Retro Recipe Attempts

Happy birthday to Buzz! Swan’s Down Cake Flour put out a pamphlet in 1944 describing their new “Mix-Easy” method of cake making. And I’m all about finding a new (to me) cake recipe! LUSCI...

https://retrorecipe.wordpress.com/2017/03/20/luscious-cocoa-cake/

via The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

https://retrorecipe.wordpress.com/2016/11/21/happy-thanksgiving-4/

The major party presidential candidates named their running mates in July, so this month we are featuring a vice presidential recipe. It comes to us from Hubert Humphrey, who served from 1965-196...

https://retrorecipe.wordpress.com/2016/08/01/humphreys-beef-soup-home-made/

This Fourth of July also coincides with our regularly scheduled “political” recipe Mondays. We decided to do a bonus double recipe, starting off with a quick kid-friendly sandwich: Meet Frank...

https://retrorecipe.wordpress.com/2016/07/04/frankie-doodle-dandy-with-red-white-and-blue-cobbler/

Welcome to the 3rd Annual Pieathalon! Yinzerella of Dinner Is Served 1972 has once again collected retro bloggers and arranged for us all to swap pie recipes with one another. And once again, I s...

https://retrorecipe.wordpress.com/2016/06/08/pieathalon-mai-tai-pie/

A couple of weeks ago while shopping for Puddin Cookies ingredients, we were debating what our next politician recipe attempt ought to be. The universe delivered us an easy option: Watergate Sala...

https://retrorecipe.wordpress.com/2016/06/06/watergate-salad/

What’s most exciting to me about this week’s recipe is the advertisement — more specifically, the serving platter. See that fish in the middle with an olive in its mouth? Just… wow. CREAM...

https://retrorecipe.wordpress.com/2016/05/30/creamed-tuna-crumbles/

I’ve mentioned elsewhere that it’s acceptable to call somebody puddin’ (perhaps an affectionate nickname for a child), but it’s pretty rude to call them pudding. I think Bisquick was foll...

https://retrorecipe.wordpress.com/2016/05/23/puddin-cookies/

As summer starts to really settle in, sometimes you just want to grill out and enjoy a nice juicy burger. And then you remember your daughter is a pescatarian, put the ground beef back in the gro...

https://retrorecipe.wordpress.com/2016/05/09/tuna-burgers/

Strom Thurmond is a legend in South Carolina politics. What kind of legend is a matter of debate though. A staunch opponent of integration and miscegenation, who fathered a child with his family�...

https://retrorecipe.wordpress.com/2016/05/02/hot-fruit-casserole/