1915 Wiggle! (Creamed Shrimp & Peas On Toast Recipe) - Old Cookbook Show
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- Wiggle! (Creamed Shrimp & Peas On Toast Recipe) - Glen And Friends Old Cookbook Show
Today on the old cookbook show we go back to an over 100 year old recipe for something called Wiggle.
Wiggle
½ pint (I cup) picked shrimps
Salt and paprika to taste
2 ozs. (4 tablespoonfuls) butter
¾ pint (I½ cups) milk
2 tablespoonfuls flour
½ pint (I cup) canned peas
Blend the butter and flour in a saucepan over the fire, season with salt and paprika, and pour in the milk, stirring all the time. Stir until the mixture boils, then add the shrimps broken in pieces and the peas drained from their liquor.
Serve very hot with crackers or fingers of buttered toast.
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I love Glen's happy dance while Julie talks about how she hates it! Too funny
#wiggle
Got to respect her for giving it a try - and a second try, just to be sure.
Just by his look @ 4:04 he knew she was not going to like it.
@@rugged23WC and Glens face from 4:24 was 🤣
"Nightmare from my childhood" Love that line ! Julie is usually right there with Glen as they try things but the way she approached this dish was priceless!
I was once a caretaker for a 102 year old man. Although blind, he had all his mental marbles and was a delight. I made him chicken a-la king with boiled chicken, cream soup, hard boiled eggs and frozen peas on toast. As he was eating it, I noticed he surreptitiously was pushing all the peas to the side of the plate. One by one, every pea, pushed over to the side. Sometimes I wondered if he was really blind... "Harry, why aren't you eating any peas?" "They're GREEN!"
A neighbour of mine is very much not fond of basically anything green. He and his wife have come to the conclusion that he can taste (and dislikes) the chlorophyl, because there's nothing they have found that makes them more palatable to him.
I'm 73. My mother used to make this for us six kids in the 50/60s. We/I loved Shrimp Wiggle and I loved the name too. Salmon Cakes were another odd but old faithful. Both were simple, quick and cheap. Cinnamon Toast, cinnamon pre-mixed with lots of sugar then liberally sprinkled on buttered (margarine) toast, was another kid fav. 😋 There was an art in doing it just right so it melted in your mouth. Now when I think of all that sugar 😝🤣
Call up Townsends. They sell mushroom catsup and their channel has had a recipe up for years. They are known for their use of it and nutmeg. Looking forward to your take on it.
Was about to write up a comment recommending Townsends as well.
@@DurradonXylles Much laughter.
Came to say this! I've made Towsend's mushroom catsup and it is delicious.
Drat. I uploaded my comment and then saw yours about Townsends. Ah well, engagement for the algorithm, I'll leave it up.
I have made it and it is very similar to Worcestershire sause. The left over mushroom bits make a nice condiment on its own.
I’m with Glen! Love hot saucy dinners on toast. Beans, asparagus and cheese sauce, creamed peas are all comforting and quick dinners. 🤤❤️
Love both Julie’s horrid reaction and Glen’s happy dance at the same time.
My Mom, born in Scotland, made creamed tuna fish and peas on toast for cold afternoon lunch. I LOVE IT, but never knew how to make it. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
We feel ya, Jules! Creamed seafood on toast is my hub's worst food memory, it was his mother's favorite go-to quick meal. And, I loathe peas. You're a brave soul!
Same..peas bleeech
I grew up eating something almost identical to this, but it was made with (usually canned) Salmon instead of Shrimp. We just called it 'Creamed Salmon on Toast'. though Wiggle is far more fun as a name.
Growing up we used to have salmon pea wiggle with canned salmon and canned peas. We always had it on buttered saltines. It was a good inexpensive meal for meatless Friday.
A Shrimp Wiggle recipe was included in one of the very earliest, if not THE earliest, Fanny Farmer cookbooks. I think Wiggle originated in New England. I have a friend (aged 80) who grew up in the Boston area, whose mother made Pea Wiggle (only peas, no animal protein), as a way to stretch her food budget to feed a lot of kids. To this day, he cannot abide Pea Wiggle. I, on the other hand, like Glen, could eat Wiggle all day long! But, then, that's true of me with most foods... 😄
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My mother grew up on Wiggle in the 60s, except her grandmother made her Tuna Wiggle with canned tuna, and condensed cream of mushroom soup. So as a kid, my mother would make Tuna Wiggle for me as well, so I'm very nostalgic for this recipe.
