Retro Recipes Tested Here!
Soooo…I normally don’t do this here on the Mid-Century Menu. Usually we find a mid-century recipe, reproduce it exactly, and then we stuff whatever concoction that it produces in our faces, chunks of American cheese and all. That’s the fun of this site. But honestly, I have to tell you guys that a lot of the time I remake recipes, playing around with them behind the scenes if I think stuff has potential. Normally I keep all this to myself {Read More}
It’s bacon muffin time! This week we are cooking out of a lovely little book called The Queen’s Book, a collaborative cookbook from the Saginaw, MI area that was published in 1967. I picked this book up recently at a thrift shop, and when I was paging through it this little recipe with bacon caught my eye. Print Bacon Muffins Ingredients 2 slices bacon 2 cups flour 3 t. baking powder ½ t. salt 3 T. sugar 1 egg {Read More}
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Hello, everyone! Welcome to the Mid-Century Menu, a small torture that I foist on my husband every week in which I find the weirdest mid-century recipe I can from my collection of vintage cookbooks, make it, and then force him to eat it. Poor Hubs. This week’s recipe is something that I have seen around a lot in my cookbooks, and I have always wanted to try: The Frosted Sandwich Loaf. Not quite a sandwich, and not quite a cake, this {Read More}
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