In the middle: egg salad, sliced tomato, ham salad. “Frosted” with whipped cream cheese. From Better Homes and Gardens cook book ca. 1968.
Serving slice with time-appropriate drinks:
You thought this was a sandwich? TURNS OUT IT WAS CAKE. The waiter who brought it to you? ALSO CAKE. Your wife of fifteen years? Cake.
Yes, except it was really mostly just the 50s-60s with a bit into the 70s before sanity was regained. Source: aspic, motherfuckers!
Suprised there is no gelatin involved.
So basically you thoroughly considered that aspic of the situation? ;-)
At first I thought it might be some kind of mayo situation, but the cream cheese is somehow worse?
Honestly the cream cheese component is the only part that throws it off.
Agreed. (A slice of ham and tomato on an egg salad sandwich is where it’s at btw) I do like cream cheese, but it’s completely unnecessary here. At least it’s not whipped cream lol.
Of all the kitchy 60s cuisine, this might be the least offensive to me. If you’re gonna mke a “cake” out of a sandwich though, you need something on the outside. Which breaks the deal because you really can’t use anything. Honestly cream cheese is the only thing I can even imagine. Maybe butter, but how much butter can you have lol.
Maybe, possibly, if you can make an icing out of Swiss?
I’d still rather just make canapes or something.
I wonder if you could sufficiently whip a cheese bechamel
Do people actually eat this stuff?
It’s never a proper party without voileipäkakku. Might have to make one and celebrate something. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smörgåstårta?wprov=sfla1
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Oh, the 50’s…
Credit to you for being adventureous. I wouldn’t get near such a recipe.
When every kitchen concoction was quiet revenge for getting slapped around on a daily basis
Hahahaha
Is a sandwich, it feels adventurous because it’s different looking.
I totally thought this was a cake.
They are called cold-cake in Brazil!
5 yr old me was very disappointed, disgusted, and may have thrown up when I found out it wasn’t just some icy cake
The only thing bad about it is the presentation. Making it look like a cake and serving it in slices is playing games with people’s expectations of what sweet and savory are supposed to look like. We’d have no problem with these same ingredients served as finger sandwiches.
The cake is a lie
I respect you making a classic. I also hate it
The egg layer reminded me of this;
https://www.indianhealthyrecipes.com/rasmalai-recipe-easy-rasmalai-in-10-mins-diwali-recipes/
Mixed the yellow liquid with cream and put the pieces of the white ?cake? in it. Then used that mixture between a normal vanilla cake.
It was probably the best cake cream layer I’ve had.
Looks a lot like the Swedish dish Smörgåstårta (Sandwich Cake), which is not uncommon to be served at parties.
It’s really quite tasty! Also quite convenient for parties since you can buy a few in the deli section of well-stocked supermarkets.
I don’t want it.
And I don’t call that “cooking”.
Depends, if they boiled the eggs or baked the ham, cooking was involved.
Here we called that « pain sandwich », didn’t think it existed outside of Quebec
Wow you guys are really preserving everything old.
Haha ! Personally never saw it before ten years-ish ago when my grand-mother bring one at Christmas. « We always have that at Christmas » she said, my girlfriend and I saw some on instagram but it was about all.
So not really 😅
‘Pain’ in French or in English?
Depends on time within the context of the specific body metabolizing it.
Pain like bread. So Pain in French
It is a popular dish in Sweden as well. They call it smörgåstårta.
That word is similar to smorgasbord, which is a word I’ve heard occasionally, but probably never used, so I figured I’d look it up.
Its etymology from that Wikipedia link is very interesting. Apparently “smorgas” means sandwich, and it has a weird etymology for getting there (it apparently literally means “butter goose”), while “bord” means table. Which is all very strange, because smorgasbord now means something like “buffet”, and has little to do specifically with sandwiches (or butter geese).
So, I’m guessing smörgåstårta would mean something like “sandwich tart”?
Close. Tårta means cake. So it translates to sandwichcake
smorgastarta is an appertizer. It’s inthe name - smorga-starta, the best meal starta youse can gets!
;-)
Both a buffet and a sandwich have a little bit of everything. That’s how I made sense of it originally.
Swedish dish is always something smorgwhatever.
« pain sandwich »
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QuebecIsn’t that… redundant?
Yes. I think it come from the form of the thing
Cause it uses four slices?
It looks like a bread you buy at the store
Do people buy that kind of bread in Quebec? I thought they’d all eat good bread. You know, speaking French and all…
There’s full of sugar bread that are sell at grocery stores.
But like everywhere there’s bakeries
I see. Most people I’ve met outside the US call that type of sliced bread “toast” because that’s the only thing it’s good for.
In america they call it “bread” because it’s all they know. Other types of bread exist here, but they’re seen as “fancy,” are marketed as “artisan,” often have subpar recipes compared to elsewhere in the world, and a lot of people here will view you as a snob for preferring it. It’s really annoying, as someone who prefers good bread.
I would have eaten this faster than a plate full of rolled sandwiches at Christmas as a kid.
(Still missing the pickles and olives at the center to win first place. Maybe add those as toppings on the icing?)
Pickes! I’m with you. But imho you always want olives as an opt-in, not an opt-out.
Pain to eat?
Depend who you ask
1960s American food was the pinacle of pretending that the nutrition facts label is the only thing one needs to have nutrition.
Drink like MadMen.
Be responsible for recipies.
Needs some bourbon and cigarettes.
