Especially for myroughdraft, who was lamenting the lack of year round availability of macaroons, here are some vintage macaroon recipes. Now you can have them whenever you like! I was thinking that surely there ought to be a recipe for macaroons in one of my cookbooks, and I found not one but a whole bunch of them, from the 1951 edition of The Joy of Cooking ( Read more... )

There's no date on this cute little booklet, but it must be from when an electric refrigerator was still somewhat new--1920s-1930s, I'm guessing. I love the old GLadstone 4590 phone number. Since it's been so hot lately, I thought I'd post a few of these recipes--and I may even try to make a few. Blueberry Ice sounds great. Anything cold and icy ( Read more... )