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Re:Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes by perihelions on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @02:03PM (#45265634)
By chance, someone posted the text on Reddit two years ago,

https://old.reddit.com/r/Old_Recipes/comments/ydmncf/searchi... ("From Better homes and gardens cookbook 1953")

The one in this very specific 1953 cookbook is not an egg-based custard, but uses as a thickening agent condensed mushroom soup, from a can.

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Re:Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes by Stratoscope on Thursday September 18, 2025 @11:34PM (#45297693)
Very interesting, thanks! That one is very different from what my little sister and I made as kids. Ours was more like the one from ChatGPT that I posted above.

We were big fans of cream of mushroom soup, though. Our favorite was to mix a can of that and a can of tomato soup (with the usual 50/50 dilution with water). We called it "cream of tomato".

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