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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