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Zippy Beets! & New Thrills of Freezing with a Frigidaire Food Freezer

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Zippy Beets, and New Thrills of Freezing with a Frigidaire Food Freezer, the final post for the A to Z Challenge.

It is the final day of the A to Z Challenge and we have reached the Letter Z! Congratulations to all my fellow A to Zers on a blog challenge well done! For my last post on Vintage Cookbooks & Recipes I am sharing one of each. Zippy Beets… my DJ name in college? No! […]

War Time Cake, from Your Share: Daily Helps for Wartime Meal-Planning and Cooking

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Your Share is not just a vintage cookbook, it offers a unique perspective on the WWII era, on what it meant to provide for the family at that time.

  This cookbook was published under the Betty Crocker imprint by General Mills in 1943. (We just watched Captain America:The First Avenger two nights ago, and it takes place at about the same year!) During World War II Americans at home-made sacrifices in an effort to send all the support possible to the armed forces. […]

An eXcellent Cheape Soup, Xavier Suppe: Vintage Recipes

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The first recipe is for Xavier Suppe, cooked dumplings flavored with Parmesan herbs. The recipe from rarecooking.com is for "An Excellent Cheape Soup".

Since I have no vintage cookbooks whose titles begin with the letter X, I decided to use two X recipes instead. Vintage recipes, of course! I began considering recipes for iceboX cakes, MeXican cookies, and the like. My husband scoured the internet to help me, and lucky for me he came across two intriguing recipes. […]

Quick Tortoni, from Wonderful World of Cooking: Italian Recipes

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Wonderful World of Cooking Volume 2 Italian Recipes

This little cooking booklet was published in 1965 by Harwood & Tjaden. The recipes were created and compiled by Ruth Conrad Bateman, “professional home economist and foods writer.” Bateman had a few other cookbooks published in the 60’s and 70’s as well, and according to the writeup in this one there were supposed to be two […]

Frozen Strawberry Squares, from the Vermont Symphony Orchestra Cookbook

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Vermont Symphony Orchestra Cookbook

My fabulous mother-in-law Pati bestowed upon me her copy of The Vermont Symphony Orchestra Cookbook. It was published in 1984 by the Rutland (VT) Area Chapter of the Friends of the VSO to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Orchestra. All of the recipes were submitted by the Friends of the VSO. It is […]

Uncle Bob’s Peanut Butter Sandwich with Texas Sweets, from Patio Daddy-O

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The Patio Daddy-O Cookbook has '50's Recipes with a '90's Twist.

This cookbook, Patio Daddy-O, is sort of on topic with my “Vintage Cookbooks” theme… and it sort of isn’t.The cookbook was published in 1996, so it definitely isn’t vintage. It isn’t even “classic” yet. However, the recipes it contains are vintage! Well, sort of. The book is described as having “’50’s Recipes with a ’90’s […]

Golden Turkish Paste, from The Good Housekeeping Cookbook

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Golden Turkish Paste candy recipe, from the 1942 Good Housekeeping Cookbook.

This Good Housekeeping Cookbook from 1942 is a weighty tome. This is not just a cookbook, but a “well-seasoned guide to the many food problems that all homemakers face day after day, week after week.” In addition to recipes for all courses, this book has sections dedicated to food shopping, meal planning, cooking and kitchen […]

Orange Refrigerator Cookies, from the Sunbeam Mixmaster Manual

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The 1950 Sunbeam Mixmaster Manual, with recipes for Orange Refrigerator Cookies and Easy Jelly Icing.

This is a manual for the Sunbeam Automatic Mixmaster, which will “do all of your mixing, mashing, whipping, beating, stirring, blending, juicing, folding and creaming.” This manual was printed in 1950. And though I don’t have a 1950 Mixmaster, I do have a 1979 model that belonged to my grandmother.It still has a lot of […]

Vanilla Chip Caramels, from Recipes That Pep-Up Meals with Wise Potato Chips

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Vanilla Chip Caramels is one recipe in this cookbooklet: Recipes That Pep-Up Meals with Wise Potato Chips, published in 1957 by the Wise Potato Chip Company.

Did you know that absolutely every meal of every day can include potato chips? You heard right! This book makes it possible. It turns humble potato chips into culinary works of art. This is the cookbook-let titled: Recipes That Pep-Up Meals with Wise Potato Chips. It was published in 1957 by the Wise Potato Chip Company that […]

Waffle Club Rabbit, from 133 Quicker Ways to Homemade with Bisquick

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Waffle Club Rabbit is one tasty recipe from 133 Quicker Ways to Homemade with Bisquick, a 1959 publication from Bisquick and Betty Crocker.

This little booklet was printed in 1959, a joint effort from Bisquick and Betty Crocker. It’s meant to be a helpful resource to home cooks who want “good homemade food, quickly prepared.” The cookbook opens with a classic Bisquick biscuit recipe and techniques, and then ten variations. There’s a lemon one that is suggested be […]

Brunswick Stew, from Praise For the Cook

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Praise For the Cook is a 1959 cookbook dedicated to the almighty Crisco!The featured recipe from this cookbook is Brunswick Stew.

Praise For the Cook is another cookbook dedicated to the almighty Crisco! (Like the Crisco’s Easy As Pie Cookbook that was for letter C.) This was published in 1959. It has lots of standards for meals, snacks and entertaining as well as “sparkling new and modern cooking ideas.” It has the classic 1950’s feel with the […]

Bishop’s Cake, from Out of Vermont Kitchens of St. Paul’s Church

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The Out of Vermont Kitchens community cookbook was published in 1951 by St. Paul's Church of Burlington, Vermont. The featured recipe is Bishop's Cake.

This edition of the Out of Vermont Kitchens community cookbook was published in 1951 by the Women’s Service League of the St. Paul’s Church of Burlington, Vermont.It was published by George Little Press, also of Burlington. This is a charming, little collection of recipes, each in the original script of the person who submitted it. It […]

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