Category: Vintage Friday

Vintage recipes, culture, and images.

Vintage Friday: 1950, Give or Take by Flossie Benton Rogers

For those of us born in the 1950s, we tend to think back on those times with misty eyed nostalgia. Many of us grew up in small towns where we picked phlox in the field, played in each other’s yards until dark, and knew better than to sass our elders. It’s amazing to look back… Continue reading Vintage Friday: 1950, Give or Take by Flossie Benton Rogers

Vintage Friday: 7 Dynamite Avengers

I loved the stylish espionage series, The Avengers, in all its incarnations, including the seasons with Honor Blackman, Linda Thorson, and even the New Avengers with Joanna Lumley. The show was a thrill to watch – in large part due to Patrick Macnee as the dapper, unflappable John Steed. Sadly, he passed away yesterday, June… Continue reading Vintage Friday: 7 Dynamite Avengers

Vintage Friday: 11 Kisses for A Girl of the Limberlost

A GIRL OF THE LIMBERLOST  Author – Gene Stratton Porter First Published – 1909 Genre – Fiction Setting – the Limberlost Swamp of rural Indiana Heroine – Elnora Comstock – Poor country girl with music in her blood who pays for schooling by collecting and selling rare moths. Hero – Philip Ammon – Pure hearted… Continue reading Vintage Friday: 11 Kisses for A Girl of the Limberlost

Vintage Friday: It’s Your Music 1963

You are invited to my Summer Solstice party on Facebook, June 12, Friday, 5-11pm EST, to celebrate Demoness Dreams and hear from some very cool authors. This amazing pendant from Wired Up will be up for grabs! The stone is Purple Sea Segment Jasper.       I’ve prepared the following Vintage Friday post for you,… Continue reading Vintage Friday: It’s Your Music 1963

Vintage Friday: It’s Your Music 1966

Will you read my book? Recognize these words from a popular song of 1966? It makes me laugh because 49 years later this is still what writers are asking—trying to get people to read our books—whether a publisher, as this song implores, or general readers. The tune is Paperback Writer by the Fab Four, otherwise… Continue reading Vintage Friday: It’s Your Music 1966

Vintage Friday: Caramel Fridge Cookies 1942

With countless men overseas at war and women working in factories, the World War II era saw baking become more simplified and streamlined. Refrigerator cookies became the popular go to treat because the dough could be made of an evening and sliced and baked the following day. Today we walk into a grocery store and… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Caramel Fridge Cookies 1942

Vintage Friday: 5 Drinks of the Old Timers by Flossie Benton Rogers

They didn’t have vitamin enriched flavored waters or creamy mocha lattes. So what did the old timers drink? Pot Likker – The liquid left behind from boiling collard greens and other fresh garden greens such as turnip and mustard. Seasoned with salt and pepper and fortified with bacon fat or salt pork, the juice serves… Continue reading Vintage Friday: 5 Drinks of the Old Timers by Flossie Benton Rogers

Vintage Friday: Pancakes Even a Viking Would Rave About

In Demoness Dreams – Wytchfae 6, the hero Bane Heughar—also known as Odin’s Warrior—orders pancakes when he has breakfast with heroine Neva Jaxony the first time. Today for Vintage Friday we honor our courageous, sexy hero Bane with some Norse inspired pancake recipes. Rummerbrod Ingredients: 1 cup of cold mashed potatoes, 2 tablespoons of sugar,… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Pancakes Even a Viking Would Rave About

Vintage Friday: Pioneer Tater Candy 1959

A 1959 farm journal cookbook records a recipe for candy made from potatoes, but the tradition hails much further back in time to the old pioneer days. Farm families were huge and traditionally would come together to the grandparents homestead on the most special holidays, such as Christmas. The grandmothers and mothers would spend days… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Pioneer Tater Candy 1959