A bowl full of beans is not a salad to me. I have seen many recipes for kidney bean salads and even green pea salads but never before have I seen canned pork and beans in a salad recipe. The cookbook I found it in is Pillsbury's Money Saving Meals. I know canned pork and beans are inexpensive but putting them in a bowl with a few other things and calling it a salad is too frugal for me.
Baked Bean Salad
2 cups (1-lb. can) pork and beans, chilled
1/4 cup chopped or sliced celery
1/4 cup chopped onion or sliced green onion or 1 tablespoon instant minced onion
1 teaspoon vinegar or lemon juice
1 to 2 teaspoons prepared mustard or 1/2 teaspoon dry mustard
1/2 cup cubed American or Cheddar cheese
In medium mixing bowl, combine all ingredients except cheese; blend just until well combined. Stir in cheese. Serve from bowl or on lettuce leaves, if desired.
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Odd and weird recipes from my large cookbook collection.
Weird Recipe Origins
While persuing my many cookbooks, adverstising booklets and cooking magazines I sometimes come across a recipe where I truely wonder what the originator was thinking. Sometimes they just sound like a terrible combination of ingredients. Other times it is what I call, the ingredient that doesn't belong. This is usually a food company trying to promote the use of their product in an inappropriate recipe. Recipes that might have found favor in past decades are sometimes so out of date they seem weird now.
About Me
- Rochelle R.
- Collecting cookbooks and recipes has been my hobby for over 35 years. I especially like vintage and advertising cookbooks and have over 1,000. I have a degree in Home Economics.
My collection
I have a large collection of several thousand cookbooks. I am most interested in vintage cookbooks and product adverstising books. A lot of these have recipes that we would now consider weird or odd.