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All This And Toll House Too!

This is for Vintage Thingies Thursday. The thingies from me are pretty much going to be vintage ads (from my vintage magazines and ephemera collection) and cookbook stuff, that’s mostly wh… more →

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All This And Toll House Too! — 11 comments

Lidian wrote 6 months ago: This is for Vintage Thingies Thursday. The thingies from me are pretty much going to be vintage … more →

Tags: bake-off, Kitchen History, old advertisements, Pretty Good Recipes, Retro Magazine Ads, sugar sugar, The Cookie Jar, Cookies, Chocolate

Canadian Balmoral Cake

Lidian wrote 7 months ago: Balmoral Cake was a Victorian-era caraway-seed cake baked in a fancy mold, as seen in the link here … more →

Tags: bake-off, British Fare, Canadian Fare, Just My Cup Of Tea, Piece of Cake, 1940s cakes, 1940s recipes, Afternoon Tea, Anna Lee Scott

Mayonnaise Cakes And Victory Mops — 1 comment

Lidian wrote 7 months ago: It was surprisingly hard to find a mayonnaise cake. I was quite sure I had come across this oddity … more →

Tags: Kitchen History, Piece of Cake, Surreal Ingredients, Canadian Fare, vintage, Cakes, Chocolate, nuts, Dates

Yankee Doodle Went To Lunch — 1 comment

Lidian wrote 8 months ago: I have just been looking through America’s Cook Book(1942 edition) - I’ll bet you didn … more →

Tags: Kitchen History, The Main Course, Pasta Imperfect, vintage, Pasta, Macaroni, word history, Retro, 1940s recipes

Liquid Smoke and Mirrors (and Dish Soap) — 1 comment

Lidian wrote 8 months ago: Here are some really useful household hints from a booklet entitled Home Curing and Preparing of Me … more →

Tags: Kitchen History, Promotional Cookbooks, old advertisements, The Main Course, Canadian Fare, Canadian food, Ham, 1940s recipes, Main Courses

Welcome To The Canape Ball — 2 comments

Lidian wrote 8 months ago: Here’s a peculiar little cannon ball of an appetizer from the 1946 oeuvre, Watkins Salad Boo … more →

Tags: Mealtime Retrocities, Promotional Cookbooks, Existential Angst In the Kitchen, It's My Party And I'll Serve What I Want To, Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Snacks, Postwar Panache, Surreal Ingredients, vintage, weird food

Washday Dish — 1 comment

Lidian wrote 8 months ago: This recipe is from a 1940 United Farm Women of Alberta cookbook, from the days when you had to sp … more →

Tags: Kitchen History, Household hints, The Main Course, Vegetable Matters, vintage, Canadian food, Meat, Good housekeeping, laundry

Desdemona Buns — 2 comments

Lidian wrote 8 months ago: Here is a recipe for sweet rolls with a name I do not understand, from a 1930s Ri-Temp cookbook. Ri … more →

Tags: Promotional Cookbooks, British Fare, Tea, baking, English food, Ovens, vintage, Cookbooks, buns

Time Magazine Macaroon Pudding — 1 comment

Lidian wrote 8 months ago: This is from The Time Reader’s Book of Recipes (1949), an odd volume of recipes that Time maga … more →

Tags: Postwar Panache, Pretty Good Recipes, 1940s graphics, 1940s recipes, Cookies, Dessert, Gelatin, History, macaroon

A Toll House Valentine

Lidian wrote 9 months ago: Here’s a vintage Valentine’s Day recipe from my beloved Ruth Wakefield’s Toll Hous … more →

Tags: Pretty Good Recipes, Holiday Fare, 1940s recipes, cake, chocolate chip cookies, Coconut, Cookies, Food History, historic inns

In the Sweet Pie and Pie — 1 comment

Lidian wrote 9 months ago: Ruth Berolzheimer was the head of the Culinary Arts Institute in Chicago from the 1940s on, and her … more →

Tags: Kitchen History, 1940s food, Cakes, cooking magic, Culinary Arts Institute, Desserts, History, Pies, Puddings


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