Chocolate Recipe: Raisin Nut Brownies

Welcome back to Vintage Recipe Thursday. This is the place to link up any older recipe. I post from a World War II cookbook, but recipes don't need to be that old. You could even post a recipe from the 1990s. You could post your mom's recipes, or grandparent's recipes. If you have old recipe postcards, that's great too. But please do not link your giveaways, sponsored posts, brand new recipes you

Raisin Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe and Linky Party

It's back to school time for many families, so I'm sharing a cookie recipe which can easily be sent in school lunches, and it's just as easy to take on the road too if you are a busy homeschooling family. Cookies are always favorite snacks and desserts so enjoy this Raisin Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe.

This vintage recipe uses shortening, but I much prefer the taste of real butter which I think

Monday, Mmm ... Dessert: Recipe Linky Party Time

Marelie's Food for the Gods
Happy Monday!  It's time to link up your favorite dessert recipes.

All of last week's recipes were great.  I hope you all take the time to not only link up, but hop over to the recipes too.

Did you notice Marelie's Food for the Gods?  I sure did, and so did a couple other hostesses.

Take a look at all the orange and cranberry flavor bursting from Julie's cookies.

Vintage Recipe Thursday: Raisin Squares

Come link your family recipes and other vintage recipes.  The linky is below so that we can all preserve these time-honored mini treasures.

This recipe isn't called a brownie, but that's exactly what it is.  It has raisins and nuts, but if you don't like nuts in brownies, you can of course omit.

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I'm sharing this recipe with

Dessert Recipe: Hugs and Kisses Cookies

Time for another Monday, Mmm ... Dessert to link up your dessert recipes.  Do you love cream cheese?  Do you love chocolate?  Well you'll love this easy recipe.  Enjoy!

Hugs and Kisses Cookies Recipe


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Hugs and Kisses
1 1/2 cups butter, softened
12 ounces cream cheese, softened
4 1/2 cups flour
about 30 Hugs and Kisses chocolates

Beat butter and cream cheese

Vintage Pineapple Cookies Recipe

It's time to celebrate mothers on Sunday. Do you have a favorite recipe from your mom or grandmother? Or maybe you have a special recipe your mom or mother-in-love would enjoy. You're invited to link up your vintage recipes below.

My own mom absolutely loves pineapple and pretty much any dessert or sweet with pineapples, so I'm thinking of her as I share this recipe for pineapple cookies. 

Betty Crocker proposes four royal wedding cakes fit for Prince William and Kate Middleton on April 29th

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What if Prince William and Kate Middleton called Betty Crocker for help with the Royal Wedding Cake?  These four very different cakes are their proposals based on the theme Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue.

If it were my royal wedding, I would pick all four because the theme itself is so great, and each cake has its own strengths and beauty. My favorite

Kahlua Ricotta Cheese Charlotte Recipe

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Welcome to the first Monday, Mmm ... Dessert, where you can share dessert recipes.  It's brand new, so "Tell a Friend" as Alan Hamel of the old Alpha Beta and Acme commercials used to say.  He's Suzanne Somers' husband in case these didn't air in your state.

I'm sharing with you one of my easiest dessert recipes.  I make it when I invite guests because it's very quick to fix, and it needs

Cairns and McVitie's to create 2 royal wedding cakes

Prince William and Catherine Middleton, who are each known for their sweet tooth, have chosen to have two cakes for their wedding reception.



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Samples of Cairns' wedding cakes.
Their official royal wedding website announced that cake designer Fiona Cairns would create their wedding cake, but that Prince William had also requested McVitie's Cake Company to create a chocolate

Dessert Tip: Cold vs. hot cookie sheets

Flickr/PetitPlat Food Art by Stephanie Kilgast
Use cold cookie sheets for each batch.
Use a cold cookie sheet for each batch of cookies.  Run cookie sheet under cold water and regrease it if necessary.  Using a hot cookie sheet would result in flattened out cookies because the dough would start baking even before entering the oven.

Girl Scouts celebrate 99th anniversary! Have a cookie recipe!

