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Post by notherdigger on Feb 24, 2011 18:45:14 GMT -6
I don't know if this is the place so act appropriately but I was just wondering how many know what cottolene is/was. I just looked at two cookbooks all about cottolene. One is @1899 and the other is 1910. My soon to be 98 year old friend showed them to me and they belonged to her grandmother. Here is an interesting and informative site about it. www.papillonsartpalace.com/cottolen.htm |
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Post by jack on Feb 25, 2011 2:48:07 GMT -6
Gidday
Iffin my reading and spelling aint too far out it is a food colouring. Red I believe.
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Post by mogarden on Feb 25, 2011 5:16:14 GMT -6
I never heard of it but then it was off the market before I was born in the forties. I know several people that cook with lard to this day, so it's not as gone as the writer would have you believe.
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Post by Pharmer Phil on Feb 25, 2011 6:24:25 GMT -6
lard is still in all the stores here, especially in the ethnic foods section. I never knew of cottolen, but I have seen the tins at the antique malls, we go to most everyone we see...the tins are spendy for no more than what they are, an old tin can  I can remember Spry tho....  My Dad used lard for all his frying...however, he did die of hardening of the arteries  I'd sure love to have them cookbooks ND, bet they were great fun to look through |
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Post by ChileFarmer on Feb 25, 2011 10:13:36 GMT -6
Phil, several cottolene cookbooks on ebay. I have never used or seen the product. But we still use lard and have all my life. CF
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Post by mogarden on Feb 25, 2011 10:37:22 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2011 13:32:26 GMT -6
This is a new one on me, but i'd like to try it. I still us lard.....good stuff.
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Post by notherdigger on Feb 25, 2011 17:19:36 GMT -6
This one is made from cotten oil and some kind of animal product. I'm just going by the site I posted but it was used to win some award in 1989 I believe it said. Another forgotten part of our history, just posted cause it was interesting to me.
Yea I would like to have em too, yes I collect cookbooks too lol but I don't know what will happen to them. I was surprised that the same book on Amazon is rather inexpensive for so old but the "good condition" gets rather pricey.
One other thing, I actually thot to myself, "bet cavey knows about this' cause seems to me you are in touch with alot of the old stuff and ways on here. Just saying lol.
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Post by ChileFarmer on Feb 25, 2011 17:24:39 GMT -6
cottolene, must of been pretty pricey for the time. We never used it, matter fact I had never heard about it until today. We rendered lard from our hogs. CF  |
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Post by colorado on Mar 14, 2011 6:24:56 GMT -6
I never heard of it.
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