Sausage Corn Bread Supper – Mid-Century Recipe Guest Test Sunday

by Erica | Jan 19, 2014 | Bread and Pastries, Guest Bloggers, Pork | 3 comments

By Erica According to the advertisement, this is going to be a “man-pleasin’ main dish.” And unfortunately all I have running through my head right now is highly inappropriate jokes about sausages. Print Sausage Corn Bread Supper – Mid-Century Recipe...

Vintage Cocktail Friday – Boston Milk Punch, 1940

by RetroRuth | Jan 17, 2014 | Appetizers, Beverages, Cocktails | 5 comments

Are you ready for a Friday cocktail? Because Tom is ready to drink some Boston Milk Punch! 4.0 from 1 reviews Print Boston Milk Punch Author: The Merry Mixer, 1940   Ingredients Nutmeg ½ spoon sugar ½ jigger of Golden Wedding ½ Bacardi...

Heinz Carnival Cream (aka Ketchup Ice Cream) – A Mid-Century Recipe Test

by RetroRuth | Jan 15, 2014 | Desserts | 31 comments

Ever wondered what to do when you only have a cup of cream, a blob of ketchup in the bottle and three eggs? Personally, I would just make scrambled eggs and have a cup of coffee, but it turns out that with those ingredients you can also make a quick dessert! This is...

Heinz Tomato Ketchup, 1959 – The Mid-Century Shopping Cart

by RetroRuth | Jan 14, 2014 | Mid-Century Shopping Cart | 1 comment

From Better Homes and Gardens, August 1959

Top 10 Vintage Recipe Tests of 2013 – Spam, Vintage Cocktails and Tons of Gelatin!

by RetroRuth | Jan 13, 2014 | Best & Worst, Vintage Cooking | 8 comments

2013 was a pretty crazy year for Mid-Century Menu! We tested about 75 vintage recipes, most of them gelatin and not enough of them cocktails. We took about 3000 pictures of food, spent hundreds of hours editing and writing and in the end our blog tripled it’s...