Mail Your Holiday Gifts Early in December! Day 3 from the Betty Crocker 1959 Holiday Almanac is all about mailing gifts early! Honestly, this is probably too late for overseas gifts. The gracious living recommendation is to send out gifts in November. But this is an excellent time to mail your gifts of food. So …
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Making a 1950s holiday candy from scratch in a modern kitchen. I don’t really like convenience foods. I like cooking from scratch. I also like reverse-engineering foods. I mean, I started reading Cook’s Illustrated magazine 20 years ago! I’m sure you see where this is going. I LIKE reverse-engineering vintage convenience foods, and making my …
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Planning for a Busy Vintage December Once again, it is time for the famous (infamous? no, no, definitely not!) Very Vintage December Challenge! Time to Jingle Bell Rock! As an overview, each day, I will be doing a vintage homemaking activity from the Betty Crocker Country Kitchen Almanac from 1958. I love doing this, and …
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A month of vintage comfort food meals for my 1950s December family menus! December! Anyone else love early darkness that drives people home to sit by their fires and spend time with their family? Just me? Ok, then. Seriously, tho, I love December. I love preparing for the holidays, and snow, and baking, and Christmas …
Create A Nostalgic 1950s Thanksgiving for Your Family Another month, another vintage holiday! I LOVE doing a 1950s Thanksgiving! It is almost more nostalgic for me than Christmas since it was my mom’s favorite holiday. And all that nostalgia fits perfectly because I LOVE using my 1950s cookbooks and magazines to make the whole celebration …
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And — drumroll, please — it is time for the 2nd installment of ’50s housewife books. I had several requests for a list of vintage fiction — and there is a lot. So, I broke it down further into genre lists. This one is the trashy-novels edition! Here, for your enjoyment, are 5 of my …
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I honestly love Amazon! One of my favorite things is the reproduction vintage decorations they offer. I just could not get those if it wasn’t for Amazon. And since my vintage heart loves decorating for the holidays, I am sharing my top 7 retro Halloween decorations. 1. Beistle Paper Decorations Basically, anything by Beistle, guys. …
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Do you wonder which vintage books are the best use of your time and money? Me, too! In fact, one of my favorite things to do is to track down vintage books. I admit to having spent more than I should on vintage books, both good and bad! (Fortunately, my husband doesn’t scold me about …
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September killed my meal planning y’all. I mean it happens every year, so you’d think I’d get used to it, but I never do. Every back-to-school, my Betty Crocker Good and Easy Cookbook gets way more use than it should in a month. Anyway, in an effort to get back on track, I am making …
When I was in high school, I loved old-fashioned things. I especially loved the resilient, feminine superwomen who were housewives in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. When I married, and had children, I could not understand why it was so hard for me to achieve being a modern-day ’50s housewife! I didn’t know the first …
