Just like Grandmother used to make!
Has "Quarantine Baking" taken over at your house? Here are a few recipes from our Bread and Baking section to help inspire your next baking adventure.
These vintage Lamb Roast recipes are from a booklet published by the American Lamb Council in Denver, Colorado. The booklet includes Carving Instructions, along with recipes for a Roast Leg of Lamb, Square Shoulder Lamb Roast, Rolled Lamb Shoulder Roast, and a Rack of Lamb. No publication date is printed in the booklet, but judging from the graphics and pictures and estimated publication date would be anywhere from the mid-1950s to the early 1960s.
Easter 2020 will be one for the history books as with world shuts down amidst the Coronavirus Pandemic. If you are trying to plan an Easter Dinner for your family unit, we have searched our cookbook collection for Vintage Easter Menus and recipes to help you in your planning. We hope these menus and recipes help inspire you to prepare a Traditional Easter Brunch or Dinner. Even if you can't worship in your usual fashion on Easter Morning, hopefully, you can enjoy a traditional meal with your family.
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"It's the most wonderful time of the year!"
Vintage Recipes has collected a selection of traditional Christmas Menus along with Vintage Christmas recipes for classic holiday dishes. Most every family that celebrates Christmas has a Christmas Dinner - some formal served on china and silver, others served family-style with everyday dinnerware or Chinet. These classic Christmas Menus and recipes have inspired Christmas celebrations for generations; we hope this collection of menus and recipes help you plan your Christmas Meal.
Whether you are baking old fashioned Christmas cookies for a cookie exchange, gifts for friends and family, your children or grandchildren, or for Santa Clause, Vintage Recipes has compiled a collection of traditional Christmas Cookie recipes.
We have searched some of our favorite vintage cookbooks to assemble a collection of Thanksgiving Menus to inspire you to make your Thanksgiving Dinner a success. The first menu that we feature is from the 1922 edition of Fannie Merritt Farmer's The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book.
Each fall when the first frost hits the pumpkin and your favorite coffee shop starts to feature Pumpkin Spice Lattes, our attention turns to recipes featuring pumpkin. Pumpkins are that versatile squash that we use as a decoration in October and a cooking ingredient in November. Over the past year, Vintage Recipes has collected several pumpkin recipes, here are some of our favorites.
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A Treasury of Great Recipes
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