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Girl Scout founder Juliette Gordon Low
The Girl Scouts will celebrate their 99th anniversary on March 12.  Indeed, Juliette Gordon Low founded the Scouts in 1912 with the motto "The work of today is the history of tomorrow, and we are the makers."

I hope you enjoy the photos, memories and Girl Scout cookie recipes which follow.  Happy anniversary to all the Girl Scouts, past and

Cookie Recipe: Brown Sugar Cookies

Do you like sugar cookies? You'll love brown sugar cookies!These cookies go well with ice cream, coffee, tea, or even as a cookie pie crust. Try them.


Brown Sugar Cookies Recipe


Brown Sugar Cookies. NoshWithMe/Flickr
makes about 15 cookies

1/4 cup butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 eggs, separated
1/3 cup milk
1 cup flour, sifted
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup chopped nuts

Pear Cookies Recipe

So are you celebrating National Hot Cocoa Day? It's today, and whether you need child-friendly hot cocoa recipes or all grown-up hot cocoa recipes with alcohol, I have them for you, just click on the links above.

I'm listening to Christmas music and the traditional 12 Days of Christmas is playing, which is of course inspiring me to post another Christmas cookie recipe and this one is for pear

Coffee Drop Cookies Recipe

Here's another cookie recipe for your Christmas exchanges.  All those addicted to Starbucks, Pete's, et al will love these coffee drop cookies.  And note the optional variation in flour, using soy or lima bean flour.

Don't miss my latest giveaway, The Family Dinner.  It's a great resource for parents and grandparents.  It's not only a cookbook, but a guide to help you connect with your children,

Cookie Recipe: Classic pinwheels for Christmas or anytime

December is the time for cookies. So many of us give or exchange cookies, and pinwheel cookies are a classic. If you decide to use food coloring, don't forget that there is organic food coloring available too. You don't have to give chemicals to your family and friends, but you can still have pretty cookies in every color of the rainbow.

Post your own vintage recipes below if you are

Dessert Recipe: Ladyfingers

 
Vintage Recipe Thursday is meant to preserve your own original vintage family recipes, or out-of-print, copyright-free recipes from old cookbooks, magazines, newspapers or postcards. You're invited! Get the details by clicking to the Vintage Recipe Thursday Homepage. I post recipes from the Household Searchlight Recipe Book, first published in 1931. My 16th printing is from 1943. What will you

5 prize-winning dessert recipes: YUMMM!!

It's great to try new dessert recipes, but sometimes we need something that's tried-and-true. That's one of the reasons I like to collect recipes from good friends and family, especially when those recipes are vintage and have been handed down for decades. These 5 dessert recipes are not only that, but they are also prize-winning.  Try them.  I know you will like them.





Photo: Kim Siciliano

Thanksgiving desserts: Joy of Desserts' 70+ recipe bonanza

Thanksgiving will be here all too quickly, so it's time to start planning your menus.  Of course there will be the tried and true favorites which we all have and cannot have Thanksgiving dinner without.  But in our family we also always try a few new dishes each year, just so that the holiday doesn't get boring and stale with the same old, same old.

Here is a list of more than 70 recipes full of

Dessert recipe: choco-cherry cheesecake bars

1. RECIPE: Choco-Cherry Cheesecake Bars, 2. Decorative Tea Towel - Funky Red Retro Roses- lace edge., 3. calendar-4, 4. Bon appétit!
My regular readers know I like to post lots of photos.  Today I'm trying something new.  At least new-to-me, because we've all seen the wonderful mosaics bloggers have been creating for years. Do you like the mosaic I created?  The super simple, free online program

Molasses cookie recipe

Vintage Recipe Thursday is meant to preserve your own original vintage family recipes, or out-of-print, copyright-free recipes from old cookbooks, magazines, newspapers or postcards. You're invited! Get the details by clicking to the Vintage Recipe Thursday Homepage. I post recipes from the Household Searchlight Recipe Book, first published in 1931. My 16th printing is from 1943. What will