Vintage Recipes Archives

Princess Diana’s Favorite Bread and Butter Pudding

Princess Diana’s Favorite Bread and Butter Pudding – Celebrate Diana with her favorite treat, a cross between bread pudding and creme brûlée. I remember when IRead More

Lemon Vanilla Buttermilk Pie

Lemon Vanilla Buttermilk Pie – Classic Dessert with Tart Lemon Custard, Sweet Vanilla and Tangy Buttermilk. Time-Tested Family Recipe. – I have recently gathered a talentedRead More

Audrey Hepburn’s Favorite Spaghetti al Pomodoro

Audrey Hepburn, 1954. Source: Wikimedia Commons Audrey Hepburn’s Favorite Recipe – Spaghetti al Pomodoro — “Audrey Hepburn is a biographer’s dream and nightmare simultaneously. NoRead More

Bread and Butter Waffles

Nowadays, when the “cook” is also housemaid, chambermaid, waitress, nurse, chauffeur, gardener – as well as wife, mother, job-holder, and community leader – the “dailiness”Read More

Vintage Popcorn Balls

With Halloween just around the corner and my recent exploration into the history of popcorn, I was tempted to make a vintage popcorn treat. PopcornRead More

Hoot Owl Cookies

Hoot Owl Cookies – A vintage-inspired recipe using checkerboard sugar cookie dough, chocolate chips & almonds. Simple and cute! You must know by now howRead More

The Old Fashioned Way: Bon Bons

Sweets, bon-bons, sugarplums, sweetmeats. Candy is known by many names the world around and it has delighted people for millennia. The ancient Turks were saidRead More

Swedish Lamb Stew with Pears

As somebody with Swedish ancestry, I’ve increasingly found myself intrigued by Swedish history and cooking. While vintage shopping I was thrilled to stumble across TheRead More

Gary Cooper’s Buttermilk Griddle Cakes

Gary Cooper – Warner Brothers Studio, 1941. Source: Wikimedia Commons Gary Cooper, born Frank James Cooper on May 7, 1901, seemed destined to play theRead More

Tomato Frost

I say to you: ‘Have fun when you cook!’ It is in the spirit of having fun that the imagination works best and imagination isRead More

The History of Picnics & Vintage Blueberry Cake

urban_light/Depositphotos.com Labor Day marks the end of summer. What better way to celebrate than with a picnic? Unless you’re fortunate enough to live in aRead More

Southern-Style Barbecue Sauce

Summer and barbecue go hand in hand. It doesn’t matter what’s on the grill – vegetables, ribs, brisket or burgers – the smell of smokingRead More

Food on Alcatraz – Cinnamon Sugar Cookies

The island prison of Alcatraz U.S.P. Alcatraz, popularly known as “The Rock,” officially opened its doors to inmates on August 11, 1934. On that firstRead More

The Old Fashioned Way: Clotted Cream and Scones

The Old Fashioned Way: Clotted Cream and Scones – How to make old fashioned British-style Clotted Cream and warm, freshly baked English scones. I have,Read More

Chocolate Icebox Pie

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.Read More

Calumet Parker House Rolls

Who can resist a buttery dinner roll still warm from the oven? Parker House Rolls, those soft little pillows of freshly baked bread, are most easilyRead More

The Old Fashioned Way: Sugared Roses

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet… and a rose by any other name would taste as sweet, too. Eating roses mightRead More

Very Fancy Sandwiches

On Guard … American Home Magazine, July 1944 This vintage American Home Magazine (July 1944) can best be compared to a modern day version of Good HousekeepingRead More

The Hemingway Special

This frozen daiquiri, so well beaten as it is, looks like the sea where the wave falls away from the bow of a ship whenRead More

The Old Fashioned Way: Homemade Butter

I have recently gathered a talented team of contributors. I look forward to sharing their writing with you. Sharon Biggs Waller joins the team toRead More

Crispy Baked Eggs

I have recently gathered a talented team of contributors for The History Kitchen. I look forward to sharing their writing with you. Chef Louise MellorRead More

Prohibition, The Great Gatsby and The Bee’s Knees

F. Scott Fitzgerald circa 1920. Source: Wikimedia Commons. The Roaring Twenties, the Jazz Age, and what F. Scott Fitzgerald would later describe as “the greatest,Read More