1910s
Sweet! More than 100 classic cake recipes for every occasion
If you’re looking for a vintage-style dessert for a special occasion, check out more than a hundred different classic cake recipes to suit all tastes!
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1980s
Vintage Thanksgiving dessert: Pumpkin spice cake roll with cream cheese filling, frosted with chocolate (1970s)
Roll a pumpkin cake! It’s the perfect festive cake for Thanksgiving or Christmas — lightly-spiced pumpkin cake, filled with a fluffy cream cheese mixture, then frosted with chocolate and decorated with pumpkin candies.
1970s
Retro party food: 12 classic cheese ball recipes from the ’70s
If you’re having a party, consider these 12 cheese ball recipes! These tidbits provide a good color, taste and texture contrast to other foods, and can be made ahead of time, too — even several days ahead to suit your convenience.
1970s
Warm yourself up with these winter rum drinks (1971)
When the outside of you is cold, the inside of you likes something that makes you warm. And winter rum drinks are some of the very beverages that warm you when you are cold, just as rum can cool you when you are warm.
1950s
A treasury of 150+ vintage Christmas cookie recipes
If you’re looking to recreate that special vintage Christmas cookie recipe that your grandmother used to make, or want to discover old-fashioned cookies to make new again, here’s a big tasty collection of treats for you!
1950s
The kitschy, the bad and the ugly: 18 vintage Christmas party appetizers you don’t see much anymore
Having a retro party for the holidays? Here are the crazy kitschy vintage Christmas party appetizers you will want to serve!
1930s
Bad vintage Christmas ads: 20 retro holiday sales pitches that you’d never see today
There’s a reason that advertising has evolved over the decades – and these bad vintage Christmas ads from years ago show you exactly why!
1960s
Hershey’s rich cocoa fudge recipe from the ’70s & ’80s
This is the Hershey’s rich cocoa fudge recipe your grandmother used to make! The recipe first appeared on the Hershey’s Cocoa can label in the 1960s.
1970s
3 vintage buttery butterscotch cut-out sugar cookie recipes – plus how to make cookie marionettes
These sweet and buttery butterscotch cut-out sugar cookies have melted butterscotch chips stirred in for a special cut-out cookie flavor. See what fun you can make with these VIP sugar cookies here!
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Holiday praline delight pie & praline pie in a crunchy praline pie shell (1970s)
Here’s Jell-O pudding’s holiday pie – a holiday praline delight pie from the 1970s – plus a recipe for a praline pie in a crunchy praline pie shell!
1970s
Vintage wooden Christmas ornament sets that you could paint (1974)
What a happy, colorful Christmas tree you’ll have this season if it’s gaily trimmed with these old-style wood ornaments you paint yourself!
1960s
Beautiful party tablesettings: 7 ways to present a holiday table with retro style (1974)
The secret to party-giving is good food plus good company in a beautiful setting. When it comes to perfect party tablesettings, here are ways to showcase your decorating and culinary skills!
1950s
Libby’s pumpkin pie recipe: Find out how to make the classic homemade pie
More than good, Libby’s pumpkin pie is smooth, gently spicy and perfect! Get the classic pie you love – the original vintage recipe is right here.
1980s
44 creative & classic Christmas cookie decorating ideas for kids: Let them eat toys! (1987)
Christmas toy cookies for kids of all ages 44 fabulous designs, from drums to choo-choo trains… fun to bake, even more fun to eat! Christmas
1970s
Cranberry-mushroom, sausage-pecan & other sensational ’70s stuffing recipes
Stuffing recipes from the seventies Stuffing in the seventies is a cinch to prepare. The dry mix may be combined with water and butter or
1970s
A dozen divinely delicious classic cranberry sauce recipes from the seventies
Cranberries, like the turkey, have become traditional for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners – and although the turkey reigns supreme, classic cranberry sauce adds the ruby-red jewel.
1990s
Nilla wafer cranberry cheesecake: Vanilla wafers crushed and whole make for a gorgeous dessert (1994)
Whether they’re right out of the box or in your favorite recipe, here is is an easy way to tempt the vanilla wafer lovers in your family: Make a nilla wafer cranberry cheesecake!
1960s
Go totally ’70s and make a retro shrimp Christmas tree appetizer for your holiday party! Here’s how
A shrimp Christmas tree appetizer is a scene-stealer and a real buffet beauty, certain to cast a special charm over any holiday party – yet so easy to do! Here’s how.
