Okay so the use of the lemon juice in the jello is what made it fail! Recipe was doomed from the start. Acid hydrolises gelatine, which severely weakens its ability to gel in water. It would almost need to have an extra three packets of gelatine for that to turn out remotely okay.
Depends on how much lemon juice is added. m Lemons have gotten bigger now than they were when this cookbook was written, and it called for the juice from half of a lemon of the smaller size available then.
@@PanicAtTheBleach3177that is pure 1950's cuisine, baby! I found a similar recipe in my husband's grandma's cookbook. It something I don't really want to try, but I'm glad to add it to my knowledge about life in past decades.
2 things 1. I was so horrified by the Vitamin A Salad that i screamed NOoOooO out loud like a distressed husky. 2. As fellow American Girl lover I really wanted to recommend Babbity Kate's mammoth Kirsten video that she recently did.
For Josefina’s cookbook you could try your local library. Even if it’s not necessarily in their collection they might be able to track down a copy through interlibrary loan. Great video!
I was thinking it sounds fine especially since there is a very similar Mexican dish. I don't know what it's called but it's very similar but with carrots
between this video, strangeaeons, kaz rowe and trixie mattel videos, i am closer to getting enough videos to make a specific playlist called "awful awful meals recreated by lgbt people" i just need a few more.
Josefina's book is more expensive because it was the last one made and wasn't on the market long before they discontinued it! Kit and Julie later got recipe books too in their cooking studios if you're interested in checking those out too. Julie's has some great recipes that have some really facinating history especially, such as Pistachio Cake (also known outside the book at the time as " Watergate Cake" for timely political reasons 😂) Terrific Video! ❤
Great video, you chose the recipes well and your narration was as usual full of wit and charm. Couple of things - lard is rendered animal fat while shortening is plant-based. Lard was obviously much more common back in the American Girls' day, and there are those who swear by it still for pastry crusts. The Sally Lunn actually looked pretty good, but I'm guessing you overheated the milk and killed off a lot of the yeast. On the off chance you want to try making it again, yeast thrives at around 100-105F.
not surprised bc the books were made for kids but i'm a little disappointed there isn't a recipe for petit fours in samatha's cookbook! her birthday party spread of petit fours and pink mint ice cream has stuck with me for years (to the point that i heavily associate petit fours with samantha). a fun sequel to this besides making more recipes from the books may be to try and recreate specific dishes from the books themselves? it's been years since i've read any of the books but i'm sure they have many iconic meal scenes
This was really fun! I'd love a part 2! The apple cabbage salad actually sounded good to me, maybe because I'm Nordic and used to weird salads lol. I'm kinda tempted to try combining carrot, apricot and cottage cheese now (but WITHOUT lemon Jell-O) Btw your fiance's eye look in the first one was really cool, and your dog is adorable!
@@savy7555 Oh, cool! It could be German. I think German food culture influenced the Nordic countries a lot way back when, since we're all pretty close and Denmark shares a border with Germany
German merchants brought the Maypole to Sweden, but it was so cold in Sweden on Mayday that they used the pole idea Midsommar instead. Random fact I learned at a festival this year haha
I have an even older (1990) version of this, from when I was a kid. It's the 3 original girls, Kirsten's Breakfast, Samantha's Dinner, and Molly's Lunch. Nothing outlandish in my edition, anyway. Molly's vegetable soup always looked delicious, though I don't think i ever tried the recipe personally. I loved the historical info in it as a kid, and I've made Kirsten's ginger cookies every year for Christmas since I was about 9 (I do usually double the spices though, but that's personal taste). Lard is also actually not that scary, as long as you can eat pork!I've used it in place of shortening multiple times, and it makes certain foods tastier. You can often find it right next to the Crisco, and it's usually cheaper.
A very cute video! The filming and narrating and cooking were well done and engaging. Vitamin A salad reminds me of the jello-mold, tuna salad I made for a vintage potluck - it won worst of show and I got a fleece blanket as a prize 🤣😆🤣
Memory Unlocked: I vaguely remember seeing these cookbooks at my school's book fair! What a creative and fun video idea. Would love to see a part 2, 3, and 4.
i’m pretty sure all the 90s cookbooks are available for free as pdfs on the internet archive, including josefina’s. only, of course, you wouldn’t get a physical copy unfortunately.
