Who’s ready for a drink? This week we have Curacao Cocktail from John de Kuyper’s Complete Guide to Cocktails from 1965. I seriously love this book. It has a whole section of “dessert recipes” which mostly consist of alcohol poured over ice cream, desserts you can set on fire AND alcohol poured over ice cream that you can set on fire. So it’s pretty much got the whole package. Print Curacao Cocktail Author: John de Kuyper, 1965 Ingredients Orange Bitters 2½ ounces De Kuyper Orange Curacao 2½...
This week we have another fun pie for Pie July! This is Chocolate Topping Pie! 5.0 from 3 reviews Print Chocolate Topping Pie Author: Baker's Chocolate, 1952 Ingredients Chocolate Topping: 6 T butter 6 T confectioner's sugar 1½ squares Baker's Unsweetened Chocolate, melted and cooled slightly 1 egg yolk Peppermint Filling: 1 envelope (1 T) gelatin ¼ cup cold water 2 egg yolks, unbeaten 1¼ cups milk ½ cup finely crushed peppermint stick candy (or round peppermints) ½ cup...
So, I was really excited about the recent First Annual Pieathalon Blogger Challenge. It was crazy, and fun and great and I LOVED it. So much so, that I decided to make this whole month just about pie. And only pie. Sweet and savory, fruity and fun, this is Vintage Pie July! And to kick it off, we have Tom’s favorite pie, ever, ever. Grandma’s Rhubarb Meringue Pie! Print Grandma's Rhubarb Meringue Pie Author: Grandma Clark Ingredients For Crust: ½ cup butter ¼ cup sugar (white or packed brown)...
It’s time for pie!! And not just any pie! This week I am lucky (meh?) enough to be participating in the First Annual Pieathalon, which is basically just a bunch of bloggers who got together and decided we were going to swap vintage pie recipes. Mostly to torture each other, but I think some people were nice and submitted good recipes. Not me, of course, but some people. Anyway, this is Avocado Lime Pie! A “big” thanks to my good friend Erica from Retro Recipe Attempts for submitting this beauty. I especially like how this is even...
This recipe name sounds like a weird way to avoid swearing. “Sweet tater balls, Nellie, them durn cows done broke through the fence again!” Oh, but it gets weirder. Wait until you see what they looked like frying. « Previous Missionary's Curacao, 1972 – Vintage Cocktail Friday Next » Avocado Lime Pie, 1966 – The First Annual Pieathalon! ...
