Retro Christmas Cookies, Betty Crocker Style

by Mrs Marvel

Here we have a page from a ring binder intended for Betty Crocker recipes, and clearly intended for practitioners of the home arts. These recipes and tips are for Wonderland Cookies, using Gold Medal flour, and include instructions on how to make 3D cookie tree ornaments. I have way too little time and patience to make rolled sugar cookies, let alone 3D ones, but if anyone is looking for a retro cookie recipe, this probably dates to about 1955. I’ll transcribe the recipes below, but if you are interested in the rest of the text, just click the image to enlarge. You can copy and paste into your own Word document and resize as desired for printing. Enjoy! Continue reading →

Lemon Sponge Pie

by Mrs Marvel

This sounds a little bit like a chiffon cake in a pie crust and it sounds delicious! I think you could also use orange if you don’t like lemon. For desserts like this, I like to use bakers sugar or caster sugar, which are extra fine. The sugar crystals will not be so obvious when a bite is in your mouth, because we all know one of the worst feelings is salt or sugar crystals grinding between the teeth. Just the thought of it is enough to make you shudder as if you just sucked on a lemon, lol. Continue reading →

A new mystery

by Mrs Marvel

I am not completely sure what this is supposed to be, so we’ll put this out for comments and hopefully solve the mystery. I assume it consists of lime frozen concentrate and ice cream, maybe vanilla? What you do with these ingredients is part of the mystery. Have fun!

Mystery

3 TB lime froze con.

2 scrops ice cr

2 c milk

gr. food color

Orange Muffins (H. Lamb)

by Mrs Marvel

Here we have a recipe from H. Lamb, whomever she may be. As I mentioned recently, I found a packet of recipes in a curio shop and they have been a great source of material for me! I don’t know who H. Lamb was, but her muffins sound good. Perhaps some of you who are familiar with some of the older ingredients and methods can decipher the part about the milk. Continue reading →

Bread Pudding with Brandy Sauce

by Mrs Marvel

Often the bread pudding you get in a restaurant is dry, has too much cinnamon, or is too sticky. Perhaps this recipe will be a good one since of course it would be home made and fresh, there doesn’t appear to be too much cinnamon, and of course there’s that brandy sauce. :-) Continue reading →