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Cooking Hints and Tested Recipes, 1937





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Welcome to my retro kitchen!

Welcome to my retro kitchen!
Unfortunately not my kitchen! This is from the 1940s.

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.

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Just Some of My Favorite Retro Food Sites

  • heritage recipes
  • food timeline including cookbooks
  • old cooking
  • dining at old department stores
  • old American eateries
  • old menu art
  • Restaurant-ing Through History!
  • Vintage Bites!
  • food from 'way back when into the 1980s, in Britian

Some of My Favorite Food Blogs

  • Love and Lemons
    French Toast
  • Tea With Friends
    Tea and cookies … and friends!
  • Lawrence M. Schoen and Eating Authors!
    July 2023 Sale!
  • kitchen flavours
    Sheet-Pan Supper : Balsamic Chicken with Baby Potatoes And Carrots
  • Time Travel Kitchen
    1940 Murder Mystery Party
  • Period Entertainments and Recreational Costuming
    Photos from Mrs. Parks’ Regency Rout – 2016
  • What Should I Eat For Breakfast Today ?

Popular Recent Posts

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  • The 8th of 12 installments of a wonderful source of menus & recipes for you! AUGUST
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  • An interesting glimpse of a 1930s British home
    from the wonderful Angela Thirkell's Summer Half, published in the UK in 1937: Mrs. Twicker was a farmer's daughter from Westmorl...
  • The 11th of 12 installments of a wonderful source of menus & recipes for you! NOVEMBER
    Details about using this are at http://favoritefoodthisweek.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-1st-of-12-installments-of-wonderful.html . Here's ...
  • This Week in My Kitchen
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     Posting with the beautiful people and blogs at http://beautythatmoves.typepad.com/ -- as the hostess, Heather, says, it's Captur...
  • The 6th of 12 installments of a wonderful source of menus & recipes for you! JUNE
     Details about using this are at http://favoritefoodthisweek.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-1st-of-12-installments-of-wonderful.html . Here's...
  • Sandwich Recipe Album, 1946.
    This was a booklet into which you were to paste recipes? but nothing was ever added to my copy...Nonetheless it gives a fascinating glimpse ...
  • Were they more sensible in older days?
    I just got a cookbooklet from hmm I think 1942: and I am finding it eminently sensible on this topic. I always thought cookbooks before ...

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My Other So-Called Blog(s) (few of them much to do with cooking!)

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