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First Monday Menu: Chicken a la King and Sour Cream Cocoa Cake with Mocha Frosting

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on April 1, 2019May 6, 2019

This month’s menu comes from the 1940 edition of The American Woman’s Cook Book. This is a great…

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Baking without…Milk: Coffee Spice Cake

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on January 27, 2019March 26, 2019

The second recipe in the “Baking without…Milk” series is this delicious coffee cake. It’s from…

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  • Desserts

Baking without…Milk: Orange Marmalade Cake

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on January 24, 2019

Today I am revisiting the January 1945 issue of Woman’s Day to do some “Baking…

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  • Desserts

Pillsbury’s 75th Anniversary Cake

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on January 13, 2019

My birthday was this week. What better way to celebrate than to bake a WWII…

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  • Desserts

First Monday Menu: Stuffed Hot Dogs and Gingerbread

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on January 7, 2019January 7, 2019

Today’s menu comes from the March 24, 1944 issue of The Family Circle. In 1944, the magazine…

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  • Desserts

Baking without…Sugar: Spicy Raisin Cookies

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on October 8, 2018October 8, 2018

This recipe is next in the “Baking without…Sugar” series. It’s difficult to make sweet desserts…

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Baking without…Sugar: Rolled Maple Lace Wafers

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on September 21, 2018

Sugar was first rationed in 1942. It was the first consumer commodity rationed but was…

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  • Desserts

First Monday Menu: 1943 Lunchtime Rationed Menu

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on September 3, 2018

One of the challenges during the war years was creating menus that were varied, healthy,…

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  • Desserts

The Original Chocolate Chip Cookie: Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookies

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on August 14, 2018

Here they are! This is the original recipe for chocolate chip cookies. You can find…

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  • Desserts

Ruth Wakefield’s Toll House Tried and True Recipes

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on August 9, 2018August 9, 2018

Ruth Wakefield’s Toll House Tried and True Recipes is a fairly recent addition to my vintage…

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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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