1980s
Golden thumbprints recipe: The classic cookies, ’80s style
From the 1981 C&H private collection comes fresh look at one of your favorite Christmas cookies: Golden thumbprints, the classic sweet-topped cookies.
From the 1981 C&H private collection comes fresh look at one of your favorite Christmas cookies: Golden thumbprints, the classic sweet-topped cookies.
A glamorous-looking dessert like this chocolate-cherry torte can be the ultimate in party food. And isn’t it great when it tastes every bit as good?
Impossible cherry pie: A retro Bisquick recipe from the ’80s that’s impossibly easy because it makes its own crust, and is filled with cherry pie filling.
This Luscious layered blueberry delight is a super-easy no-bake retro dessert recipe from 1978 that uses a base of graham crackers.
Without a doubt, the humble dump cake has one of the worst names ever, but this sweet treat has still managed to stay popular since its introduction in the mid-sixties. See step-by-step photos for an apple pie dump cake recipe here!
This fluffy cherry angel food cake benefits from having sweet chopped cherries mixed into the batter, giving this dessert a festive flair!
Once upon a time, fruitcake took days to prepare. Weeks even. But not anymore! Here’s the famous 9-minute ‘can’t fail’ holiday fruitcake.
Create a holiday sensation with Duncan Hines & a bowl full of cherries: a vintage cherry Christmas tree cake!
If you have been looking for the perfect authentic old-fashioned fruitcake, this is for you! Get 20 traditional Southern fruitcake recipes – from Plantation Fruit Cake and beyond – right here.
Try one or more of these classic cordial recipes – featuring cherries, raspberries, blackberries, redcurrants, oranges and peaches – and create yourself a rainbow of fruit flavor liqueurs the old-fashioned way!
Crown Jewel Dessert as a mold, a pie, and a spring-form pan dessert! Also known as Broken Window Glass Cake, this easy dessert fits busy schedules.
Company coming, so of course, dessert just has to be homemade cheery cherry cheesecake pie. So elegant… and so delicious. And you don’t have to bake it to make it.
Here, get two classic recipes that combine two sweet flavors in one treat: chocolate cherry brownies. Try them both ways and figure out which is your favorite!
Two deliciously pink vintage cherry cake recipes here – one version made with boxed mix, and the other made from scratch. Have a look!
Raise a glass, retro-style! Get Glacier highball, Christmas sparkler, Kris Kringle punch & vintage holiday punch and classic cocktail recipes for a holiday party
Try these two retro cherry coffee cake recipe from the eighties – cherry swirl cake and a holiday cherry coffee cake, which is especially popular at Christmas.
Keebler 15 minute Cherry Burst Pie See why it’s America’s favorite crumb crust in just 15 minutes 15-minute cherry burst pie recipe Ingredients 1 Keebler
It’s a see-through dessert! This gelatin-based pie offers a clear filling, making it possible for you to see the embedded peaches and cherries when looking at the whole pie, and with every slice.
Chocolate Soufflé recipe Ingredients 2 envelopes unflavored gelatin 2-1/4 cups cold water 1-1/2 cups sugar 4 eggs, separated 1 8-ounce package Philadelphia Brand Cream Cheese
These cherry velvet cookies are mild with a pleasantly soft texture. Get this classic recipe from the 1960s here!
Munchy family treats to brighten March, made easy with Kellogg’s Rice Krispies Double-Coated Chicken Supreme recipe Dress up your chicken in a crisp new coat.
Look what YOU can do with cling peaches and Miracle Whip! With such perfect partners in the pantry, you can make any number of tempting
There are many ways of using cherries, but I know of no better way to serve them to the family than in a rich pie crust. This is my favorite summer cherry pie recipe.
Introducing the fruit you unroll, peel and chew! New Fruit Roll-Ups are a whole lot more than a fantastic new snack. They’re a whole new
Try this instead of pie! Pepperidge Farm’s delicious Criss-Cross Pastry with a light flaky crust and a warm fruit filling. There are three great flavors:
Introducing Sunkist Fun Fruits Creme Supremes Now we’ve turned real fruit and yogurt into a whole new kind of wholesome fruit snack. We put a
Gold Medal makes a “Flower” of a Pie Here’s a fluffy-light dream of a filling that makes a crisp, flaky-tender pie crust a must! Fluffy
The 10-minute Fruit Float frozen dessert Cherry Cream Pops recipe Ingredients 1 envelope (2 ounces) whipped topping mix 1/2 cup cold milk 1/2 teaspoon almond
Work all day? You’ll say hooray for Jell-O “busy day” dessert No cooking! Just whip Jell-O Instant Pudding — the busy day dessert — with fresh
Wheel home the Welch’s candy going for delicious prices Welch’s candies from Nabisco — The family candy with old-fashioned goodness Welch’s Junior Mints Welch’s Chocolate-Covered
Now, pudding is tortoni Cool, sweet, slightly nutty. An Italian favorite. But Jell-O pudding and pie filling makes it part of your own dolce vita.
Favorites from our dining room A fitting end to luncheon at the Institute, this Southern specialty is layered with a rich filling of pecans, fruit,
Peach, cherry, pineapple, strawberry, lime & lemon Perfect, in French, is parfait. And parfait, in American, is a dreamy dessert, often with fruit for a base,
Sweetie Pie A cool, elegant Cherry Cream Pie that’s easy to make Make it in minutes, hours ahead of time. Serve it — cool, creamy
Cherry Breeze No-cook filling. No-bake crust. Just blend and chill this luscious cream cheese pie. Cherry Breeze cheesecake pie recipe Ingredients 1 cup Kellogg’s Corn
Cheery Cherry Coke Salad recipe (1964) Mrs Carrol (Esther) Goen of 320 W Oak prepared a zippy molded salad that sparks a table with its
Women: Do you have the ideal figure? Here’s what ‘they’ thought in 1950 
The real death of a cheerleader story (1985) 
62 beautiful vintage home designs & floor plans from the 1920s 
50+ sexist vintage ads so bad, you almost won’t believe they were real 
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