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The Perfect Orange Cake, 1923

19-Mar-09

As much as I love vintage recipes, that is mostly for curiosity’s sake. It is very rare that an old recipe looks so good that I want to rush out and try it for the taste alone! But this recipe for orange cake, from an ad for Royal baking powder in the May 1923 issue [...]

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Card Party, 1923

26-Jan-09

These cute cookies about are part of the menu for a card party which comes from the November 1923 issue of Woman’s Home Companion. I think they would be very easy to do with any roll-out dough recipe for sugar cookies and so I won’t reprint that recipe here. Instead, I discovered a very interesting [...]

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Dresses and Lingerie, 1923

12-Dec-08

I really love the style of these dresses! The illustration is from the November 1923 issue of Women’s Home Companion magazine, and the headline for the article it is featured in is “Lanvin Does Things With Embroidery.” According to Wikipedia, Lanvin began in 1909 and was founded by Jeanne Lanvin. In the 1920’s and 1930’s [...]

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Interior Design in 1923

30-Nov-08

A good place to get ideas about what ideal interior designs of a certain time period looked like is in ads of the times. The rooms displayed in ads were intended to draw the admiration of the reader in order to associate their product with the beautiful, stylish design.
The kitchen shown above is taken from [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving!

27-Nov-08

-Taken from Campbell’s ad from the November 1923 Women’s Home Companion.
I personally can’t imagine a worse time to catch a stomach virus than Thanksgiving week. Unfortunately, that’s just what happened to me! I had the week scheduled off from work, and had plans of things to do around the house, and new recipes to try, [...]

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