This dish was a weekly grade school cafeteria staple growing up in a small mill town in Maine during the 50s/60s. As god is my witness, it wasn't until just now that I realize what we were calling 'shrimp peawiggle' was 'shrimp, pea wiggle'.
We called this Shrimp Wiggle when I was small. Loved it!
Looking forward to mushroom ketchup, and seeing how yours compares to Towsend's.
I made Townsend's version and would describe it as a cousin of a worchestershire type sauce.
I am so glad the book arrived and that you like it. Happy Easter.
Your videos always bring me joy. Thankyou.
Looks delicious! This is an old time Down East Maine comfort food. The recipe featured in "Cooking Down East" by Marjorie Standish, actually calls for canned salmon. My mom and grandmothers would substitute canned shrimp. Even back in the late 60's early 70's on the coast of Maine fresh shrimp where relatively expensive and this is supposed to be a quick, inexpensive week night meal. If you don't already have a copy of "Cooking Down East" (copyright 1969) I'm pretty sure it is still in print and available on Amazon. Marjorie Standish was a long time food columnist for the Maine Sunday Telegram. She compiled old recipes that were handed down from generation to generation from cooks all around the state of Maine.
So often the things we dislike from childhood are not as off putting as adults when the problem is taste. However, things that have unpleasant textures seem to retain the ICK factor.
There are some tastes I've come to like as an adult (why wouldn't I eat artichokes as a kid 😂) but some stuff I still won't eat. I agree with you on texture though. It was gross when they made me eat it back then and it's gross now.
My grandma use to make this with tuna. We all called it “Tuna Pea Wiggle”. We loved it
Too funny: Julie shaking her head no while Glen nods and dances. 🤣
Growing up in rural Nova Scotia, 'creamed peas on toast' was a staple in my childhood. A roux, a can of peas mixed together with salt and pepper on buttered toast. Universally it has disturbed everyone I've told about it - but for me its like a warm hug. However, adding anything - shrimp, spices, etc, feels wrong since the meal is so defined in my mind.
Julie's open-mindedness has taken the day off.😄
Sh#t on a Shingle, but FANCY
Rice Krispies and Corn flakes on the back counter? I wonder what's coming
Crunchy bars?
YOU rascal you knew what what was gonna happen - the eye roll when she said why am I going first! But Jewels is a trooper but the second bite was the true testament of how much
That’s my reaction to the second bite of stewed tomato’s. Glen score’s again with the odd and quirky
Glen. My mother use to make something she call " Salmon pea wiggle " it had canned salmon meat and peas in a white sauce. She served it on toast. Thanks for sharing
Julie (@4:40) - "..something about me and certain cream things..." : Julie yesterday (with the cognac and cream sauce on the pork tenderloin) - "Yum!" Hahaha! Blessed Be, & Peace! 🙏☮
I just adore you two!!
oh i would love this! and, yes, frozen peas over canned peas always! sorry, julie...i'm happy dancing with glen on this one! 😁
One thing my family made, I still enjoy is Cream Peas with potatoes. A roux on the thicker side. Boiled potatoes or canned and peas from the freezer.
I often think of such comfort food as 'soul food'. No seafood, thank you.😊
Never heard it called wiggle, but grew up eating this, mostly with canned tuna as the protein, and IIRC sometimes peas & carrots. It was quick, and we were so poor we only ever had our bread toasted on one side.
Nice take on SoS.
Happy Easter to all who celebrate.
Happy Blessed Easter ❤🙏👑✝
Creamed eggs on toast was my mom’s way of feeding eight kids when the cupboard was close to bare. She might have made this if shrimp were easy to come by. Can’t say I’d make this by choice, but it’s definitely in the repertoire for moments when you don’t have ingredients for much else.