Ah Lard, B Dylan Hollis arch nemesis 😂 The sauce in the last recipe is a bechamel sauce! If you add cheese to bechamel you've made a cheese sauce and all you'd need to do is add macaroni and you have mac'n'cheese! Your partner was right the butter and flour mix is a roux, the base for many many sauces!
My god, Samantha’s cookbook has a “recipe” that’s just heating up a ham slice…. Couple notes! Molly was WWII. WWI was actually much closer to Samantha. Samantha’s stories were in 1904/1905m and WWI was in 1914-1918. WWII was in the 1940’s. I’ve never heard of MOlly being considered controversial or contentious. To my surprise, I actually found her story to be one of the more interesting ones. For the era of WWII, we usually get stories about kids in England or elsewhere in Europe, where the major action was happening. I remember reading about Molly playing bomb shelter, like it was a game. To American kids, it would very much be a game. But then the refugee girl her family had taken in got upset since it was NOT a game to her, when she’d experienced it and was so scared. That kind of perspective shift is missing from almost every story under the sun. I liked Samantha most for her dresses, but story-wise, it was Molly. Lard is animal fat, and you can actually find it in stores. It’s usually in the Mexican food section labeled as manteca. Shortening is vegetable fat. There is a slight flavor difference, but nothing major. Just don’t use lard in modern recipes calling for shortening. But you can use shortening in place of lard.
For a pioneer it'd make sense that she'd have raisins around as a dried food that's pretty shelf stable. Sugar was probably expensive for her too so they'd make a decent alternative sweetener.
God, this reminded me of the Barbie cookbook! The party themed one with a spiral and pink and white cover. If you track it down I'd love to see you make some recipes from that too. I always bugged mom to make recipes from that. They're pretty basic admittedly but as a Polish dude a lot of recipes in it were actually pretty exotic to me. Also, the Chicken Shortcake is 100% this thing where some books or other sources make up a ridiculous fact or something else to be able to prove if they've been copied. Forgot how it's called. PS: Lard is amazing. You haven't lived if you haven't had donuts fried in lard, Cammy! I'd def try this recipe though, looks delicious to me.
LOVE this video! Also highly recommend Babitty Kate’s deep dive on Kirsten if the algorithm hasn’t suggested it to you yet! She goes into recipes, lore, crafts, and more ❤
This is a video where I learn that you have a fiance and a dog, and honestly I'm so happy for you, y'all are such a cute little gay family (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*.✧ It was very fun watching y'all cook and rate dishes, I would watch a whole series of doll related cooking videos on your channel
I would love to see these make a comeback. It would be really cool to see what recipes AG would have for characters released after Josefina (or Kit? Did she have a cookbook?), especially the contemporary characters that take place after Molly, like Julie, Courtney, or the Hoffman twins. 😊
Also if the yeast dies at 130 degrees so if the milk was too hot when you added it in it could have killed the some of the yeast. Lol don’t be discouraged and try it again, also the yeast itself might be the culprit as I’ve found that some yeast brands just aren’t very good so I would just get one of the vaccum sealed bricks of yeast as it tends to work better.
So Molly actually is my favorite AG girl- Dad was in the Navy and on 6-month deployments frequently when I was a kid and Molly looks a *lot* like me so I really identified with her. But 100% agree that her cuisine is going to be... less than great at best. It looks like they were really leaning into the combination of 'wartime rationing limiting what ingredients you could get' and 'the rise of the Convenience Foods' that was going on in part due to a lot of women entering the workforce when previously many would have been at home. Which is period-accurate but not tasty. Also pretty familiar with Southern foods so a lot of Abby's recipes are VERY familiar to me
i had a strawberry shortcake cookbook that i adored growing up, would love to see you cover more fashion doll cookbooks!! you could throw a tea party or something
Im from the Midwest and so my family roots are Swedish/Norwegian and we've made swedish meatballs a lot! Slightly different recipe than here - we add tomatoes and rice in ours - not sure how authentic that is but it is good!
