Welcome to A Retro Kitchen!: Jane Ashley's Newest Recipes for Better Meals, 1952.

This large booklet was sold to people who used corn products from a certain manufacturer: corn syrup, corn starch (including for laundry apparently), and a line of corn-starch-thickened puddings of which I've never heard, Kre-Mel.

I must admit it's the first cookbook I've ever seen with advice on ironing! and not say tablecloths but clothing....

I'm going to try their dessert and bread recipes but pass it on if they don't appeal to us; the savory dishes were too corn-syrup-y for us.

You'll find old and new ideas on this site...

I love playing with both food and history and am trying to combine these loves here and in various projects. My most recently published was a fun 3-volume set, which you can get free below, which speaks much of cuisine in a little known part of the world from earliest times to 700 CE....Speaking of old, this is a reincarnation of three old blogs, one shared with friends all over the world and called something like Our Favorite Food This Week, and then one called That Was Delicious that started my toying with retro food ideas, and then A History Writer in the Kitchen where I explored history more....I have kept many posts from those blogs, including many recipes I thought you might like.

Enjoy!