This advertisement from the December, 1949 issue of Ladies’ Home Journal provides the reader with a number of delicious-sounding recipes that can all be made from just one pound of Diamond Walnuts! Maybe I’m just extra hungry right now, but these recipes actually all look really good to me. And none of them seem very [...]
On this, the last day of my Thanksgiving holiday entries, I decided to finish with a subject that even today would scare me if I actually had to bake the turkey myself. I am referring to the way to carve a turkey. The November 1907 issue of Delineator magazine had pages full of Thanksgiving articles, [...]
This is a wonderful old menu from the November 1920 issue of McCall’s magazine. There are some charming illustrations here, like the table setting in the middle of the page, with the caption reading “Dewy purple grapes, golden-brown corn, ruddy apples, vine leaves - a charming harvest table.”
On the bottom are pictures of “a tomato [...]
Continuing on with some vintage Thanksgiving recipes, we turn now to a feature that appeared in the November 1968 issue of Family Circle magazine. The cover of the magazine boasted, “Turkey and beef!” Here is the menu for this huge holiday dinner:
and many of those items are pictured here:
Luckily, at the end of this article [...]
In only a few weeks, Thanksgiving will arrive here in the United States. From now until then, I will be posting some Thanksgiving recipes and tips from vintage magazines. Some of the recipes sound so outrageous today that I doubt anyone will even attempt to recreate them, but others actually sound quite good and may [...]
Just as the economy today is teaching many of us to turn to less expensive ingredients and to do away with things that aren’t necessities, in 1974 the United States was in the midst of a recession and changes were being made. This little recipe booklet is one example of that. However, it comes from [...]
Sorry it has been so slow around here lately. I’ve been away on vacation for a little over a week, and before that was preparing for the trip and for finishing things up at work, so I haven’t been able to post. (My vacation photos are here if you’d like to see them - they [...]
This article comes from the September 1912 issue of McCall’s magazine. I love reading old recipes, because so often they demonstrate how much our palates have changed from one generation to another. Sometimes, though, they show how much our tastes remain the same. I found both of these statements to be proven in this one [...]
The January 1942 issue of McCall’s magazine offers some recipes to make that taste good while using inexpensive types of meat. They are all supposed to appeal to everyone in the family, and you could choose from the recipes depending on what types of meat your family liked best.
“Is the family steak-hungry?” Then you should [...]
Above we see an ad for the “Hoosier Special Kitchen Cabinet” from 1909. From the same issue comes this collection of recipes, for times when company came unexpectedly and the woman of the house had to prepare something to eat at a moment’s notice. The introduction to this article states:
There are times when every housekeeper [...]
