Are we counting making the holiday meal for everyone? Because buying and making the main holiday meals has been my go to gift for my family for several years. My mom doesn’t bake much, so offering a steamed pudding and a cake for my dad is possibly the highlight of his holiday.
The older I get the more I love foods and snacks as gifts. I use to think food gift baskets were for business associates or the elderly only. Now, I think they are such a great idea. Does that mean I am aging myself or does it mean that because the prices of food are so expensive that we respect food gifts more? 🙃 Enjoyed this video!
In college, being poor students, we pooled our money and made the Tang tea/Russian tea that was popular in the 70s. There are recipes online. We got baby jars from friends/teachers who had babies, cleaned them and decorated with pretty ribbons and papers. Worked out well and tasted great!
Every year my grandmother would make cookies for her entire family. Which was no less than 50 people. Her base recipe was better homes and gardens chocolate chippers. (Few family favorite add ins, recipe increased by 6, use butter not shortening…that sorta thing) she also made their sugar cookies. When I say rooms were filled with stacked tins I’m not exaggerating. She made them to send to family, and so she had them to be eaten Christmas Day when everyone would come over, plus she made extra tins so if you showed up and she didn’t have a gift for you, you got cookies. It’s become my favorite Christmas memory and tradition.I hand them out still for her with my Christmas cards, and still choose that as my Christmas dessert every year.
Love your channel! I'm 71 yrs old and enjoy the memories many of these recipes bring back. Have enjoyed these "gifts from the kitchen" ideas and honestly would love to see you do several more like this. Thanks for all you do :)
I haven’t done Christmas baking for myself or as gifts for years. Right now your channel is my favourite thing to watch… out of all the streaming I have …. Your videos are what is making me happy right now! Thanks!
I showed my mom the video and she was absolutely excited. She got this cookbook as a gift from her bank back in the day. She has made a ton of recipes out of it including the malted mint mix and the granola. She is a librarian and runs a cookbook club but they love to check out cooking channels on TH-cam so she may just show your channel off sometime soon! That granola recipe is a family standby. I squealed out loud like a fan girl when you decided to make it! We switch up the fruit a lot of the time and I like it with dried apple, peaches, pears, or pineapples and currants or mixed raisins (and sometimes crushed banana chips too as a treat as well). Honestly, I adore it with the apricots and raisins as written the best of all the combos. The toasted wheat germ, coconut, sesame seed blend is pure heaven for me and the smell of the honey as it bakes is intoxicating. It totally takes me back to being a kid and shopping at teeny local NorCal health food stores and hits me right in the nostalgia. Thanks for trying out this cookbook!!
Hi, just wanted to drop a note to say how much I genuinely enjoy your content. I am a collector (and cooker-outer?) of older cookbooks as well (I love seeing how homemaking and cookery has evolved over the years) and it's the nicest thing to find that someone shares your hobby even if you'll never meet. I loved this episode; consumable gifts are so underrated and I think it is so fun and sweet to receive something that someone has taken the time to make! You have such a gentle, genuine energy and I appreciate your creativity. Thank you for sharing with us!
You're my first TH-cam subscription! Love your videos! My mom made giant batches of hot cocoa mix in the 70's. Nestle's Quik, powdered milk, I'm not sure what else. Gave it for gifts in Mason jars and kept ours in an upside down Tupperware cake keeper! Good memory. Thanks Anna.
Thank you for the video! I will have to check to see if I have this cookbook. A colleague friend of mine gifted me with a BUNCH of these old cookbooks. Some had handwritten recipes in them. Others had cutout news paper recipes from the 60s. I find that I always seem to be collecting cookbooks, both new and old/gently-used. I simply love to sit curled up with my coffee and read through them. I can say that my Mom has worn out her Betty Crocker and Better Homes & Gardens recipe books, but she has made many of the cakes and candies for Christmas for the family and friends. I think her favorites were the Southern Living cookbooks. So many good meals and memories came from those books. Your channel has been a delight to watch as I am doing my own Christmas cooking and baking. Thank you again so much! Take care, be safe and warm, AND Merry Christmas! 😊💖🙏 PS: The Chex mix recipes are my favorite and are what I am making. I love the sweet & salty recipes, as well as the savory ones. The same friend recently gifted me with a vintage 1984 Chex mix tin. I'll keep my personal stash in that. 😉
If you ever make bacon or sausage, egg and cheese sandwiches for breakfast, try spreading some mustard on the bread or toast and you will find another use for yellow mustard that you hadn’t thought about. You’ll thank me, mustard goes great with scrambled eggs.
