#Grape-Nuts

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General Foods Corp, 1955

[therecipelibrary]

War time recipe booklet from General Foods 1943

It begins with an illustration of Victorianna and a letter to Uncle Sam from his 'Niece' pledging to do her best to get dinner on the table despite food shortages.

This was a fun read and included many war time tips to make meat, eggs and sugar stretch further.

It suggests adding cereals like grapenuts or bran flakes to tamales, hamburgers, meatloaf, casseroles, breads and pancakes. And, actually the pancakes would be very good with fruity or chocolate cereal.

It also features cake recipes with low or no sugar, subbing all the sugar for honey and or half for log cabin syrup.

The cakes and cookies feature one egg only and have a section on rendering your own chicken fat to sub for shortening.

The lunches and dinners encourage using less meat to really stretch those war time rations.

Another tip is mixing butter for sandwiches with gelatine to make it last longer, but concedes it is not meant to be cooked with.

Here are two featured recipes, one stretching a small amount of sausage with Grape-Nuts and the other a Jell-O dessert featuring postum.

I had not yet heard of postum and was grateful for the following passage explaining its usage. You can apparently still purchase this.

All in all a great little booklet and a fascinating glimpse into recipes and rationing during WW2.

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[aworldofpattern]

Zendaya at the Met Gala 2024, wearing custom Maison Margiela Artisanal by John Galliano, and hat by Stephen Jones.

The fruit, flowers, insects and birds on the gown fit the dress code of the night, 'The Garden of Time', inspired by J.G. Ballard's 1962 short story (explained here by the BBC).

The gown also references John Galliano’s Spring 1999 couture collection for Dior, in particular the gown below, decorated with grapes.

Maison Margiela said:

'A sage lamé bias-cut ‘siren dress’ overlaid with iridescent electric blue organza with ‘retrograding’ in undulating bands of hand-painted metallic crin, swathed in an aluminium material and iridescent organza drape and bow, with a corsage hand-embroidered in a bacchanal of hand-painted impasto in the grammar of the electric blues and emerald greens of scarab amulets, with formations of birds, flowers, vines, grapes and nuts, worn over a boudoir-coloured duchess satin corset. A silver metal-wire ‘reverse swatching’ hat and a black hand-painted voile crafted in the memory of plume and enveloped in matching coloured stockings by Stephen Jones for Maison Margiela, and Eau de Nil velour and faux lizard Tabi interlaced ankle-strap pumps by Christian Louboutin for Maison Margiela.

Created for Zendaya by John Galliano for Maison Margiela, the haute couture silhouette was inspired by the 1930s mythological works of the photographer Madame Yevonde and imbued with the memory of the orgiastic sceneries of the bacchanals of Ancient Greece. In a dance between painterly cutting and draping techniques – unique to each layer of the construction – and the superposition of fabric textures such as tin foil with transparent iridescent organza overlay, the composition conjures the staccato brushstrokes of Giovanni Boldini. The bias-cut ‘siren dress’ is a key expression in the creative practice of John Galliano, which first appeared at Maison Margiela in the Spring-Summer 2020 Artisanal Collection. Infused with a certain ‘snobisme’, the look is given the epithet of ‘86 and Lexington’, a nod to the subway station near The Met.

The dress was crafted with ‘retrograding’, a technique through which variations of thread-work, appliqué or encrustation degrade from the bottom to the top of a garment like the linear base drawing of a painting that hasn’t yet been finished. The ‘reverse swatching’ technique employed in the hat exchanges the fabrics traditionally used for certain parts of dressmaking with materials of a contrasting value.' X

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[helyannis]

Vintage

I've been thinking about Elven agriculture and food production (as one does) and I think grape vines would work very well! Growing vines on trees may be the oldest form of viticulture

[dandyads]

Grape Nuts, 1917

Theme Week: Mothers 🌹

[frogshunnedshadows]

Circa 1972 American breakfast cereals in a supermarket, from an educational short film.

[dress-this-way]

~ Healthy Snacking ~

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General Foods Corp, 1950

[andisupreme]

man was meant.. to sit down with a few kinds of crackers... a few differed aged sausages... at least four different cheeses... and a bit of fruit... and he was meant to mix and match little towers of flavor... as enrichment......

[wordfromoursponsor]

“General Foods Products: Friends of the Family” (1951)

[dreadfutures]

you know what I'm so glad fucking disappeared from the lexicon of everyone around me

rizz

[fullcravings]

GF Peanut Butter & Jelly Cobbler

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[theresamouseinmyhouse]

Everytime i read tim being a crazy coffee lover i substitute coffee with "frozen grapes". His giant killer cup of coffee with monster in it has become a bag of frozen grapes hes going nuts over. Instead of guzzling a giant thermos of black coffee with 19 shots, its a baggie of frozen grapes he's been keeping in his hoodie pocket and is ready to snarf down at a moments notice. He's always got frozen grapes on him that have him acting unwise and uncivilized.