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Easter Lamb Form “Lambie” Cake: Vintage Recipe Test
Hello again and welcome to another fun vintage recipe test!!! This week we have a very important and serious thing to talk about. Lamb Cake. Every year since I have been about 16 I have tried to make a cake in the shape of a lamb for Easter. I inherited a fantastic...
Banana Doughnuts: Mid-Century Recipe Test
This week we have a fun Mid-Century Menu for you! We are cooking out of Better Living Thru Good Cooking with Prudential Wares, published in 1953. For those of you who are in the dark about Prudential Wares (like I was), it was a cookware company that made mostly pots...
Tuna Barbecue
Welcome to this week’s Mid-Century Menu! This week we are trying Tuna Barbecue, a strange recipe that comes from Fish and Shellfish Over The Coals, which was published by National Marine Fishery Service in 1977. This cute little book contains basically what the title...
Spaghetti Bake
Welcome to another fun episode of the Mid-Century Menu. This week we picked a recipe from The Day Before Cookbook, which was published in 1968. We picked this recipe because, well, it looked pretty weird. Not to say the whole book was weird. The cookbook is based on a...
Egg Noodle Pudding and Macaroni With Peanut Butter
This post dates way back from March 2010 here on the MCMenu. It is an embarassement of noodles, and all of it really not that good at all! Enjoy! Happy Wednesday, All! Welcome to the Mid-Century Menu, where this week we are delving way back to the 1930's, where...
American Lasagne
Hello, All!!! We have a fun recipe to try out today. This week we are cooking from Food From Famous Kitchens: The Brand Names Cook Book, which was published in 1961. Everyone who collects vintage cookbooks or has ever seen any vintage cookbooks in their life knows...
Spaghetti With Eggs
Whew. How’s your week been? Here at the Mid-Century Menu, things have been a little crazy. Maybe it is spring, or a full moon or something, but things here have just been going wrong left and right. I am just glad that we got the computer back. We got the same...
Aspic Supper Salad Challenge
Well, we are bringing you a slight change from our regularly scheduled program. This week, we take on a dare. Not a dare from a reader, or even from taunting or disbelieving family members. Nope, this week the dare comes from CNN. Maybe not CNN as a whole, but...
Pineapple Cream Cheese Squares
Welcome to this week’s Mid-Century Menu! This week we are delving into an area we haven’t played in much in the Mid-Century Menu: Desserts. Not pies or cakes, but Jello-based desserts. Mostly the Jello here is filled with onions and celery, and hardly ever turns...
Hit The Spot
Welcome, welcome to the new Mid-Century Menu site! This blog is all about mid-century cooking and recipes, and the testing of said recipes. And the sometimes hilarious and horrible results. This week we chose a recipe from Favorite Recipes of Home Economics Teachers:...
Planetary Frankfurters
When we left the Mid-Century Menu cliffhanger last week, things looked grim for our heroes. Would the Planetary Frankfurters be a hit? What are Carra-Chees? Would our heroine be able to make everything in time for her Superbowl party? And would anyone care who won...
Cracker Kabobs Tutorial
So, I might not have had the best time watching the Super Bowl, but I had a great time cooking for it. After I finished the fun stuff for our two person Super Bowl Party (Artichoke dip, taco dip and buffalo chicken meatballs), I broke out the mid-century snacks...
