• 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

Tag: cookies

  • Desserts

Cry Babies Drop Cookies

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on April 11, 2021

This recipe is from the 1941 Assistance League’s Pleasing Food cookbook that I’ve recently written…

Read More
  • Advertisements

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…

Read More
  • Desserts

Christmas: Honey Cookies

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on December 16, 2020

Looking for a soft, fluffy holiday cookie? Try these Honey Cookies from the Culinary Arts…

Read More
  • Desserts

Christmas: Date Filled Cookies

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on December 5, 2020December 5, 2020

Today’s Christmas cookie recipe is from the Culinary Arts Institute’s 1941 The Cookie Book. There…

Read More
  • Desserts

Drop Sugar Cookies

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on June 11, 2020June 11, 2020

Monday I posted a cream sponge cake recipe from Honor Among Cooks, a 1941 cookbook…

Read More
  • Desserts

Update: Soft Ginger-Date Jumbles–One Week Later

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on January 10, 2020January 8, 2020

As promised, we tried the Ginger-Date Jumbles after being sealed in an airtight container for…

Read More
  • Desserts

Soldiers’ Christmas Boxes: Soft Ginger-Date Jumbles

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on December 31, 2019March 21, 2020

In 1942, the folks in the Good Housekeeping kitchens spent quite a bit of time…

Read More
  • Desserts

Baking without…Sugar: Spicy Raisin Cookies

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on October 8, 2018October 8, 2018

This recipe is next in the “Baking without…Sugar” series. It’s difficult to make sweet desserts…

Read More
  • Desserts

The Original Chocolate Chip Cookie: Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookies

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on August 14, 2018

Here they are! This is the original recipe for chocolate chip cookies. You can find…

Read More
  • Desserts

Ruth Wakefield’s Toll House Tried and True Recipes

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on August 9, 2018August 9, 2018

Ruth Wakefield’s Toll House Tried and True Recipes is a fairly recent addition to my vintage…

Read More

Follow Us

  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • Pinterest

Instagram

These Cherry Dessert Muffins are from the 1944 “Pillsbury’s Diamond Anniversary” cookbook. I’m including the recipe here so you can try them, but they are also over on my blog today. I’d double the recipe—you are going to want seconds of these. The top part is very biscuit-like, but the bottom is like a honeyed cherry dream muffin. So, so yummy. If you are looking to sweeten things up even more, I’d drizzle some honey over the top. And a little ice cream never hurts anything.
I forgot to post about this month’s First Monday Menu! If you head over to my blog, I have an entire week of menus to help “dress up” meat dishes a little during the war years. The menus are from the May 1943 issue of The American Home. This victory scrapple recipe is one in one of the breakfast menus. Let me know if you try it.
It’s April First Monday Menu time! This is from Margaret Hewett’s 1939 book “Party Menus and Recipes”. Two of the recipes are on my blog today. The Melon Ring Salad is a curious combination of honeydew melon, grapes, strawberries, and pineapple mixed with mayonnaise and topped with a French dressing made with olive oil and lime juice. I don’t think it sounds good, but it is similar to other fruit salad recipes I have found from this time period.
Today on my blog I have six wonderful summer cottage plans from the April 1941 issue of Better Homes and Gardens. I really want to build one of these little cottages for myself. What fun it would be to decorate it and pretend to time travel for vacation! You can see all six over on my blog. Link is in my bio.
This weekend we decided to choose a 1940s menu and follow it from breakfast to supper. I chose a 1941 menu from The New American Cook Book. You can find most of the recipes in today’s blog post. There is a link in my bio. We liked most of the recipes, but there was a lot of food compared to what we usually eat, especially for breakfast. I was happily surprised by the apple and pimiento salad. It would make a great salad for hot summer days. I think I will do this again next month. Perhaps an Easter menu? Or a day with a picnic? You can find the recipes and my thoughts on the day on my blog.
These are some recipes from the May 1939 issue of Woman’s Day. It’s a little earlier than I usually write about, but I have been looking at issues in the late 1930s and late 1940s to compare the contents and tone of those magazines to the ones published during the United States’ involvement in WWII. The recipes are from a set of menus that adapt adult meals for kids ages 5 to 8. As a parent of two kids in that age group, I found some of the changes interesting and didn’t always agree with them. I also felt that some of the suggestions would have added more work to an already busy woman’s day. You can find the link to the menus in my bio.
Blog at WordPress.com.
×
  • Follow Following
    • History in the Kitchen
    • Join 242 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...