Hot punch is one of the traditional winter warmer-uppers, whether or not there’s booze in it. Here are more than a dozen old-fashioned hot punch recipes for the holidays, both with and without alcohol.
This exceptional Bacardi rum cake is a pudding cake baked in a ring pan and flavored with Bacardi dark dry rum. You can get a really elegant cake with fool-proof results.
The cake everyone’s talking about: The rave reviews coconut cake. It’s lusciously moist and walnut-crunchy, topped by a sweet and creamy cream cheese frosting and toasted coconut.
From 1950: New adventure with pineapple: Classic pineapple pie! (Plus a tasty vintage variation to try) Try your hand… please your man with homemade pie
Empty an envelope of Cup-a-Soup into a cup, add boiling water, stir, and get a single serving of real soup – Chicken Noodle, Tomato, Pea, Beef Noodle or Onion.
Make a chocolate & vanilla party cake! Fluffy frosting and an easy decorative design can turn a simple cake into a simply wonderful dessert, the perfect finale to any festive meal.
Dessert recipes: Fast fixin’ chocolate chip cake, Lemon supreme pound cake, Double pineapple upside-down cake, Cinnamon streusel cake, Cake mix chocolate chip cookies, Sock-it-to me sour cream pound cake
What is a ‘Busy-day’ lemon cheesecake? Get two easy vintage cheesecake pie recipes that require no cooking, no special pans, and no expensive ingredients.
Even a white Christmas should have a rainbow, so here’s how to make a vintage holiday dessert: classic Christmas Rainbow Poke Cake!
Best bacon strip pancakes (1960) You don’t have to get up early to prepare bacon pancakes. They are easy and quick to make, and are
What is the secret of this rich, moist, delicious cake? Here’s a hint: Its full name is the Mayonnaise Chocolate Sensation cake. Get this surprisingly tasty recipe from 1985!
You love the flavor of almonds and sherry… now taste them together in a fabulous new cake! You make it with Christian Brothers Cream Sherry, Blue Diamond Sliced Almonds and cake mix.
You make these exciting walnut brownie desserts with boxed brownie mix. They’re quick! They’re easy! And you’ll love the homemade flavor of chocolately-good brownies.
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.
Get classic holiday recipes from the sixties: Caramel crunch popcorn, Lemon European cake, and a festive Gumdrop nut wreath.
Jell-O salad gelatin came in two flavors, celery or mixed vegetable, and both savory salad gelatin mixes made to be a base for vegetables and meats.
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
Here are two recipes for easy-to-bake banana pudding, made Southern-style with vanilla wafers and a topping of light, fluffy meringue.
This delicious vintage Graham streusel cake starts with a boxed mix, the batter divided and adorned with a streusel-type crunch, and after baking, is drizzled with a light powdered sugar glaze.
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!
Here’s a recipe that will turn pumpkin into a pie faster than Cinderella’s fairy godmother turned the fall fruit into a coach: Pumpkin Dream Pie – and all without any cooking or baking.
What will you find at the end of the rainbow? More smiles than ever. Here’s an easy recipe for a fun and fruity rainbow poke cake you can make with your favorite Jell-o flavors!
Stripe-it-Rich pudding poke cakes make ordinary cakes extraordinary. It’s easy! Use the Jell-O instant pudding mixture to frost, fill and stripe. Here’s how.
Make these brilliant harvest desserts – Halloween Jello recipes! Whip up a glittering pumpkin parfait. A sparking new way to serve grapes. Or a glowing harvest moon salad.
This no-bake banana pudding with vanilla wafers is such a spectacular dessert, you’d never dream it could be so quick and so easy to make. Bonus: Cooked banana pudding recipe.
This pina colada cake is an attractive, delicious dessert made with packaged yellow cake mix, vanilla pudding mix, coconut — and, of course, rum.
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
Chocolate. Strawberry. Vanilla. United they bake. Here’s the triple-appeal of Neapolitan ice cream making a delicious appearance as cake. Begin with a Betty Crocker white
Butterscotch yule log Almost as easy as falling off a you-know-what Butterscotch yule log recipe 1 6-ounce package (1 cup) Nestle’s Butterscotch-flavored morsels 1/3 cup
Cool Dips for hot days with Lipton Beef Flavor Mushroom Mix Zesty Horseradish Dip recipe Ingredients 1 envelope Lipton Beef Flavor Mushroom Mix 1 pint
Something fudgy is going around Very clever, this new Betty Crocker Chocolate Fudge Supreme Cake Mix. You can make it in layers, or bake it
We love “spring pink” desserts May is the month for the sweetest-flavored strawberries, for juicy-tender rhubarb and sun-ripened raspberries. Start with our Dresden-pink strawberry torte…
This zesty purple Jell-o poke cake has stripes of flavor from a tangy blackberry gelatin! Not feeling so purple? You can swap in any other flavor of Jello to make this cake recipe all your own.
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.
“Introducing Beef Romanoff… a handy new main dish from Hamburger Helper.” If it’s one of those days when you’re running late, but you still want
Heard the rumor Betty Crocker frosting mix makes great candy? There’s nothing to it. Introducing nothing-to-it homemade candy from Betty Crocker. You start with Betty
Easy Why-Not Cupcakes Where’s the party. No party. What’s happening? Nothing’s happening. Why coconut cupcakes? Why not? Why not indeed? Just because Baker’s Coconut is
Jell-O just introduced Soft Swirl (So you can treat your family like company.) Your family is among the nicest people in the world, aren’t they?
Shake ‘n Bake and extra chicken today …and have a picnic tomorrow. Shake ‘n Bake chicken tastes so good hot or cold, you get two
Spring fancies! Brownie Ice Box Cookies make ’em and bake ’em with Betty Crocker Brownie Mix and Reynolds Wrap! Now Betty Crocker Brownie Ice Box
My-T-Fine No-Bake Souffle recipe The My-T-Fine people have come up with a recipe for lemon souffle that’s virtually foolproof. Now, instead of worrying whether your
How to perform a miracle Turn your mix cakes into higher, moister Dream Cakes with this recipe Dream Cakes recipe 1 package (2 layer size)
Start the day with SmileCakes and Mrs Butterworth’s syrup! Bisquick — for the lightest-hearted pancakes. Easy, just add milk and egg to Bisquick for golden
You can’t keep kids from picking blackberries. Oh, the blackberry fiends in your family are going to love the taste of new Jell-O Blackberry flavor
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.
Tastes like you spent the whole day baking In fact, these Golden Fudge Fancifills take you hardly any time at all. Just wait until they
Yippee! A new grand dessert Ice box cookie cake — so speedy-easy with Jell-O puddings and pie fillings and Nabisco’s new Cocoanut Bars! Ice box
Fast, fancy & fun! Royal pineapple gelatin and fruit cocktail A quick-trick recipe from Royal Prepare Royal pineapple gelatin according to package directions. Add 4
Pink lemonade angel cake & frosting All pink and lemony, this high-flying angel helps make any party more fun than a circus. It’s cool and
A heavenly idea! Pudding in a cloud So lovely. So light. So luscious. You get two delicious tastes in every spoonful. Pudding in a cloud
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
Sequin salad – vinegar-soaked cauliflower, pimiento and onion suspended in lime jello. How can anyone say no to that?!
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