On Mar 15, 6:29*pm, jmcquown > wrote:
> On 3/15/2013 7:15 PM, sf wrote:> On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:50:15 -0400, jmcquown >
> > wrote:
>
> >> I do love flipping through these old cookbooks from the 'Recipes on
> >> Parade' series, circa the 1960's. *In the recent chili thread there was
> >> discussion of chili-mac and beefaroni-type dishes. *I chuckled when I
> >> read the ingredients in this. *(Recipe courtesy of Mrs. June Stoddard,
> >> Erie Army Depot, Port Clinton, Ohio. *Hoo-yeah, you just know this is a
> >> Midwest USA thing!)
>
> >> Beef and Noodle Casserole
>
> > That turned my stomach just to read the ingredients. *It wasn't a
> > midwest thing where I lived and I left Michigan in 1965.
>
> Of course I mentioned the midwest because it does seem to be casserole
> (hot dish) country. *I can't say I ever ate a lot of casseroles even
> though Mom was from Ohio.
>
> Jill

Hot dish is mostly a Minnesota term, as far as I can tell. Here in
Iowa, we have casseroles, but not real often any more. The 60s were
the peak for "one dish meals," or casseroles, because of the huge
influx of mothers joining the workforce and the need to fix something
reasonably quick, nutritious and filling for the family's dinner. At
least, that is what I recall. I was a newly-married working woman in
1962.

N.