I’m posting this because it just stuck in my head – I saw the photo and I just kept thinking, I ought to post this, it is so weird and yet kind of retro and clever – and silver! I like silver jewelry and silver shoes (although the only silver shoes I ever wore were really painful fancy sandals that I will never wear again, but I just can’t get rid of them they are too lovely). So why not silver mushrooms?
These are from my dear pal Betty Crocker in her Betty Crocker’s Dinner Parties (1974), in the chapter entitled “Today’s Sit-Down Dinners.” Well, I don’t know how many sit-down dinners you are planning to have today, but you can make this centerpiece for one of them.
You have to start this yesterday though, if you want it today (if you know what I mean). Or today for tomorrow, of course.
Anyway – the day before you need this thing, insert 3″ pieces of wire in about 10-15 mushrooms (fresh, white button mushrooms that is). It looks nice if they are different sizes. Spray with silver spray paint and then let them dry over night (Betty says that they will shrink a little but will keep their shape – I guess she should know).
Take a wicker basket (you could spray paint this silver or a contrasting color like blue or pink - or use white like they do here) and put in a “needle frog” with a bit of florist’s clay under it to make it stick. Here is a picture of needle frogs. They are support things that go under the styrofoam that you will put in next. It should come up to the top of the basket, but not quite. Stick on some moss and little flowers, and stick the mushrooms in too, via the wires you stuck in them yesterday.
And that’s that!
I will definitely be posting again today, if for no other reason than that it is National Macaroon Day!
Hey I Luv Macroons! Anything Coconut, I pretty
much love! Happy NMD! Okay Silver Mushrooms,
housewifes actually made this? Here’s my
in “Jim Carrey pet detective voice” question:
Were they really lucky silver mushrooms? LOL
Have a good day!
oh that IS weird! What if they were of the magic variety? eewwww
I’m at a loss for words with this one. Well, nearly. No, stick a fork in me; I’m done.
The word odd comes to mind. I can’t believe that they would hold their shape either. I wonder how many they had to paint to get enough for the picture.
Jewelgirl – I don’t know if anyone but the Betty C people actually made this!
Amy – It sure is weird, and I just couldn’t stop thinking about how weird it was…
Bill – I know, it is amazing what they thought up!
Rochelle – Yeah, I would have thought that they would shrivel up…maybe they used styrofoam mushrooms here and didn’t tell anyone!
Stop it!!
That is so incredibly funny – I can’t even begin to imagine what went on in the person’s mind who thought this up. Wow, with all the new fangled galzy powdery stuff for cake decorating, you could probably make this AND still be able to eat it. Technically speaking, that is. “Cause no way am I eating silver shrooms, dude. Gnarly!