by RetroRuth | Jun 1, 2018 | Vintage Cooking
This is both an exciting post and a very sad one. It is exciting because this post is a part of the The Lost Family Supper Club blog party that is being hosted for the release of Jenna Blum’s new novel, The Lost Family, which is being launched on June 5th. It’s a very...
by RetroRuth | Mar 6, 2017 | MCMenu Fun, Vintage Cooking
Welcome back to another Reader Request post, where you can send me your recipe questions and requests in the comments, through email or on our Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, and I will answer them to the best of my ability. Or, at least, to the best of my vintage...
by RetroRuth | Jan 23, 2017 | Vintage Cooking
I’ve been getting a lot of questions and requests sent to me lately, so I thought I would start posting some of them to share with everyone. After all, we are all in this to learn about vintage cooking, right? Not just to see Tom eat gross food. Well…maybe I’m in it...
by RetroRuth | Sep 17, 2014 | Vintage Cooking
By RetroRuth Exciting news!!! You may have already seen this magazine or seen the post I did about this on my other blog, but I am pretty excited so I am repeating myself. I was interviewed for a little blurb in the current Flea Market Style magazine! It is just a...
by RetroRuth | Jan 13, 2014 | Best & Worst, Vintage Cooking
2013 was a pretty crazy year for Mid-Century Menu! We tested about 75 vintage recipes, most of them gelatin and not enough of them cocktails. We took about 3000 pictures of food, spent hundreds of hours editing and writing and in the end our blog tripled it’s...
by RetroRuth | Dec 7, 2013 | Vintage Cooking
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...