Creamed eggs on toast was called Eggs ala Goldenrod in my house. We also had chipped beef on toast which my Dad refused to eat because he ate so much of it in WW2.
We called it Egg Gravy (creamed scrambled eggs). We usually had it on baking powder biscuits or toast. I prefer toast. Was great on a COLD morning before school. My mother is 79. Lives in another state. I recently spent 3 weeks with her. She made this a few times. Such fond memories of my child hood. When I asked her where this recipe came from, our pioneer heritage maybe ? She said the depression. My great grandfather kept about 300 chickens to sell or trade, along with the eggs. So they ate LOTS-o-EGGS as a child during WWII and after when things were rationed.
My grandmother’s variation was creamed tuna and peas over biscuits (heavily buttered). It’s one of those foods you forget about for years and one day you just want it again!
Julie's going to have to have some of the leftover pork tenderloin from yesterday's video!
my dad made "shrimp wiggle" many times when i was little, and always said the name out loud with obvious glee.. he sometimes made it with canned salmon, too, but the name only ever applied to the shrimp version. i still make the salmon version all the time, but had long since forgotten it's shrimpy sibling with the silly name..can't thank you enough for bringing back such wonderful memories...
I'm 50 and this was a staple growing up. Spit pea soup as well.
We put everything on toast in the uk 😂
no just that, we use bred as an added cutlery when needed, perhaps not as much as the continent; but still. My aussie inlaws looked at me like I was being odd for using garlic bread to sop up my spag rather than just eating it as a side dish.
Any certain kind of bread that you toast?
😂 Julie, you crack me up! I completely feel you on the cream sauces with toast….
My mom made the same thing when I was a child only using tuna and sauteed onions. We poured it over a slice of toast and then sprinkled it with paprika. It was 1ofmyfavoritemeals
Hi Glen,
My grandmother used to cook this for me all the time and yes, the sauce was much thicker… That way it would actually wiggle when you jiggled the plate. She used to serve it on toast as well and she used the little round pink, canned shrimp.
I love her honesty! I wouldn't like it either! Great video.
I love creamed peas on toast also creamed asparagus on toast
Had it as a child and one can of peas served family of 5
We liked it and sometimes I make it for myself now
I'd never heard of creamed peas on toast before, but I googled when Julie mentioned it. It appears as horrific as her memory of it clearly is!
My mother used to make this with leftover pieces of chicken or turkey. I have always enjoyed this dish. Now I crave it after watching this video.
We always make this with canned salmon. grew up eating it and my daughter just loves it. To me this is a comfort food.
One of my favorite childhood dishes cream peas on toast.
Oh, my! Looks and sounds delicious! All in what ya like!
As a kid we ate ‘wiggle’ and I thought it was such a strange name. Different composition - Velveeta cheese was added to a more traditional roux and a can of diced tomatoes was also added in. Shrimp, paprika, and peas were still present. It was served on crunchy Chow Mein noodles. I remember being scared of it the first time but I actually enjoyed it. Still partake occasionally as an adult. 😊
Glen! Love your show. Here's the Mushroom Ketchup that I use: Geo Watkins Mushroom Ketchup
Highly recommend it! Cheers!
Childhood nightmare! Agreed, allergies to peas and a distain for shrimp. Looking forward to the next receipe
my nana used to make something like this for my grandfather. She called it shrimp wiggle, but she used canned and rinses shrimp and since my Papa hated peas, she used creamed corn instead. It was also useful for having her skip the roux.
If you put some cheese on the bread and toasted it, or even a mixture of grated cheese with some chives and then put the prawns/shrimp and peas on top. Or possibly just putting the cheese in the pot with the sauce. Even without it, it's a great five-minute meal when you've come in from a day out in the winter cold.
Tinned red salmon as a substitute for the shrimp is a good option, Glen. As would a bag of "fruits de mer"- assorted frozen seafood including prawns, calamari, pieces of white fish, oysters (smoked or fresh), and so on.
Poor Julie with the memory of years gone by. Smell, I think, is the sense that can bring back memories the best- or worst, in her case. Bless her for at least trying it
My family used to make a mutant version of this. We used tuna and put it on the fried chow mein noodles. It's amazing what you can come up with for a cheap dinner.
