It’s Thanksgiving tomorrow and I’m waiting for my pie dough to “meld” in the fridge so I thought I’d take a look at Thanksgiving menus from my array of vintage cookbooks. I have six cook books that give suggested Thanksgiving menus that range in date from 1896 – 1942. Continue reading
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Thanksgiving Menus from the Past
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
Nostalgia Food Travel – A Visit to Newfane, Vermont
Thursday, November 17th, 2011Not only do I love cooking vintage recipes from my vintage cookbooks, I love traveling roadside America looking for unique tourist attractions, quirky motels and lodgings, and Mom and Pop restaurants. My most recent cookbook find, Ford Treasury of Favorite Recipes from Famous Eating Places, dated 1950 fulfills both desires! Continue reading
Going Bananas for Banana Bread
Friday, October 28th, 2011If you’re like me you always seen to have over-ripe bananas around the kitchen. Until recently they would end up in the compost, but now thanks to my growing collection of vintage cookbooks I have a wealth of banana bread recipes that call for 2-3 bananas for baking. I’ve got two good tasting, healthy, and easy recipes to share with you, plus some fun history about how bananas came into… Continue reading
A Jiffy Cake for Harried Moms of the Past
Sunday, August 21st, 2011Yep, even in those days that we look back at so fondly and say “oh it was better then….” , mom’s were harried. Perhaps it was the many P.T.A. or Club meetings to attend? For my mom, it was her need to juggle her every consuming passion for golf, with being a Girl Scout leader, volunteering with her Newcomers Club in Darien, Connecticut, and just running me around… Continue reading | 3 Comments
Perfect Parker House Pancakes
Thursday, July 28th, 2011On a recent morning I decided to tackle another staple – pancakes from scratch. I found loads of recipes in my vintage cookbooks, but decided on one from my very funky The New England Yankee Cook Book, by Imogene Wolcott from 1939. Continue reading
An Easy Fruit Dessert – Peach Pudding
Sunday, July 24th, 2011
About a month ago I had on hand a bag of peaches and wanted to make a quick dessert. My cookbook collection has grown and its easy now to just grab a cookbook and look for a suitable recipe. I found an interesting one in what is quickly becoming my favorite vintage cookbook, Ruth Berolzheimer’s, The American
Boston- It’s Got More Than Beans, Pie, and Brown Bread!
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011The history of Back Bay cookies is somewhat a mystery even after quite a bit of sleuthing. The recipe is essentially the same as Boston Cookies found in Fannie Farmer’s Boston Cooking School Cookbook as far back as 1889. Earlier then that I’ve not found a reference to the cookie so it is quite possible that Fannie Farmer invented the cookie. Continue reading | 3 Comments
Waffling over Aunt Lillian’s Waffles
Sunday, June 5th, 2011As I was looking through Aunt Lillian’s cookbook, it struck me that Aunt Lillian’s recipe for waffles might be a fun and simple recipe to make – certainly all the ingredients are on hand at any time in our kitchen.
Dan and I have a special fondness for waffles having made them since we started dating using a vintage waffle iron that belonged to his Aunt Faye. That is… Continue reading | 2 Comments
Oatmeal Cookies – As American as Apple Pie!
Friday, March 11th, 2011
The two recipes I used
There are lots of cookie recipes in Aunt Lilly’s recipe book, so I thought I’d try a tried and true one – oatmeal cookies. Everyone loves oatmeal cookies and I figured I’d find lots of recipes to help me with Aunt Lillian’s spare ingredient list. Not… Continue reading | 2 Comments
A History of the Use of Molasses vs Sugar
Sunday, January 16th, 2011
The cookies with Aunt Lilly's recipe
This blog was going to be about the molasses cookies I made last week. Great cookies made from Aunt Lilly’s recipe. And as I was adding the photos I realized, whoops! I have already blogged about Aunt Lilly’s Molasses Cookie recipe in my second… Continue reading | 4 Comments
