It’s Mid-Century Menu Monday again! This week we have a President’s Day dinner for a celebration. Also, it’s almost the end of February! Woot! Here’s a chipper set of menus for 1950s Meal-Plan Monday: February 17-23. Mid-Century Menu Monday Dinners for February 17-23 Monday (President’s Day) This inviting casserole stars Swedish meatballs, potatoes, cucumbers, and […]
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This is my recipe for Valentine’s Day muffins! Vintage Cherry Vanilla Actually, the idea for doing cherry-vanilla flavors for Valentine’s Day came from my February 1952 issue of McCall’s magazine. It had an ad from the Dairy Council, promoting cherry-vanilla ice cream dessert in the middle of the feature on making a Valentine’s Day tea.
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Mid-Century Menu Monday is back! It was a long break, but since I wasn’t cooking, I didn’t make the menus either. But now we are back to normal. I am doing all the cooking once again. This time, however, I have a new baby again, so I have simplified the menu plans somewhat, and changed
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Hello! It’s the second week of December already! This ended up late, because I spent WAY TOO MUCH TIME diving into rabbit holes, looking for the Betty Crocker’s Frankly Fancy recipe booklet from 1959. I thought it would be fun to coordinate my menus this week with the 1959 Holiday Almanac for my Very Vintage
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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
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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
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Does the idea of planning for regular family dinners on top of planning for holiday cooking stress you out? Did you know that your family will sit down to 1095 meals a year — mostly made by you? That’s enough to make ANYONE sick of meal-planning! Luckily, I have several vintage cook books with menus
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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
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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, apple-nut
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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
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