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
Posts Tagged ‘food’
Retro Recipes – Stuffed Pork Shoulder
Posted in Fifties chow & drinks, Recipes, tagged food, Pork, recipes, Stuffed pork sholder on July 20, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Retro Recipes – Cheeseburger Loaf
Posted in Fifties chow & drinks, Recipes, tagged Cheeseburger loaf, food, recipes on July 17, 2011| Leave a Comment »
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
Retro Recipes – Banana Shrimp Curry
Posted in Fifties chow & drinks, Recipes, tagged Banana shrimp curry, Bananas, Curry, food, recipes, Shrimps on July 13, 2011| Leave a Comment »
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
Retro Recipes–Playboy Drinks And Cocktails
Posted in Fifties chow & drinks, Recipes, The sixties, tagged Cocktails, drinks, food, Playboy Magazine, recipes on July 9, 2011| Leave a Comment »
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
Today’s Fifties Recipe; Creamy Rice Pudding
Posted in Recipes, The fifties, tagged Deserts, food, Rice pudding on May 3, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Bright Fruit Sparklers
Posted in Fifties chow & drinks, Recipes, tagged Apricot Float, Chocolate Malted Milk, drinks, food, Fruit Sparklers, Pink Cherry Sodas on March 5, 2011| Leave a Comment »
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
More fifties Recipes: Refrigerator Cake
Posted in Fifties chow & drinks, Recipes, tagged food, Refrigerator Cake on February 4, 2011| Leave a Comment »
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.
Todays Fifties Recipe; Ice Cream Sundeas
Posted in Fifties chow & drinks, The fifties, tagged food, Ice Cream Sundeas, recipes on January 29, 2011| Leave a Comment »
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.
Fifties recipes: Home Made "Petits Fours" and Tiny Flans
Posted in Fifties chow & drinks, The fifties, tagged food, Petits Fours, recipes, Tiny Flans on January 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »
"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
The Hot Dog Sizzler
Posted in Article, Automobiles, Traveling, tagged Car chow, Eating, food, Th Hot Dog Sizzler on January 12, 2011| Leave a Comment »
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?
Fifties Resipe–Green Pea Soup With Smoked Salmon
Posted in Fifties chow & drinks, tagged food, Green pea soup, Recipe, Smoked salmon on December 29, 2010| Leave a Comment »
And then it was time for another classic recipe from the fifties, green pea soup with smoked salmon.
Fiftires Recipe: Petit-Choux With Raspberries & Cream
Posted in Fifties chow & drinks, The fifties, tagged food, Petit-Choux, Recipe on December 11, 2010| Leave a Comment »
More Fifties Chow – Veal Cutlets With Root Beet Cups Filled With Savoury Sauce
Posted in Food & drinks, The fifties, tagged food, recipes, root beets, Veal cutlets on November 11, 2010| Leave a Comment »
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.
Fifties recipe No 3 – Boston Beans with Smoked Ham
Posted in Fifties chow & drinks, Food & drinks, The fifties, tagged food, recipes on August 3, 2010| Leave a Comment »
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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
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More fifties recipes
Posted in Fifties chow & drinks, Food & drinks, The fifties, tagged food, recipes on August 2, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Fifties chow & drinks
Posted in Fifties chow & drinks, Food & drinks, tagged food, recipes on August 2, 2010| 2 Comments »
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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