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First Monday Menu: Hasty Holiday Meal

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on December 7, 2020December 7, 2020

This month’s menu is from the Wyandotte County Gas Co.’s Your Gas Range Cook Book…

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  • Holiday

First Monday Menu: Thanksgiving Month

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on November 2, 2020November 11, 2020

This month I’m switching it up a bit. I’m going to show you a few…

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  • Breakfast

First Monday Menu: Halloween

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on October 5, 2020October 11, 2020

I’m switching things up a little this month. Instead of the usual menu, I’m going…

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  • Desserts

First Monday Menu: Wrapping Up Summer

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on September 9, 2020October 11, 2020

Due to weather and supply issues at our local supermarket, I decided to give you…

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  • Main Dishes

First Monday Menu: Stretched Hamburgers

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on August 3, 2020August 3, 2020

This menu is adapted from a menu in the August 1943 Woman’s Day magazine. It…

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First Monday Menu: July 4 Porch Supper

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on July 4, 2020July 4, 2020

Happy Independence Day! Here is a menu from the 1941 edition of The New American…

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  • Desserts

First Monday Menu: Luncheon Ham with Cottage Cheese and Peach (Nectarine) Salad

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on June 1, 2020May 31, 2020

This month’s menu is a June option from Modern Meal Menu by Martha Meade, a…

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  • Desserts

First Monday Menu: Spinach Soup and Lemon Rice Pudding

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on May 4, 2020May 4, 2020

Today’s menu comes from Ida Bailey Allen’s Double-Quick Cooking for the Part-time Homemaker. The chapter…

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  • Desserts

First Monday Menu: Variety-Vegetable Macaroni Casserole and Bargain Brownies

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on February 3, 2020February 3, 2020

This month I want to explore recipes that were created to help home front housewives…

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  • Main Dishes

Christmas Menus

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on December 2, 2019December 2, 2019

I wanted to start off December with a different kind of First Monday Menu. I’ve…

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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.
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