1950s
Springtime fancy cake (1953)
In this ’50s recipe for springtime fancy cake, a homemade yellow cake is spread with green buttercream frosting, then adorned with marshmallow flowers.
In this ’50s recipe for springtime fancy cake, a homemade yellow cake is spread with green buttercream frosting, then adorned with marshmallow flowers.
What is a Watergate Cake? It’s the popular dessert made with a recipe that was passed around a lot in the mid-1970s. In the name of historical research, we decided to give this vintage cake recipe try! Here’s how it turned out.
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?
Here, see a collection of antique & vintage St Patrick’s Day postcards — sweet little hello notes people sent to each other a century ago!
No luck needed to bake this deliciously vintage Lucky Clover Cake for St Patrick’s Day! This recipe from 1950 promised to be tall, dark and delicious.
Once you make this Shamrock silk pie — made with chocolate chips, cream cheese and Irish Mist liqueur — you’ll know why Irish eyes are smiling.
Shamrock Shakes (1979) “’tis the first green of spring – MINT flavor” McDonald’s Shamrock Shake TV ad (1983) McDonald’s Shamrock shake & sundaes
Women: Do you have the ideal figure? Here’s what ‘they’ thought in 1950 
Make an invisible floating Christmas tree with this retro DIY project 
A treasury of treats: 6 decadent classic Christmas cookie recipes from the ’70s 
Hershey’s rich cocoa fudge recipe from the ’70s & ’80s 
20 real old-fashioned Southern fruitcake recipes: Traditional Plantation-style desserts from the old South Want to remember to remember? Our weekly newsletter shows you the latest vintage, old-fashioned & historic stuff that we have published or refreshed during the past seven days. Sign up here.
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