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Since then I’ve learned from friends and cooking shows that potato soup is awesome, yellow squash is wonderful, but I will never eat tomato aspic again.”

Two words still strike fear into the heart of Lisa Roeper of Capon Bridge, W.Va.: tomato aspic.

She gives the example of “Mission in the Kitchen,” from the Air Force Officers Wives Club, published in 1963, which features such recipes as tomato aspic with marinated vegetables — a bright red jiggly bundt-shaped gelatin surrounded by cold pickled vegetables.

Proliferating food corporations sought to woo customers by publishing cunning pamphlets in which snippets of poems and quotes from 19th-century luminaries such as Brillat-Savarin and the British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli — “The most delicious thing in the world is a banana,” he wrote to his sister in 1831 while sojourning in Cairo — appeared embedded alongside recipes for the likes of heart-shaped Wonder Bread “honeymoon” sandwiches and cocktail glasses filled with California canned asparagus tips and tomato aspic, served “very cold.”

A tomato aspic — one of the first recipes in the alphabetically organized box — is a throwback.

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