Retro Recipes Tested Here!
Hope everyone is all geared up for Christmas! If your holiday spirit hasn’t reached a fever pitch yet, I might have something to get your motor running. Here are the ten vintage Christmas cookie recipes we tried this year! (If you want to be ultra-festive, you could even sing the list to the 12 Days of Christmas while you read the list. Although there are only 10 kinds of cookies, so you are going to run out of stuff at {Read More}
This is it! The 10th Day! And on the 10th Day of Vintage Christmas cookies, I gave to Tom… Fancy Layer Cookies!! I was actually really excited to make these bars. The recipe is from a 1959 Pet Milk Pamphlet entitled, “Cookies, Cookies”. With a name like that, the recipes have to be awesome, right? I was also really excited about the having the chocolate and vanilla batter. Print Fancy Layer Cookies Author: PET Milk – 1959 Ingredients 1¾ cups {Read More}
Yep. That’s right. There is ketchup in these cookies. And gumdrops. We can’t forget about that. When I saw this recipe in a Betty Crocker pamphlet from the 1960’s, I immediately put it on my to-make list. For some reason, I am a total sucker for recipes that randomly throw in tomato products. Print Gumdrop Jumbos Author: Betty Crocker Ingredients 1 cup butter or margarine, softened ½ cup granulated sugar ½ cup brown sugar (packed) 2 eggs 1 tsp vanilla {Read More}
Well, we’ve brought you some amazing vintage Christmas cookies these past few days so now, in true Mid-Century Menu fashion, it’s time to bring you some cookies that aren’t so great. We’ve saved the “best” for last and are now happy to bring you: Christmas Snowballs! It would be unfair to say these cookies are bad, because they aren’t. They just aren’t as amazing as the cookies we featured on previous days. These have all the makings of a great {Read More}
What would a mid-century Christmas cookie plate be without some spritz cookies? I was thrilled when I found this recipe for Snowflake Spritz in the April 1969 issue of Mail Box News because…well…I have this vintage cookie gun…. It’s the Cookie-Chef Trig-A-Matic Pastry Gun. Isn’t that the best name ever? When I say it I feel like Ralphie telling Santa what BB gun he wants for Christmas. And let me tell you, this Cookie-Chef is awesome. Any excuse I can {Read More}
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