Orange Muffins – Mid-Century Recipe Guest Test Sunday

by Erica | Sep 7, 2014 | Guest Bloggers, Muffins

I didn’t expect the hardest part of this recipe to be the grocery store, but apparently all orange muffin mix nowadays is orange cranberry muffins. This is when mid-century recipe testing gets interesting: when you simply can’t get the ingredient anymore....

Mrs. Kahn’s Banana Sour Cream Cake – A Mid-Century Recipe Test

by RetroRuth | Jun 18, 2014 | Bread and Pastries, Cake & Cupcakes, Desserts

By RetroRuth This week’s recipe was all about what I had laying around the house.  I was out of cheese and tuna, which knocked a whole bunch of mid-century recipes off my radar. But what I DID have was sour cream and bananas, so I did what any self-respecting...

Cheese Filled Pastries With Condensed Cheddar Cheese Soup – A Mid-Century Recipe Test

by RetroRuth | Jan 22, 2014 | Bread and Pastries

Oh, Campbell’s Test Kitchen! How I love you. You’ve created so many epic mid-century dishes, like Black Magic Devil’s Food Cake and Mmm Good Fruit Cake. And now, you’ve done it again. Behold! Cheese Filled Pastries! Secret Ingredient: Cheddar Cheese Condensed Soup Oh...

Sausage Corn Bread Supper – Mid-Century Recipe Guest Test Sunday

by Erica | Jan 19, 2014 | Bread and Pastries, Guest Bloggers, Pork

By Erica According to the advertisement, this is going to be a “man-pleasin’ main dish.” And unfortunately all I have running through my head right now is highly inappropriate jokes about sausages. Sausage Corn Bread Supper – Mid-Century Recipe Guest...

Bacon Muffins – A Mid-Century Church Cookbook Recipe Test

by RetroRuth | Apr 17, 2013 | Bread and Pastries, Breakfast

It’s bacon muffin time! This week we are cooking out of a lovely little book called The Queen’s Book, a collaborative cookbook from the Saginaw, MI area that was published in 1967. I picked this book up recently at a thrift shop, and when I was paging through it this...