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

Kookie Kat Sundaes - Betty Crocker Boys and Girls Cookbook, circa 1970

Kookie Kat Sundaes
Betty Crocker Boys and Girls Cookbook, circa 1970

You will need:

your favorite ice cream
small paper or plastic dishes
colored candy-coated milk chocolate candies
small round cookies (vanilla or chocolate)
toasted coconut (optional)

Place a big scoop of ice cream in each dish.  This is the head for your Kookie Kat.

Use candies for eyes and mouth. For ears, push cookies into ice cream.  If you like, sprinkle a little toasted coconut for hair.

Serve immediately.

Silhouette Sandwiches (Betty Crocker Boys and Girls Cookbook)

Silhouette Sandwiches
(Betty Crocker Boys and Girls Cookbook)

Butter 8 slices of bread on one side.

Top buttered bread with 8 slices of cold luncheon meat.

Top meat with cut-outs from 4 slices process American cheese.

To make cut-outs: With a cooky cutter, cut out shape of diamond, heart, dog or any other design from center of the slice of cheese.

Place cut-out pieces of cheese on one sandwich. Put the rest of the slices of cheese on the other sandwich. The meat will show through the space in the cheese, making a silhouette of the cut-out.

Makes 8 open face sandwiches.