Elegant Cheese Squares – 1975

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Fancy Layer Cookies –The 10 Days of Christmas Cookies

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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}

Pineapple Cream Cheese Squares

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  Welcome to this week’s Mid-Century Menu!  This week we are delving into an area we haven’t played in much in the Mid-Century Menu: Desserts. Not pies or cakes, but Jello-based desserts.  Mostly the Jello here is filled with onions and celery, and hardly ever turns into anything even remotely dessert-like.  Well, today we are going to turn it all around with Sweet Endings From Dream Whip Whipped Topping Mix, which was published in 1974. And yes, they DO still {Read More}