My mom made this exact same thing but substituted salmon instead of shrimp. We loved it as kids growing up. We did not call it wiggle. Thanks for the memory
My late mother made canned tuna wiggle. She didn't call it that, for her, it was "creamed tuna on toast". That is a fond childhood memory for me.
We had a similar dish growing up but didn't call it Wiggle. It was creamed tuna on toast and to this day is a comfort food for me!
Oh man, a blast from my past. My mother, not a great cook, made Tuna Wiggle. I can’t think of it today without shuddering. Never knew where the name came from. Needless to say, I don’t make it these days. I do share your fascination with old cookbooks. Sometime, would you share with viewers Peg Bracken’s “I Hate To Cook Book”? Her section on helpful hints is hilarious. I quote it all the time.
Love Peg Bracken! That was a go to book when my sisters and I were learning to cook.
Tuna? Yeah that falls in the range... Thank you mom, but I think ill go graze on the front lawn.
Looks to me the beginnings of Tuna helper here in the US.
The joke at the end was more funny because of the delivery mistake. Glad you didn't rerecord the ending or leave it out. ^_^
Creamed Fish on Toast. That was our version. I loved it but oddly, I never made it for my kids. I don't think I have had it in 40 odd years. I must make it some time. Thanks for the video.
I would eat this all day long. And the joke at the end, perfect!
Wow this brings back S O S we also ate. only we had peas and potatoes if we didnt have meat. Or dried chipped beef. Wiggle? Might be named as it contained wiggley critters called shrimp.😂
My mom loved making cream tuna with peas on toast. I agree with Julie. I Can't stand soggy toast! I do have a cookbook from my mother in law, 102, that was given her by her mom. You've inspired me to give it a better look.
Maybe it would work with noodles, too. I feel as happy as Glen here when I make creamed hard cooked eggs for myself. No one else likes them and I don't care. I have 6 Easter Eggs to use up, too! Interesting video, Glen, thanks.
Many years ago as a Girl Guide when camping we had a dish called Tuna Wiggle- simply a can of cream of chicken soup, a can of tuna and cooked macaroni and canned peas and baked til warm. My dad was a guy who would anything but he flat out refused to eat that! Has become a family joke- but I still love it.
I forgot they were Girl Guides across the border😂 . I miss those camps sometimes
My brother had a similar dish he made... a package of mac and cheese, a can of drained tuna and a can of drained peas. Really good when the cupboard is nearly bare! Thanks for sharing and Jules, thanks for your honesty!
@@jdelam5825 I still make that to this day and I'm in my 50s
I would definitely wiggle out of eating that dish as a child.
But you have my attention with the mushroom ketchup
Thanks for a great recipe Glen!
I had it with tuna and peas as a kid, served on what ever would feed 5 hungry kids, toast, noodles or rice. The other one was chipped beef on toast in a white sauce. My mom made both. My husband mom call hers a wiggle. She also made creamed eggs. I grew up out west and my husband grew up in New England. Some of the same foods just called by different names.
I used to love creamed eggs on toast - hard-boiled eggs in cream sauce (my mom used canned cream of mushroom soup made with 1/2 the recommended amount of milk). She sometimes added frozen, not canned, peas. I think, like Glen, I’d enjoy this recipe.
Hey Glen.
I have walked around an antique market recently and saw a few old cookbooks. I eyed them and thought of you, but figured that there was a good chance that you already had them.
Would it be possible to make a side page somewhere of the cookbooks that you own? Even the actual cookbooks and not the little promotional ones you often bring out would help those of your viewers that might see (or already have) something that you might not have. You can also include things like this book where you know that it is out there but you do not have a copy or you want another one.
My grandmother Verna use to to make that for us and we loved it.
This looks like wonderful comfort food to me!
Well done Jules , very brave of you to go for a second go.
