Vintage Recipe: Raisin Pie

Paphiopedilum Orchid (Raisin Pie x Spellbound)
Do you have a vintage recipe to link up? I encourage you to link your family's favorite recipes or ones from an old cookbook or recipe postcard.

This week I'm sharing a raising pie recipe. It's a good one for Fall and will be a tasty addition to your Thanksgiving dessert table. The Raisin Pie pictured at right is a hybrid Paphiopedilum orchid.

Vintage Recipe Linky Party: Banana Fritters Recipe

In this day and age many, perhaps most people are concerned about health and staying slim. Yet more and more are becoming obese. We have TV shows like The Biggest Loser. It used to be that the "fat kid" in class was the odd ball. Today, those kids are the norm in our child's school. Isn't it odd that in earlier decades people could eat a Breakfast of Champions with cholesterol-laden eggs,

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

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

Vintage Recipe Thursday: Pineapple Ice Cream Recipe

Flickr/Nautiljon
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

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

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: 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

Wordless Wednesday: I love cherries

Happy Wednesday to all. This post is shared with Wordless Wednesday and What I Love Wednesday. Be sure to use the linky below for your Wordless Wednesday posts.


1. Minneapolis Winter Cherry , Spoonbridge, Minnesota, 2. Sakura (cherry blossoms), 3. Rubies of my childhood, 4. West Moat (Explored) 8,000 visits to this photo. Thank you.



Some cherry posts you will like:
Choco-Cherry Dessert

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.

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

Strawberry Smoothie Recipe

Happy Monday.  Another week is here.  If you are participating in Monday, Mmm ... Dessert, please sign in with the linky below.

Flickr/Joana Petrova
Strawberry Smoothie

Today's recipe is a strawberry smoothie.  I make it for my family during hot spring and summer months for dessert or snacks, and sometimes even for a quick breakfast on the go.  It's fast, easy and delicious.  It has all the

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. 

Strawberry Mousse Recipe

If you are participating in Monday, Mmm ... Dessert, then be sure to leave your recipe link below.  Thanks for stopping by and participating.  :-)

This is an easy recipe, and the gelatin ensures that the mousse won't liquify, so it's fairly foolproof too.  It's delicious on its own, or you can use it as a filling for a cake, cream puffs, or other pastry.

You can also let this mousse set in a

Official Fiona Cairns Royal Wedding Cake Recipe

Flickr/The British Monarchy; Hugo Burnand
The Royal Wedding at Buckingham Palace on 29th April 2011: The Bride and Groom, TRH The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in the centre with attendants, (clockwise from bottom right) The Hon. Margarita Armstrong-Jones, Miss Eliza Lopes, Miss Grace van Cutsem, Lady Louise Windsor, Master Tom Pettifer, Master William Lowther-Pinkerton, Taken in the

The Royal Wedding Cakes by the numbers

There were two Royal Wedding cakes for the reception at Buckingham Palace.
There was one cake made by cake designer Fiona Cairns, and one cake made by the McVities Cake Company.


Flickr/British Monarchy
Fiona Cairn
The Fiona Cairns Cake
There were 17 types of handmade flowers decorating the Fiona Cairns cake.
There were 900 individually iced flowers.
It was made up of 17 fruit cakes.
There

Strawberry glaze recipe for ice cream, cheesecake, yogurt, etc.

I hope you all had a good Passover or a happy Easter.  If you are participating in Monday, Mmm ... Dessert, then be sure to leave your post's link below.

Strawberry season is just starting and will be at its peak all through the month of May and into June depending on your climate and the strawberry varieties.  It's time to enjoy them, every which way we can.  This is a great recipe to use over

Chocolate Almond Velvet Recipe

Happy Monday to all.  If you are participating in Monday, Mmm ... Dessert, add your link below.



Flickr/Phillip Hughes
Vintage advertising for
sweetened condensed milk.
I love sweetened condensed milk.  Don't you?

This recipe is for up to 20 people, not just one -- you would seriously get sick.  This dessert is super easy.  There's no baking, and no standing over a stove either.  It can be