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!
Swedish heirloom cookies: Bake them now, pop them in the freezer, and serve any time! Extra delicious munching for everyone, these spicy little goodnesses!
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!
Velvet crumb cake has the fluffy, loose texture, the old-time good eating, of Grandmother’s butter cakes. But it’s even more tender!
For the merriest of holidays, here is a collection of classic gingerbread houses! See a half-timbered country gingerbread house, a church with twin towers, a marvelous Victorian manse — take your pick.
In addition to traditional pecan pie recipes, we have vintage variations with delicious extras like caramel, chocolate, coconut, butterscotch, coffee and bourbon.
Pumpkin pie doesn’t have to be light in color and light on flavor! Try these recipes for dark and delicious old-fashioned pumpkin pie with molasses & brown sugar – and see some other tasty variations, too!
When baked, this fudge batter pudding has a chocolate sauce on the bottom and the top of the cake. There are also four variations of this chocolate dessert recipe to try!
Team the unique cranberry flavor with that of the seasonal favorite, the sweet potato. Here are three tasty recipes featuring sweet potatoes & cranberries!
Back in 1971, a California newspaper asked readers to submit their best sugar cookie recipes. Most of the cookies were made with tried-and-true vintage recipes, passed down from generation to generation. Here are 8 of the best!
A cake, more than any other creation of the culinary art, truly expresses the spirit of festivity. And the magic of a cake extends beyond the festive occasion, into the cozy family world of everyday.
A woman never gets too old, or too experienced, to be thrilled when she sees her own handiwork emerge as a breathtakingly beautiful cake. But delicious cakes don’t “just happen.”
A birthday cake is a personal gift by Elizabeth Sparks Happy Birthday! Nothing says “Happy birthday” like a birthday cake. A birthday cake is a
These wheat-free bread recipes come from 1918, during the height of World War 1, when the country was asked to save wheat for the troops.
We do not hear the cry “Hot Cross Buns, Hot Cross Buns, One a Penny, Two a Penny, Hot Cross Buns,” when we awaken on Good Friday morning in this country.
During World War I, there was a need for Americans at home to eat less wheat, so many recipes were created using all kinds of other flours and similar products — rice flour, potato flour, corn meal, etc.
Holiday bake-fest For years beyond telling, a favorite holiday craft project for parents and children has been making charming tree ornaments and centerpiece figures from
Delightfully-shaped, delicious muffins Bake your own delightfully-shaped, delicious muffins in McCall’s cast-iron muffin pan — it’s as efficient as it is decorative! Fanciful vegetable,
Yours to own or give: The versatile Bundt Pan A temping trio of Bundt Pan specialties, clockwise from top: souffle with frozen-daquiri tang; ham
Here are three old fashioned cake recipes from the Victorian era!
Many of the vintage recipes featured on this site have very old-fashioned — and often vague — cooking directions. Here’s a chart to help you
Inside vintage grocery stores & old-fashioned supermarkets of yesteryear 
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30 vintage TV dinners: Fried chicken, turkey, pot roast & other fab frozen food, retro-style 
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