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Vacation Cottages, 1941
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“Made for Make-Up”
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Hearty Corn Chowder, 1944
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How Many Ways Can You Use Fruit Cocktail?
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A Bowl of Soup Will Warm You Up
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First Monday Menu: January 1943
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Thanksgiving 1945: Turkey or No Turkey?

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Cherry Dessert Muffins

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on May 11, 2022

It’s been a while since I have tested a wartime recipe. Spring on a ranch…

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First Monday Menu: Dressed Up Meat

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on May 3, 2022

This set of menus is from the May 1943 issue of The American Home. The…

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First Monday Menu: April Roast Beef Dinner

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on April 4, 2022April 4, 2022

This menu comes from Margaret Hewett’s Party Menus and Recipes. Published in 1939, it contains…

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Vacation Cottages, 1941

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on March 23, 2022March 23, 2022

In April 1941, readers of Better Homes and Gardens in the United States were still…

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Spending a Day with a 1941 Menu

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  • Posted on March 14, 2022

I’m trying something new this month. If it works out well, I might make it…

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First Monday Menu March: Adapting for Children

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  • Posted on March 7, 2022

This month’s menu is from the May 1939 issue of Woman’s Day. I know that…

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“Made for Make-Up”

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  • Posted on February 15, 2022

I love this article about dressing tables. I’ve been enjoying thumbing through home decorating magazines…

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Hearty Corn Chowder, 1944

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on January 18, 2022January 18, 2022

I’ve been wanting to make this chowder for a while. It’s from the December 1944…

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How Many Ways Can You Use Fruit Cocktail?

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on January 13, 2022

This ad is from January 1943. It is typical in it’s home front battle approach.…

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A Bowl of Soup Will Warm You Up

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on January 8, 2022January 8, 2022

Canned soup was popular before and during the war both for convenience and as a…

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These Cherry Dessert Muffins are from the 1944 “Pillsbury’s Diamond Anniversary” cookbook. I’m including the recipe here so you can try them, but they are also over on my blog today. I’d double the recipe—you are going to want seconds of these. The top part is very biscuit-like, but the bottom is like a honeyed cherry dream muffin. So, so yummy. If you are looking to sweeten things up even more, I’d drizzle some honey over the top. And a little ice cream never hurts anything.
I forgot to post about this month’s First Monday Menu! If you head over to my blog, I have an entire week of menus to help “dress up” meat dishes a little during the war years. The menus are from the May 1943 issue of The American Home. This victory scrapple recipe is one in one of the breakfast menus. Let me know if you try it.
It’s April First Monday Menu time! This is from Margaret Hewett’s 1939 book “Party Menus and Recipes”. Two of the recipes are on my blog today. The Melon Ring Salad is a curious combination of honeydew melon, grapes, strawberries, and pineapple mixed with mayonnaise and topped with a French dressing made with olive oil and lime juice. I don’t think it sounds good, but it is similar to other fruit salad recipes I have found from this time period.
Today on my blog I have six wonderful summer cottage plans from the April 1941 issue of Better Homes and Gardens. I really want to build one of these little cottages for myself. What fun it would be to decorate it and pretend to time travel for vacation! You can see all six over on my blog. Link is in my bio.
This weekend we decided to choose a 1940s menu and follow it from breakfast to supper. I chose a 1941 menu from The New American Cook Book. You can find most of the recipes in today’s blog post. There is a link in my bio. We liked most of the recipes, but there was a lot of food compared to what we usually eat, especially for breakfast. I was happily surprised by the apple and pimiento salad. It would make a great salad for hot summer days. I think I will do this again next month. Perhaps an Easter menu? Or a day with a picnic? You can find the recipes and my thoughts on the day on my blog.
These are some recipes from the May 1939 issue of Woman’s Day. It’s a little earlier than I usually write about, but I have been looking at issues in the late 1930s and late 1940s to compare the contents and tone of those magazines to the ones published during the United States’ involvement in WWII. The recipes are from a set of menus that adapt adult meals for kids ages 5 to 8. As a parent of two kids in that age group, I found some of the changes interesting and didn’t always agree with them. I also felt that some of the suggestions would have added more work to an already busy woman’s day. You can find the link to the menus in my bio.
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