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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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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More Fifties Recipes–Cool Summer Drinks With Alcohol

For those of you who felt a bit cheated when I posted alcohol free summer drinks, here are the ones with alcohol. Recipes and descriptions here w w

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More Fifties Recipes–Cool Alcohol Free Summer Drinks

Peoples inventiveness when it came to cool summer drinks back in the fifties had hardly any limits at all. Fruits and berries from the garden, homemade wine and other remedies often took major parts in the making of these different drinks. Most of these recipes is absolutely worth a try.

Recepies and descriptions here

And for those of you who got a bit of a panic now, cool summer drinks with alcohol will follow the next time I post a fifties recipe.

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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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More Fifties Recipes: Food For Picknics & Outdoor Cooking

What people used to do on the week end around here back in the fifties was to pack the car and go for a spin around the country side. We’d bring bulging picnic baskets, camping chairs and tables, blankets, cooking gear, you know, the lot. Then we’d find a nice quiet spot, preferably by water of some kind, a lake, a river or even a small stream. Then we’d empty the car and have our self a really nice time. Some of my fondest childhood memories are from just trips like these.

Recipes and my own memories & tips here

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More Fifties Food Recipes: TV Made For New Ways To Entertain Guests

Finally it was possible. The television gave people the way to entertain guests that they had always dreamed of. Drop by our place, take it as it is, let’s have a nice evening and please come back soon. The simplest kind of food was just right, it could still look both inviting and delicious. Here are some great recipes for a nice TV evening from 1959.

Recipes here

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More Fifties Resipes: Fish Soup

Another classic Scandinavian dish from the fifties here for you. Tomato  based and not cream based as was most usual back then

Recipe and description here

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Fifties Recipe: Danish Advent Sandwiches

When Christmas begin to get near and one gets busier and busier preparing for the holiday, there is neither room nor time for big parties. But a nice evening with a few friends would be great anyway, so why not try some Danish sandwiches

Some great ideas here

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Today’s Fifties Resipe: Heavenly Mouthful

A real calorie bomb for you
to day and a very, very nice desert.

Recipe here

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More Fifties recipes: Swedish Meatballs

Swedish meatballs is a dish everyone loves and because of that it is nice to be able to put a little extra care into making them. Recipe and instructions here

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Fifties recipes: Bowls

Let the modern cocktails and drinks get a rest one evening and serve a fresh, cold bowl when the guests arrive. Why not let the old fashioned bowls have a renaissance, and offer your guests a nice cool bowl, where the ice cubes tingles a lot more gay than in any cocktail and herbs and berries floats tempting in the fresh liquid. A bowl like this can be served with such elegance that it is a joy to the eye. You can serve the bowls in any thing from crystal bowls to earthen ware jars. The first is more elegant but last are nice enough to look at and they keep the cool for a long time. Or may be you have a nice, old soup tureen. The recipes are here

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Another Fifties Recipe: Cold Fish Salad With Shrimps In Aspic

Another part of RetroRambling’s practical guide to food and drinks from the fifties. And you’ll find it here

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Fifties recipes – Cocktail Special

The recipes come in three parts this time

Part 1 – The 12 best cocktails in the world
(as seen by the Swedish women’s magazine
"Damernas Värld"s issue No 27 from 1952) 
Recipes her

Part 2 – Learn how to mix the 28 most
common cocktails through this easy to follow key.
All you have to know is here on these two tables.
(also from the Swedish women’s magazine
"Damernas Värld"s issue No 27 from 1952)
Tables here

Part 3 – And of course, cocktails are not enough.
Special cocktail snacks has to be prepared.
(You might have guessed it all ready, the recipes
are also from the Swedish women’s magazine
"Damernas Värld"s issue No 27 from 1952)
Recipes here

This should give you all you need to arrange a swell fiftie’s style
cocktail party, so what are you waiting for – Ted

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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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