by RetroRuth | May 13, 2015 | Desserts, Pie, The WORST
I was pretty excited when I picked out this recipe. Grapefruit Cream Pie! How good does that sound? Well, it probably sounds better if last week you had to eat a Crabmeat and Grapefruit Cocktail. Compared to that, a Grapefruit Pie sounds like the best thing in the...
by RetroRuth | Dec 10, 2014 | Best & Worst, Candy, Christmas, Desserts, Holiday, The BEST
‘Tis the season! The season for fudge, that is. I have been setting aside vintage fudge recipes I’ve come across all year so that I can do the very difficult job of testing out fudge recipes for you guys! And because I figured Tom needs a little treat for being such a...
by RetroRuth | Jul 16, 2014 | Desserts, Pie
This pie originally ran in September of 2012, but I think it has potential, so I am breaking it out again for Vintage Pie July! After all, who doesn’t like a peanut butter pie, right? Unless it is a peanut butter pie with a bunch of lemon juice in it. Then...
by RetroRuth | Jun 30, 2014 | Desserts, Pie
It’s time for pie!! And not just any pie! This week I am lucky (meh?) enough to be participating in the First Annual Pieathalon, which is basically just a bunch of bloggers who got together and decided we were going to swap vintage pie recipes. Mostly to torture each...
by RetroRuth | Dec 22, 2013 | Cake & Cupcakes, Christmas, Desserts, Holiday
It’s Day Four of The Five Days of Fruit Cake, and today we have a fruit cake made of sweetened condensed milk and corn flakes. Which is a little crazy. Ever-So-Easy Fruit Cake Author: Borden, 1972 Ingredients 3 eggs, slightly beaten 1 can sweetened condensed milk 1...
