Retro Recipes Tested Here!
Let’s see a show of hands: Who out there likes canned baked beans? I have to admit that I do enjoy baked beans, even of the canned variety. And I can understand adding a few ingredients to a can of baked beans to perk up the flavor, which is very common in mid-century recipes. However, this is the first time I’ve ever “perked up” the flavor of canned baked beans with tomato juice and GELATIN. Behold, Barbecue Bean Mold. This {Read More}
From the “New Year’s Eve Salads” section of The Beta Sigma Phi Holiday Cookbook, 1971 « Previous Tomato Aspic Mold – 1968 Next » The Twinkie Wiener Sandwich – A Retro Movie Recipe Test
Welcome to this week’s Mid-Century Menu! Since we are doing Mid-Century Christmas here at the blog, I decided to do a holiday meal to fit in with the theme and get everyone into the spirit! Hubs was pretty excited when he found out that I would be making pumpkin pie. So much so that I don’t think he really listened to what else was going to be on the menu. Poor guy. So, I picked the menu from the Pillsbury {Read More}
So, Hubs and I had an idea the other day. I have a TON of vintage cookbooks that I have collected over the years, and I love to dig through them and try recipes. I was talking to Hubs about featuring a recipe every week on the blog from one of my cookbooks and calling it, The Mid-Century Menu. But then he went one further. “Why don’t we make it?” he said. “What, you mean make the recipe for dinner?” “Sure, {Read More}
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