seafood

Vintage Christmas

21 strange vintage Christmas appetizers you don’t see much anymore

Having a retro party for the holidays? Here are lots of crazy kitschy vintage Christmas appetizers you may want to serve… at your own risk.

Retro dinner recipes

Tuna ring: A retro recipe from the ’50s

Try the Bisquick dish with an elegant air: Tuna ring! It’s a baked biscuit-like ring that’s served with a cheesy tuna sauce in the center.

Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips fast food restaurants 1969

Vintage food & drink

Do you remember the old Arthur Treacher’s Fish & Chips fast food restaurants?

Arthur Treacher’s Fish & Chips fast food restaurants were based on the English tradition of serving fried fish together with crispy potatoes. Take a look back!

12 ideas from the Impossible Pie recipe booklet (1982)

Vintage food & drink

The Impossible Pie recipe book: 12 easy dinner recipes & desserts from 1982

The Bisquick Impossible Pie recipe book is filled with ‘no time to cook’ pies: Bacon, quesadilla, cheeseburger, lasagne, taco, brownie, cheesecake & more!

Vintage Disneyland Chicken of the Sea Pirate Ship and Restaurant postcard

Vintage fish & seafood recipes

Tuna recipes from vintage Disneyland’s Pirate Ship restaurant (1955-1956)

In the heart of Disneyland is the Chicken of the Sea Pirate Ship, one of Disney’s finest creations. Here are two dozen tuna recipes you might have found there!

Woman with a vintage shrimp appetizer tree in 1965

Vintage food & drink

Go totally ’70s and make a retro shrimp Christmas tree appetizer for your holiday party! Here’s how

A shrimp Christmas tree appetizer is a scene-stealer and a real buffet beauty, certain to cast a special charm over any holiday party – yet so easy to do! Here’s how.

1970s

Skillet seafood & chicken paella (1974)

Rice, shrimp, clams and chicken combine in this in skillet paella, which takes its name from the two-handled frying pan in which the Spanish cook and serve it.

Old-fashioned sandwich recipes with fish and seafood

Vintage fish & seafood recipes

40 sandwich recipes made with fish & seafood (1909)

Sandwiches are the chief reliance for any sort of cold lunches, and should be daintily made of the best ingredients. Whether for a picnic, work lunch or to serve at a luncheon at home, here are 40 sandwich recipes using fish and seafood.

1900s

How to peel shrimp (1904)

It may seem trifling to those who know how to do it, to say anything about peeling shrimps, but there is a right way and a wrong way — and it is surely worthwhile to practice the former.