#retro

5 viral recipes tagged #retro.

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  American · Main course · 50 min

  Chicken à la King

  Chicken à la King is a retro American comfort dish of tender diced chicken and browned mushrooms folded into a silky sherry-spiked cream sauce flecked with sweet pimientos and peas. An egg-yolk-and-cream liaison gives the sauce its glossy, spoon-coating richness without turning gluey, and finishing off the heat keeps it velvety. Ladled over crisp toast points, it tastes like an old-school diner special made properly at home.

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  American · Breakfast · 25 min

  Creamed Chipped Beef on Toast

  Creamed chipped beef on toast — the diner and mess-hall classic affectionately known as SOS — is salty ribbons of dried beef folded into a silky white gravy and ladled over crisp buttered toast. Frizzling the beef in butter before building the roux curls the edges and deepens its cured, almost bacon-like flavor, while a quick rinse first keeps the salt in check. The result is rich, peppery, and ready in about 25 minutes with pantry staples.

  americanbreakfastcomfort-food
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  American · Dessert · 75 min

  Watergate Salad

  Watergate salad is the pastel-green potluck classic: a fluffy, no-bake blend of pistachio pudding mix, crushed pineapple, mini marshmallows, pecans, and whipped topping. The trick is stirring the dry pudding mix straight into the undrained pineapple first, so the juice dissolves and thickens it before anything fluffy goes in — that keeps the salad billowy instead of weepy. An hour in the fridge lets the marshmallows soften and the pistachio flavor bloom.

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  American · Salad · 140 min

  Ambrosia Salad

  Ambrosia salad is the pastel-hued Southern potluck classic: juicy mandarin oranges, pineapple, and cherries folded with mini marshmallows and coconut in a lightly sweetened, tangy cream. Whipping real cream and folding it into sour cream gives you a dressing that is billowy but stable, while draining the canned fruit hard keeps the salad scoopable instead of soupy. A two-hour chill lets the marshmallows soften and the flavors mellow into that unmistakable creamy-fluffy texture.

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  American · Snack · 5 min

  Shirley Temple

  The Shirley Temple is the original mocktail: snappy ginger ale poured over a glass packed with ice, tinted rosy-pink with pomegranate grenadine and crowned with a stemmed maraschino cherry. Built straight in the glass rather than shaken, it stays icy and fizzy instead of syrupy — the keys are refrigerator-cold soda, grenadine that is measured rather than glugged, and a single gentle stir so the bubbles survive all the way to the last sip.

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