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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Vintage Recipes: Beach Boy Bread
From 1959, when a tin of pineapple was still an exotic item to cook with. And back when you still found it in the tiny 8 ounce cans. The recipe can read confusing because it says "prepared biscuit mix". It just means to use commercially made biscuit mix, such as Bisquick or Jiffy. I went… Continue reading Vintage Recipes: Beach Boy Bread
Vintage Recipes: Pumpkin Pie
I have my go-to pumpkin pie recipe that never fails me, but I am always willing to try new recipes out, or in this case...a vintage "new" recipe. This one dates back to 1927, and was made by PET milk (which is still made nearly a 100 years later). Being 1927, the Great Depression was… Continue reading Vintage Recipes: Pumpkin Pie
Vintage Recipes: Tasty Beef and Cornbread
I saw this vintage recipe and had to try it out. No condensed soups used in the recipe for once. Now then, the seasoning is pretty bland. That was pretty normal back then. I cut the salt back, to our taste. I also used more onion and bell pepper than called for. Personally? I would… Continue reading Vintage Recipes: Tasty Beef and Cornbread
Vintage Baking: Apple-Raisin Coffee Cake
From a publication in 1955, brought by Gold Medal flour comes this quick coffee cake, that pulls together in a snap. It's a lovely texture. Soft and the raisins add to it. Now then, the recipe calls for apples then doesn't actually call for the, in the ingredients. Oops. Using apples we had grown this… Continue reading Vintage Baking: Apple-Raisin Coffee Cake