[Potironette]

Oh gosh, spaghetti-o's? The lime jello's description of onion, jello, and cheese was enough to put me off x'D.

What makes me a little sad is the fact that I'm pretty sure these Jell-O dishes were supposed to be beautiful and dainty (in the 1910s..) why else use a mold? These don't look particularly beautiful nor dainty xD.



(..Why am I even up at this time?
I have a research update due tomorrow, and I've just been writing things down -dies-.)

[NCS3RR4N]

How late is it there? It's currently afternoon where I'm from.

I guess the Jell-O dishes in the 1910s were pretty and dainty because it's a dish for those who can afford a fridge (which was expensive during those times). So I guess the more pretty and exaggerated it looks, the more wealthy your host probably was.

[Poggio]

@Potironette: XD Jell-o beans are just various flavored jell-o in the shape of a bean. It used to be the desert of choice at family gatherings along with Super Dirt cake. <3 My taste for jello has changed over the years. There are certain sweets that I have stopped eating and they are one of them.

[littl3chocobo]

it is def different now. before it was very unusual for people to try cooking for the very first time as an adult with no prior education on the matter while now it is not only expected that many persons of any age will be coming in with little or no abilities but it is also expected that regardless of how much you know about cooking that you will not keep an encyclopedic knowledge of all the dishes you already have made(that and for the sake of personal taste any meal that the cook goes back to from time to time will be modified some to suit their taste anyway)

when i say as a plate i mean like the picture in your first post. where the food is served outside of the aspic instead of in it(and yes i do see there there are bts of things inside but the bulk of the meal is served on top of it)

kinda. when i say cold set i mean something thoroughly chilled up until the time it is set out on the table to be eaten/looked at. some aspics (mostly inedible ones) were used as a preservation measure much like salting or smoking was

i cannot say how ubiquitous it was but from 1900-1970 or so there were soooo many cookbooks that relied on tinned and boxed foods to make fancy dinners/desserts and i totally get why. it was quite easy for many foods to spoil in shipping and this was a viable way to have foods that came from all over the world so one was not stuck with whatever was being grown/hunted/harvested within the 50-100 mile scope of local agriculture. places like greenland could have pineapple and places like alaska could have milk


this is fair too XD the texture /is/ pretty weird hahahaha


from what i know on the matter NCS3RR4N is correct, it is less that it is dainty and more that it shows that you have the time and resources to make something extravagant. it is less work to make a sandwich with a few slices of aubergine and a smear of garlic-mayo on some regular bread than it is to make an aubergine caviar and serve it on toasted slices of diagonal-sliced baguette topped with chilled mayonnaise rosettes but the latter looks much more impressive at a party even if they are made close to the same ingredients

[Potironette]

It was 1:20 AM when I wrote that, though I stayed up until 3:00 AM to finish the rest of my homework x'D

Ohh I see, that makes sense!

Wow, bean-shaped jello, that sounds really cute :o. Super dirt cake..sounds like chocolate!

Ohh, that does look a Jello plate. I guess this famous thing isn't though:

I wonder if dinner parties were a big thing then (..although, I wonder too if dinner parties are a big thing now too, I don't really know :x).

Oh wow, aspic was used for preservation!
I'd forgotten about food spoiling :o

[Poggio]

O_O what is that? I don't think I would eat that if I saw that in front of my face. Why would you do that to a salad?!

And Yes. Super Dirt Cakes are delicious. It is crushed Oreos to make the dirt, whipped cream cheese icing and gummy worms.

[Fulkth]

I hate lime jello. It's my least favorite flavor. I had too much of it as a kid.

[Potironette]

Because it looks perfect xD?
Ohh crushed Oreos sounds tasty! This reminds me--once in kindergarten there was a play where two kids onstage ate "dirt" out of a bucket. I'd guessed they were eating mashed up brownies then, but maybe it could have been super dirt cake :o.

I dislike red jell-O for that reason too xD. Never had lime jello though.

[Fulkth]

I like red jello. Especially on strawberry pretzel salad! Although the last time that I made it, it didn't set right and stayed runny. I dunno if the fruit messed it up or what happened....

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/20338/s...pretzel-salad/

[Potironette]

Ohh that looks tasty! I'd always eaten Jell-O by itself set in bowls--so it gets tiring fast :c

[Poggio]

XD this may be me posting my age but I swear this is all I can think of

[Potironette]

Ohh it's Jell-O! In fact it looks like there's more jelly in the fridge :o.

*searches show*

..It's all Jello :o

[Poggio]

lol I knew it.
Its called Rugrats. The episode is Meet the Carmichaels.

[Miss Sandman]

i think this really seems disgusting!!! 0o or i just cant imagine how it should taste

[mdom]

Aspic is ok with meat BUT LIME JELLO WHAT IN THE ACTUAL F I'd rather starve than mix it with meat and mayo.

[Miss Sandman]

mdom
i so understand your point xDDD