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Historic Milwaukee Digital Recipes
The Milwaukee Public Library has begun digitizing their considerable recipe collection that librarians clipped from the pages of Milwaukee newspapers from 1960-1980. It is now available online, and more recipes are being added to it all the time. The Library’s...
Tuna Fruit Salad–Tuna Vintage Recipe Contest Finalist #1
Well, we’ve finally done it. After 10 cans of tuna and a bunch of recipe tests, we have finally found the first Finalist in our “Let’s Sing A Tune To Tuna Contest”. And it is quite the find, let me tell you. Gentle readers, I present to you…Tuna Fruit Salad....
The Smell Of Canned Tuna
Well, my kitchen pretty much reeks like canned tuna. Tom and I have been cooking up tuna recipes like crazy. In fact, it’s gotten so crazy that every single time I start cooking in the kitchen the cats come running, expecting some kind of fishy handout. I’m getting...
The Tuna Recipe Testing Has Begun!
Well, Tom and I are knee-deep in tuna recipes and even deeper in actual cans of tuna fish! It is pretty exciting, we’ve had more entries for this contest than we ever have before. And I’m not going to lie to you. Some of them are really, really, bad. I mean, really...
Tunnel Of Fudge Cake: A Mid-Century Recipe Test
All Hail the Tunnel of Fudge Cake! Not only does this amazing cake have a hilarious name (snicker) and an impeccable Mid-Century pedigree (it was a runner-up in the famous 1966 Pillsbury Bake-Off) but the darn thing is magic. It is the original cake that makes its...
A Tuna-Stravaganza For Our Tuna-Tastic Contest!!
So, if you haven’t seen it by now, The Mid-Century Menu is having another contest! This time, we are doing a fun theme, “Let’s Sing A Tune to Tuna”, which promises to be both wonderful and eerily-awful based on the submissions I have gotten thus far. Tom and I totally...
Vintage Recipe Contest– Let’s Sing A Tune To Tuna! – Contest Closed!
Holy Cow, am I excited about this one! It has been so long since our amazing, spine-tingling Worst Recipe Contest that I just cannot stand it another second. I must have another contest. I must see what recipes are lurking out there your cupboards and drawers. I...
Polish Delight–A Mid-Century Recipe Test
Tom and I just got back from a trip to see his sister graduate from medical school (go Maggie!). The trip had it’s good and bad parts. Good parts: We got to visit family. The weather was pretty good. We got to spend a lot of time together. Bad part: We BOTH got a...
Seafoam Cantaloupe Pie: A Mid-Century Recipe Test
This week we have a hilarious example of the Mid-Century Menu archive. This post originally ran on June 23, 2010, and was submitted by the fabulous Miss Marwood. And I decided to pull it out of hibernation this week, dust it off and show it again. Why, you ask? ...
Baked Beans ‘N Burgers: A Mid-Century Recipe Test
Welcome to this week’s Mid-Century Menu, a fun feature where Tom and I make a mid-century recipe chosen from our vast collection of vintage cookbooks. This week we pulled a recipe from one of our “newer” books that we recently found for 10 cents at a recent rummage...
Knox Protein Drink: Mid-Century Recipe Test
Welcome to this week’s Mid-Century Menu, the feature on the blog where Tom and I make a recipe from our mid-century cookbooks and eat it for dinner. No matter how horrible it is. But this week we have one big difference in our post: no Tom! Now, I know most of you...
Lambie Pan Amateur Hour
Apparently, making a lamb cake from your lamb pan is for losers!!! Introducing: Pup on Pillow, Puss in Boots, Holiday Stag and Fawn for Easter. No “lambs” here! From Good Housekeeping’s Cake Book, 1958
