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Vintage Recipe: Salmon-tuna Macaroni Salad

a recipe card of a salmon-tuna macaroni salad
For those times that you need to feed twenty-five women, here's a recipe you could turn to. The card is faded and stained, and I can imagine some harried woman trying to pull this dish together, while the kitchen wall phone rang and the pasta pot boiled over on the stove, putting the flame out. It looks like a little bit of water from the tuna splashed onto the recipe card. There are a few notes in pencil on the back for substitutions and serving suggestions. It's a time machine, back to another age, when salmon only came out of a can and pimentos seemed exotic.

Filed Under: Retro cookery, Garden Party, Ingredients
Tags: fish, garden party, luncheon recipe, molded salad, pasta salad, recipe card, retro food, vintage recipe, VintageRecipe

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wintem01

9-19-2007 @4:20PM wintem01 said... I thought it was a cassarole at first (apparently subconsciously omitting the "salad" part of the title) which sounded interesting. Then read "put into mold and refridgerate." Canned fish jello-mold salad. Umm, I'll pass. Interesting look into the past, however.
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Mordsith

9-20-2007 @12:18AM Mordsith said... Oh, thats just wrong :P I'm soooo glad that I never had to experience dishes like that. When I was growing up, my mom was a really picky eater and (unfortunately) passed that on to me, at 22 I am really starting to expand my culinary horizons, but recipes like this make me realize why my mom was so conservative when it came to food!!
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LinC

9-20-2007 @8:45AM LinC said... I love seeing these old recipe cards, even though I would seldom be tempted to make the food. But if the splotches are any indication, the originator obviously used this recipe a lot. Please keep posting.
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LM

9-20-2007 @7:35PM LM said... I'll bet that if this salad was stuffed into little endive leaves and sprinkled with toasted pine nuts, and set out at a smorgasbord today on a Dansk platter, people would rave about it. Just don't put the recipe card next to it.
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Anne Marie

10-14-2007 @7:22PM Anne Marie said... I think this recipe would be great.
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Anne Marie

10-14-2007 @7:24PM Anne Marie said... I think the recipe would be great. I'd add some minced onion.
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