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First Monday Menu: June

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on June 6, 2022May 29, 2022

Here is an entire week of menus for you to look at from the May…

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Strawberry Cheese Ring Salad

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on June 1, 2022May 29, 2022

This spring 1942 ad for Ann Page Salad Dressing has a recipe for a strawberry…

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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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Spending a Day with a 1941 Menu

  • by Shawna
  • 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: January 1943

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on January 3, 2022

This month’s menu is a bit different. It comes from the January 1943 issue of…

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Thanksgiving 1945: Turkey or No Turkey?

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on November 17, 2021

This is a long post, but I wanted to show you this article from the…

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Potato Salad, 1944

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on August 30, 2021

This potato salad recipe was part of the Better Homes and Gardens August menu feature…

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Stuffed Tomato Salad and Baked Rice Pudding

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on June 15, 2021

This ad for Ann Page Foods’ brands was from May 1940. Both recipes can be…

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Hot Potato Cheese Salad

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on April 25, 2021

Here is a potato salad recipe just in time for your spring picnics. This one…

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Wesson’s “Quik-Change” Dressing Recipe, 1943

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on April 3, 2021April 2, 2021

I wanted to try another recipe from a magazine ad this week. We’ve been eating…

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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.
Here is just one of the examples of 1941 hair tutorials that I have on my blog today. I am fascinated by how people dressed, accessorized, and wore their hair in the past, so step-by-step instructions like these are some of my favorite things. You can head over to my blog to see more. Link’s in my bio.
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