I was suprised by how much I really liked this video! It's kinda crazy the kinds of receipes these doll cook books gather, as I'd just think it would be a bunch of sweets or something. Would love to see more videos like this!
this was really fun, i've always been curious about these books! shame you couldn't find Josefina's but i found it over on Archive if youre fine with a digital copy!
this video was a treat, no pun intended :) sometimes a break from the usual type of video is nice, also the part about your dog eating the bread made me laugh out loud 😂
I think there was a reprint of some of these at some point because I remember making those jelly biscuits but the book I used WAS NOT FORMATTED THE SAME. It was American Girl, there was also a delightful blueberry muffin recipe, but the cover and pages were formatted differently, and now I have unlocked a childhood memory that I will go down a rabbit hole to find answers.
Part 2! Please! My husband and I love your videos (yours were the first doll videos I got him into), and I love cooking, and AG…So yeah, I’ll happily watch as many parts of this series as you’re willing to make lol. At this moment in time, I would most want to have dinner with Samantha. I just ordered my dream Samantha yesterday after hunting for her for over a year, so she’s on heavy rotation in my brain right now. Loved getting to see your fiancé’ and pup in the video!
This is such a good video... The spices lost when she burned the house down... Fiance grossed out face yet still being a trooper and trying that jello mess for our entertainment thank you so much... And the surprise bisquits and the bread theft and the matching sweaters... The absolutely lovely casserole dishes and plates and measuring cups... And ending on a pleasant comfort chicken dish... If you ever get a hold of Josefinas book you should do it... I've never seen a barbie cook book that could be cool too
I had one based off of Kristen and… I only learn how to make butter from it XD The home made butter is actually pretty fun. I’ve did that recipe with goats milk as well But pour heavy cream/ whipping cream in a jar add a Marble and shake until you don’t hear the marble against the container
I love it when content creators do themed cookbook experiments like this. Please revisit this idea after you're able to track down Josefina's book, and any others that might exist!! The dolls also had craft and party books, which I think included patterns for making your own AG doll dresses. If you feel up to sewing, that could be a fun project to try out. P.S. Your dog wolfing down the bread cake was HYSTERICAL!
I have mollys cookbook and have never been brave enough to actually try the vitamin a salad - glad to live vicariously through you 😂 mollys vitality meatloaf is really good though
If you're looking for the good Samantha recipes, they're hiding in the American Girls Party Book (along with the missing element of Josefina). As a Molly girly, I am deeply thankful my parents opted to pick up Addy's cookbook at the used book store instead. My poor little starlet did not deserve the gelatin monstrosity. Also you mentioned a Barbie cookbook, and I definitely recommend Barbie Awesome Parties from 1999. The recipes aren't quite so complex, but there's a good amount of content that actually feels reminiscent of the Great Girl Food cookbook released by the American Girl of Today contemporary book line earlier in the decade (Mattel had acquired American Girl the year prior to its publishing and immediately said "it's free real estate" when they saw the recipes).
AG cookbooks/craft books can also be rented from the library through interlibraryloan to cut down on costs/issues with rarity. There are also some nice ones from AG/Williams Sonoma too.
I remember not liking Molly as much as Samantha and Kirsten as a kid, but having autistic sensory issues myself, Molly’s Food Struggles were relatable enough to ingratiate her to me anyway
This video was so much fun! As a young girl in the late 90s-early 2000s I never got to have an American girl doll (I got to enjoy them vicariously through the American Girl magazine lol). I remember a while back that you would occasionally switch up the content to other things besides doll reviews and I really enjoyed this format!
I love food so I personally would love to see more stuff like this! I wish Samantha’s cookbook had some recipes from Nellie, I’m sure some Irish-American recipes from the period would really liven up her cookbook since they were friends 💖 Nellie was always my favorite as a kid, but she also was the only one I had, so. Biased.
omg i just moved my stuff out of my parent's house and found my own copy of the Samantha cookbook i had as a kid! obv i brought it to my new place especially because it was a fancier hard cover version, but i did leave behind a Kirsten cookbook because it was technically my sister's and i kinda regret it now
also re: molly's recipe being terrible - due to rationing and unavailability, a lot of food during wartime was kinda crap yeah! they had to work with what they had, and given that this meal seems to be centered around getting enough vitamins i'm not surprised it left good flavors behind for it. though i agree a different mold and better luck might have given a slightly better end result
More cookbooks would be fun i think! Honestly the chicken shortcake thing reminds me of a few different bread+gravy+a liiiiiittle meat dishes I've eaten, so it'd probably tie with the jelly biscuits for fave with me
So fun, would love to see further cookbooks in the series too. The cottage cheese had a rather bleugh texture but that was definitely a thing for the era. Barbie cooking time here we come!!!
