Fall, Thanksgiving Dessert: Easy Squash Honey Pie Recipe

We're still in summer weather mode here in California, but I know many parts of the country are ready for Fall recipes, so I've picked out a delicious Squash Honey Pie Recipe. It can become a new tradition for your Thanksgiving tables and all through Fall. Add more honey to taste if you prefer.

For Thanksgiving I always have three standard desserts which family and friends request -- Pumpkin Pie

Easy grape juice custard recipe or favorite juice custard

Welcome back to Vintage Recipe Thursday! Sometimes we need a quick and tasty recipe to serve just one person. It might be a quick snack for ourselves, or it might be for a child. This is exactly what I found in my vintage cookbook, and it can easily be doubled too. The grape juice made me think of back-to-school. It's a favorite of many children. Feel free to use just about any kind of juice. I

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

Joy of Desserts Monday linky party

Today is the last day to get your coupon for free Dannon Activia Select Yogurt, so click on the link to grab it while you still can. There's French Style and Greek Style!*****
If you are used to visiting Joy of Desserts, then you probably noticed that I love desserts with fruits. Those are some of my very favorite desserts, so I'm highlighting three of these very tasty fruit recipes.

And I don't

Vintage Goodness: Easy Banana Ice Cream Recipe

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Who loves banana ice cream? That's the recipe my husband picked from the Searchlight Recipe Book. You won't find this flavor in most grocery stores, but homemade ice cream is so easy. Have no fear if you don't have an ice cream maker. You can still make it using this no ice cream maker necessary method.

This is a great recipe for using your over-ripe bananas too, and don't

Eleven Ice, Sherbet, Parfait, Sundae Recipes to keep cool

It's been hot. These easy frozen dessert recipes will cool you down in no time. There are ices, sherbets, sundaes, a baked Alaska, and a parfait. Perfect for the summer. Perfect for year-round deliciousness.





Lemon Ice, Coca Cola Ice, Ginger Ale Ice, and Root Beer Ice Recipes

 Easy Cantaloupe Sundae Recipe

 Lemon Milk Sherbet and Lemon Cream Sherbet Recipes

Individual Brownie Alaska Recipe

No Ice Cream Maker Needed Method, 5 Ice Cream Recipes

It's been so hot in so many parts of the country that I'm sure you'll appreciate some ice cream recipes. I'm letting the "secret" out on how to convert any ice cream recipe so that you'll enjoy these even if you don't have an ice cream maker.
Keep cool and enjoy the weekend,



Click on the recipe titles.


  

No Ice Cream Maker Needed!
Make ice cream using this super easy method.






 

Caramel Ice Cream Recipe

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Here's a recipe to help you (and me) beat the heat. I love to make homemade ice cream, and if you haven't tried it, you haven't realized how easy it is. It is much better tasting than most store-bought ice cream and much cheaper too. I love that I get to control the quality of my ingredients and try out all sorts of wonderful flavors I would not be able to buy from a brand.

Vintage Recipe Thursday: Pineapple Ice Cream Recipe

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This pineapple ice cream can instantly transport you to Hawaii, even if you are going on a staycation. That's what flavors and scents do to us. One whiff of a certain perfume, and we are a child in the arms of our grandmother. One bite of pineapple and we are on vacation in Hawaii.

This recipe couldn't be any easier, just blend the ingredients together, pour into your ice

Recipe: French eclairs and cream puffs

Today is Bastille Day or French Independence Day so I thought I'd share a French dessert.  My Household Searchlight cookbook which I use each week for Vintage Recipe Thursday is definitely all-American.  There are very few foreign recipes and fewer French recipes, but I did manage to find cream puffs and eclairs.  You can click on the link for the Cream Puffs Recipe which I previously shared. 

Vintage Recipe Thursday: Peppermint Ice Cream Recipe

Peppermint Crush Ice Cream
Welcome back to Vintage Recipe Thursday.  Please link up your Vintage Recipes below.  If you have an extra post from last Thursday, please feel free to link that one too.

If you didn't see my previous post, Blogger was having more problems last week.  I was not able to post on Wednesday or Thursday, and I was finally able to get back into Blogger to post just minutes

Vintage Recipe Thursday: Rhubarb Sherbet Recipe

I have another frozen dessert recipe this week for all of us who can't resist ice cream and all of its cousins like sherbet, gelato, granita, et al.  This time it's Rhubarb Sherbet.

Please link up your vintage recipes and enjoy visiting each other.  Visiting each other is the best part of any linky party or blog hop, don't you think?  Let's hyperlink to each other on our posts.  :-)
I'm sharing

Vintage Recipe Thursday: Candied Ginger Ice Cream Recipe

Are you ready for ice cream season? It was foggy here in California yesterday, but the sun came out in the late afternoon, and all of a sudden it was almost hot. Before we know it, the temperatures are going to soar, and ice cream is one of the yummiest ways to cool down. So get ready with this delicious ginger ice cream recipe.

Do you have any ice cream recipes you would like to share with me

Vintage Recipe Thursday: Cherry Mousse Recipe

Welcome back to Vintage Recipe Thursday. Please link your family or cookbook recipes in the linky below and enjoy visiting each other. :-)

Today, I'm sharing with you a cherry mousse recipe, because you know I love cherries.  :-)  If they are not quite in season yet in your state, fear not, this recipe actually calls for canned cherries.  There are only 4 ingredients, and if you use a can of

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 bars, buffets, tables: All pretty for the party

From wedding showers, weddings, baby showers, graduations, family reunions or 4th of July parties, there are lots of reasons to prepare a beautiful display of desserts. Whether you call them dessert bars, buffets, or tables, they will all feed a crowd, and add to the decorations of your celebration.  They might even be a focal point for your party.

There are a few key elements to remember when

Strawberry preserves recipe to enjoy for the rest of the year

Add your links below if you are participating in Vintage Recipe Thursday. I'm sharing about preserves today. I think more and more people may be interested, but our society has become so used to picking up a jar at the store, we may have 2 or 3 generations who have never preserved or canned before. This is how housewives did it back in the day when it was common.




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Now's

Recipe Linky Party and Coconut Strawberries Recipe

Calling all family recipes, and vintage cookbook recipes. It's time to link up those time-honored favorites for Vintage Recipe Thursday. Be sure to add your recipes to the linky below.

I also have a new giveaway, so don't miss out on your chance to win a delicious 2-pound Island Treasures Rum Cake made with award-winning Whaler's Rum.

Today's vintage recipe is called Coconut Strawberries.

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

Prize Winning Orange Cake Recipe

I love that there are so many prize winning recipes in my Household Searchlight Recipe Book.  I also love that most of the recipes were sent in by regular housewives.  These are real women who knew how to cook.  The entire magazine was founded on their recipes and their stories, a lot like Taste of Home, Gooseberry Patch and All You magazines are today.  I also picture many of these women would