Get dolled up in your flapper dress and enjoy these scrumptious tidbits inspired by the Roaring Twenties. The crazy pic to the left is an old one of me at a library fundraiser. BEE’S KNEES COCKTAIL Ingredients: 2 ounces gin, ¾ ounce honey syrup (mix ½ ounce honey with ½ ounce water), ½ ounce lemon juice.… Continue reading Vintage Friday: It’s the Bee’s Knees, Baby!
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Vintage Friday: Chips Galore
Feeling nostalgic for the days of maxi dresses and long ironed hair? Potato chip cookies were also the rage in the mid 1970s. I, for one, love sweet and salty together. Please enjoy munching on these while you go through your old Polaroids. CHIPS GALORE Ingredients: 2 sticks butter, 3/4 cup light brown sugar, 3/4… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Chips Galore
Vintage Friday: Black Annis Brandy Balls
Brandy balls are the offspring of bourbon balls, which were created by Ruth Booe of the Rebecca Ruth Candy Company in Kentucky in the early 1900’s.The company was founded in 1919 by two schoolteachers, Rebecca Gooch and Ruth Booe. All during this past Christmas season, I had a hankering to make brandy balls. It wasn’t… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Black Annis Brandy Balls