Vintage Eats of Kayleen Reusser
Capturing Delicious Recipes From the Past
Some recipes intimidate me. Sourdough breads – let’s be honest, most yeast breads intimidate me, though yeast is on my shelf with every intention of seeing use in my kitchen. Pastry. Period. French Onion Soup. I always order French Onion Soup in a restaurant when it’s on the menu because I love it so much.... Continue Reading →
It’s rare that a vintage recipe has Hollywood provenance. Charlotte d’ Avocato Aux Sauce Asperges (Avocado Charlotte with Asparagus Sauce) is one! The recipe came Catherine Grady Crabtree’s A La San Francisco Restaurant Recipes (Crabtree Publishing, 1979). As the book title states, the recipes originated from restaurants in San Francisco. This particular one came from... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
This is a recipe I can tick off my bucket list where it’s been for several years. It gained prominence there since my family began watching British TV shows. Shepherd’s Pie makes an entrance often as a favorite of our friends across the pond. One of my favorite appearances is on the crime show ‘Death... Continue Reading →
“Apple, Apple Dumpling, My first choice,” Cry all the husbands With one voice. “Apple for the Filling, Sugar and spice,-- Wrap it up in pastry,-- Count me twice! ** This little ditty (I guess that’s what you would call it) introduces the Apple Dumplings recipe in the Betty Crocker Picture Cookbook (p. 325 for those... Continue Reading →
Vintage Eats of Kayleen Reusser 