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Vintage Recipes: Hamburger Vegetable Soup

From 1957 comes this vintage recipe for a basic hamburger vegetable soup. It comes when brand names were becoming a big thing, now that you were shopping at the start of big grocery stores, rather than a corner store or a general store. Name brands were shiny to the eye and (in theory) promised that… Continue reading Vintage Recipes: Hamburger Vegetable Soup

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Potato and Kale Chowder

This was a recipe I saw online, that was dated to 1956. Potato City Country Hotel was a real place in Pennsylvania. That opened in 1949 and had a long life until it was torn down in 2018 for....a state police building. How boring. Progress right? The recipe looked to me almost like a leftover… Continue reading Potato and Kale Chowder