1950s
Get the famous Can’t Fail 5-minute fudge recipe, plus 10 more fast vintage fudge recipes
Get the famous Can’t Fail 5-minute fudge recipe, plus 10 more fast vintage fudge recipes that you can easily make right at home!
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1950s
Easter Glory cake recipe (1953)
Heaped high with the fresh, fresh whiteness of tender-moist coconut, this irresistible Easter Glory cake is already a springtime tradition.
1970s
Remember Snackin’ Cake – the ’70s dessert you could mix, bake and serve in 1 pan?
Make all eight kinds of Snackin Cake something special to eat. And since you mix, bake and serve it in the same plan, they’re especially convenient, too.
1960s
Apple pie dump cake recipe & vintage dump cake how-tos
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!
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Baker’s easy one-bowl German sweet chocolate brownies
Never send a cookie to do a brownie’s job! If you like German chocolate cake, you will love these easy German sweet chocolate brownies!
1950s
3 classic coconut eggnog pie recipes
Here are three different spins on a classic coconut-eggnog pie recipe – one with rum, two without – all delicious vintage desserts from the 50s, 70s & 80s.
1950s
Vintage velvet crumb cake: A classic cake recipe from 1952 that’s good for breakfast and dessert
Velvet crumb cake has the fluffy, loose texture, the old-time good eating, of Grandmother’s butter cakes. But it’s even more tender!
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Holiday chocolate nut squares (1997)
Holiday chocolate nut squares is a vintage cookie bar recipe with chocolate, pecans or walnuts and coconut on a sweet cookie dough base
1970s
Old-fashioned Christmas desserts: Classic carrot ‘pudding’ cake & coconut joy no-bake cookies (1979)
When most gifts are going under the tree, here are two Old-fashioned Christmas desserts that will grace your table for the holidays.
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.
1950s
How to make a “Hallo Witch” Halloween cake (1958)
For Halloween party fun, make a Hallo Witch Halloween cake! You don’t need any special pans — just cut a square cake as shown, then frost.
1980s
Pineapple, coconut & rum mingle in this tropical pina colada cake (1986)
This pina colada cake is an attractive, delicious dessert made with packaged yellow cake mix, vanilla pudding mix, coconut — and, of course, rum.
1960s
Make a Teddy Bear cake (1961)
Here’s an incredible edible teddy bear made of the nicest things you could imagine. And you can make one easily.
1960s
The Easter Egg Cake recipe (1969)
This Easter cake isn’t super-simple to make — there are, in fact, three diagrams to help you assemble it — but the finished product is likely to impress coconut lovers and kids alike!
1980s
Chocolate angel swirl cake recipe (1986)
Create a taste of heaven Dreams of a heavenly light Christmas will come true when you start with Duncan Hines light, delicious angel food cake. Chocolate
1930s
Christmas gifts from the kitchen: Classic homemade candy and cookies (1936)
Who will not welcome a Merry Christmas Greeting in the form of a pretty package of your own homemade candy or cookies? Get recipes for caramels, fudge, butterscotch, marshmallow coconut squares and holiday cookies here!
1960s
Karo Lace Cookies (1965)
Karo Lace Cookies… for holiday giving and eating! Surely the most festive Christmas cookies ever — and deliciously easy to make with Karo. These Karo
1950s
A collection of classic Christmas cookies & treats (1950s)
Sweet holiday treats Below, beginning at top and reading from left to right: Boxed Dates and Figs Stuffed with Fondant, Fresh Coconut Patties, Walnut Creams,
1960s
36 Christmas cookie recipes children will love (1962)
Children love them Here is a group of irresistible cookies of every kind which you’ll enjoy making as much as giving. Cookies are part of
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
1950s
Two no-bake pumpkin pie recipes, ’50s-style: Heavenly pie & Celestial pie
If your family enjoys a fluffy refrigerator-type pie, this Thanksgiving, you should try these two no-bake pumpkin pie recipes from the 1950s!
1950s
10 ways to make Philly cream cheese frosting for cakes & cookies (1952)
Frosting, ten different ways This seems a good time to talk about something else new and wonderful in the making of cake and cookie frosting.
1960s
Butterscotch-nut pie, Chocolate-banana pie & Ambrosia pie recipes (1960)
Easy as pie – with Jell-O Puddings! (Quick and thrifty – and pie lovers love ’em!) Butterscotch-Nut Pie recipe If you love the good,
1940s
Chocolate-Vanilla Checkerboard Cake recipe (1949)
Checkerboard Cake You can use Swift’ning with perfect confidence in any type of cake. This delicate, snowy-white shortening contains a special quick-mix ingredients, gives you
1970s
A treasury of treats: 6 decadent classic Christmas cookie recipes from the ’70s
Here are some classic Christmas cookie recipes from the ’70s for peanut blossoms, black-eyed Susans, coconut circles, orange drop cookies, pineapple-filled cookies, and Danish pastry apple bars!
1970s
Retro recipes for fall: Pumpkin pie bars, Coconut choco-swirl cake & Date bar cake (1971)
Get recipes for three delicious old-fashioned desserts! Find out how to make pumpkin bars, a coconut choco-swirl cake & a date bar cake.
1970s
Caribbean coconut chicken recipe (1974)
A Caribbean Coconut Chicken dinner for company Serve the Caribbean coconut chicken with cornbread or French bread, pear-lettuce salad, and a full, dry white table
1960s
Jell-O pudding macaroons (1968)
Now, pudding is macaroons. To munch on, brunch on, midnight snack on. Anything this easy deserves to be enjoyed often. Jell-O pudding macaroons recipe Ingredients
1950s
Two festive Easter layer cakes (1950)
Easter Glory cake recipe Economy cake goes Easter-elegant with baker’s coconut! Also see: Easter cake with jelly beans & coconut (1958) Easter Bunny Cake
1950s
Tropical treat chiffon cake with pineapple-coconut icing (1950)
Tropical treat chiffon cake recipe Heat oven to 325 (slow moderate) and… 1. In first bowl, sift together: 2-1/4 cups sifted Softasilk Cake Flour (spoon
1950s
Be My Valentine Cake & Washington’s Birthday Pie (1950)
Lacy pink glamour on a thrifty Valentine cake. Snowdrift beauty on a Washington’s Birthday pie. Tempting white fluffiness on a homemade sundae to serve on Lincoln’s Birthday – or any “special” day.
1960s
The yummiest, best-eating Christmas cookies ever (1966)
Extra-special cookies for Santa Cookies for the jolly gentleman from the North Pole must be extra special — extra special at Christmas too for little
1960s
Funny Face Coconut Pumpkin Pie (1964)
Funny Face Coconut Pumpkin Pie recipe Having a party on Halloween? Then you’ll welcome this amusing and very easy to make funny face pie. It
1910s
Antique glass shampoo, lotion & astringent bottles (1910s-1920s)
Cocoanut Shampoo Wet hair and apply shampoo C L Hamilton Co. — Perfumers — Washington DC Exquisite Creme de Rose For face and hands Use
1960s
Holiday cookie box: Coconut Sugar Cookies (1961)
Coconut Sugar Cookies A thin, crisp cookie that you form with a cookie cutter. Ingredients 2/3 cup butter or margarine 2/3 cup sugar 2 eggs
1970s
Flavor of times long gone: Heartland Natural Cereal (1973)
Taste the flavor of times long gone. In Heartland Natural Cereal. Your first taste of Heartland Natural Cereal will seem strangely familiar. As if you’ve
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