I love this video thanks for showing the pages as well. I have Molly’s coming in the mail and I want the rest. I agree, Josefina’s was crazy expensive I was like, this is random 😂
this channel has singlehandedly wrecked my targeted ads ❤️ just got one for lol suprise. this is a good thing as i love throwing data collectors off track
As someone who loves geeky/specific cookbooks and just generally find your videos cozy and enjoyable, I would love to see more of this! Also according to my chef husband that wasn't gravy, it was a béchamel sauce.
I wish there were cookbooks for the more recent girls of the year in AG; the AG cookbooks now are usually your typical children's' cookbook you find at your local library
First of all, I LOVE this video! I remember checking out Josephina's cookbook from my local library as a kid!! She was my first American Girl Doll, and I saved up my Christmas and birthday money for her. Always thought she was the prettiest, lol. There was a local "American Girl Club" where I grew up and we'd meet once a month and each meeting was dedicated to a specific doll's character and learning about the time period and culture they belonged to. So it was an educational sort of thing, but with activities mixed in. Parents would volunteer and sign up to lead meetings for each character and her historical period. For Samantha, we'd often do a little tea party, and when I helped lead on Josephina day we made corn-husk dolls. The American Girl cookbooks always came in handy! Including Molly's Vitamin A Salad, which I politely declined. Covering Kirsten, we'd make the homemade butter! Thanks for bringing back a lot of fond memories
I’m overly jealous of what seems to be your entire family having matching sweaters
YES! 14:52
Same
looks like the Baribie tour truck hoodie from this year
Okay so the use of the lemon juice in the jello is what made it fail! Recipe was doomed from the start. Acid hydrolises gelatine, which severely weakens its ability to gel in water. It would almost need to have an extra three packets of gelatine for that to turn out remotely okay.
They expected no one to make this, confirmed 💀
i came down here to make sure someone told them this too!! there was nothing wrong with the execution of the recipe, the recipe was just dogshit lmao
Depends on how much lemon juice is added. m Lemons have gotten bigger now than they were when this cookbook was written, and it called for the juice from half of a lemon of the smaller size available then.
I don't believe that innocent little puppy ate the bread. Look at his gorgeous little face. 😆
That cottage cheese jello concoction is HAUNTING.
The one that I have seen most often in cookbooks is a canned tuna and lime Jello one it also has vegetables in it
Revolting! 🤢
This could have gone a lot worse
@@PanicAtTheBleach3177that is pure 1950's cuisine, baby! I found a similar recipe in my husband's grandma's cookbook. It something I don't really want to try, but I'm glad to add it to my knowledge about life in past decades.
GHASTLY
2 things 1. I was so horrified by the Vitamin A Salad that i screamed NOoOooO out loud like a distressed husky. 2. As fellow American Girl lover I really wanted to recommend Babbity Kate's mammoth Kirsten video that she recently did.
Yes! Babbity Kate did such a great job with that video. I loved it!
“She was fully asleep and cozy.” A mood, lol. The bread looked great!
Your dog eating the bread completely killed me 😂😂 I'm laughing so hard
For Josefina’s cookbook you could try your local library. Even if it’s not necessarily in their collection they might be able to track down a copy through interlibrary loan. Great video!
Imagine Molly coming to your house for Christmas with that sandra lee's looking aspic.
I would rather die of vitamin A deficiency, to be honest
When I was a kid, I made Molly's fruit cake thing (the one with the fruit and whipped cream that made the American Flag) for a 4th of July party.
The cabbage and apple salad sounds very Polish actually, lol. We eat salads like this all the time and they're better than they sound.
I was literally thinking that if you swapped the raisins for cranberries, the cabbage and apple salad would be so good.
I was thinking it sounds fine especially since there is a very similar Mexican dish. I don't know what it's called but it's very similar but with carrots
@@sadcena7204 Sweet carrot salads are amazing, honestly. You can make halva out of carrot.
between this video, strangeaeons, kaz rowe and trixie mattel videos, i am closer to getting enough videos to make a specific playlist called "awful awful meals recreated by lgbt people" i just need a few more.
