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White Mystery Fruit Cake – The Five Days of Vintage Fruit Cake
Welcome to Day Two of the Five Days of Fruit Cake! There are many, many reasons why I picked today’s fruit cake for testing. The first reason is because it has the name “mystery” in the title. Whenever recipes have the word “mystery” or “surprise” in the title, I...
Wesson’s Famous Fruit Cake – The Five Days of Vintage Fruit Cake
This year for our Christmas baking we decided to throw all caution to the wind and to venture into the land of doorstops and vibrantly-colored, nuclear fruit. That’s right. This year it’s fruit cake for all! What’s funny is that during the mid-century, fruit cake was...
Pork Cake – A Mid-Century Christmas Recipe Re-Run
In preparation for the upcoming Five Days of Fruitcake here on the blog (starting on Friday, 12/20!) I thought I would pull this unusual, and somewhat controversial, fruitcake from our archive! Pork cake made us laugh and it made us cry, but the one thing that it...
Butter Pecan Turtle Cookies – Mid-Century Recipe Guest Test Sunday
When Retro Ruth emailed me this advertisement, I literally whooped with joy. It's rare that a retro recipe looks like a winner from the beginning -- but how can you go wrong with butter, sugar, chocolate, and pecans? Assuming there's no nut allergies. Butter Pecan...
Hot Buttered Rum, 1940 – Vintage Cocktail Friday
To celebrate the end of this week, we are making a vintage classic! Hot Buttered Rum! Hot Buttered Rum Author: The Merry Mixer, 1940 Ingredients 2 tsp sugar 2 T hot water 1 jigger rum butter Instructions In warm tumbler, melt the sugar into the hot water. Add in the...
Ham Boats – Mid-Century Recipe Guest Test Sunday
Hey guys! RetroRuth here, and I just wanted to introduce you to a new feature here on Mid-Century Menu! Over the last couple of months, I have become aware of two things: 1) Taking care of a baby takes up a lot of time. 2) I have more recipes in my collection than I...
Vintage Kitchen Kitsch on eBay – Cookie Press for Christmas
Cookie time is almost here, so this week I decided to celebrate a great vintage kitchen tool, the cookie press or cookie gun. Even though Mirro is the most recognizable of all the cookie presses, there were many different companies that made their own presses for...
Alexander, 1940 – Vintage Cocktail Friday
Welcome back to Vintage Cocktail Friday! Sorry it’s been pretty spotty around here this holiday season. Who knew taking care of a baby took up so much time? But who cares? Let's have an Alexander! Tom came across this cocktail recently in The Host’s Handbook, one of...
It’s Almost That Time Again– 10 Vintage Christmas Cookies For Your Holiday Plate!
My favorite time of the year is here! I have to admit making cookies is one of the highlights of Christmas for me – I have already started planning for this year. Since I just looked up all these vintage recipes to decide what to make, I thought I would gather them...
Sour Cream Green Bean Casserole – A Mid-Century Thanksgiving Recipe Test
Happy Thanksgiving! I hope everyone has a nice big, traditional meal planned this year! Because I don’t. Well, I guess we are having turkey, Vincent Price’s Pumpkin Pie and Mystery Pecan Pie, but in my family we don’t normally make bread stuffing or sweet potatoes...
Vintage Kitchen Kitsch on eBay – The Way To A Man’s Heart
Welcome to another week of eBay kitsch! This week we are going to learn that the way to a man’s heart is through vintage cooking! Vintage Men's Esquire Cook Book 1955 Lesson: The Way To A Man’s Heart is Through Cuteness VTG 1940s Mary Lee Taylor's...
Mystery Pecan Pie – A Mid-Century Thanksgiving Recipe Test From The Archives
The biggest cooking day of the year is coming up! Are you ready for Thanksgiving? I am already starting to plan for T-Day, so I thought I would pull this recipe from the archives since I am planning on making this again this year. This pie is fun to make and tastes...
