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Fun With Food Flavors, 1945

Food Flavors - for when your food has no flavor! Or needs a surreal flavor makeover. The ad man got a bit overemotional about the Burnett’s Flavors. Pure extract of poetry is what this is - you… more →

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Fun With Food Flavors, 1945 — 5 comments

Lidian wrote 5 months ago: Food Flavors - for when your food has no flavor! Or needs a surreal flavor makeover. The ad man got … more →

Tags: old advertisements, Stranded On A Dessert Island, True Confections, Retro Kitchen Shortcuts, Retro Magazine Ads, ladies home journal, 1940s desserts, 1940s ads, 1940s magazines

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 cookbooks, 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 cookbooks

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 cookbooks, 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

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 cookbooks, 1940s graphics, 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 cookbooks, cake, chocolate chip cookies, Coconut, Cookies, Food History, historic inns

Homework On A Bun — 1 comment

Lidian wrote 10 months ago: Back when I was in the 7th grade (all right, in 1974) we were the last class to take Cooking instea … more →

Tags: Mealtime Retrocities, salad, Meat, Pickles, Hot Dogs, 1940s food, Heinz


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