Welcome to A Retro Kitchen!: December 2018

FREE fabulous books including lots of VERY retro cuisine!

If I do say so myself. Get them through...
http://associationoftimetravelers.blogspot.com/2018/09/get-your-free-volume-i-here.html

and
http://associationoftimetravelers.blogspot.com/2018/10/get-your-free-volume-ii-here.html

and
http://associationoftimetravelers.blogspot.com/2018/11/get-your-free-volume-iii-here.html

Enjoy!!!! Look for the various menus from regional Diners that are branches of The Time Traveler's Café for the most culinary information, though there are also super old recipes!!

A fantastic toasted cheese sandwich!

I saw the idea for this combination in a retro cookbook I haven't been able to relocate, but I wanted to share my version with you:

a delicious toasted cheese sandwich

Make your favorite way with, in order,

your favorite bread for this

country mustard

some frozen grilled red pepper (jarred would work great too)

your favorite cheese for this

smoked paprika

Refreshing served with coleslaw (I found a nice one in Jamie's America).

Airplane food long ago

...was pretty fancy, as you may even remember! From https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/vintage-airplane-photos-golden-jet-age/index.html :

There's a nice article focusing on the history from the 1920s to the 1970s at https://www.travelandleisure.com/airlines-airports/old-airline-meals .

The Little Book of Excellent Recipes and Cooking Tips, 1932

By "The Mystery Chef," sponsored by the R.B. Davis baking powder company in Hoboken, New Jersey. The cover is from abebooks' seller The Book Store by Jim Thorpe in Pennsylvania; my copy is missing a cover. A few years later the book cover had color....

It's quite a generous book -- and there's a generous archive offering pictures of some other items from the same company, accessible through https://hoboken.pastperfectonline.com/bysearchterm?keyword=R.B.+Davis+Company :

My book sometimes calls for Cocomalt, which seems to be a chocolate milk mix rather like Ovaltine, if I understand correctly. Here's an old brochure from the same company:

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!