Vintage Eats of Kayleen Reusser
Capturing Delicious Recipes From the Past
My first experience cooking curry turned out great! We loved this recipe! It came from a 1960 ‘Ladies’ Home Journal Cookbook : New and Basic Recipes.’ The cover contains vintage dishes in full color. Even the font looks retro. It was hard to know which recipe to choose from the literally thousands included within the... Continue Reading →
You may think people of the 21st century have been the only ones concerned about eating healthily. Not so. This vintage recipe from 1980 is as fresh and original as one you may find in today’s health/ recipe magazines. It is full of vitamins, fiber, and protein all in one easy-to-make dish that is yummy... Continue Reading →
I know, I know. Another cookie recipe. Really, though, is anyone complaining about too many yummy cookie recipes? I don't think so. It must have been my imagination. This week I’m posting a vintage recipe from 1959 for a cookie made even more special because of whom I served them to -- A very special... Continue Reading →
This recipe is not an unusual recipe by any means. Most cookbooks I’d wager have a blueberry muffin recipe. But that’s the wonderful aspect of this recipe – people still love these things, even after almost 40 years when this cookbook was published! Proof: I served these at my church this week at the coffee... Continue Reading →
I couldn't let Valentine’s Day go by without posting a special vintage recipe. My Hubbie -- lucky for me – likes all kinds of goodies normally. But his current favorite treat is cookies. His favorites have always been chocolate chip and Snickerdoodles. Luckily, I found a vintage recipe that caught my eye – Chipperdoodles. Yes,... Continue Reading →
I confess, this recipe seems a little pretentious. I have never in 40+ years of cooking produced a dish that contains not one, not two, but three meats. First, I never felt a dish deserved that much cost or flavor. Mainly because my family would not have noticed the extra effort or expense. So what’s... Continue Reading →
This recipe is in loving memorial of my mother who passed away last month. We would have celebrated her 95th birthday on February 22. She shared it with our nation’s first president, George Washington, who admittedly was born much earlier in 1732. (See more on that below) As his and Abraham Lincoln’s birthday were both... Continue Reading →
Vegetables have not featured much on this blog (Check out ‘Crea-Peas' and 'Scalloped Potatoes'). That’s because, as I’ve found in looking through dozens of vintage cookbooks, recipes for vegetable are not common. Vegetables get a bum wrap, I suppose, because they are not sweet and beautiful to look at. But, on the practical side, they can... Continue Reading →
As you may have guessed from previous posts, my family loves potatoes. When my three kids were young, I purchased a 50-pound bag of potatoes (it was actually a box) as I made them so often. None went to waste. Our favorite recipe was baked (remember I can't make mashed). Nowadays, I buy 5-pound bags... Continue Reading →
Puff Pastry Pinwheels A wintry weekend is the perfect impetus to begin working with the most elegant of pastries – puff pastry. What is puff pastry, you may ask? (my cousin did) It is a simple mixture of flour and water and butter rolled before forming it into a variety of shapes. This process of... Continue Reading →
Vintage Eats of Kayleen Reusser 