Potato Chip Cookies – A Vintage Recipe Test

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Hooray for cookies! This week we are making a little recipe I found in a community cookbook from 1970 called, “Cooking in Circles.” Tom is a big fan of cookies, even more so than pie and much more so than cake. He also loves potato chips, so when I saw this recipe for Potato Chip Cookies I thought we would have a total winner. And when I say this is a little recipe, I actually mean “little”.  I have found {Read More}

The 10 Days of Vintage Christmas Cookies Round-Up AND My Recent Appearance on the Radio!

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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}

Christmas Snowballs – The 10 Days of Vintage Christmas Cookies

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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}

Colorful Cookies–The Third Place Best Winner In the Glistening And Jiggly Contest

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Guess what? It’s time for cookies! Fun, bright cookies made with a package of Jell-O. Yep, that’s right. Jell-O. It turns out that not all gelatin dishes are meant to be put into a mold. This was sent into us by P’Gell, who also sent us an interesting looking recipe for a pie that I am still planning on making when I find some spare time. But these cookies just called to us. I mean, come on. Cookies made with {Read More}

Trutti Frutti Easter Eggs

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“Eggs” huh? Well, either way, they look awful. From Cookie Cookbook, 1965 « Previous Voting Begins In Our “Let’s Sing A Tune To Tuna Contest”!   Next » Della Robbia Pie