So many great, fun cookbooks this week! Pull up a chair and let’s get to it because we have some great recipes and books to show you, including hollowed out bread filled with peas, “pizza” made with buns and ketchup, terrifying clown cake, really pointy gelatin and flaming hot dog kebabs!
Vtg 1953 7up Recipe Booklet "Fresh Up," Familiar Foods & Party Treats
Why I Want This: Who doesn’t want to drink 7up in milk? And that 7up cake is a serious temptation.
Vintage Marlboro Trail Recipe Book 1974
Why I Want This: I have to admit, the format of this cookbook is pretty cool!
Vintage Recipe Magic Using Heinz Stained And Junior Foods
Why I Want This: I think Alex has coasted by for long enough now. She’s going to be 4 months old, soon, and is high time she started tasting mid-century recipes!
VTG Fondue Set Gourmet International UNUSED
Why I Want This: Those plates!
Vintage 1932 H J Heinz Thrifty New Recipe Tips for Baked Beans
Why I Want This: Bermuda Onions Stuffed with Beans. Why not?
Vintage 1955 Ticonderoga Christmas Club Chicken Recipe Booklet
Why I Want This: The Tested Recipe Institute does it again with this cookbook. They have to have some of the BEST mid-century food photography. Also, Hot Chicken Salad Tarts? Who doesn’t want those?
Vintage Community Local Club Recipe Book
Why I Want This: This cookbook has so many things going for it! It’s a community cookbook, it has crazy gelatin recipes in it, (Beet Borscht Mold, anyone?) AND the cover is vintage wallpaper. It’s pretty much win-win.
Lot of 5 Vintage Knox Gelatine Booklets
Why I Want This: I want to make that Rainbow Fruit Pie so BAD!
1949 Vintage BREAST-O-CHICKEN Tuna Recipes Cook Book
Why I Want This: Tuna. Planked. Steak.
Vintage 1957 Cookbook Cook Book Knox Gelatine Company Recipes
Why I Want This: I would LOVE to read what gelatin advice is in this cookbook!
Vintage 1960s KRAFT CHEESE Advertising Dairy Recipe Booklet
Why I Want This: I have to find out if there is Velveeta in those Tortoni. Have to.
Absolutely SwEEt Vintage Recipe Box + recipes Plastic microwave Rogers Micromeal
Why I Want This: I have really been thinking about starting an 80’s cooking blog. I think I am going to call it, “I Ate The 80’s”. What do you guys think? It would pretty much be all microwave cooking all the time. Also, my life won’t be complete until I microwave dates and bacon together.
1945 VINTAGE STOKELYS FISHERMANS LOAF
Why I Want This: Wait. You can just hollow out a loaf of bread and fill it with creamed peas and that passes for dinner? Why didn’t I know this until just now?
Carefree Cooking by Mary Lee Taylor – Vintage Recipe Booklet
Why I Want This: Ketchup and evaporated milk on buns is so not even close to pizza. And I REALLY want to try it.
Vintage KRAFT MINIATURE MARSHMALLOWS Cookbook Pamphlet
Why I Want This: Marshmallow Melba!!!
Vintage HEINZ 57 Company For VARIETY COOK WITH SOUP
Why I Want This: I just love the pictures they chose for the front of this cookbook. Who EVER thought that was appetizing? It makes me want this so much. I mean, if that is the best…
Vtg 1952 Ad Print Carnation Milk Can Pie Plate "Recipe"
Why I Want This: “Not Possible With Any Other Form Of Milk”, huh? It sounds like a challenge to me!
Vintage 1947 Foreign Recipes for American Kitchens
Why I Want This: A foreign cooking book from Topeka, Kansas. This thing has to be a gold mine!
VINTAGE WILTON CLOWN FACE CAKE PAN ( 1974) WITH ORIGINAL DIRECTIONS & RECIPE- 2
Why I Want This: Even the examples are terrifying beyond words.
Vintage Gulden's Prepared Mustard cookbook "Recipes for a Happy Marriage"
Why I Want This: It doesn’t look like mustard is saving that marriage. She looks like she is going to whack him in the back of the head with that fork. Also, when is canned spaghetti improved by mustard? Tablespoons of mustard?
Vintage 1939 Just Cocktails Bar Recipe Book Wooden Front / Back Cover
Why I Want This: This are such fantastic cocktail books! I have the 1941 version, and I want this one so bad!
Magical Desserts with Whip'n Chill
Why I Want This: Every time I think I’ve seen all the gelatin mold shapes ever, something new pops up. Look at that spiral!
Vintage 1950 to 1960 The Weaver Chicken Hot Dog Recipe
Why I Want This: I think I need to find out if chicken hot dogs really make good lasagna. The flaming hot dog kebobs would just be a bonus.
Whew! Thanks for hold out until the end, guys. There was some total craziness today, not to mention creepiness. I am still thinking about those clown cakes. *shiver*
And if you want to be tempted by more kitschy eBay finds, be sure to head over to my other blog where there is a whole other list of great stuff!
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I don’t like 7-Up, so I’m not sure how that would go. But my family has always had cream soda with milk. It’s like a way low key float or egg cream. Quite tasty!
hey if you want those plates with the green fondue pot… i’ll take the pot, don’t want the plates…
So cute! I have some of those same books. Have you had any luck with Jello molds? I tried to do one for a Mad Men Party and it just fell apart? I’ll check out some of your other blogs too. I’m mostly a 40s girl and blog a log about jitterbug, but love lifestyle stuff too! I’ll be coming back. wwww.girlinthejitterbugdress.com
That Rainbow Fruit Pie looks like somebody just dumped a gigantic can of fruit cocktail into a pre-made crust lol but that carnation lemon fluff pie actually looks quite scrumptious!
“I Ate the 80s” sounds like a great idea 😀
What is that pictured on the Cook With Soup cover? It looks like an uncooked sheep’s liver with blood dripping across the rice mound. As for adding mustard to canned spaghetti, it must have saved at least one marriage or they wouldn’t have been able to put it in the booklet. If I were married and the marriage needed saving, I’d definitely give it a try.
Oh, that community cookbook! I love the fact that names were omitted DUE TO CIRCUMSTANCES. Can’t get any more specific than that.
About that Pet Milk/Mary Lee Taylor cookbook you said: “Why I Want This: Ketchup and evaporated milk on buns is so not even close to pizza. And I REALLY want to try it.”
Don’t you remember? *You already did*
Also, Whip ‘N Chill