The whole family has matching sweaters
Oh my gosh, your dog has a matching sweatshirt to you 🥺 that’s adorable
Josefina's book is more expensive because it was the last one made and wasn't on the market long before they discontinued it! Kit and Julie later got recipe books too in their cooking studios if you're interested in checking those out too. Julie's has some great recipes that have some really facinating history especially, such as Pistachio Cake (also known outside the book at the time as " Watergate Cake" for timely political reasons 😂) Terrific Video! ❤
Great video, you chose the recipes well and your narration was as usual full of wit and charm. Couple of things - lard is rendered animal fat while shortening is plant-based. Lard was obviously much more common back in the American Girls' day, and there are those who swear by it still for pastry crusts. The Sally Lunn actually looked pretty good, but I'm guessing you overheated the milk and killed off a lot of the yeast. On the off chance you want to try making it again, yeast thrives at around 100-105F.
Also how old was your yeast? Old yeast tends not to perform as well as new.
Lard is still available in grocery stores. Go to the Mexican food section and you’ll find it. It’s called manteca.
@@NoelleTakestheSky i was wondering what lard means and it turned out to be manteca lol
not surprised bc the books were made for kids but i'm a little disappointed there isn't a recipe for petit fours in samatha's cookbook! her birthday party spread of petit fours and pink mint ice cream has stuck with me for years (to the point that i heavily associate petit fours with samantha). a fun sequel to this besides making more recipes from the books may be to try and recreate specific dishes from the books themselves? it's been years since i've read any of the books but i'm sure they have many iconic meal scenes
I love this. There’s a lot of doll branded cookbooks out there so I would love to see more!
This was really fun! I'd love a part 2!
The apple cabbage salad actually sounded good to me, maybe because I'm Nordic and used to weird salads lol. I'm kinda tempted to try combining carrot, apricot and cottage cheese now (but WITHOUT lemon Jell-O)
Btw your fiance's eye look in the first one was really cool, and your dog is adorable!
My grandmother has a recipe for the apple cabbage salad, I thought it was a German thing.
@@savy7555 Oh, cool! It could be German. I think German food culture influenced the Nordic countries a lot way back when, since we're all pretty close and Denmark shares a border with Germany
German merchants brought the Maypole to Sweden, but it was so cold in Sweden on Mayday that they used the pole idea Midsommar instead. Random fact I learned at a festival this year haha
I have an even older (1990) version of this, from when I was a kid. It's the 3 original girls, Kirsten's Breakfast, Samantha's Dinner, and Molly's Lunch. Nothing outlandish in my edition, anyway. Molly's vegetable soup always looked delicious, though I don't think i ever tried the recipe personally. I loved the historical info in it as a kid, and I've made Kirsten's ginger cookies every year for Christmas since I was about 9 (I do usually double the spices though, but that's personal taste).
Lard is also actually not that scary, as long as you can eat pork!I've used it in place of shortening multiple times, and it makes certain foods tastier. You can often find it right next to the Crisco, and it's usually cheaper.
A very cute video! The filming and narrating and cooking were well done and engaging. Vitamin A salad reminds me of the jello-mold, tuna salad I made for a vintage potluck - it won worst of show and I got a fleece blanket as a prize 🤣😆🤣
Your fiance was eating literally and figuratively during the Swedish Meataball taste test
Memory Unlocked: I vaguely remember seeing these cookbooks at my school's book fair! What a creative and fun video idea. Would love to see a part 2, 3, and 4.
Fiance face reveal went hard they are very handsome u scored
I would love to see part 2!!! My family is Mexican (also from Texas) but I’m not familiar with the food from that time period
i’m pretty sure all the 90s cookbooks are available for free as pdfs on the internet archive, including josefina’s. only, of course, you wouldn’t get a physical copy unfortunately.
Ah Lard, B Dylan Hollis arch nemesis 😂 The sauce in the last recipe is a bechamel sauce! If you add cheese to bechamel you've made a cheese sauce and all you'd need to do is add macaroni and you have mac'n'cheese! Your partner was right the butter and flour mix is a roux, the base for many many sauces!
My god, Samantha’s cookbook has a “recipe” that’s just heating up a ham slice….
Couple notes!
