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Flapjack Cocktail
So, since schools here in Michigan are closed for the rest of this school year, let’s drink. This is Flapjack Cocktail! So, since this has been a heck of a day, we decided to get crazy and use maple syrup instead of just simple syrup. Simple syrup is basically sugar...
Get Ready For Easter Lamb Cakes: Tips, Recipes, The 9th Annual Reader’s Lamb Cake Gallery and Giveaway!
Who is ready for some good news? I’m ready for some freaking good news. It. Is. Lamb Cake Time!!!!! I know everyone is having a tough time right now, and most of us are stuck at home staring at our kids, spouses, cats or plants with nowhere to go and only our feeble...
Floridian Cocktail
Since no one is going to Florida for spring break, let’s make a cocktail and pretend. This is a Floridian Cocktail! Trying really, really hard to stay positive in all this. The thing that is mostly keeping us going is that the kids are...
Appetizer Cocktail – Happy St. Patrick’s Day From Mid-Century Menu
How is everyone doing out there? How is your St. Patrick’s Day? We are doing fine here. Here inside our house. Here inside our house where we are trying to work from home and homeschool our children. You know what…who wants a drink? This drink is from our stash of...
Current Blog Plans And The Virus
Well, hello there. Guess what? Michigan is basically closed due to COVID-19. I’m not complaining, I’m just stating facts. More facts: The kids have no school for 3 weeks, and Tom will be working from home. Also not complaining about that. But this is going to have an...
Lamb Cake Shirts, Patreon, And Other Fun News!
Who is ready for some lamb cake shirts???? I know what your thinking. “Ruth, that’s just not edgy enough for us. We are your mid-century menu soldiers! We deserve something really amazing!” Well then. How about a smoking lamb cake mug? Or a gelatin mold...
Colonial Cocktail – Vintage Cocktail Friday
Somehow this week I didn’t have time to test another recipe, but I did have a grapefruit laying around, so I decided to make another drink. This is Colonial Cocktail! This cocktail is probably familiar, because we tried almost exactly the...
Melon Cocktail – Vintage Cocktail Friday
Welcome to Vintage Cocktail Friday! This week we are going to make a melon cocktail that has no melon in it. This is Melon Cocktail! And no, we aren’t just drinking heavily because it’s storming out every weekend and our kids have the flu...
Pickle Beer And Happy New Year!
I know it is the middle of January, but Happy 2020 everyone! I hope that you all have a happy and healthy year ahead of you. This year the blog is finally going to be getting its redesign I have been promising, turning it into a blog AND a vintage recipe archive....
Jellied Pate–A Vintage Recipe Test
This week we have a fun recipe that has been highly requested on the blog. This is Jellied Pate! These were some of my options for molding. I still think I should have gone with the dot one. Making liver balls to float in aspic. This wasn’t...
Beer-Baked Bananas–A Vintage Recipe Test
This week we are baking bananas and basting them in “juice”. Beer-filled juice. So, not too much to this recipe, but yet I was very excited to see the result. Would we end up with a delicious banana dessert confection or just banana trash?...
Paradise, Pruneaux, and Albemarle Fizz – A Combined Vintage Cocktail Friday Post
Welcome to a cocktail post! I know it has been forever, but I am very happy to bring these cocktail tests to you, AND to kick off a fun week of cocktail recipes from the blog that will be running on our Facebook page! This is a fun post because you are getting three...
