The 1950s were a golden era for home baking. Cakes were centerpieces at family gatherings, birthdays, and celebrations, often ...

Picture this. Your grandmother's dining room, dressed with her finest tablecloth, guests arriving in their Sunday best, and ...

He's counting on cookies and milk at all those stops to keep his energy up. But instead of putting out some store-bought ...

Alexis deBoschnek makes this show-stopping Frosted Sandwich Loaf using a 1950s vintage recipe from an early edition of the Better Homes & Gardens New Cook Book. Then, she prepares her modern take on ...

Need a steak dinner in a hurry? Look no further than "Emergency Steak," a recipe Redditor u/catpowers4life found in a 1950s Betty Crocker cookbook. u/catpowers4life, who posts to Reddit anonymously, ...

In the 1950s, no matter your politics or world view, the entire country united around Green Bean Casserole. In 1955, a team of cooks led by Dorcas Reilly at the Campbell Soup Co. developed the dish as ...

Last week a volunteer at the Cape Girardeau Senior Center came into the office with a cookbook in her hand and said "Happy Birthday" as she handed it to me. I was so excited to receive a 1959 copy of ...

In post-war Scotland, homemakers had to get very crafty when it came to providing tasty and nutritious meals for their families. Some foods, including meat, cheese, butter, preserves, tea and sugar ...

The year is 1950. The Thanksgiving table is set, and before your growling stomach lies a cornucopia of show-stopping dishes: tomato aspic, jellied turkey vegetable salad, creamed spinach and whatever ...

A big, black cast-iron wood stove was the hearth that said home in the first kitchen I knew. My grandmother had set up housekeeping with that stove. It was replaced 54 years later by an unusual ...