by RetroRuth | Dec 23, 2015 | Best & Worst, Cookies & Bars, Desserts
This year I had a whole plateful of 1940’s cookies planned for testing. Unfortunately, seasonal sickness had other plans. Like it usually does in our house. After I got Alex on a round of antibiotics for her ear infection, I was hurriedly able to crank out one cookie...
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...
by RetroRuth | Dec 14, 2012 | Best & Worst, Cookies & Bars, Desserts
Holy cow! If you LOVE a good soft, frosted sugar cookie like I do, you are going to be super-happy you found this recipe! I always love the frosted cookies on holiday cookie plates, so I wanted to find a really good one to include on mine that would be a bit different...
by RetroRuth | Dec 13, 2012 | Best & Worst, Cookies & Bars, Desserts
It’s day two of our ten days of Vintage Christmas Cookies, and today we have one that turned out to be a personal favorite of mine. These lovelies are Chocolate-Filled Snowballs, and they are basically a pecan crescent cookie with a Hershey’s kiss stuffed inside....
by RetroRuth | Dec 12, 2012 | Best & Worst, Cookies & Bars, Desserts, The BEST
It’s cookie time here on the Mid-Century Menu This year I tested 10 different vintage cookie recipes that caught my eye during the year and that I knew I was going to have to make for Christmas. Well, actually there were a lot more than ten I wanted to try, but Tom...
