Of you are looking for cheap desserts, Depression style rice tart can fit the pie pan.
Seriously, I am looking through my vintage cookbooks more and more these days, especially those published around the time of the Depression through World War II. Those women had to feed their families on limited funds and limited ingredients. More and more, as grocery prices seem to swing out of control I find that these old recipes work great for me.

I was skeptical about this rice tart. It seemed a little weird to me but I had several cups of left-over rice that needed to …read more

 
I love raisin bread. I love it toasted and buttered, or just plain. I love it as the bread for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and chicken salad sandwiches. It has an old fashioned goodness that is just fantastic.
Seriously, If you have never tried chicken or turkey salad sandwiches on raisin bread you should. It is awesome. It has to be the good chicken salad though. Chicken breast, pecans, mayo, celery, and grapes. Mmmm.

I have looked at these a number of times in one of my vintage cookbooks and just passed over them..They seemed too simple, too average, too mediocre. A little flour, a few eggs..some butter…yadda yadda yadda.
But something whispered to me the other morning and I thought that I would. I mean, why not? So what if they were mediocre. Some families eat cheerios every morning, surely mine could limp along on mediocrity in the form of a muffin, right?

 Our weekend is a little different than most. Since Marc works retail he works on Saturday and then has Sunday and Monday off. Sunday is really not a day off because there is church a good portion of the day.  Monday is our more leisurely day, although I don’t know if leisurely is a word that can be applied to ANY day around here.

  This morning I decided to treat everyone to doughnuts. I used my normal recipe with some adjustments and these were really good. The kids said they tasted like that candy, Circus Peanuts, but I …read more

These are really rich with a crumbly shortbread crust and a smooth praline filling with just enough coconut and pecans to add interest. They don’t take long to make and the results are spectacular. For the base: 1/2 c butter softened 1/3 c sugar 1 egg 1 1/4 c flour pinch of salt 1 tsp vanilla Cream butter and sugar until smooth. Add egg and ebat to blend. Add flour, salt and vanilla and mix into a smooth dough (will be sticky.) Press into the bottom of a 13″x 9″ pan and bake at 350 for 15 minutes. Filling: …read more

O.k..if you remember these you are old. If you remember buying them for 15 cents at the local store that carried everything from pickles in a barrel to PDQ and Bosco then you are as old as me.
  This is a bar cookie that I really don’t see much anymore. It is wonderful…close to the candy bar in flavor AND would be perfect for the Blog Bake Sale. You ARE doing that right? You HAVE gotten involved?
  Good. I knew you would.
Oh Henry! Bars
4 c oats
1/2 c sugar
1 c brown sugar
1 c melted unsalted butter
6 oz chocolate chips
1 …read more

The Quaker Famous Oatmeal Cookies Recipe is one of my old standby recipes. I grew up with it, I love it and I would not change a thing. The cookies come out moist, chewy and delicious..there are just some things you cannot improve upon! According to the information I have, the Quaker Company put this on their oatmeal boxes for the first time in 1955.
Saying that, I often add raisins, nuts, and/or coconut to the cookie dough for variety and sometimes I glaze the baked oatmeal cookies with an orange confectioners glaze. The trick is to take …read more