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Square crop - plate of spaghetti pasta with pomodoro sauce topped with basil and parmesan, cloth napkin with utensils beside it, another plate of pasta, parmesan block and fresh basil in background.

Audrey Hepburn’s Favorite Spaghetti al Pomodoro

Horizontal shot - bowl of chicken with homemade noodles and sweet peas with cloth napkin and spoon on wooden background.

Homemade Chicken and Noodles

Bread Pudding topped with slivered almonds.

Princess Diana’s Favorite Bread and Butter Pudding

Lemon Vanilla Buttermilk Pie

Bread and Butter Waffles - A quaint and ridiculously easy vintage recipe for Bread and Butter Waffles from the 1950's. A cross between French toast and waffles.

Bread and Butter Waffles

Vintage Popcorn Balls - Learn to make candied popcorn balls the old fashioned way. A vintage treat for Halloween, carnivals, festivals, or just because!

Vintage Popcorn Balls

Hoot Owl Cookies - A vintage-inspired recipe using checkerboard sugar cookie dough, chocolate chips & almonds. Simple and cute!

Hoot Owl Cookies

The Old Fashioned Way: Bon Bons - Learn to make bon bons the old fashioned way, with uncooked fondant and your choice of toppings. Easy vintage candy recipe.

The Old Fashioned Way: Bon Bons

Swedish Lamb Stew with Pears

Gary Cooper's Buttermilk Griddle Cakes - Learn to make buttermilk griddle cakes from a vintage recipe used at Gary Cooper's family ranch in Montana.

Gary Cooper’s Buttermilk Griddle Cakes

Tomato Frost - Chef Louise Mellor shares a recipe for Tomato Frost, a savory granita, from The Best in Cookery in the Middle West by Grace Grosvenor Clark, 1955

Tomato Frost

The History of Picnics & Vintage Blueberry Cake Recipe - Learn about the history of picnics and try a 1915 vintage picnic recipe for Blueberry Cake from Linda Hull Larned.

The History of Picnics & Vintage Blueberry Cake

Southern-Style Barbecue Sauce - Chef Louise Mellor shares a vintage 1965 recipe for Barbecue Sauce from "The Southern Cookbook - 250 Fine Old Recipes." Bright, tangy, spicy and slightly sweet.

Southern-Style Barbecue Sauce

Food on Alcatraz: Cinnamon Sugar Cookies - Alcatraz was a harsh prison, but it had pretty great food. Learn about the community living on Alcatraz and try a vintage recipe from the island.

Food on Alcatraz – Cinnamon Sugar Cookies

The Old Fashioned Way: Clotted Cream and Scones - Sharon Biggs Waller shares how to make old fashioned British-style Clotted Cream and warm, freshly baked English scones.

The Old Fashioned Way: Clotted Cream and Scones

Chocolate Icebox Pie - Learn to make Chocolate Icebox Pie topped with whipped cream and nuts from the vintage 1950's cookbook, Recipes from Old Virginia.

Chocolate Icebox Pie

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