My best friend's mom always made that- she called it Russian tea. She always had a kettle going in the winter and we would drink that or the hot cocoa mix she also made.
I would make a quick lemon iced tea mix and Tang for my office. It was always cold there and I could only drink so much coffee. I made it hot. Hot tang, anyone remember that?
I love making gifts to give people. Everything from Hot Cocoa Mix to seasonings. Seasoning are a great thing. I give a lot of seasoning mixes like taco mix, Italian seasoning mix, enchilada sauce, wonton dipping sauce, etc.
That mustard would get used on any and all meat dishes in my household. And for anyone who needs a gluten free alternative to wheat germ, flax seed meal/ground flax seed makes a good substitute in flavour and texture
I would definitely add cinnamon to that granola, and probably a bit more horseradish to that spread. Good idea you have to try these yourself before gifting them!
I make Monster Cookies for gifts! Everyone seems to like them, the recipe makes 13 dozen cookies, and they freeze really well. It’s one of those recipes that’s in just about every church or group cookbook. One year I didn’t make them, and everyone was sooo sad, so I ended up making a “late” batch. They all got their cookies. 😊
As I have this cookbook, I have no idea why I havent actually used one recipe from it yet. Will be correcting that this week. All of these looked good, especially the drink mix. I now have some ideas for gifts for people I can add without going too much into the pocketbook. Thanks, Anna, for another great video!
I recently found a book called "Jazzy Jars" that has decorating and recipe ideas but it isn't nearly as comprehensive or creative in terms of recipes. I can't wait to hunt this book down!
I’ve never made food gifts, but do enjoy getting them. I just wanted to say how much I enjoy your channel. In addition to content, your voice is just so easy to listen to.
You picked 2 unusual gifts, the mint malted chocolate and the mustard. They were very interesting! Some people do love pretzels so that would be a great gift for someone like that.
Love making food gifts! I do chocolate type things for neighbors, do spice mixes for family and even done an herb rice mix. I adore butter mints so that mix might be for me. Tip on making mustard, vinegar stops the mustard from becoming hot. So often recipes will have you add the vinegar at the end. Chinese-style mustard is only powder and water and that is why it's hot.
My husband is an ovaltine addict so I may try the hot cocoa powder. I already have a granola recipe (I leave fruit out completely but another good fruit combination is candied orange peel and dried cranberries).
The homemade mustard sounds really interesting! I always find myself (and others) overloaded on sweets during the end-of-year holidays, so I tend to try and look for savory things if I'm gifting foodstuffs.
Made granola a lot when I was a kid. Mom did maple syrup, cinnamon, raisins and chopped dates....the rest is the same though. She stopped making it cause we would eat it in a day so wasn't saving any money on cereal😂 we loved it and she was making a turkey roasting pan at a time
I've made pickled onions, my grandfather's recipe, as gifts many times plus enough cookies to make Betty Crocker jealous lol.The holidays always meant special foods to give and enjoy. I enjoy the channel and look forward to more great recipes!
For the hot cocoa mix, if you didn't have a blender, or you don't want to use one, for whatever reason, I think you could crush up the butter mints by putting them in a plastic freezer bag and hitting them with a hammer or rolling a rolling pin on them. If you do that, you want to cover the plastic bag with a dish towel to keep the bag from getting a hole in it as quickly. Turn it over several times and try not to always hit it in the same spot. It helps if you have it up against something hard. A granite counter top would work, but be careful not to damage it, of course. I think it might actually grind finer this way than it would with the blender, since blenders are meant for liquid.
I just found your channel a few days ago and I am so glad I did! You have helped me reawaken my love of cooking and baking! So, thank you!! I love giving food as gifts! And I love that the book is from the year I was born. 😀
One of my aunties was something of a foodie back in the 70's and I'll never forget the year everybody got homemade mustards. We kids didn't enjoy them but my parents loved them. And like others, I have so many fond memories of Russian Tea mix and homemade hot cocoa mixes put in giftable cute containers.
