Tonight’s Dinner: Pinwheel Meat Roll {Vintage Recipe}

Note: This recipe was originally posted on May 14, 2010.  It is so good, I had to share it with you again!  We are having this for dinner tonight. Yum!

Betty Crocker’s You Share cookbook with “52 menus, 226 recipes, and 369 hints on food buying, preparation, meal planning, and serving” was published . . . → Read More: Tonight’s Dinner: Pinwheel Meat Roll {Vintage Recipe}

From the Archives: It’s Autumn and that Means Vegetable Beef Soup! {Recipe}

In case you didn’t see my comment last week, the meeting on Friday went well (I think).  They asked for more information, which I take as a good sign.   Unfortunately, that also means I’m still distracted from my blogging endeavors for a few more days.  In the meantime, enjoy this soup recipe, originally posted on . . . → Read More: From the Archives: It’s Autumn and that Means Vegetable Beef Soup! {Recipe}

From the Archives: Deviled Beef Patties {Recipe}

Hamburger Press: So Simple, Yet Efficient

We had these the other night and they are just so good that I had to share the recipe with you again.  This article was originally posted on July 12, 2010.

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The more I learn how to eat like my grandmother, the more I am amazed at . . . → Read More: From the Archives: Deviled Beef Patties {Recipe}

From the Archive: Department Store Dining Rooms

This article was originally posted on April 21, 2008:

There was a time when women would shop downtown at department stores. These department stores were monuments to fashion and femininity. You could meet your friends for lunch and eat in the elegant dining rooms. It was glorious!

Growing up in the San Fernando Valley, I . . . → Read More: From the Archive: Department Store Dining Rooms

Plan Your Meals Like a 1940′s Homemaker

Smart homemakers say:

Planning, preparing, and serving meals is an art which develops through inspiration and thought.  And meal-planning is really fun!  It may look difficult to the beginner, but like driving a car, swimming, or anything we learn to do without thought or conscious effort, it is a skill which grows easier with doing.

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Dear Friends,

Here in The States, the dog days of summer are starting to wind down but we are still looking forward to the blessed relief from the heat that Autumn promises us.  This issue of the Modern Retro Recipes eNewsletter focuses on recipes that won’t heat up the kitchen (or, for some, won’t heat . . . → Read More:

Wartime Nutrition (1943)

Dear Friends,

Did you know that people were generally healthier during World War II food rationing than they are now?  One of the primary reasons is because they were loading up on food from their Victory  Garden.  With things like sugar being harder to come by things like Adult Onset Diabetes (which is showing up . . . → Read More: Wartime Nutrition (1943)

Only Grandma’s Ice Cream Will Cool Us Off Today!

Dear Friends,

I’m off to run errands but I thought I’d share this post from two years ago.  I don’t know about your neck of the woods but it is scorching hot here and I’ve been thinking about my grandmother’s ice cream recipe for the past few days.  To me, this is so much tastier . . . → Read More: Only Grandma’s Ice Cream Will Cool Us Off Today!

Modern Retro Wordpower: Hash Browns

Image courtesy of Larry Page

Hash Browns

Plural Noun (Merriam-Webster): boiled potatoes that have been diced, mixed with chopped onions and shortening, and fried usually until they form a browned cake —called also hash brown potatoes, hashed brown potatoes, hashed browns

First Known Use: 1951; Like many words, hash browns is a shortened . . . → Read More: Modern Retro Wordpower: Hash Browns

Modern Retro Recipe: Sloppy Devils

Dear Friends,

This recipe for sloppy joes is a variation of a recipe for “deviled hamburgers” that I found in a “calorie friendly” cookbook that belonged to my husband’s grandmother.  I have found that if any recipe says “deviled” in it, there will be mustard and/or horseradish (such as deviled eggs).  I doubled the seasonings . . . → Read More: Modern Retro Recipe: Sloppy Devils

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