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Valentine’s Day

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on February 13, 2023

I don’t often post recipe fails here. Every once in a while I share one…

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Dessert Magic

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on February 2, 2023

This little booklet seems pretty tame on the outside, but look at the illustrations on…

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Victory Croquettes

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on January 23, 2023January 23, 2023

About a week ago, I found a 1943 cookbook called Redbow Recipes in an antique…

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Greenhouse Planning

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on January 9, 2023January 9, 2023

Hello again after a much needed break. I took some time off of blogging and…

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Holiday Coffee

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on November 19, 2022November 16, 2022

I wanted to add this extra link this weekend because this was one of my…

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Thanksgiving Roundup

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on November 17, 2022November 16, 2022

My day job has been requiring more of my time lately, and I’ve sadly neglected…

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Drop Cookies

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on September 29, 2022September 29, 2022

This simple drop cookie recipe comes from the 1942 edition of The New American Cook…

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First Monday Menu: September 1940

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on September 7, 2022

This post is a little late, but I still wanted to add a menu this…

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1941 Hairstyles

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on August 25, 2022August 21, 2022

I am endlessly fascinated by how people dressed in the past, so I find the…

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Help with Hamburger: Two Ways to Serve It in 1941

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on August 22, 2022August 21, 2022

I have some recipes planned for later this week. After a horrible, dry summer we…

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Here is a quick Valentine's Day recipe for you. It's from the 1944 cookbook Dessert Magic. General Foods Corporation published this great little book and stuffed it full of Jell-O recipes.
Over on my blog today I have a look at a wonderful Jell-O cookbook from 1944. There are some quick recipe ideas listed, too. I’m excited about this booklet because women in the 1940s used Jell-O differently than we tend to do. I’m going to try some of the more unique recipes this year and share them with you. Do you have any Jell-O recipes that your family loves? Link is in my bio.
These Victory Croquettes are actually pretty tasty. The recipe calls for eating them with ketchup, but I think experimenting with different sauces might be fun. The recipe is made from lima beans and you can find it over on my blog. The link is in my bio. The recipe is from a 1943 cookbook called Redbow Recipes. The Redbow Company sold dried vegetables in cartons with a cellophane window so you could see the product inside. I had a very hard time finding out much about Redbow. I also found it interesting that in a 48 page book with recipes like Victory Croquettes, neither the war nor rationing was mentioned at all.
I'm back from a much needed break. I feel refreshed and excited to be back in 2023! Today I am flipping through this 1943 Better Homes and Gardens New Gardening Guide because I want to add more gardening posts this year. I know Victory Gardens were so important to the home front family. During my planning I found a folded newspaper article from 1974. It was an article by Jack Kramer from the San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle about how to build your own greenhouse. Someone kept this 1943 gardening guide until at least October 1974 and must have consistently referred to it if they placed a saved newspaper article in it. That's 31 years! It amazes me. I wonder if they ever built that greenhouse.
These drop cookies are so addictive! The fact that they are small makes them easy to pop in your mouth. (Unfortunately it makes them easier to eat by the handful, too!) They are from the 1942 edition of The New American Cook Book. Recipe is on my blog. Link’s in my bio.
This is this month’s menu. It’s from the September 1940 issue of Woman’s Day. If you head over to my blog, you can see this issue’s cover, too. Link’s in my bio.
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