This book looks so cute and I absolutely love to make homemade food gifts for people during the holidays. Even if I am going to give someone a gift card, I usually also give them a food gift that I make homemade. Every year I give Christmas cookies to my neighbors, co-workers, and the various delivery people in my life, but I also make homemade candies too. The homemade treat that people most often ask me for is English toffee. English toffee is my Mom's favorite candy, so I made sure to develop a recipe that is especially good so that I can make it for her all the time.
I saw this book on ebay and was interested in it. I then tried to find any reviews for it and found a single one on Amazon. It was not a great review. It basically said there were a few good recipes but most were dated and she was keeping it as just a part of her vintage cookbook collection. I decided not to get the book....until YOU! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, for this video and your immense charm. I just went over to ebay and purchased the book! You're the best.
So glad you found this video helpful! I personally really enjoy this book. It's very nostalgic for me. Sure, some of the recipes may be a bit dated...but that's never scared me away from a cookbook before! 😂
Do people still use wheat germ? We had a half empty jar of that stuff in our fridge for maybe 10 years back in the 70s and 80s. I have no idea why anyone bought it, what it was used for, or why it wasn't thrown out. I tried it once and it was a grossly unpleasant experience. My advice, don't make food gifts too pretty, people will be loathe to use it because it's just so nice! Yes, I am including myself in that. :)
I was just sitting here with my McCalls cookie collection book, (1965) and getting new ideas to give out as gifts. Now I will add some of these ideas! Esp the minty chocolate malt mix, sounds yummy! Thanks 😊
glad to know if item is able to be mailed due to military sending..college or people living not in total care facilities but places with just a little more help or supervisio.. I'm going to try to find this book!! thanks..btw plan to do the mustard for Easter !!
This is a very fun video. I love the Cooky Book as well, and I love making cookies. Also, I love your festive apron. Thank you for sharing the recipes. The ornament and miniture of the Cooky Book are adorable - you have clever fans. Amazing video - I’ve already watched it several times hehe. ❤
The granola mix seems very time-consuming so I probably wouldn’t make that. The horseradish mustard seems really interesting and I think it would be delicious on a roast beef sandwich. The cocoa mix seems like it could be really yummy.
The granola recipe is very similar to one my mom made when I was a kid. Toasting oats, coconut, almond slivers, sesame seeds, and wheat germ, that's been coated with honey, is the best smell ever. My mom's didn't have the sunflower seeds or fruit. Do you have any more granola recipes? She swears all my favorite recipes are in her stuff somewhere, but she hasn't been able to find a few of my all time favs like this one. My mom was a big Better Homes fan so I wouldn't be surprised if hers came from someone's BH&G cookbook. This stuff on cereal, yogurt, ice cream... so good!
I grew up with a variation of the cocoa mix, I think it was dried milk powder, Nestle's Quick and maybe powdered sugar? We gave it as gifts and kept a huge honkin' Tupperware canister full on the counter through the winter. Was extra decadent made with milk.
The mustard would make a great bonus handmade gift to go along with the cheese & meat gift sets for a dad or grandpa! I love these giftable recipes! The granola looked so good too.
I love the mint chocolate malted mix! I’ve been thinking about gifts for my neighbors and that might just fit the bill. As a young child,I remember my mother getting boxes ready and wrapped to send to relatives in other states. Just like a very familiar song states, these were literally brown paper packages tied up with cotton string! She would then take a sponge and wet the string so it would tighten up. We would wait with anticipation for the box to arrive from our Grandmother! Always filled with homemade treats like apple butter and divinity. Thank you for another great video and bringing back some fond memories. Is there a recipe for Russian Tea in that collection? 😊
Great video Anna. I really liked that the cookbook gave ideas on storage and shelf life, it's brilliant! I've never seen that before. What an awesome cookbook, thank you for sharing!
That granola looks really good! I might have to try it! I made the tropical cheese ball, from your 1981 Philadelphia Cream Cheese cookbook video, for thanksgiving, and it was a great success! My mom loved it, and my grandma even wanted the recipe for a potluck!
