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First Monday Menu: School Lunch with Campbells Soup

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on November 1, 2021

This advertisement for Campbell’s soup from the autumn of 1945 includes a menu for a…

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First Monday Menu: Pack Lunches for War Workers

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on June 7, 2021June 9, 2021

Today’s menus are from a little booklet called “How to Pack Lunch Boxes for War…

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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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Celebrating Two Years of History in the Kitchen!

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on July 15, 2020July 15, 2020

This week marks two years since my first post went up. I thought I’d celebrate…

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Victory Lunch Boxes, Part 3: Menus

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on April 23, 2020

I enjoy looking at lunch box menus from the early 1940s. They were economical and…

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WW2 Ration Cook-in: Victory Lunch Box

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on April 2, 2020

I took today’s Victory Lunch Box menu from The Good Housekeeping Cook Book. They have…

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Victory Lunch Boxes, Part 1: What do I pack?

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on March 14, 2020March 21, 2020

I think I’ve mentioned before that I live on a very rural ranch. Sometimes when…

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First Monday Menu on a Tuesday

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on March 3, 2020

I know that this is a day late, but it includes possibly my favorite recipe…

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First Monday Menu: Cheese Combination Sandwich

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on July 1, 2019

We’ve been relying on quick meals to help us save time this summer. July’s First…

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Victory Lunch Box: Split Pea Soup

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on January 17, 2019March 26, 2019

One of a home front housewife’s jobs was to pack lunches for her family. Her…

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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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