Rocket Salad (Betty Crocker Cookbook for Boys and Girls 1970s)

Rocket Salad

Source:  Betty Crocker's Cookbook for Boys and Girls

For each serving, place a crisp lettuce leaf on a salad plate.   

Launching Pad: 1 slick pineapple

Rocket: 1/2 peeled banana set upright in center of pineapple slice

Nose Cone: 1/2 maraschino cherry fastened to top of banana with a toothpick

Banana Orange Frosted and Grape Float (Betty Crocker Cookbook for Boys and Girls)

Banana-Orange Frosted
Source:  Betty Crocker Cookbook for Boys and Girls 



Peel and slice 1 ripe banana 

Place in bowl and mash with fork.
Add 1/ cup orange juice.

Beat with rotary egg beater until smooth.


Add 1/2 cup cold milk and 1/2 pint (1 cup) orange sherbet


Beat again until smooth.
Pour into two tall glasses. 

Top drinks with scoops of orange sherbet ( 1/2  pint)
Decorate each glass with an orange slice and a banana slice, if you like.



2 servings

Grape Float 
Source:  Betty Crocker Cookbook for Boys and Girls 

You can make a fancy float with any of your favorite bottled sodas. 

Place in tall glass: 1 scoop vanilla ice cream
Fill glass with chilled grape soda

1 serving.

Ham Banana Rolls (1947 Chiquita Banana Advertisement)

Ham Banana Rolls 
(1947 Chiquita Banana Advertisement)

6 thin slices boiled ham
Prepared mustard
6 firm bananas, peeled
Cheese sauce

Use all yellow or slightly green tipped bananas.

Spread each slice of ham lightly with mustard. Wrap a slice of the prepared ham around each banana.  Place in shallow baking pan and pour cheese sauce over bananas.  Bake in moderate (350 degree) oven for 30 minutes or until bananas are tender (easily pierced with fork).  Serve hot with cheese sauce from the pan poured over each roll.  Serves 6.

Cheese Sauce
1 1/2 tablespoons butter
1 1/2 tablespoons flour
3/4 cup milk
1 1/2 cups grated American cheese

Melt butter, add flour, and stir until smooth. Stir in milk slowly. Add cheese and cook, stirring constantly until sauce is smooth and thickened.  Makes about 1 cup sauce.

Chocolate Banana Smoothie (Waring Blendor Advertisement, circa 1970s)

Chocolate Banana Smoothie 
(Waring Blendor Advertisement, circa 1970s)

1 ripe banana
1/2 cup milk
1/2 pint vanilla ice cream
1/4 cup bittersweet chocolate syrup
1/2 cup crushed ice

Slice banana, blend all ingredients in Waring Blendor for about 30 seconds.  Serve in chilled glasses. Yield 2 1/4 cups.