Molly was WWII. WWI was actually much closer to Samantha. Samantha’s stories were in 1904/1905m and WWI was in 1914-1918. WWII was in the 1940’s. I’ve never heard of MOlly being considered controversial or contentious. To my surprise, I actually found her story to be one of the more interesting ones. For the era of WWII, we usually get stories about kids in England or elsewhere in Europe, where the major action was happening. I remember reading about Molly playing bomb shelter, like it was a game. To American kids, it would very much be a game. But then the refugee girl her family had taken in got upset since it was NOT a game to her, when she’d experienced it and was so scared. That kind of perspective shift is missing from almost every story under the sun. I liked Samantha most for her dresses, but story-wise, it was Molly.
Lard is animal fat, and you can actually find it in stores. It’s usually in the Mexican food section labeled as manteca. Shortening is vegetable fat. There is a slight flavor difference, but nothing major. Just don’t use lard in modern recipes calling for shortening. But you can use shortening in place of lard.
definitely NEED a part two!!
For a pioneer it'd make sense that she'd have raisins around as a dried food that's pretty shelf stable. Sugar was probably expensive for her too so they'd make a decent alternative sweetener.
God, this reminded me of the Barbie cookbook! The party themed one with a spiral and pink and white cover. If you track it down I'd love to see you make some recipes from that too. I always bugged mom to make recipes from that. They're pretty basic admittedly but as a Polish dude a lot of recipes in it were actually pretty exotic to me.
Also, the Chicken Shortcake is 100% this thing where some books or other sources make up a ridiculous fact or something else to be able to prove if they've been copied. Forgot how it's called. PS: Lard is amazing. You haven't lived if you haven't had donuts fried in lard, Cammy! I'd def try this recipe though, looks delicious to me.
I would love to see more like this. And y’all were brave AF for trying that revolting looking vitamin A salad!
true 🤣😂
LOVE this video! Also highly recommend Babitty Kate’s deep dive on Kirsten if the algorithm hasn’t suggested it to you yet! She goes into recipes, lore, crafts, and more ❤
OMG THATS WHAT YOUR DOG ATE??? omg I would be fighting
my bread...
This is a video where I learn that you have a fiance and a dog, and honestly I'm so happy for you, y'all are such a cute little gay family (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*.✧
It was very fun watching y'all cook and rate dishes, I would watch a whole series of doll related cooking videos on your channel
I would love to see these make a comeback. It would be really cool to see what recipes AG would have for characters released after Josefina (or Kit? Did she have a cookbook?), especially the contemporary characters that take place after Molly, like Julie, Courtney, or the Hoffman twins. 😊
I still have my Kirsten cookbook. Made Swedish meatballs from it just a few months ago. And as a kid I did have fun making the butter
Also if the yeast dies at 130 degrees so if the milk was too hot when you added it in it could have killed the some of the yeast. Lol don’t be discouraged and try it again, also the yeast itself might be the culprit as I’ve found that some yeast brands just aren’t very good so I would just get one of the vaccum sealed bricks of yeast as it tends to work better.
Addie tbh. I dont love cornbread or that type of gravy, but i too grew up in the south so a lot of that would be nostalgic for me
I'm very familiar with those mid-century jellos. I always knew worse versions existed than my mom's, but this was my first time seeing one in action
So Molly actually is my favorite AG girl- Dad was in the Navy and on 6-month deployments frequently when I was a kid and Molly looks a *lot* like me so I really identified with her. But 100% agree that her cuisine is going to be... less than great at best. It looks like they were really leaning into the combination of 'wartime rationing limiting what ingredients you could get' and 'the rise of the Convenience Foods' that was going on in part due to a lot of women entering the workforce when previously many would have been at home. Which is period-accurate but not tasty.
Also pretty familiar with Southern foods so a lot of Abby's recipes are VERY familiar to me
i had a strawberry shortcake cookbook that i adored growing up, would love to see you cover more fashion doll cookbooks!! you could throw a tea party or something
Im from the Midwest and so my family roots are Swedish/Norwegian and we've made swedish meatballs a lot! Slightly different recipe than here - we add tomatoes and rice in ours - not sure how authentic that is but it is good!
I was suprised by how much I really liked this video! It's kinda crazy the kinds of receipes these doll cook books gather, as I'd just think it would be a bunch of sweets or something. Would love to see more videos like this!
HI WHATTT the mosaic workshop shirt your fiancé wears - i designed those!!! & work for the artist who runs it! i hope y’all enjoyed the workshop :p
this was really fun, i've always been curious about these books! shame you couldn't find Josefina's but i found it over on Archive if youre fine with a digital copy!
