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This Year’s Winners Are – Winners Of The 2021 Lamb Cake Contest
Whew! Thanks for sticking with me. The contest took soooooo long to finally wrap up this year. It's been plagued with all kinds of techical difficulties and site issues. I am sorry for everyone who couldn't get the gallery to load or who wasn't able to vote....
Time To Vote! – Finished Reader Gallery For The 10th Lambieversary Lamb Cake Contest!
Hello, everyone! Thank you so much to everyone who participated in, shared, or got excited about the Lamb Cake Contest! We are still doing the random draw prizes, but if you would like to vote for the Reader's Choice categories, you can go here. Since I'm not on...
Is Your Lamb Here? – A Sneak Peek Of The 2021 Lamb Cake Contest Participants
Hello! Just popping in quick to say that despite the *eye-roll* social media drama going on, I managed to compile a prelim gallery of Lamb Cake contest contestants! (I am adding info/comments to the photos still, so this isn't the finished gallery) I am posting a...
Blog Format Change And Temporary Changes To Social Media
Well, hello there everyone! It's been a crazy, exhausting, emotional week here on Mid-Century Menu. But I'm here to tell you a couple of things that will be impacting the normal rhythm of this blog. Hopefully for only a few months! The social media accounts for the...
Whipped Fudge Frosting And Larry, The Chocolate-Prune Lamb
Here he is! Larry the Lamb. Larry is full of prunes and covered with soft fudge frosting, but who's judging right? Oh, that's right. The whole internet is judging him, aren't they? Anyway, here is Whipped Fudge Frosting! Oh, and here is the...
Chocolate Prune Cake, 1933 – A 1930’s Recipe Test
Well, hello! This week we have a recipe that I kind of tested, but also may have had to substitute 1/3 of the ingredients for other stuff. Because that is how I prepare, apparently. This is Chocolate Prune Cake!!! So, as I mentioned above,...
10th Lambieversary Lamb Cake Contest – Tips, Recipes, The 10th Annual Reader’s Lamb Cake Gallery and Giveaway!
Guess what time it is?? That's right, it's Lamb Cake Time! It's the 10th Lambieversary of the Lamb Cake Contest! Can you believe it? The 10th year! Ten! That's crazy and so amazing. This year we are celebrating ourselves, our ability to adapt, our families, our...
Black and White Fluff, 1939 – A Vintage Recipe Test
This week, we are going to make a dessert with bananas and prunes! This is Black and White Fluff! Now, if you don't recognize this book, it is the book I made California Prune Cream Salad out of a couple of years ago. It was terrible. So I...
7-Up Baked Beans – A Vintage Recipe Test
Hello! This week we are going to pour a bunch of 7-Up into baked beans. Because why not? These are 7-Up Baked Beans! This was another recipe chosen by Patreon patrons! There was a tie in the poll from a few weeks ago, between this and the...
Avocado Bread, 1971 – A Vintage Recipe Test
I have some buttermilk and some avocados in my fridge, so it's time to make some bread! Avocado Bread! Oh, sorry. I mean, "Avacado" Bread It took a bit to get the avocado for this bread. First, my grocery order came without one. Then, TJ...
Frosted Chicken Loaf – A Vintage Recipe Guest Post
Welcome back to the blog, and welcome to 2021. In true 2021 spirit, I didn't make anything this week. But don't worry. Thanks to reader Jessica, we still have a post! This is Jessica's Frosted Chicken Loaf! I'm just going to let Jessica...
Top Five Tested Vintage Recipes From 2020
Well, even though 2020 was a trash-can fire of a year, I still had a lot of fun doing recipes for the blog. Admittedly, I didn't get as many recipes done as I wanted to, but that was pretty much the theme of everything this year. Besides some really fun recipe tests,...
