by RetroRuth | Jan 9, 2013 | Contests, Hello Jell-O
This tested recipe is STILL from our Gelatin Contest! Can you believe it? I never thought I would be dragging this thing out until 2013, but here you go. And we still have 11 tested gelatins yet to go, so if you submitted a recipe but haven’t seen it yet, don’t give...
by RetroRuth | Jan 2, 2013 | MCMenu Fun, Tom
I think that we can all agree that Tom puts up with a lot for this blog. Just this year alone he’s had to eat a lot of horrible gelatin, a liver pate where the secret ingredient was canned green beans and a sub with canned spaghetti on it. Plus, he’s had to put up...
by RetroRuth | Dec 24, 2012 | Cookies & Bars, Desserts
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...
by RetroRuth | Dec 22, 2012 | Best & Worst, Cookies & Bars, Desserts, The WORST
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...
by RetroRuth | Dec 20, 2012 | Cookies & Bars, Desserts
Yep. That’s right. There is ketchup in these cookies. And gumdrops. We can’t forget about that. When I saw this recipe in a Betty Crocker pamphlet from the 1960’s, I immediately put it on my to-make list. For some reason, I am a total sucker for recipes that randomly...
