by RetroRuth | Jan 20, 2016 | Best & Worst, Desserts, The BEST
It’s Wednesday, and I need some rice pudding. Preferably chocolate. There we go. Much better. This is Chocolate Rice Pudding! From White House Milk Company, 1935 [cooked-sharing] Everyone was sick again this week at our house. We seem to have a perpetual cold/flu this...
by RetroRuth | Jan 13, 2016 | Best & Worst, Bread and Pastries, Desserts, The BEST
This week I have a special recipe test for all of you! It is sort of a guest test, but in another way it isn’t. This week, we all get to enjoy a recipe tested out by my mother! This is Stollen! From Best Loved Foods of Christmas, Pillsbury, 1959 [cooked-sharing]...
by RetroRuth | Dec 31, 2015 | Cocktail Party, Cocktails, The BEST
Who’s ready to party? Well…it’s not us. We are staying in tonight, but to make up for that we are still going to whip up some fun vintage drinks! Since I was digging through the archives anyway, I thought I would bring you the top drinks from 2014 from Vintage...
by RetroRuth | Dec 30, 2015 | The WORST
It’s end of the year round-up time again! But before I bring you 2015, I thought I would bust out the worst of list for 2014. Enjoy! Oh guys, here it is! This is the worst stuff Tom and I made in 2014. Some of it was edible, some was only borderline bad, and some of...
by RetroRuth | Dec 23, 2015 | Best & Worst, Cookies & Bars, Desserts
This year I had a whole plateful of 1940’s cookies planned for testing. Unfortunately, seasonal sickness had other plans. Like it usually does in our house. After I got Alex on a round of antibiotics for her ear infection, I was hurriedly able to crank out one cookie...
by RetroRuth | Dec 21, 2015 | Best & Worst, MCMenu Fun, The BEST
This week Tom and I tested out the Toas-Tite and the Toas-Tite tid bit! This fun little sandwich maker, which I recently mentioned in an Astronaut Wives Club post, is a vintage, single sandwich maker that was created in 1945 and marketed by a company called...
