Sqwertz wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:41:38 -0400, Jim Elbrecht wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 11:13:36 -0500, Sqwertz >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes folks, now you can have those same delicious school lunches from
>>> your repressed childhood right in the secrecy of your own home!
>>>
>>> USDA Recipes for Schools - Alphabetical by Recipe Name
>>>
>>> http://www.nfsmi.org/Templates/Templ...Zpc01ncj10cnVl
>> Way too recent- "updated recipes from the 1988 Quantity Recipes for
>> School Food Service and the 1995 Tool Kit for Healthy School Meals "
>
> Ah, yes - but that is a recent edition of "Program Aid #631 - Quantity
> Recipes for Type A School Lunches, 1971", which is revised from 1953.
>
>> Got one from the 50-60's?
>
> <clickety click> Here you go. From February 1953. You can download
> it as a PDF under the gear icon top right. The 1971 version is
> unavailable digitally (that would have been more my era)
>
> <http://books.google.com/books?id=eWcvAAAAYAAJ&ots=f6ZcWdt40q&dq=subject%3A %22National%20school%20lunch%20program%22&pg=PP1#v =onepage&q&f=false>
>
> Contains great hits such as:
>
> Cheese Meatloaf
> Ham and Bean Scallop
> Liver Sausage Loaf (3/5ths beef liver, 2/5ths sausage)
> Sausage Shortcake (calls for 1.5lbs of "Fat")
> Scrambled eggs and cheese (that needs a recipe?)
> Pork Apple Salad (a molded Jello salad without the Jello)
> Date and Peanut Butter Pudding
> Honey Date Cookies
> Orange Coconut Custard w/Cottage Cheese
>
> That is the complete list of recipes. Three were discarded from the
> publication because they didn't pass "field tests" (that was 1/4th of
> the recipes!).
>
> (crossposting to rec.food.historic)
>
> -sw

I don't remember any of that sh-t, er, food. But then I wasn't in
the hot lunch room very much.
--
Jean B.