Hope everyone is having a great Saturday! I know I am, because I’ve got some great cookbook and cooking finds for you today, including a link to a whole huge list of cookbook picks at the end of this post. So get excited, because this week we have fantastic cookie cutters, amazing gelatin molds, psychedelic bake sales, a Barbie dream kitchen and “food for boys that girls like”!
101 Ways to a Man's Heart Prize Winning Recipes E-Z Bake Flour
Why I Want This: What I seriously want is that kitchen!!! Do you think it would be too weird to have two kitchens in your house? I suppose I could pretend one is for a mother-in-law suite or something. And if this cookbook is as good as it claims, I should have no problem forcing Tom to do my bidding after I feed him mountains of donuts and a giant coconut cake!
Vintage LOT of 3 1970's Drink Mixer Recipe Booklets
Why I Want This: I don’t even have enough words to describe how much I want that Champale pamphlet!! And that slogan! It’s like nothing else you ever tasted…oh, except champagne. Gotta love afterthoughts in advertising.
Homer: Someday I will buy you a real castle.
Marge: Oh Homer, you do not have to do that!
Homer: Oh! Whew, that is a relief! You know Marge, looking at you I see the beauty of Princess Lea and the wisdom of Yoda.
Marge: Homer, maybe it is the Champale talking, but I think you are pretty sexy yourself.
Pet Milk Recipe Booklet Cookbook Specialities of the House 1960 Vintage
Why I Want This: There is just something about vintage food photography that makes me want certain cookbooks. The front of this cookbook just…speaks to me. Maybe it’s the jaunty toothpicks in those meatballs. Maybe it is the chicken casserole. I don’t know, I just want it.
Vintage NEW IDEA RECIPES WITH BORDEN'S CHEESE SPREADS
Why I Want This: Soooo….either that gingerbread/cake is made with cheese spread or it has cheese spread on top of it. Either way, I want it.
Vintage 1961 "Food for Boys" Cute Girls Host Teen Party Kraft Recipe Print Ad
Why I Want This: Who doesn’t want this?? And those Count-Down Brownies actually look really good!
VINTAGE 1950's SUNBEAM PARTY GRILL RECIPE & INSTRUCTION BOOK/MANUAL
Why I Want This: How ridiculous is it to want an appliance manual for an appliance I don’t have? And yet….
Vintage 1969 Kraft "Psychedelic Bake Sale" Fun Colorful Recipe 60's
Why I Want This: Ummm…yes to all of this. Just…yes.
VINTAGE DELUXE READING DREAM KITCHEN
Why I Want This: Forget Barbie. This is MY dream kitchen!
Vintage Betsy McCall Cookie Cutter w/Betsy Cookie Recipe
Vintage Political Campaign Cookie Cutter Republican Elephant w/ Nixon recipe
Why I Want This: Two great cookie cutters! I am not sure what I would like more, little chocolate Betsy McCalls with Pat Nixon’s recipe or Mamie Eisenhower elephants!
VTG COPPER CAT CAKE OR JELLO MOLD
Why I Want This: Grumpy cat gelatin mold!
Why I Want This: Are you kidding me??? I could make such wicked gelatins with this thing. The mind boggles.
1955 RECIPE BOOK KNUDSEN CREAMERY CO. DAIRY PRODUCTS
Why I Want This: That curry rice ring cracks me up. Cracks. Me. UP!
Also, thanks to Pam at Retro Renovation, I figured out a fun way to show you guys even more cookbooks! The Saturday posts will still be filled with great cookbook finds, but from now on I am going to feature at the end my eBay “Wish List” which has just been turned into a gallery of cookbook awesomeness. Click here to see a gallery of over 150 more vintage cookbook and kitchen kitsch picks by yours truly:
How fun is that!?! And if you are still jonesing for even more kitsch, check out the eBay picks on my other blog, No Pattern Required!
*Disclaimer: Mid-Century Menu is part of the eBay Partner Network, and that means that when you click on our eBay links we may earn a very small commission.
So many thoughts today!
E-Z Bake Flour goodies might be the way to a man’s heart, but my grandfather claimed he married my grandmother solely for her spaghetti sauce. I was never sure if that was a compliment or not.
Food for the boys that girls like! I wonder what was cooked for “the boys that girls hate!”
Note that the Sunbeam Automatic Electric Party Grill is perfect for “around the clock use.” This is a slap at those party grills that could only be used during daylight hours.
Oh that kitchen with all the toy groceries. How I envied my girl cousins who would get such presents at Christmas, while I would be stuck with a baseball bat or a toy truck.
If you don’t have this cookbook, it may be a good addition to your collection. “The Culinary Arts Institute Encyclopedic Cookbook”, which I inherited from my parents. The copyright page says it contains material from Culinary Arts Institute Cookbooklets. Each chapter is headed “Your Poultry”, “Your Menus” etc. It doesn’t just have recipes, it also tells you how to build a root cellar, how to set a table, even how to have a picnic. it’s close to 1,000 pages and is full of illustrations with captions that may make liquid shoot out your nose when you laugh. It’s a treasure.
Many thanks for all the fun I have here.
That Sunbeam grill really WAS the bomb. It was a fixture in our house, nearly always used with the flat plates. Made THE best grilled cheese sandwiches (something about being slightly flattened made them better–pre-pannini). My folks were married in 1955. I bet that thing was a wedding present. I wonder if my mom still has it? If it didn’t catch on fire (like her ancient but gorgeous Sunbeam Mixmaster), she may very well have it stashed somewhere.
DAMN! Now I want to make a hippie jello or cake or whatever that confectionary creation is 🙂
Love your blog! Thanks for featuring the cookbook I’m selling on eBay. So glad you found it!
OMG I remember that psychedelic bake sale ad from 1969! I was 13 at the time, it must have made a big impression!
Until ten years ago, I had that kitchen. It was picturesque but very inconvenient and hard to keep clean.
Iam 67 years old and still have my dream kitchen.
Looking at it makes me dream of when I was young.
My favorite toy.