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Vintage Cocktail Friday – Boston Milk Punch, 1940
Are you ready for a Friday cocktail? Because Tom is ready to drink some Boston Milk Punch! Boston Milk Punch Author: The Merry Mixer, 1940 Ingredients Nutmeg 1/2 spoon sugar 1/2 jigger of Golden Wedding 1/2 Bacardi Gold or Amber Label Rum Instructions Grate nutmeg in...
Heinz Carnival Cream (aka Ketchup Ice Cream) – A Mid-Century Recipe Test
Ever wondered what to do when you only have a cup of cream, a blob of ketchup in the bottle and three eggs? Personally, I would just make scrambled eggs and have a cup of coffee, but it turns out that with those ingredients you can also make a quick dessert! This is...
Top 10 Vintage Recipe Tests of 2013 – Spam, Vintage Cocktails and Tons of Gelatin!
2013 was a pretty crazy year for Mid-Century Menu! We tested about 75 vintage recipes, most of them gelatin and not enough of them cocktails. We took about 3000 pictures of food, spent hundreds of hours editing and writing and in the end our blog tripled it’s...
Mott’s Baba – Mid-Century Recipe Guest Test Sunday
Buzz and I both like babka, which is a traditional Jewish dessert from eastern Europe with cinnamon or chocolate braided throughout a sweet bread-cake. There's another related dessert called baba, which is essentially the same cake but with fruit or chocolate covering...
Vintage Cocktail Friday – January Resolution, 1940
Happy New Year, Everyone! Did anyone make any resolutions this year? We did. And then, because this is the Mid-Century Menu, we drank them. January Resolution Author: The Merry Mixer, 1940 Ingredients 2 dashes Grenadine 1/3 Noilly Pratt Vermouth 2/3 Golden Wedding...
Tom’s Mom’s Sloppy Joes – A Mid-Century Recipe Test
So, one of the greatest things about going home to your folk’s house for the holidays is that you don’t have to cook. The second greatest thing is when the meals that your folks cook are vintage! Not only did I get a post out of this meal, but I didn’t have to MAKE it...
Bean Surprise – Mid-Century Recipe Guest Test Sunday
Bean Surprise! The surprise is... um... that there are things besides beans in it? Or perhaps the surprise is that there are beans in it. I promise they're in there. Somewhere. Bean Surprise Author: A&P Serves: 4 Ingredients 4 firm tomatoes 1 can Ann Page Beans in...
Dessert Pancakes – Mid-Century Recipe Guest Test Sunday
Sometimes you get a recipe that you know will be doomed to failure. And then there are recipes like Dessert Pancakes, which shouldn't be bad... but then you try making it... Dessert Pancakes Author: Libby's Ingredients 8 small thin pancakes 2 slices Libby's Pineapple,...
December Toddy, 1940 – Vintage Cocktail Friday
We have another hot drink for you this week, and not just because I like showing off my awesome vintage hot/cold glasses! This week we picked the “December” themed drink from the Merry Mixer, December Toddy. I was actually pretty excited about this one, because it had...
No-Bake Festive Fruit Cake, 1953 – The Five Days of Vintage Fruit Cake
This is it! The final day of The Five Days of Fruit Cake! And that is pretty funny, because we are ending this on a non-cake note. Unless you consider an icebox cake a cake. No-Bake Festive Fruit Cake Author: California Raisin Board, 1953 Ingredients 1/2 cup PET...
Ever-So-Easy Fruit Cake, 1972 – The Five Days of Vintage Fruit Cake
It’s Day Four of The Five Days of Fruit Cake, and today we have a fruit cake made of sweetened condensed milk and corn flakes. Which is a little crazy. Ever-So-Easy Fruit Cake Author: Borden, 1972 Ingredients 3 eggs, slightly beaten 1 can sweetened condensed milk 1...
M-m-m Good Fruit Cake With Condensed Tomato Soup, 1951 – The Five Days of Fruit Cake
Welcome to the third day of The Five Days of Fruit Cake! Today we have a fruit cake that I think everyone is just going to love. Wait…you guys love condensed tomato soup in your fruit cakes, right? Well, if you do, then the M-m-m Good Fruit Cake might be for you!...