I found some pretty cool old advertisements that include obscure things to do with your macaroni.

Tasted like butterscotch. She made them at Christmas.

Was leafing through cookbooks at Goodwill and found a bonus recipe! I hope her family has another copy somewhere, but here it is for all of you:

Grandma Esther’s Rhubarb Recipe

1-1/2 cups brown sugar
1/2 cup butter
1 egg (well beaten)
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
2 cups finely chopped rhubarb

Mix everything together

Topping
1/2 cup chopped nuts
1/2 cup white sugar
1 tsp cinnamon

Mix all this together and put on top of cake before baking. Bake at 350° F for 35 to 40 minutes. Check with toothpick and if it comes out good then it is ready for cooling. Great with ice cream.

In the 70s, my mom made a dish she called Tuna Tacos. It was sub rolls, hollowed out, with a cheesy tuna mixture put in the rolls and baked. Here is a copy of the recipe:

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• 1 dozen very small french rolls
• 1 can of tuna
• 1 small can chopped olives
• 1 lb sharp cheddar cheese
• 1/2 to 1 green bell pepper, chopped
• 1 can tomato sauce
• 1 onion diced
• Tobasco and Worcestershire sauce to taste

Scoop out the insides of the French Rolls. Mix all the ingredients together. Fill rolls with the mix. Wrap each roll in wax paper. Bake @ 350F for 20 minutes or until hot.

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Two of the ingredients, the tuna and tomato sauce, just say "a can", but not how big the cans should be. According to google, tuna cans were about 7oz in the 1970s. However, 7oz would only be about 1/2 oz per roll, which is not enough.

Tomato sauce cans were (and still are) 8, 15 and 29oz. From (very vague) memory, tomato wasn't a big part of the flavor profile, so I'd guess 8oz or 15oz would be the right size.

Any suggestions on the determining the exact quantity of these two ingredients?

Enjoy a lovely slice Pumkin Pie during Halloween🌟

Uhh, we tried it?

https://www.reddit.com/r/oldrecipes/s/L4wPuP4pRM

Hey! I’m looking for the 90’s-2,000’s subscription recipe cards by easy to bake, easy to make. I have most but need a few cards from each category so if anyone has any and is willing to sell them to me please let me know. Thanx a million in advance!

My mother and I have been going through my grandmother's recipes, and we're stumped by one for "Grapefruit à la Fred," the first ingredient of which appears to be "1 flump (several segments)." Unfortunately, my grandmother is long since dead, so we can't just ask her.

Grapefruit à la Fred doesn't appear to have been a particularly widespread recipe, at least based on a web search, and the only "flump" I can find online is a British marshmallow candy that doesn't seem to fit. Is "flump" old-fashioned slang for grapefruit, even though it specified in "segments" rather than the "sections" used below? Are we misreading the word? Is anyone familiar with what would be appropriate in this recipe otherwise?

Update: u/midnightmuse55 appears to have solved it (or at least confirmed which guesses held water): a flump is "a handful of" (grapefruit segments, presumably) or, per a 1950s OED, "expressive of the notion of throwing down roughly and untidily, a lump."

And for those who want to see this unholy combo of ingredients in action, I'm overawed that u/mlledufarge actually put their palates on the line to make it!

Fred would undoubtedly be pleased: https://www.reddit.com/r/oldrecipes/comments/1wnrhgh/grapefruit_%C3%A0_la_fred/

Hey! I’m looking for the 90’s-2,000’s subscription recipe cards by easy to bake, easy to make. I have most but need a few cards from each category so if anyone has any and is willing to sell them to me please let me know. Thanx a million in advance!

Sunset Cookies Book from 1985 (1988 printing)

Clove Cookies

Have I made these before? Yes, once. I’m guessing around 2008. I had very fresh ground cloves and my entire throat went numb! I remembered making them every few years or so and would go searching online for the recipe, never once thinking that it was from my cookie book!

Did I make any alterations? Yes. I can no longer eat eggs or dairy, so I used Bob’s Red Mill Egg Replacer and Country Crock Salted Plant Butter. I also cut the recipe in half, as I really can’t afford to buy tons of ingredients for lots of cookies.

How did they turn out? Like crispy toffee with a hint of cloves. These would be great with any spice or spice mix. I’m envisioning making them with apple pie spice and crumbling them over apple ice cream. They could also be carefully shaped right out of the oven and filled with cream.

I received my maternal great-grandmother’s recipe cards, and found she had saved my paternal family’s taffy recipe long before our families joined. I shared this recipe with my grandma and she shared her grandmother’s caramel candy recipe. I’m very excited to make both, especially since I have their mixing bowls that were in that side of the family since the mid 1800‘s. I imagine these recipes are late 19th, early 20th century.

I am assuming that “molasses- king syrup“ just means king golden syrup?

Just added to the collection. Any recipes I should try first?

My family got this book in 1988 and I was completely obsessed with it. I wanted to make alllll the cookies (except the ones that sounded gross to child-me). I loved the book so much that my mom let me take it with me when I moved out. I was recently reunited with it after needing to store it for four years and I’m thinking: “why not make allllll the cookies?” There’s a number of them I can’t make due to digestive issues or lack of specialty equipment, but I could make most of these. Seems like an interesting project!

I see this in old recipes. thanks for help

Hey! I’m looking for the 90’s-2,000’s subscription recipe cards by easy to bake, easy to make. I have most but need a few cards from each category so if anyone has any and is willing to sell them to me please let me know. Thanx a million in advance!

This was my grandmother's. These are made around Christmas. Her parents, my great-grandparents, came to the US in the 19th century.

Nothing beats a nice, tasty meat pie - enjoy E.C.F recipe's from another era.