I love novelty cookbooks so this was a great surprise for me
This is such an original idea for a video, and I love it! I was cracking up. 😂😂😂 Do another!
this video was a treat, no pun intended :) sometimes a break from the usual type of video is nice, also the part about your dog eating the bread made me laugh out loud 😂
Maybe I should invest in children’s cookbooks to learn how to cook 😭
I think there was a reprint of some of these at some point because I remember making those jelly biscuits but the book I used WAS NOT FORMATTED THE SAME. It was American Girl, there was also a delightful blueberry muffin recipe, but the cover and pages were formatted differently, and now I have unlocked a childhood memory that I will go down a rabbit hole to find answers.
Part 2! Please! My husband and I love your videos (yours were the first doll videos I got him into), and I love cooking, and AG…So yeah, I’ll happily watch as many parts of this series as you’re willing to make lol. At this moment in time, I would most want to have dinner with Samantha. I just ordered my dream Samantha yesterday after hunting for her for over a year, so she’s on heavy rotation in my brain right now. Loved getting to see your fiancé’ and pup in the video!
This is such a good video... The spices lost when she burned the house down... Fiance grossed out face yet still being a trooper and trying that jello mess for our entertainment thank you so much... And the surprise bisquits and the bread theft and the matching sweaters... The absolutely lovely casserole dishes and plates and measuring cups... And ending on a pleasant comfort chicken dish... If you ever get a hold of Josefinas book you should do it... I've never seen a barbie cook book that could be cool too
I had one based off of Kristen and… I only learn how to make butter from it XD
The home made butter is actually pretty fun. I’ve did that recipe with goats milk as well
But pour heavy cream/ whipping cream in a jar add a Marble and shake until you don’t hear the marble against the container
I love it when content creators do themed cookbook experiments like this. Please revisit this idea after you're able to track down Josefina's book, and any others that might exist!! The dolls also had craft and party books, which I think included patterns for making your own AG doll dresses. If you feel up to sewing, that could be a fun project to try out.
P.S. Your dog wolfing down the bread cake was HYSTERICAL!
I have mollys cookbook and have never been brave enough to actually try the vitamin a salad - glad to live vicariously through you 😂 mollys vitality meatloaf is really good though
If you're looking for the good Samantha recipes, they're hiding in the American Girls Party Book (along with the missing element of Josefina). As a Molly girly, I am deeply thankful my parents opted to pick up Addy's cookbook at the used book store instead. My poor little starlet did not deserve the gelatin monstrosity. Also you mentioned a Barbie cookbook, and I definitely recommend Barbie Awesome Parties from 1999. The recipes aren't quite so complex, but there's a good amount of content that actually feels reminiscent of the Great Girl Food cookbook released by the American Girl of Today contemporary book line earlier in the decade (Mattel had acquired American Girl the year prior to its publishing and immediately said "it's free real estate" when they saw the recipes).
all of the American girl cookbooks are on the internet archive! so you could see josefina’s that way
AG cookbooks/craft books can also be rented from the library through interlibraryloan to cut down on costs/issues with rarity. There are also some nice ones from AG/Williams Sonoma too.
I remember not liking Molly as much as Samantha and Kirsten as a kid, but having autistic sensory issues myself, Molly’s Food Struggles were relatable enough to ingratiate her to me anyway
This video was so fun, I would love to see a part 2. I didn't know they made american girl cook books before this but its honestly a genius idea.
16:40 Yep, that's your basic white gravy! That's how my Mama makes sausage gravy. She starts with the flour roux and adds a sausage crumble.
Like the inclusion of wheat grass for the meat balls decor lmao
The whole family having matching sweaters is cute
So, totally had these as a kid. Also, there's CRAFT BOOKS too 🤩 do the whole library please! 🙏🏻
This video was so much fun! As a young girl in the late 90s-early 2000s I never got to have an American girl doll (I got to enjoy them vicariously through the American Girl magazine lol).
I remember a while back that you would occasionally switch up the content to other things besides doll reviews and I really enjoyed this format!
I had Samantha and I think Addy’s. Don’t know if I still got them but I always wanted to make the petite fours and jam cookies from Samantha’s book.