I’ve only recently discovered your great channel! I’ve watch many old cookbook channels, but you are best at choosing unique, but tasty recipes that deserve resurrection!
I was at a Christmas bazaar and raffle just this morning at church 😊I got some decorations... The mustard sounds really neat. I'm always intrigued by granola but I don't really like hard or super crunchy foods. Maybe you can just mix the nuts and fruits with cornflakes
I want to try all of these! I made homemade mustard once and I tasted it right when it was done and I almost died!! It was soooooo gross!! I didn’t know I was supposed to wait a week before eating it to let it rest and come together!! I was seriously afraid for you tasting yours, I’m glad it went much better than my experience!! 😂😂
This is a very clever video, and timely for upcoming Holidays. I have made and given cookie mix (with instructions) in a decorated Mason jar as well as have given baked good in a decorated boxes. These are good gifts (to give w/ a gift card) for folks who are hard to shop for (I have some fussy friends). But that is the extent of my gift making experience. I love these ideas. The mustard (while unique) looks delicious. I love granola - I’ll likely try that recipe at least. Thank you for sharing the recipes.
omg, the memories you bring back! absolutely loved this book, it's a winner, and I just love your videos, keep up the good work! And back then no one ate foods that were very spicy, hence the boring mustard sauce,
Such a fun video! The drink mix sounds delicious…there’s a tea flavor that’s “butter mint” and it’s divine! I also just got a mint chocolate tea flavor, yum! I’ve gifted tins or boxes of fun teas. 😍
I enjoy your videos and your joy of going through the recipes. I must comment though on the Puppies are Like That book on your shelf. It was my favorite book as a child and just seeing that book makes me smile each time.
Are you making any gifts this year? Let me know in the comments!
If I don't make something, I have a friend who make pickles, is that cheating?
I always make trays of cookies, caramel corn, and snack mix to give as gifts.
I'm going to try to make some hot cocoa mixes and cookie mixes.
Are we counting making the holiday meal for everyone? Because buying and making the main holiday meals has been my go to gift for my family for several years. My mom doesn’t bake much, so offering a steamed pudding and a cake for my dad is possibly the highlight of his holiday.
I think I'll be making tea breads and maybe some cookies.
two of my favorite things ever: malted milk and butter mints
Ok so you made me realize that my eating at home challenge for 30 plus days can be easier by exploring different recipes and different decades
The older I get the more I love foods and snacks as gifts. I use to think food gift baskets were for business associates or the elderly only. Now, I think they are such a great idea. Does that mean I am aging myself or does it mean that because the prices of food are so expensive that we respect food gifts more? 🙃 Enjoyed this video!
I agree! Love gift baskets/hampers.
I'm making jam and handknit washcloths for all of my employees. Something sweet, and something to clean up the sticky mess with!😂😂😂
In college, being poor students, we pooled our money and made the Tang tea/Russian tea that was popular in the 70s. There are recipes online. We got baby jars from friends/teachers who had babies, cleaned them and decorated with pretty ribbons and papers. Worked out well and tasted great!
I think the horseradish mustard would be fun in a gift basket of some charcuterie things.
Great idea!
I'm making my sisters chicken and dumplings. Gonna buy a couple of pots to put it in.
Man I’d be thrilled with a nice food gift! Lol. Slap a bow on a casserole and I’m your friend forever! ❤😂
Every year my grandmother would make cookies for her entire family. Which was no less than 50 people. Her base recipe was better homes and gardens chocolate chippers. (Few family favorite add ins, recipe increased by 6, use butter not shortening…that sorta thing) she also made their sugar cookies. When I say rooms were filled with stacked tins I’m not exaggerating. She made them to send to family, and so she had them to be eaten Christmas Day when everyone would come over, plus she made extra tins so if you showed up and she didn’t have a gift for you, you got cookies. It’s become my favorite Christmas memory and tradition.I hand them out still for her with my Christmas cards, and still choose that as my Christmas dessert every year.
