If you’ve ever bought a pricey bottle of flavoring, you may have wondered: How can you make your own homemade extracts for less? It’s probably a lot easier than you think.
Go beyond the regular toll house cookie, and try baking minty sweet treats with this retro recipe for Double chocolate mint chip cookies.
There’s magic in the rich, chocolate moistness of Duncan Hines’ mint magic brownies — and in how deliciously they disappear.
It seems that there are almost as many old-fashioned mint julep recipes as there are people who enjoy the cocktails. Take a look at a century of the best how-tos!
Chocolate mint sundae cake “Yes! It’s easy to get better cakes — use Spry with Cake-Improver!” says Aunt Jenny. “It is proof you’re wanting, ladies?
Celebrate this season with this quick and easy Hollyday Mint Pie recipe. You’ll love how easy it is to get into the holiday spirit.
Joyous in the holiday season, homemade candy & fudge are gifts happily remembered: golden taffy nuggets sweetly flavored with molasses, white velvet creams, chocolate cream fudge and more.
These two delicious holiday fudge recipes will really make a lasting impression, whether you make the Christmas fudge with chocolate chips, or the other with unsweetened chocolate!
Get rich quick: Creamy chocolate mint pie You can get this rich and creamy warm-weather dessert made in minutes when you follow our easy two-step recipe.
Butter mints – tiny sweet treats sometimes called pastel mints or pillow mints – are used in both of these retro pie recipes from the seventies.
Quality counts Nice homemade candies and bonbons depend on using the nicest materials. Pure powdered sugar from the high-priced grocers, the finest arrowroot in place
Choco-Mint Party Cake recipe Ingredients 1 cup butter or margarine 2-1/2 cups sifted Powdered Sugar 4 egg yolks 2 egg whites 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate
Chocolate Mint-Whipped Cream cake Take a poll of favorite desserts and chances are you’ll come up with chocolate cake and whipped cream. Add a hint
Women: Do you have the ideal figure? Here’s what ‘they’ thought in 1950 
Hershey’s rich cocoa fudge recipe from the ’70s & ’80s 
A treasury of treats: 6 decadent classic Christmas cookie recipes from the ’70s 
’60s lingerie, pantyhose, girdles, garters & more from the 1968 Wards catalog 
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