Retro Recipes – Stuffed Pork Shoulder

This one takes some time making so I guess it’s a sort of Saturday or Sunday kind of recipe. But it is delicious so it’s worth the time and effort.
Description and recipe here

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Retro Recipes – Cheeseburger Loaf

If you’re not quite sure that you’ll slip smoothly into last years bathing trunk or bikini it’s probably not a good idea to make this course staple food before you’ve been on your summer holiday.
Description and recipe here

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Retro Recipes – Banana Shrimp Curry

A nice Indian inspired recipe for you to day. Nice combination of shrimps, curry and bananas.
I’m fond of fried bananas so I’ve made this one quite a lot of times, a nice variation is replacing the shrimps with crayfish tails.

Recipe and description here

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Retro Recipes–Playboy Drinks And Cocktails

I have had to change the title from Fifties recipes to Retro Recipes as I’m beginning to run low on nice fifties recipes but still got lots from the thirties, forties and sixties.
Here’s a nice collections of drinks and cocktails from Playboy’s December issue in 1964.
Recipes and descriptions here

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Today’s Fifties Recipe; Creamy Rice Pudding

From a bundle of cut-outs and handwritten recipes I picked up at a jumble-sale a couple of years ago.

Here’s a real classic for you. Rice pudding used to be our Christmas dinner desert when I was a kid as with many other Norwegian families back then.

Recipe and description here

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Bright Fruit Sparklers

With Plenty Of Jizz

Good as if they took a lot of fixing! Make ‘em in tumbler as at right, or have a Triple Orange Cup. For the tumbler style, scoop two balls of orange sherbet into a tall glass. Then fill with chilled orange pop. Slip a half-slice of orange over the rim. and poke a sprig of fresh mint to one side.

Recipe for the fruit sparklers and
3 other summer drinks here

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More fifties Recipes: Refrigerator Cake

Here’s a recipe for a cake you make in your fridge and not in the oven. Ideal for the patio on warm summer’s days. Nice and cold and full of delicious strawberries.

Recipe and description here

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Todays Fifties Recipe; Ice Cream Sundeas

Recipe from the “Better Homes & Garden’s Barbeque Book” from 1956.

I know that summer is still far away, at least here on the northern hemisphere, but it is nice to be well prepared when the warm days return so here’s some really nice desert recipes for those barbeque diners outdoors that we all long for.

Recipes and descriptions here

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Fifties recipes: Home Made "Petits Fours" and Tiny Flans

"Les Petit Fours Glacés" is really very small, very sweet cakes, but I have chosen to place them among the sweets anyway. Here you’ll find the recipes for four different sorts and recipes for the different kind of biscuits and creams used for petits fours. A petits four can be made from almost any candied fruit or sweet cream, often mixed with liqueur, cocoa or coffee.

Check out all the recipes here

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The Hot Dog Sizzler

Oh yes, just the thing for those long drives. There’s nothing like a couple of sizzled bangers when you’re on the road. And it looks so easy to use, don’t you think. No chance of sizzling your fingertips there I’d say. Oh no.
And you can even get them for home use. Like, what more can you ask for. Hot dogs any one?

Article found at:
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Fifties Resipe–Green Pea Soup With Smoked Salmon

And then it was time for another classic recipe from the fifties, green pea soup with smoked salmon.

Recipe and description here

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Fiftires Recipe: Petit-Choux With Raspberries & Cream

To day’s fifties recipe is for classic French petit choux. Maybe not particularly special for the fifties, but I found it in a magazine from the fifties so I guess they were popular during that decade. I’ve never tried this recipe myself, but it looks manageable for someone knowing their way around a kitchen. You’ll find the recipe and description here

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More Fifties Chow – Veal Cutlets With Root Beet Cups Filled With Savoury Sauce

This time the recipe  is taken from an ad in a Swedish women’s magazine fro 1959. And the ad is for, you’ve guessed it, root beets.

Recipe and description here

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Fifties recipe No 3 – Boston Beans with Smoked Ham

Yet another part of RetroRamblings surprisingly practical part, recipes from the fifties. And as you see we try our hand at Boston Beans with Smoked ham this time. Recipe and description here And I promised you a recipe for Cabbage a là Norvégienne, it is here

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More fifties recipes

Everyday soup with Cabbage à la Norwégienne A nice soup for a cold autumn or winter’s day for you here fifties style  The recipe and description are here

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Fifties chow & drinks

This is the beginning of a surprisingly practical part of my blog. Food and drink recipes from the fifties. A trip down memory lane to a time when butter, cream and sugar was part of our staple food together with fatty stuff and other of our days no-no ingredients.

To make it easy for you I’ve added converting tables from metric measurements to the silly stuff you English speaking people use and you’ll find them here

And as a starter I’ve added some milk shake recipes from 1959 here

More will follow shortly.

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