Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Mon 06 Apr 2009 05:45:20p, Jean B. told us...
>
>> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>> On Mon 06 Apr 2009 05:09:44p, Jean B. told us...
>>>
>>>> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>>>> On Mon 06 Apr 2009 02:13:27p, Jean B. told us...
>>>>>
>>>>>> Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>>>> sf wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:37:53 -0500, Kathleen
>>>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> It also make my kids shudder and swallow hard when confronted with
>>>>>>>>> green bean casserole at extended family potlucks. I love that
>>>>>>>>> stuff. It's mandatory on Thanksgiving.
>>>>>>> My mother made a similar concoction when I was a kid but I could
>>>>>>> never eat it because I had an uncle who had pigs on his farm and it
>>>>>>> looked too
>>>>>>> much like pig slop. A few years ago my mother put me in charge of
>>>>>>> making it for Thanksgiving dinner, but this time with the can of
>>>>>>> fried onions. It was delicious.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I find the normal green bean casserole to be rather insipid.
>>>>>>
>>>>> I make it "semi" the traditional way, and only at Thanksgiving.. I
>>>>> will only use fresh green beans, cooked until just tender-crisp. The
>>>>> folks who make the canned fried onion rings now make a cheese-flavored
>>>>> version which I like better. I also reduce the amount of "sauce" (of
>>>>> soup and milk or whatever). I mix a fair amount of the onion rings in
>>>>> with the beans, and a very generous amount on top. I also add a can
> of
>>>>> B&B mushrooms to the mix.
>>>>>
>>>> Our green bean casserole was basically French-cut green beans, bacon,
>>>> sour cream, the onion rings.... Sour cream is much more to my liking
>>>> than CCMS.
>>>>
>>> LIke it or not, CCMS is really inegral to the dish. I could see a
>>> combination of both the CCMS and sour cream.
>>>
>> Well, it is to the classic recipe--since the recipe emanated from
>> Campbell's. that was in 1955, by the way.
>>
>
> Yes, I remember that. In fact, my mother clipped the recipe from a
> magazine and made it that year. I was 10 years old. At that time I didn't
> much care for green beans, so that recipe got me to eat them because of the
> onion rings. :-)
>
Well, there IS that benefit. I suspect my mom cooked started
cooking the other some time after the classic recipe made its
debut. Unfortunately, I can't recall when that was though. I may
have THAT ad somewhere, but I doubt it is dated.

--
Jean B.