• Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
Search

History in the Kitchen

Cooking with the Home Front Housewife

Menu
Skip to content
  • Home
  • Menus
  • Main Dishes
  • Side Dishes
  • Breakfasts
  • Breads
  • Desserts
  • Drinks
  • Entertainment
  • History
  • Homemaking
  • About
  • Contact
  • Entertainment

Books, Books, and More Books: 1940

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on August 12, 2022August 12, 2022

It’s been a while since I’ve done a book post. Since this week brought us…

Read More
  • History

National Book Lover’s Day

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on August 9, 2022

Since today is National Book Lover’s Day, I’m hoping you will share your favorite vintage…

Read More
  • Drink

First Monday Menu: A Picnic in 1939

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on August 2, 2022

Today’s post is a quick one. Here is a set of recipes to make the…

Read More
  • Side Dishes

Blackeye Beans, Southern Style, 1942

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on July 27, 2022July 28, 2022

Earlier this summer, I wrote about the US Department of Agriculture’s charts meant to help…

Read More
  • Advertisements

Shelf Liners in 1945: Your Kitchen Cabinet’s Best Friend

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on July 14, 2022July 12, 2022

I recently acquired some paper samples from 1945, and this nearly perfectly preserved shelf liner…

Read More
  • bread

Celebrating Four Years of History in the Kitchen!

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on July 12, 2022July 12, 2022

Today makes exactly four years since my first post here at History in the Kitchen.…

Read More
  • bread

More Meal Planning, 1942

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on July 7, 2022

Earlier this week I posted about the US Bureau of Home Economics’ diet guides that…

Read More
  • Main Dishes

First Monday Menu: Feeding Your Family in 1942

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on July 4, 2022

Last week I posted a chart put out by the U.S. Bureau of Home Economics…

Read More
  • History

Meal Planning with the Government

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on June 30, 2022June 26, 2022

In 1942, the Bureau of Home Economics, part of the US Department of Agriculture, released…

Read More
  • Advertisements

Cooling Off in the Summer of 1941

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on June 27, 2022June 25, 2022

It’s been so unbearably hot this summer. I found this ad for General Electric room…

Read More

Posts navigation

Previous Page Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 … Page 27 Next Page

Follow Us

  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • Pinterest

Instagram

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.
Blog at WordPress.com.
×
History in the Kitchen
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Follow Following
    • History in the Kitchen
    • Join 132 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • History in the Kitchen
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...