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Tag Archives: 1930s
A Sunny Dessert for Dreary Days
By this time of the year, I need something sunny-looking on my table because there’s no escaping the snow and day after day of below-freezing temperatures. Enter apricot pudding, a recipe I adapted from The New Thought in Cooking by … Continue reading
Posted in cookbooks, Food, history, History
Tagged 1930s, Amaizo, apricot, corn starch, dairy free, dessert, dried fruit, gluten free, pudding
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Foolish Recipes
In this book, the can opener is a “magic wand” leading to family meals that are “speedy, easy, appetizing – and fun!” Um, appetizing? Continue reading
Posted in cocktails, cookbooks, Food, history, History
Tagged 1930s, American Can Company, April Fool, canned food, Cincinnati, gelatin, Ohio, Peas, Primerica, Quick Trick Cookery, tomato juice, tomatoes, tongue
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Cranberries for Chanukah
This year marks one of the rare times that the first night of Chanukah coincides with Christmas Eve. Interfaith families might be lighting candles while waiting for Santa. My favorite latke recipe never changes but this year I decided to … Continue reading
Posted in Food, history, History, memoir
Tagged 1930s, almonds, Chanukah, cranberries, cranberry sauce, oranges, pineapple, Richmond, Virginia
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German Gingerbread from the Family
It’s been more than 100 years since my German ancestors arrived in the United States but traces of the Old Country remain in our recipe boxes. This recipe for lebkuchen, a German gingerbread, appears on two different cards in two … Continue reading
Hurry Up Curry: Convenience from the 1930s
In this age of microwave dinners and mail order meal kits, we all seem intent on erasing every extra second from food preparation. My Richmond grandmother, Hanna, was attracted to the same idea in the 1930s.
Posted in Food, history, History, memoir
Tagged 1930s, chicken, curry, grandmother, one-dish meal, raisins, rice, Richmond
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For Washington’s Birthday: Easy Cherry Sherbet from the 1930s
The 1930s – the era that brought us the Great Depression as well as an end to Prohibition – also brought us some of our most enduring kitchen convenience products, such as Miracle Whip and Bisquick. This was also the … Continue reading
6-4-2-1 Equals a Family Cocktail
The recipe paper-clipped inside one of my grandmother’s cooking pamphlets sounds like a scientific formula: 6 orange juice, 4 ging, 2 vermouth, 1 lemon.
Posted in cocktails, Food, History, memoir
Tagged 1930s, cocktail, ginger ale, lemon juice, orange juice, Prohibition, Richmond, vermouth, Virginia
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More Joys of Jell-O
Take the ingredients of a typical Christmas dessert (dried fruits, citron, nuts, cinnamon), mix them with Jell-O and what do you get? Jell-O Plum Pudding, of course!
Posted in cookbooks, Food, History
Tagged 1930s, Christmas, Desserts, fruit cake, Grape-Nuts, Jack Benny, Jell-O, Mary Livingstone, plum pudding, prunes, pudding
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Sunshine in a Jar
Berries go into preserves, tomatoes into sauce, right? That’s what I always thought until I found my grandmother Hanna’s recipe for Yellow Tomato Preserves.
Posted in cookbooks, Food, history, memoir
Tagged 1930s, Fannie Farmer, ginger, grandmother, lemon, preserves, Richmond, The Virginia House-Wife, tomatoes, Virginia, yellow tomatoes
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Finish Line of the Pieathlon with Cottage Cheese Apple Pie
Bloggers about retro food unite today under the leadership of Yinzerella at Dinner is Served 1972 to make a pie recipe published before 1985. Each of us found and scanned a recipe and Yinzerella sent us each one to try.
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