Nostalgic Baking: Vintage Pastry Recipes from Woman’s Day
Available for download: Woman’s Day’s 1959 Collector Cookbook featuring 31 Dessert Pastry Recipes and 17 Hors d’oeuvre recipes
Tag: Recipes
Mid-Century Cake Mix Recipes for Modern Bakers
Advice from the 1960s – How to make spectacular cupcakes, cakes, and petits pours using a cake mix
1953 – Midnight Meals
An intimate menu for a midnight meal
Nostalgic Fruitcake Recipe from 1952
In the sixties, receiving a fruitcake sparked mixed feelings, blending polite gratitude with dread about eating the traditionally dry dessert, despite its nostalgic charm.
1959 – Frosty Food
Mid-century frozen meal plans
1958 – Giant Cookies and Thin Kids
6 classic cookie recipes to make for kids
Vintage Barber-Pole Franks Recipe
The 1958 Ladies Home Journal features an illustration of a smiling family promoting Barber-Pole franks, highlighting a recipe with French’s mustard and biscuit mix.
1951 – Lemonade, Cole Slaw, and Inflation
A recipe from Sunkist lemons for Town and Country dressing
1959 – Egg and Cheese Recipes
More recipes from grandma’s kitchen
1959 – Party Pastries Recipe Book
From the Woman’s Day Collectors Cook Book Series
1959 – Chocolate Cake Cookbook
Dozens of cake and frosting recipes just like grandma made.
Easy Cake Mix Baked Alaska for Valentine’s Day
The 1962 Cake Mix Cookbook offers cake mix recipes like Baked Alaska, Lemon Cheese Pound Cake, and Toffee Ribbon Cake.
1952 So Much for Breakfast
So much food. So little time.
Funny Mid-Century Food Trends: Jello Mold
Jello, Tuna, Mayo, Lemon Juice, pimientos? No thanks.
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