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Dinner With Hitchcock

The ducks will have their revenge. The ducks are angry. And they are clever enough to hatch a little plot to show the sportsmen the errors of their ways.  A tasty game feast indeed! Try eating your… more →

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Dinner With Hitchcock — 5 comments

Lidian wrote 3 months ago: The ducks will have their revenge. The ducks are angry. And they are clever enough to hatch a litt … more →

Tags: 1960s Retro, Existential Angst In the Kitchen, Old Movies, The Main Course, 1960s table settings, Alfred Hitchcock, Better Homes and Gardens, Main Courses, The Birds

Instant Coffee Karma — 9 comments

Lidian wrote 3 months ago: Instant coffee karma’s gonna get you. Because there’s coffee, coffee everywhere, but no … more →

Tags: Promotional Cookbooks, Strange Salad Days, Secondary Sauces, The Main Course, coffee talk, 1960s Retro, salad, Coffee, Sauces

Tijuana Hash — 9 comments

Lidian wrote 4 months ago: This is not Herb Alpert’s backup band. Nor is it some groovy hippie recipe for a pharmaceutic … more →

Tags: bake-off, Retro Kitchen Shortcuts, TV and Theater, Retro music, 1960s Retro, Hash, weird retro, 1960s recipes, weird retro recipes

A Moveable Feast — 7 comments

Lidian wrote 4 months ago: Oh, yes, this looks like a good idea! This delightful (and safe! don’t forget safe!) idea com … more →

Tags: 1960s Retro, Take it outside, The Weird Retro Household, Barbecues, betty crocker, weird retro, weird retro cooking

An Oriental Punch Bowl and A Cocoa Soda — 4 comments

Lidian wrote 5 months ago: Today is National Iced Tea Day and National Black Cow Day, and of course I didn’t want to let … more →

Tags: Pretty Good Recipes, Just My Cup Of Tea, Not So Retro, A Selection of Beverages, Tea, Indian cookbooks, Indian Cuisine, Cocoa, Soda

Running Rampant With Silver — 2 comments

Lidian wrote 5 months ago: What a strange picture the Ladies’ Home Journal Cookbook of 1960 conjures up in my head. They … more →

Tags: Household hints, The Weird Retro Household, The Victorian Household, 1920s household books, cake baskets, lemon forks, pickle forks, retro advice, retro tableware

Bubblegum Kitchen — 7 comments

Lidian wrote 6 months ago: This is the first time that I have seen a pink kitchen (with pink appliances, I mean) since visiti … more →

Tags: Kitchen History, Postwar Panache, The Weird Retro Household, Retro Photo Time Machine, ladies home journal, Retro Kitchens, 1960s kitchens, 1960s household hints, retro pink kitchen appliances

London Cake From South Africa — 2 comments

Lidian wrote 6 months ago: A selection from a Girl Scouts’ cookbook, Be Prepared (1968), from South Africa. It is real … more →

Tags: bake-off, old advertisements, Piece of Cake, Stranded On A Dessert Island, sugar sugar, True Confections, 1960s recipes, Biscuits, Cakes

The Doll Who Couldn't Stop Baking — 11 comments

Lidian wrote 6 months ago: It started with a rolling pin and a batch of gingerbread cookie dough… Did anyone else know a … more →

Tags: bake-off, The Weird Retro Household, True Confections, 1960s dolls, 1960s toys, baking, Betsy McCall doll, Cookies, McCalls

Mrs. Wiggs Entertains — 4 comments

Lidian wrote 6 months ago: This lovely lady is the actress Bessie Barsicale, who starred in a production of Mrs. Wiggs of the … more →

Tags: Promotional Cookbooks, It's My Party And I'll Serve What I Want To, The Social Whirl, Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Snacks, Surreal Ingredients, Vegetable Matters, Retro Kitchen Shortcuts, Old Movies, TV and Theater

A Salad Matinée: The Green Goddess — 3 comments

Lidian wrote 6 months ago: Green Goddess salad dressing was created by the chef at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco in honor … more →

Tags: Eating One's Words, Old Movies, Strange Salad Days, Vegetable Matters, 1970s cookbooks, beatles, Green Goddess dressing, Holiday Inn, Palace Hotel

Marshmallow Dénouement: Dachshund and Giraffe

Lidian wrote 6 months ago: The final marshmallow critters - Fritz the Dachshund and my personal favorite, George the Giraffe. … more →

Tags: It's My Party And I'll Serve What I Want To, The Social Whirl, Piece of Cake, True Confections, sugar sugar, candy, Marshmallows, McCall's cookbooks, marshmallow favors

The Formal Picnic — 5 comments

Lidian wrote 6 months ago: This is a little much, even for 1963. Here we have a “Theater-party Picnic” presented … more →

Tags: It's My Party And I'll Serve What I Want To, The Social Whirl, The Main Course, Take it outside, retro fashion, Picnics, retro parties, theater parties, 1960s menus

The Marshmallow Menagerie: Jumbo and Leo Edition

Lidian wrote 7 months ago: After this post, there will be three kinds of seagull, a dachshund and a giraffe. I believe that … more →

Tags: It's My Party And I'll Serve What I Want To, The Social Whirl, Holiday Fare, True Confections, sugar sugar, 1960s recipes, cake decorations, candy, candy animals

Marshmallow Favors How-To, Part 3: Fifi the Poodle and Harry the Hippo — 1 comment

Lidian wrote 7 months ago: A poodle is the perfect critter to recreate in marshmallows - I love the mini marshmallows on her l … more →

Tags: Holiday Fare, It's My Party And I'll Serve What I Want To, Stranded On A Dessert Island, sugar sugar, 1960s recipes, cake decorations, candy, Hippo, licorice

Wedgies and Whuffins — 3 comments

Lidian wrote 7 months ago: More fun from the Betty Crocker Boys and Girls Cook Book (circa 1960). Boys and girls, how about a … more →

Tags: bake-off, Surreal Ingredients, Vegetable Matters, 1960s recipes, betty crocker, Cabbage, Cereal, Muffins, old Betty Crocker cookbooks

Face Up In The Cereal — 2 comments

Lidian wrote 7 months ago: You know, sometimes you are really tired in the morning. So tired you could just put your face in t … more →

Tags: Breakfast Epiphanies, Surreal Ingredients, Fruit, Cereal, breakfast, Weird, betty crocker, 1960s recipes, weird retro recipes

Marshmallow Favors How-To, Part 2: Frosty and Timmy

Lidian wrote 7 months ago: I love these two, they are simple to make but really effective. Can’t you just see a lot of l … more →

Tags: It's My Party And I'll Serve What I Want To, The Social Whirl, Holiday Fare, True Confections, Marshmallows, McCalls Magazine, marshmallow favors, 1960s party ideas, marshmallow animals

Marshmallow Favors How-To Part 1: A Little Lamb and a Piglet — 3 comments

Lidian wrote 7 months ago: I gather that a lot of people really like the Marshmallow Favors I wrote about last week, so I tho … more →

Tags: It's My Party And I'll Serve What I Want To, The Social Whirl, 1960s party ideas, candy art, candy sculpture, marshmallow animals, marshmallow favors, Marshmallows, McCall's cookbooks


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