During my research, I come across a lot of interesting recipes. One of the categories I have accumulated a bit on is prize-winning recipes. I decided that I would start testing them and share the ones that are truly worthy of their award. So these recipes can fall into two types. First are recipes that … Continue reading Prize Winning Recipes: 1950 Apple Coffee Cake
William Demarest was a character actor that, like many of his time, got his start in Vaudeville. Eventually, he moved on to Broadway and then to films and tv. He is one of the actors that you may not know his name but you have definitely seen him in many old movies. My personal … Continue reading William Demarest’s Apple Nut Cake
So now we are on to the main course portion of the menu. I talked about the appetizer portion here if you are interested. This is a Thanksgiving menu from Southern Living: The Holiday Cookbook. On the menu was turkey, harvest apple salad, dressing, sweet potato topped apples, corn soufflé, and Parmesan green beans with croutons. I did … Continue reading 1970s Thanksgiving Menu: Main Course
This was the salad that accompanied the 1963 Thanksgiving menu that you can read about here, here, and here. I did not grow up eating this salad. This was another dish that in my young mind sound so fancy and complicated. Surely a salad linked to such a high-class hotel had to have such elevated ingredients. When I … Continue reading The History of Waldorf Salad
The next recipe I am making from my recipe box collection is Apple Pudding Pie. It hails from a Syndicate Manufacturing Company box that has bright blue and yellow flowers with accents of green. This particular recipe was cut out of a newspaper and glued onto an index card. Unfortunately, there is no indication of … Continue reading Recipe Box: Apple Pudding Pie
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