitute until soft enough to spread easily. The butter tends to prevent a soft filling from making the bread soggy.