My grandmother, great-aunts, and my mother were big fans of Shrimp Wiggle. The 1915 cookbook date would be just about right for the aunties' days of cooking adventures. Mom used to make Wiggle (always with shrimp), and she used frozen peas--a definite enhancement. The great-aunts liked things a bit on the fancy side, so they served Shrimp Wiggle on buttered toast points with the crusts removed. They also enjoyed a similar dish, Creamed Mushrooms on Toast, as a light lunch or supper entree. That's good too (unless you're Julie, apparently 🤢).
I’m with Julie. My mother used to make creamed ham on toast (chopped up cooked ham with onion in a white milk gravy). It is a core memory of trauma with me.
Back in the early 70s when I was in Gr. 8, I read one of those Scholastica Book Club books about the struggles of a too-young-to-be-married but she got pregnant couple....she didn't cook well, but what she did cook, and way, way too often apparently, according to her man, was "Tuna Fish Wiggle". I had never heard of it but always assumed it was just a variation of tuna casserole. Now I know. In my family, we ate creamed salmon on toast on "Fish Fridays" and my mom's mom LOVED any vegetable in a cream sauce, esp. peas!!
Looks wonderful….❤️
The look on Julie’s face says it all. I would have the same reaction. I think it’s a love it or hate it thing. No in between. Kind of funny.
My mom used to make this for us as kids. We loved it. I once made it as an adult and likened it to eating vaguely shrimp flavored paste. My wife spit it out.
Oh, that looks like right up my alley 😋
Love Julie’s expression! 😂 I’m with her.
I enjoy your videos so much, thank you
Julie’s face! Dad made SOS, dried beef, same sauce and peas. As kids, we had the same face reaction. We ate what was on table. Additions of carrots, mushrooms, the use of shrimp make the whole concept “slightly” more palatable. 🤗
LOVED SOS as a child, though mom called it chipped beef on toast.
It's like Sh!t on a shingle but with shrimp instead of dried beef . I am making this for sure !! U.S. Navy guy here
Everyone has food phobias.
Mine are green string beans. Force fed as a child and went to bed with a mouthful unswallowed only to have slathered on the pillow at daybreak.
Lovely!
I used to live in Maine and they called this dish shrimp pea wiggle
Our family did a lot of creamed veggies on toast, corn peas, beans .mum used powdered milk and I dot know how she got it so creamy, secret lost and too late to ask now. Thanks for a good memory revival ❤
My mom used to make this with shrimp or salmon, but would add sliced boiled egg, and celery, with possibly mushrooms.
It was one of my favorite meals.
I might call it 'Wiggle' from now on as we just called it 'Fish Mush'.
Julie knows of which she speaks. My folks made cream peas and cream salmon. Those were the rare days where I went to bed hungry. The only other dinner was liver that had a harder effect
We grew up eating tuna and pea wiggle. I enjoyed it.
My mother made this if us kids were good. It was in the winter coming in from the cold. And dip toast. And homemade bread and Brandy Hot chocolate. Bring back memories Glen . Thank you again
I love creamed chipped beef. Creamed shrimp sounds good. I'm out as far as the peas are concerned lol.
"Nightmare from my childhood" resonated with me. In the early 1960s we walked home from elementary school for lunch, which my mother prepared every day. Creamed peas on toast was one of the delicacies we could count on each week (sarcasm here). I just wish we had the luxury of frozen peas instead of canned (although my Dad to his death preferred canned peas over both frozen and fresh). By the way, I also thought we walked a couple of miles back and forth to school; just checked on Google maps and it was 650 metres, about 4/10 of a mile.
Very similar to this was a childhood favourite but with white crabmeat instead of prawns😋
I had this as a kid with can tuna. My mom called it tuna pea wiggle
This kinda reminds me of curried eggs. Sliced boiled eggs, on rice, with a curry powder flavoured bechemel sauce over top. It is a nostalgia meal that I only occasionally make because boiled eggs don't happen frequently.
Ha. I was going to mention this. The recipe I have is in the Indian section of an international cookbook. Made it years ago and remember liking it.
Just another version of SOS, yet I think they called it Wiggle for the happy dance it brings out for some people.
i was expecting the “so, i have to make mushroom ketchup” and i was not disappointed.💜🎉
Off to the Townsends (2012). Thank you. God Bless and stay safe.
I grew up with creamed salmon and peas on toast yum