Pot Roast with Tomato Gravy

I am having fun scanning antique and vintage recipe books and scraps. Here's one I recently scanned and altered a bit to to decrease fat and calories

POT ROAST WITH TOMATO GRAVY

3 pounds beef pot roast
1 cup fat-free beef broth
¼ cup Flour
½ tsp garlic salt
2 tsp salt
1 Tbs Worcestershire sauce
1/8 tsp pepper1 can tomato paste (6 ounces)
3 Tbs Butter or Margarine
1 large onion, sliced
½ cup sliced ripe olives
½ cup fat free sour cream

1. Combine flour, salt, pepper, and garlic salt
2. Dredge pot-roast in seasoned flour and brown butter or margarine. Pour off drippings.
3. Place roast in slow cooker or roasting pan. Add onion, broth, water and Worcestershire sauce, Cover tightly and cook slowly 3 hours.
4. Add tomato paste and olives and cook 1/2 hour or until meat is tender.
5. Remove meat to warm platter
6. Thicken cooking liquid for gravy, if necessary. Stir a small amount of gravy into sour cream and add mixture to remaining Gravy. Cook just until heated through.

Servings: 8 Preparation time: 30 minutes Cooking time: 3-1/2 Hours

Nutrition Facts:

Serving size: 1 serving

Percent daily values based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Nutrition information calculated from recipe ingredients.

Calories 293.77 Calories From Fat (31%) 91.71% Daily Value

Total Fat 9.88g 15% Saturated Fat 3.50g 18% Cholesterol 92.03mg 31%

Sodium 1226.39mg 51% Potassium 850.14mg 24%

Carbohydrates 10.38g 3% Dietary Fiber 1.66g 7% Sugar 3.55g Sugar Alcohols 0.00g Net Carbohydrates 8.72g Protein 39.39g 79%

Recipe Source: Invitation to Good Eating
1961-62 National Live Stock and Meat Board

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Corn Omelet

Updated from a 1951 cookbook, The Settlement Cookbook to make it a bit more healthy.

CORN OMELET

1/2 cup canned corn, or corn from cob

2 tablespoons cream, skim milk, or water
1 egg or equivalent egg sub.

1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons fat (butter, olive oil, cooking spray)


Chop corn very fine, add egg, well beaten, the salt and a little pepper,
and the cream (or other liquid) and mix well. Heat skillet,
add butter or any other fat, pour in the mixture, and cook until set
and well browned underneath. Fold and serve.

Vintage Recipe - Parsnip Fritters

One for me to try next week. I've never made parsnips, so we'll see if they are edible by my husband's standards. This recipe was in my antique A&P cookbook and I did not convert it to modern format. There are some recipes in this book that I just don't even know about. What is a salsify, oyster plant, or a vegetable marrow?

Parsnip Fritters

Boil 4 or 5 parsnips; when tender, take off skin and mash them fine, add to them a teaspoonful of wheat flour and one egg; put a tablespoon of lard or beef dripping in a frying pan over the fire, add to it a saltspoonful of salt; when boiling hot, put in parsnips, make it in small cakes with a spoon; when one side is a delicate brown, turn the other; when both are done, take them on a dish, put a very little bit of the fat which they were fried over, and serve hot. These resemble very nearly the taste of the salsify or oyster plant, and will generally be preferred.

Vintage Appetizer Recipes

Skimming through a 1938 Better Homes & Gardens Magazine, I found some fun recipes for parties and snacks. These might be a bit late for the holidays, but there is always the Superbowl!

Cheese Puffs

Blend one 8-ounce package pimento cheese with 1 well beaten egg; Season to taste. Toast fancy shaped pieces of bread on one side. Spread other side with bread and cheese mix. Broil until brown and puffed. Makes 35.

Pastry Snails

sift 3/4 cup flower with 1/8 teaspoon salt; Cut in 1/4 shortening; add 2 tablespoons cold water to make stiff dough. Roll very thin in oblong shape. Spread with 3-1/4 oz can deviled ham and roll like jelly roll. Chill thoroughly. Slice thin; bake in hot oven (400 degrees) 15 minutes. Serve hot or cold. Makes 36.

Vintage Recipes: Lyd's Bread Pudding and Sauce

Back to the estate shoebox for this vintage recipe for one of my favorite comfort foods. Bread pudding! I'm not certain who Lyd was, but this version of the pudding is good, but I did add a bit of cinnamon to mine. For those of you watching your wasteline, 1/12 of the yield of pudding and sauce is about 220 calories.

Lyd's Bread Pudding


12 slices Hard Bread
½ cup hot water
2 eggs
3 tbs sugar
1 cup warm milk
1 cup raisins
1 tsp vanilla

1. Break up bread and pour hot water over it
2. Mix together remaining ingreadients and then add wet bread
3. you may wish to use cooking spray on dish, then add mixture to dish and bake at 350° for about 1 hour or until brown.

Servings: 12

Lyd's Bread Pudding Sauce

2 cups boiling water
1 cup sugar
1 tablespoon corn starch
1 tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon vanilla

1. Mix together sugar and corn starch then gradually add mixture to boiling water while stirring constantly
2. Remove from heat right away as it will thicken quickly.
3. Add butter and vanilla and mix thoroughly
4. Pour sauce over individual servings of bread pudding

Servings: 12

Peppermint Candy Freezer Dessert

Here's a vintage recipe that you can use your left-over Christmas candy in. Not as old as most of the recipes I post here, this one comes from a 1980 church cookbook.

Peppermint Candy Freezer Dessert


18 graham crackers (1-1/2 C crumbs)
1/3 cup sugar
½ cup melted butter
½ cup crushed peppermint candy
1 pint whipping cream
1 package miniature marshmallows

1. Crush crackers and mix well with sugar and melted butter
2. Press mixture into 9"x13" pan
3. Whip cream and add marshmallows and candy. Mix well and put over cracker crust
4. Freeze. Remove from freezer ½ hour before serving.

Yield: 9"x13" Pan

German Potato Salad

Yet another vintage recipe from the shoe box to try, although I must confess I made only half of this recipe, as Leo just is not fond of it. I had to by guesstimate as there were no amounts on this card with the exception of 2 level tablespoons of flour and a handful of sugar.

German Potato Salad


8-10 Potatoes
8 slices bacon
2 tbs flour
½ cup Cold Water
½ cup White Vinegar
½ cup Sugar
1 onion - Chopped fine
salt - To taste
pepper - To taste


1. "Boil & Slice potatoes with jackets on"
2. Cut bacon in pieces and fry
3. Add bacon pieces to potatoes, but reserve bacon grease
4. To bacon grease add flour, water, & vinegar and cook over medium heat until sauce thickens
5. Add onion, sugar, potatoes and bacon to skillet and stir until everything is covered in sauce.
6. Salt & pepper to taste and serve warm.

Servings: 8