Hey, my mom used to make that!

Ginger Ale Salad from 1953

Here's a close-up of the 1953 Jell-O recipe for Ginger Ale Salad:

This recipe seems an awful lot like Garbage Pail Jell-O Salad. Emphasis on 'awful.'

 

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1954 recipe for Creamy Pineapple Pie

This pie recipe comes from a 1954 pamphlet, Perfect Pies by Mary Blake.

The back of the pamphlet features an ad for Carnation evaporated milk and features George Burns and Gracie Allen.

Here's one of the recipes from this pamphlet, Creamy Pineapple Pie. Click image to enlarge.

Click here to see a 1950 recipe for Pineapple-Custard Cheesecake.

Thursday Happy Hour: The Golden Walkerschnapper

Today's retro cocktail recipe comes from this 1978 ad.

Here's a close-up of the recipe for The Golden Walkerschnapper:

Click here for a 1974 cocktail recipe.

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1952 recipe for Duchess Lettuce Bowl Salad

This salad contains canned cherries. The directions include adding red food coloring to the cherries. Unless you're a purist who wants an authentic 1952 salad experience, I'd skip the food coloring.

Here's a close-up of this retro salad recipe:

Click here for a retro recipe for Glazed Potato Salad.

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1956 recipe for Fruit Shortcake

Here's another great little recipe from this Betty Crocker booklet from 1956:

It starts with directions for making plain biscuits:

And here's how to tweak the recipe to make Fruit Shortcake:

Click here to see more recipes from this Betty Crocker booklet.

1957 tip from A.1. Sauce for grilling franks

This hot dog grilling tip comes from the above 1957 ad for A.1. Sauce:

Make deep diagonal cuts part way through skinless frankfurters. Brush each frankfurter liberally with think, tangy A.1. Sauce before grilling.

Click here to see a retro recipe for oven-baked corn dogs.

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Thursday Happy Hour: four retro cocktails

Stinger
1 jigger brandy, 1/2 jigger white creme de menthe. Shake with cracked ice, strain into glass.

Alexander
1/2 oz. fresh cream, 3/4 oz. creme de cacao, 1 jigger (1 1/2 oz.) Southern Comfort or gin or brandy. Shake with cracked ice, strain into glass.

Grasshopper
3/4 oz. fresh cream, 1 oz. white creme de cacao, 1 oz. green creme de menthe. Shake with cracked ice or mix in electric blender, strain into glass.

St. Louis Cocktail
As served at Stan Musial and Biggie's in St. Louis. 1/2 peach or apricot, chilled Southern Comfort. Put fruit in sherbet or champagne glass, add finely cracked ice, fill with Southern Comfort. Serve with a small spoon and a cocktails straw.

 Click here for a recipe for a 1986 cocktail.

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1980 recipe for Chocolate Syrup Brownies

What a horrible name for such a great recipe!

To read the recipe, just click this 1980 Diamond Walnuts ad to enlarge it.

Click here to see a retro recipe for Chocolate Butter Cookies.

1995 recipe: Chicken with Artichokes, Lemons and Capers

Five-star goodness for relatively little work.

Click here for another elegant recipe that's simple to make.

Cointreau, strawberries and ice cream

My husband and I bought some amazing fresh strawberries today at Tendercrop Farm, in Newbury, Massachusetts.

The strawberries one gets at the grocery store aren't quite as amazing. A little Cointreau and ice cream will fix them right up.

This serving suggestion comes from the above 1947 ad for Cointreau.

Click here for another retro idea for serving fruit.

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