Cooking with the Home Front Housewife
This cranberry pineapple drink hit the spot after a long hot day. It's also a very pretty drink to serve in a clear glass pitcher. The weather was pleasant this evening and I took my glass onto the patio to enjoy outdoors. In my last post, I mentioned that the 1944 edition of The Good Housekeeping…
Here they are! This is the original recipe for chocolate chip cookies. You can find the history of this recipe in my last blog post: Ruth Wakefield’s Toll House Tried and True Recipes. I'm pretty sure this is the chocolate chip cookie recipe I grew up with. These cookies are the perfect blend of cookie, chocolate,…
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Ruth Wakefield's Toll House Tried and True Recipes is a fairly recent addition to my vintage cookbook collection. I have the 1941 edition. I used an included menu as this month's First Monday Menu. After researching a bit, I thought the cookbook and its author deserved its own post. Ruth Graves Wakefield (1903-1977) was an American chef,…
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Welcome to History in the Kitchen! I'm Shawna. I'm a folklorist, historian, and writer with a passion for women's history. Join me as we journey back to the early 1940s to explore the kitchen life of a home front housewife. We'll recreate recipes from vintage menus and discuss war time kitchen conveniences and struggles. We'll…
