Vintage Cookbook Centerfold of the Week

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This beautiful spread is from the 1952 “250 Ways to Prepare Poultry” cookbook.  At first I didn’t recognize the roasted bird as a chicken, because I guess this is what a chicken looks like when it’s not shot up with hormones and antibitotics, and not fed with  genetically altered super-corn.  Kinda scrawny!  But, it probably tastes a lot better because it’s the way nature intended — not scientists at ChickenCorp, Inc. 

Anyway, the other barf-inducing dish is Chicken Salad – which should make you wince if you’ve ever gotten food poisoning from any sort of mayonnaise-infused cuisine.  It’s looking a little gray to me, which is probably not a good sign for chicken salad. (Maybe it’s back to those chicken hormones.)

 And, of course, nothing goes better with chicken or chicken salad that peanut butter and jelly sandwiches — right?