This was fun! It was nice seeing your fiance and pup 😊
This was a fun change of pace I wouldn't mind this being a series where you find cookbooks based off doll franchises and trying out some recipes ❤
As soon as I saw your sparkpaws sweater I was like there better be a fricken dog reveal in this video, and I was not disappointed
Vitamin C salad - oh no! 😂 This was fun!! Great idea for a video
greedy ass little dog eating ur bread has to be the FUNNIEST outcome and i wish he would’ve tried w Molly’s meal 😭
I love food so I personally would love to see more stuff like this! I wish Samantha’s cookbook had some recipes from Nellie, I’m sure some Irish-American recipes from the period would really liven up her cookbook since they were friends 💖 Nellie was always my favorite as a kid, but she also was the only one I had, so. Biased.
IM IN LOVE WITH THE CINNAMOROLL PLACEMATS
My mom makes the cabbage appel salad every summer as a side for the bbq. It's very delicious 😊
omg i just moved my stuff out of my parent's house and found my own copy of the Samantha cookbook i had as a kid! obv i brought it to my new place especially because it was a fancier hard cover version, but i did leave behind a Kirsten cookbook because it was technically my sister's and i kinda regret it now
You could try the American Girl craft books too.
also re: molly's recipe being terrible - due to rationing and unavailability, a lot of food during wartime was kinda crap yeah! they had to work with what they had, and given that this meal seems to be centered around getting enough vitamins i'm not surprised it left good flavors behind for it. though i agree a different mold and better luck might have given a slightly better end result
More cookbooks would be fun i think!
Honestly the chicken shortcake thing reminds me of a few different bread+gravy+a liiiiiittle meat dishes I've eaten, so it'd probably tie with the jelly biscuits for fave with me
So fun, would love to see further cookbooks in the series too. The cottage cheese had a rather bleugh texture but that was definitely a thing for the era. Barbie cooking time here we come!!!
You're my current favourite youtuber. I always get happy when you post.
your fiance visibly bracing themselves for that questionable jello experience lol 🤣
DEF need a part two this was so entertaining
Part 2: the American Girl craft books!!
I love this video thanks for showing the pages as well. I have Molly’s coming in the mail and I want the rest. I agree, Josefina’s was crazy expensive I was like, this is random 😂
I liked the video! It was fun to watch and I collect American girl dolls as my main doll collection and I love history. Samantha is my favorite!
You, your fiance, and your greedy ass dog having matching hoodies is amazing
I love this video! I love seeing more diversity from your channel, you are so fun to watch in general and you and your fiance are both super cute
this channel has singlehandedly wrecked my targeted ads ❤️ just got one for lol suprise. this is a good thing as i love throwing data collectors off track
I want more of this, it was so fun!!! My favorite American Girl is Samantha's friend Nellie :3
As someone who loves geeky/specific cookbooks and just generally find your videos cozy and enjoyable, I would love to see more of this!
Also according to my chef husband that wasn't gravy, it was a béchamel sauce.
Subscribed from this video, would love to see a part two!
Would love part 2! I think some of the old doll books had party favor ideas too
I wish there were cookbooks for the more recent girls of the year in AG; the AG cookbooks now are usually your typical children's' cookbook you find at your local library
The cottage cheese jello looks like a fancy food they give to reptiles in the zoo.
Omg i loved this episode! Please do more! That vitamin A salad was nightmare fuel. Your parter was spot on about the roux that is correct.
This was so great! I love videos like this from you! That Vitamin A Salad 🤮. The jelly biscuits looked great!
omg your fiancé's eyeshadow is so pretty!!!!!
First of all, I LOVE this video! I remember checking out Josephina's cookbook from my local library as a kid!! She was my first American Girl Doll, and I saved up my Christmas and birthday money for her. Always thought she was the prettiest, lol. There was a local "American Girl Club" where I grew up and we'd meet once a month and each meeting was dedicated to a specific doll's character and learning about the time period and culture they belonged to. So it was an educational sort of thing, but with activities mixed in. Parents would volunteer and sign up to lead meetings for each character and her historical period. For Samantha, we'd often do a little tea party, and when I helped lead on Josephina day we made corn-husk dolls. The American Girl cookbooks always came in handy! Including Molly's Vitamin A Salad, which I politely declined. Covering Kirsten, we'd make the homemade butter! Thanks for bringing back a lot of fond memories
Please do a pt 2! this was so fun to watch. i hope u get josefinas book !!