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There is just something soothing about the fragrance of mulled cider in Autumn. This recipe comes from a 1939 New England regional cookbook and has become my husband’s favorite Autumn-time hot drink. The original recipe calls for 7 whole allspice but I can’t seem to find it anywhere. I substituted the equivalent . . . → Read More: Menu Monday: Mulled Cider {Recipe}  2 comments - (Comments are closed)  home economics, Monday Menu Madness, Recipe, Vintage Recipe  Thanksgiving menus We have been spending our Tuesdays exploring how to be a hostess with the mostess using Successful Entertaining at Home: A Complete Guide for Informal Entertaining written by Carolyn Coggins. Given that Thursday is Thanksgiving for those of us in the United States, I thought I’d share with you my Thanksgiving prep countdown. I . . . → Read More: My Thanksgiving Prep Checklist This post is part of a series on being a hostess with the mostess using Successful Entertaining at Home: A Complete Guide for Informal Entertaining written by Carolyn Coggins and published in 1952 by Prentiss-Hall. FOOTBALL ON TV: There is a football game on and you want to see it. ~Carolyn Coggins . . . → Read More: Thanksgiving: Football on TV or No Football on TV? 3 comments - (Comments are closed) Entertaining Thanksgiving football, Thanksgiving meal planning, Thanksgiving menus This vintage recipe for pumpkin pecan pie was originally posted exactly two years ago, November 11, 2009. Pumpkin Pecan Pie by Mrs. Myron Leitz I love pumpkin pie. Well, homemade pumpkin pie. I usually end up disliking the pumpkin pies that I order at a restaurant. And the frozen pies? *phhht* Why bother? . . . → Read More: From the Archives: Pumpkin Pecan Pie {Vintage Recipe} Comments are closed Cooking, Cooking from Scratch, home economics, Vintage Recipe Cooking, pumpkin pecan pie, Thanksgiving menus This post is part of a series on being a hostess with the mostess using Successful Entertaining at Home: A Complete Guide for Informal Entertaining written by Carolyn Coggins and published in 1952 by Prentiss-Hall. For Thanksgiving dinner no one would wish to other than old-fashioned. There are no short cuts…The more each person . . . → Read More: Just Say No to Dinner in a Box 3 comments - (Comments are closed) Cooking from Scratch, Entertaining, home economics Thanksgiving menus It is three weeks until Thanksgiving in the United States. That time when we gather around the television set to watch football and sort through the advertisements to determine which line to wait in for the 4:00 a.m. opening of Black Friday. And, in between those events, we stuff ourselves until we have to . . . → Read More: But, but, but…That’s Sacrilegious! |
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