by RetroRuth | Jan 24, 2020 | Cocktail Party, Cocktails
Welcome to Vintage Cocktail Friday! This week we are going to make a melon cocktail that has no melon in it. This is Melon Cocktail! From vintage tabletop fortune card [cooked-sharing] And no, we aren’t just drinking heavily because it’s storming out every weekend and...
by RetroRuth | Jan 17, 2020 | Beverages
I know it is the middle of January, but Happy 2020 everyone! I hope that you all have a happy and healthy year ahead of you. This year the blog is finally going to be getting its redesign I have been promising, turning it into a blog AND a vintage recipe archive....
by RetroRuth | Nov 8, 2019 | Appetizers, Cocktail Party, Hello Jell-O
This week we have a fun recipe that has been highly requested on the blog. This is Jellied Pate! From Good Housekeeping Complete Christmas Cookbook, 1967 [cooked-sharing] These were some of my options for molding. I still think I should have gone with the dot one....
by RetroRuth | Oct 11, 2019 | Cocktail Party, Desserts
This week we are baking bananas and basting them in “juice”. Beer-filled juice. From Parties In Motion [cooked-sharing] So, not too much to this recipe, but yet I was very excited to see the result. Would we end up with a delicious banana dessert confection or just...
by RetroRuth | Oct 4, 2019 | Cocktail Party, Cocktails
Welcome to a cocktail post! I know it has been forever, but I am very happy to bring these cocktail tests to you, AND to kick off a fun week of cocktail recipes from the blog that will be running on our Facebook page! This is a fun post because you are getting three...