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First Monday Menu March: Adapting for Children

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on March 7, 2022

This month’s menu is from the May 1939 issue of Woman’s Day. I know that…

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  • Breakfast

Baked Oranges

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on January 11, 2021

Oranges. What’s not to love about oranges? They are sweet and juicy, don’t need refrigeration,…

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  • 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…

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  • Desserts

Rationing Recipes: Halloween Devil’s Food Cake, Liver, and Creamed Potatoes

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on October 28, 2020October 27, 2020

I wanted to bake this cake for you this week, but we are dealing with…

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  • Desserts

Pumpkin Tarts

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on October 14, 2020October 14, 2020

These sweet little tarts are from a Halloween menu in the 1942 edition of The…

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  • Desserts

Sweet Potatoes

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on September 29, 2020September 29, 2020

We eat sweet potatoes all year long. I like that sweet potatoes can be the…

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  • Breakfast

Baked Bananas

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on June 22, 2020

I had several leftover bananas from making a Father’s Day banana pudding, so I decided…

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  • Desserts

WW2 Ration Cook-in: Snacks

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on March 30, 2020

Cake is one of the best snacks, right? I chose this cake and frosting combination…

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Spice Corn Syrup Cake

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on June 19, 2019June 19, 2019

Today’s recipe comes from Watkins Economy Recipes. This little booklet includes 48 pages of recipes and advice…

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  • Breakfast

Baking without…Milk: Coffee Spice Cake

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on January 27, 2019March 26, 2019

The second recipe in the “Baking without…Milk” series is this delicious coffee cake. It’s from…

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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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