1970s
14 different delicious and creative pumpkin pie toppings to try: Creamy, crunchy, sweet & tangy
Once you have made your perfect pumpkin pie – using the classic Libby’s pie recipe or another version – you might want to accent your delicious dessert with one of these tasty pumpkin pie toppings.
1970s
7 sweet & scrumptious Bundt cake recipes from the ’70s
If you’re looking for some delicious Bundt cake recipes to serve at your next holiday party — or any time of year, for that matter
1970s
Vintage recipe double feature: Sensational double-layer pumpkin pie (1992) & a triple-layer pumpkin chiffon pie (1972)
Here are two great no-bake pumpkin pie recipes – a double layer pumpkin pie from the ’90s, and a triple-layer counterpart from two decades earlier. The first uses pumpkin and instant pudding for the base, while the second recipe has pumpkin plus plain gelatin.
1970s
Chocolate-dipped cream cookies (1971)
These shortbread-like cream cookies are super fun and festive when dipped into melted chocolate, and then rolled in edible decorations!
1950s
7 vintage 7-Up cake recipes
Try one of these vintage 7-Up cake recipes! “Never before have you had a cake so light, so airy, so high, and with such a delightful new flavor.”
1970s
8 high-style, low-budget gift wrap ideas (1976)
A pretty wrapping makes a gift special. But when you suddenly realize that some of your Christmas presents are costing almost as much to wrap as they did to buy, then it’s high time for ingenuity and originality!
1970s
Flourishes of festivity: Vintage Christmas trees from 1974
On these Christmas trees, cuddly creatures ride the silver balsam tree along with Santas and toys, all radiantly spotlighted with the gleam of shining ornaments.
1970s
Sparking sequined crafts: Jeweled fruit & Christmas ornaments (1972)
Make these ornaments in minutes for dazzling centerpieces or decorations. It’s so easy! You simply use straight pins to attach sequins and beads to Styrofoam forms.
1970s
Make a little Christmas tree! Create festivity on a small scale (1977)
Every home has room for a Christmas tree, even if it’s only the tabletop variety. See the festive joy a small tree Christmas tree can bring to your home!
1960s
Make a cookie house as a gingerbread house this Christmas
For sheer imagination and warmth, Christmas cannot be compared with any other holiday. People of all ages will love these cute Christmas cookie houses, which can be made easily and inexpensively. See examples and get directions here!
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L’eggs pantyhose eggs in metallic gold, silver, red, blue, green for Christmas (1973)
Get crafty and decorate L’eggs eggs for the holidays – they come in gold, silver, red, blue, green, so you can give brighter Christmas presents.
1970s
How to sew some cute, crafty Christmas tree ornaments (1974)
Here are some crafty Christmas tree ornaments you can sew yourself, using scraps of fabric! There are four different designs using an inexpensive patchwork design.
1970s
Heat Miser & Snow Miser: The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974)
The Year Without a Santa Claus: When old Santa takes a year off Have you been told. Did you ever hear, Of that curious, furious
1970s
Pumpkin chiffon pie recipe: A light and airy pumpkin pie with a crunchy graham cracker crumb crust (1979)
This year, treat everyone to a pumpkin chiffon pie with a light and airy filling that’s simple to make. It’s pumpkin perfection: fluffy filling, crunchy crust, a crown of whipped cream
1970s
Decorate the Christmas tree with salt dough ornaments (1975)
Remember when Christmas was homemade ornaments and handmade gifts? Maybe this is the year for Christmas past. All it takes is a batch of dough
1970s
Two classic apple butter pumpkin pie recipes from the ’70s
The Thanksgiving classic gets a kick from apple goodness in these two delicious classic apple butter pumpkin pie recipes from the ’70s.
1970s
5 different American twists on classic pumpkin pie (1979)
Pumpkin is so versatile that it is a natural for our rich heritage of regional cooking. The varieties of pumpkin pie are seemingly endless. The following recipes are a sampling of some of these American favorites.
1970s
3 old-fashioned rolled sugar cookie recipes (1971 & 1972)
Try these three tasty and simple cookie recipes from the early 1970s for sour cream sugar cookies, easy roll sugar cookies and old-fashioned sugar cookies.
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