It’s Cake Time! I just realized that I haven’t put many dessert recipes on this site, so I’m adding a Standard Cake recipe from the 1959 It’s Dinner Time. This standard, or plain cake recipe also includes basic directions for making: Spice Cake, Chocolate Cake, Marble Cake, Nut Cake, Common Fruit Cake, White Cake and [...]

This Boston Brown Bread recipe comes from the 1953, Let’s Get Acquainted With Your Hotpoint Electric Range. This recipe has instructions for the Thrift Cooker on the Hotpoint Electric range, but I’ve added other cooking instructions for those of us without the cool vintage Hotpoint range. 2 cups whole wheat flour 1 cup corn meal [...]

This wonderful recipe comes from the 1954 Flako Recipe Album. Brush up on those cooking skills, this is a tricky one!  This recipe is the one in the lower right in the photo. 1 package Flakorn Corn Muffin Mix 1 egg 2/3 cup milk 2 (14 oz.) cans chicken fricassee Empty contents of package into [...]

Mmmmm… Meat Cookies!  This recipe for Sanbusek, aka Meat Cookies, (actually, it is more of a turnover) is from Cooking With A Foreign Accent, published in 1952 by Sunset Publishing. The recipe is part of their Lebanese Dinner Recipe section, and sounds very tasty.  Almost like a basic Cornish Pasty minus the potato. Tiny turnovers, filled [...]

Mmmmm, mmmm! This recipe for Chocolate Eclairs is from the 1956 edition of Desserts Men Like. You know, being a man, I like eclairs for dessert, or breakfast for that matter! Actually… I don’t have a huge sweet tooth, but I enjoyed eclairs when I was a kid. Anyhow, here is a retro recipe to [...]

This recipe comes from the 1953 edition of Home Baking Made Easy from Spry. Bake in hot oven (425 degrees F) 30-35 min.  Makes one 8″ x 8″ square. 1 cup sifted all-purpose flour 1-1/2 cups corn meal 3 teaspoons baking powder 2 teaspoons salt 1/2 cup Homogenized Spry 2 eggs, beaten 1-1/2 cups milk [...]

Here is another recipe from the Halloween section of the Ten P.M. Cook Book.  The drink in the food photo is the Hot Spiced Pineapple Juice from the previous recipe post. 3 – 1/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour 2 teasp. baking powder 1 teasp. baking soda 1/2 teasp. cinnamon 1/2 teasp. nutmeg 1/2 teasp. mace [...]

Whew, I wish I had a piece of this right now!  This recipe is from the Fun with Coffee cookbook, published in 1956. 1 package butterscotch cake mix 2/3 cup brown sugar 2/3 cup sugar 5 tablespoons cocoa 1-1/4 cup strong, cold coffee 1 quart coffee ice cream Prepare cake mix as directed on package. [...]