Welcome to the Mid-Century Menu Monday Archive! Here you can find my mid-century menus: dinners from the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.
I just love cooking from vintage recipes. My collection includes cookbooks, magazines, and advertising pamphlets from as early as the 1900s, all the way up to the 1960s. Most of my favorite menus, though, are mid-century menus from 1945-1959, when food was plentiful, and the shift to convenience foods and housewives working outside the home was just beginning. (But I have been known to take on WWII rationed meals, and even Great Depression meals on occasion!)
Yay! It’s December! So, this month, I am doing my very vintage December project — which means that I need LOTS of menus ready-to-go. Specifically, I need them to be thrifty (because Hello, Christmas!), easy (seriously, I am doing projects every DAY), and delicious (my family really like my vintage meals!). So, here are my …
Hello again! Time for the 3rd-week-in-November menus. Do you ever feel like this week gets short shrift, while we spend all our time thinking about next week’s Thanksgiving dinner? I do. But, once more unto the breach, dear readers, for this week’s Mid-Century Menu Monday! On to the 1950s meal plan! A Week of Menus …
Is anyone else working on their seasonal cleaning this week? I expect my seasonal cleaning (I do both spring and fall cleaning) will take about two weeks this year, which gives me just enough time to get my seasonal cleaning done before I start Thanksgiving prep. Since this is my favorite time of year, I …
Another Monday, and it’s time for another installment of 1950s Meal Plan Monday! Menu planning help for the mid-century mom in the last week of October. Of course, that means a Halloween supper. And if you are Catholic, it also means All Saint’s Day and All Soul’s Day. But, all undaunted, the modern 1950s housewife …
1950s vintage menus are so much fun! I thought that it would be exciting to start a 1950s Meal Plan Monday for all my readers who might be wondering about making a proper 1950s dinner part of your daily meal plan. Here are the menus for October 21-27. Menus Monday – Chicken tetrazzini, peas, rolls, …
Even in the 1930s, housewives were trying to find a way to spend less time in the kitchen. In 1939, Marjorie Abbott published Half Hour Dinners, a book of quick, three course meals. She addressed this book to the busy housewife, the business woman, the bachelor, and anyone who has to cook in summer. Now, my …
