by RetroRuth | Dec 20, 2013 | Cake & Cupcakes, Christmas, Desserts, Holiday
Welcome to Day Two of the Five Days of Fruit Cake! There are many, many reasons why I picked today’s fruit cake for testing. The first reason is because it has the name “mystery” in the title. Whenever recipes have the word “mystery” or “surprise” in the title, I...
by RetroRuth | Dec 19, 2013 | Cake & Cupcakes, Christmas, Desserts, Holiday
This year for our Christmas baking we decided to throw all caution to the wind and to venture into the land of doorstops and vibrantly-colored, nuclear fruit. That’s right. This year it’s fruit cake for all! What’s funny is that during the mid-century, fruit cake was...
by RetroRuth | Dec 18, 2013 | Cake & Cupcakes, Desserts
In preparation for the upcoming Five Days of Fruitcake here on the blog (starting on Friday, 12/20!) I thought I would pull this unusual, and somewhat controversial, fruitcake from our archive! Pork cake made us laugh and it made us cry, but the one thing that it...
by RetroRuth | Dec 13, 2013 | Beverages, Cocktails
To celebrate the end of this week, we are making a vintage classic! Hot Buttered Rum! Hot Buttered Rum Author: The Merry Mixer, 1940 Ingredients 2 tsp sugar 2 T hot water 1 jigger rum butter Instructions In warm tumbler, melt the sugar into the hot water. Add in the...
by RetroRuth | Dec 7, 2013 | Vintage Cooking
Cookie time is almost here, so this week I decided to celebrate a great vintage kitchen tool, the cookie press or cookie gun. Even though Mirro is the most recognizable of all the cookie presses, there were many different companies that made their own presses for...
