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Carrot Bread, 1967 – A Vintage Recipe Test

Carrot Bread, 1967 – A Vintage Recipe Test

by RetroRuth | Jun 19, 2020 | Best & Worst, Bread, Bread and Pastries, Tested Recipes, The BEST

So, after the marshmallow shock of last week (which actually turned out well!) I decided to give us all a break this week. Especially Tom, since Father’s Day is this weekend. So I made a nice Carrot Bread! From The Queen's Book, 1967 [cooked-sharing] This recipe...
Peanut Butter Sandwich Bread, 1937 – Retro Recipe Test

Peanut Butter Sandwich Bread, 1937 – Retro Recipe Test

by RetroRuth | May 15, 2020 | Bread, Muffins, Tested Recipes

I recently needed some PB&J sandwich bread and I didn’t feel like braving the situation at Meijer. So I hit the books and came up with this recipe. This is Peanut Butter Bread! From Favorite Recipes of Isabella County's Best Cooks, From Readers of Isabella...
Banana Bread, 1960  – A Mid-Century Recipe Test

Banana Bread, 1960 – A Mid-Century Recipe Test

by RetroRuth | Feb 8, 2019 | Bread and Pastries

Alex had a ridiculous number of snow days in a row recently, so I haven’t got much recipe testing done. But I did have some bananas that were going black, so I decided a good snow day activity would be making banana bread! From How America Eats by Clementine...
Cream of Chicken Soup Corn Bread, 1955 – A Mid-Century Recipe Test

Cream of Chicken Soup Corn Bread, 1955 – A Mid-Century Recipe Test

by RetroRuth | Jan 25, 2017 | Bread and Pastries

Welcome back to Mid-Century Menu, where this week we are making cornbread with condensed soup in it. This is Corn Bread! Exciting, exciting corn bread. From Soup Cookery The Savory Heinz Way, 1955 [cooked-sharing] This recipe is, unsurprisingly, from Soup Cookery The...
Potato Chip Coffee Cake, 1957– A Vintage Recipe Test

Potato Chip Coffee Cake, 1957– A Vintage Recipe Test

by RetroRuth | Jan 4, 2017 | Best & Worst, Bread and Pastries, The BEST

Happy New Year! I don’t know about you, but I am pretty excited to kick 2016 goodbye. 2017 is going to be so much better for me, because not only am I moving on to some new and better things, but I am also going to be revisiting old things that made me happy. Like...
Stollen, 1959  – A Vintage Holiday Recipe Re-Run

Stollen, 1959 – A Vintage Holiday Recipe Re-Run

by RetroRuth | Dec 22, 2016 | Best & Worst, Bread and Pastries, Christmas, Holiday, The BEST

If you haven’t decided on that special item to bake for your Christmas get-togethers this weekend, try this! This week I have a special recipe test for all of you! It is sort of a guest test, but in another way it isn’t. This week, we all get to enjoy a recipe...
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