Matzo Balls (and Andi’s No-Fail Broth)
A Recipe from Florence Jones’ Recipe Box (????) About the Recipe This year, I had the pleasure of hosting a family Passover Seder. And when I say host, I mean the whole darn thing, including the Festive Meal. For those not familiar, there’s some ceremony and storytelling that come before anyone can eat. Sometimes it’s…
Hamburger Pie
A Recipe from Better Homes and Gardens (1951) About the Recipe It’s Pi(e) Day 2026! I always like to make a savory pie to go along with the sweet. Honestly, this year I was at a little bit of a loss. I kept looking through book after book, but nothing was inspiring me. At the…
Seafoam Cantaloupe Pie
A Recipe from Better Homes and Gardens Pies and Cakes (1966) About the Recipe It’s Pi(e) Day 2026! I just got this cookbook a few weeks ago, and I’ve been waiting for Pi(e) Day to use it. I was paging through and I saw this light green mid-century nonsense. As a joke, I snapped a…
Dixie Crab Bake
A Recipe from Betty Crocker’s Dinner-in-a-Dish Cookbook (1965) About the Recipe The other day, my local grocery store had fancy canned crab on sale. The kind of canned crab that you get in the fish section, not the canned section. My original plan was to make crab cakes, one of my son’s favorite dinners. But…
Little Brioches
A Recipe from Woman’s Day Encyclopedia of Cookery Vol. 2 (1967) About the Recipe My son Maxx has been reading a book called The Bakery Dragon. It’s about a little dragon who is not great at stealing gold, but after getting stranded with a baker in her bakery during a storm, discovers that he’s very…
Spice Cake
A Recipe from Florence Jones’ Recipe Box (19??) About the Recipe As happens sometimes, I woke up yesterday with a baking itch. I felt like I needed to try something new, but I had no idea what. I went to one of my cookbook shelves and saw my grandma’s recipe boxes. I’ve actually been a…
Little Orange Layer Cake with Simple Orange Butter Frosting
A Recipe from Sunset Cook Book of Favorite Recipes (1952) About the Recipe When my friend asked us to join her and her family for New Year’s Eve this year, I had one ask: can I bring dessert? A good party is always a good excuse to try a new recipe. When I saw this…
Piquant Dip
A Recipe from Betty Crocker’s Cooking Calendar (1962) About the Recipe It’s Christmastime, and my Christmas dinner table is never complete without a new mid-century delight to try. Now, I don’t know about your friends, but mine love a dip. When I saw this masterpiece, I knew it was the right recipe to try this…
Grape Pie Supreme
A Recipe from Good Housekeeping’s Complete Christmas Cookbook (1967) About the Recipe It’s almost Christmas, and the hubs requested something festive for his office holiday party. As I was browsing my books, this recipe grabbed my eye. I couldn’t stop thinking about it. The grapes. The glaceed cherries. The mid-century of it all! So of…
Silver Dollar Pancakes
A Recipe from Country Inn Cookbook – a Berkshire Traveller Book (1970) About the Recipe Get ready friends, it’s time for another fab recipe out of Becky’s collection! The two of us pored through book after book to figure out what we wanted to make this time. This simple recipe turned out to be the…
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