Chocolate-Filled Snowballs – The 10 Days of Vintage Christmas Cookies

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It’s day two of our ten days of Vintage Christmas Cookies, and today we have one that turned out to be a personal favorite of mine. These lovelies are Chocolate-Filled Snowballs, and they are basically a pecan crescent cookie with a Hershey’s kiss stuffed inside. Score. I’ve seen this cookie, or versions of it, floating around recently in modern cookbooks and whenever I see it I always want to try it.  Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at {Read More}

Brownie S’mores with Easy Red, White and Blue Marshmallows – A Fourth of July Mid-Century Recipe Test

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Happy Fourth of July, Everyone! I hope you are all participating in  – or planning to participate in – some fun today! Tom and I are just hanging out and relaxing today. Oh, and probably making up more of these bad boys: And by bad, this time I mean really, really good. These are Brownie S’mores! This recipe for brownie s’mores comes from Betty Crocker’s Party Book, which was published in 1960 and is proof positive that not only is {Read More}