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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 all of these recipes are included, and I have scanned thumbnails of them below in case anything from the menu above strikes your fancy. The lime relish baskets sound especially unusual and I can’t help wondering if they are good - it involves mixing lime pulp, artichoke hearts, corn, pimientos and onions, and serving them in little baskets cut out of the limes. The golden potato cones seen in the photo look pretty interesting, too.

But of course, any Thanksgiving dinner needs a great deal of desserts! Pies are always a traditional choice, but this article takes them way beyond the usual pumpkin or pecan. Look at the variety of recipes you’ll find here:

The raspberry-pear and the Chocolate-nut Cream sound delicious and different.

Finally, here are thumbnails of all the recipes included in the article; as always, you can click on them to enlarge and read. I hope you try something to add a little vintage style to your Thanksgiving! Or if you are not in the United States, perhaps some of these would work as a special addition to a normal weeknight dinner.