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Corn Scramble

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on January 25, 2021

This recipe is from a January 1938 Wesson Oil ad. Like the Diamond Walnuts ad…

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Christmas: Ration Toll House Cookies

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on December 24, 2020December 24, 2020

I wanted to be sure to include a recipe for those folks that were dealing…

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Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on December 7, 2020

This is a December 1941 Hawaii Tourist Bureau magazine ad. I wanted to share it…

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Thanksgiving: Stuffing

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on November 16, 2020November 15, 2020

This is a Marvel Stuffing Bread ad from 1942. There are three stuffing recipes in…

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What Will I Wear?: Home Front Housewife Edition

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on January 31, 2020

For many home front housewives, January was a cold month indeed. Since this month was…

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Advertising Recipes: Lunch Boxes

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on November 4, 2018

I went through my collection of vintage magazines and found several ads that were aimed…

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Gold Nugget Cake, 1940
More Upside-Down Cakes, 1940
Here is part of today’s First Monday Menu. You can find more menus from this article on my blog. The link is in my bio. This is from the March 24, 1944 issue of The Family Circle. This is when Family Circle was still a free weekly grocery store periodical. It was full of news, entertainment, homemaking advice, recipes, and product ads. These menus are from a menu round up Julia Lee Wright, a prominent home economist and author, compiled. Family Circle’s final issue was published in December 2019.
As promised, here is the finished tomato soup cake. The frosting is just a basic cream cheese frosting with cream cheese, confectioners’ sugar, and vanilla. The cake was drier than I thought it would be. You can see in the image how it crumbled when I sliced it. I don’t think the dryness really hurt it, though. It was a typical spice cake and had no tomato soup flavor at all. I was worried about a full cup each of walnuts and raisins, but it ended up being the perfect amount. All of my testers liked this one. I’d make it again. You can find the recipe on my blog. Link is in my bio.
Tomato Soup Cake 1940, Part 1
This is a great article from the February 1943 issue of Woman’s Day. The attitudes toward eyeglasses were quite a bit different than they are today. In the article, the author suggests only wearing your glasses when you absolutely have to so you aren’t known as “the one with glasses.” Contact lenses are mentioned here, too. I did a bit of quick research and found that people were indeed wearing contacts for short periods of time. Let me know what you think of the suggestions here. There’s a larger version on my blog. Link is in my bio.
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