Twelve Days of Vintage Cooking

Twelve Days of Vintage Cooking 

Travel back in time and experience cooking in a whole new way. From psychedelic jellied salads to brandy-fortified fruitcake, welcome to a fun, festive, food frenzy from yesteryear!

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Quick Jellied Salad (1959)

A red moulded salad with various vegetables in it

Grandmother's "Sugar Cookies" (1943)

Rows of beige cookies cooling on a rack

Mock Maple Syrup (1915)

A thin stream of syrup poured onto two waffle halves

Coffee (1879)

A saucepan of boiling dark coffee on a stove

Cheese Candle (1959)

A hand dipping a cracker into a soft round cheese

Peanut Straws (1929)

Thin, light brown pastry pieces arranged on a plate around a festive pine cone

Baked Stuffed Tomatoes (1943)

Three baked red tomatoes stuffed with a crispy golden brown topping

Tourtière (1966)

A meat pie with two slices removed, one topped with ketchup

Marshmallows (1915)

Square marshmallows on a wooden platter, dusted in icing sugar

Potato Latkes (1977)

Several golden brown potato fritters arranged on a paper napkin

Egg Nogg (1879)

A cup of frothy white liquid with nutmeg sprinkled on top

English Christmas Cake (1915)

A knife cuts a brown fruitcake into thick slices

Cranberry Upside-Down Cake

A round, light brown cake topped with red cranberry sauce

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