Love your channel! I'm 71 yrs old and enjoy the memories many of these recipes bring back. Have enjoyed these "gifts from the kitchen" ideas and honestly would love to see you do several more like this. Thanks for all you do :)
I haven’t done Christmas baking for myself or as gifts for years.
Right now your channel is my favourite thing to watch… out of all the streaming I have …. Your videos are what is making me happy right now! Thanks!
Thank you so much for your kind words!! Glad my videos are making you happy. ☺
I showed my mom the video and she was absolutely excited. She got this cookbook as a gift from her bank back in the day. She has made a ton of recipes out of it including the malted mint mix and the granola. She is a librarian and runs a cookbook club but they love to check out cooking channels on TH-cam so she may just show your channel off sometime soon!
That granola recipe is a family standby. I squealed out loud like a fan girl when you decided to make it! We switch up the fruit a lot of the time and I like it with dried apple, peaches, pears, or pineapples and currants or mixed raisins (and sometimes crushed banana chips too as a treat as well). Honestly, I adore it with the apricots and raisins as written the best of all the combos. The toasted wheat germ, coconut, sesame seed blend is pure heaven for me and the smell of the honey as it bakes is intoxicating. It totally takes me back to being a kid and shopping at teeny local NorCal health food stores and hits me right in the nostalgia. Thanks for trying out this cookbook!!
This is awesome!! and a COOKBOOK CLUB. I need to find one of those around here. 😄
This is so cute. And please tell us how the cookbook Club works! I would love this.
Thinking of gifting cheese balls ...wrapped in red cellophane, of course...inspired by one of your earlier videos... YUM
I love this! 😊
Hi, just wanted to drop a note to say how much I genuinely enjoy your content. I am a collector (and cooker-outer?) of older cookbooks as well (I love seeing how homemaking and cookery has evolved over the years) and it's the nicest thing to find that someone shares your hobby even if you'll never meet. I loved this episode; consumable gifts are so underrated and I think it is so fun and sweet to receive something that someone has taken the time to make! You have such a gentle, genuine energy and I appreciate your creativity. Thank you for sharing with us!
Mom and I made Spritz pressed holiday cookies given in tins to many neighbors annually. A jar of homemade Chex mix always a welcome gift, imo.
You're my first TH-cam subscription! Love your videos! My mom made giant batches of hot cocoa mix in the 70's. Nestle's Quik, powdered milk, I'm not sure what else. Gave it for gifts in Mason jars and kept ours in an upside down Tupperware cake keeper! Good memory. Thanks Anna.
Have you seen the vintage book The Pantry Gourmet? A lot of things that can be gifts.
I haven't, but I'll keep an eye out for it. 😄
I enjoy different mustards with cheese or summer sausage. A Swiss Colony connoisseur… lol
Thank you for the video! I will have to check to see if I have this cookbook. A colleague friend of mine gifted me with a BUNCH of these old cookbooks. Some had handwritten recipes in them. Others had cutout news paper recipes from the 60s. I find that I always seem to be collecting cookbooks, both new and old/gently-used. I simply love to sit curled up with my coffee and read through them.
I can say that my Mom has worn out her Betty Crocker and Better Homes & Gardens recipe books, but she has made many of the cakes and candies for Christmas for the family and friends. I think her favorites were the Southern Living cookbooks. So many good meals and memories came from those books.
Your channel has been a delight to watch as I am doing my own Christmas cooking and baking. Thank you again so much! Take care, be safe and warm, AND Merry Christmas! 😊💖🙏
PS: The Chex mix recipes are my favorite and are what I am making. I love the sweet & salty recipes, as well as the savory ones. The same friend recently gifted me with a vintage 1984 Chex mix tin. I'll keep my personal stash in that. 😉
If you ever make bacon or sausage, egg and cheese sandwiches for breakfast, try spreading some mustard on the bread or toast and you will find another use for yellow mustard that you hadn’t thought about. You’ll thank me, mustard goes great with scrambled eggs.
My mom used to make Friendship tea, iced tea, lemonade, tang and spices mixed together and put in a mason jar! Loved it!
My best friend's mom always made that- she called it Russian tea. She always had a kettle going in the winter and we would drink that or the hot cocoa mix she also made.
had this! it is so good !! a classic recipe!!
I would make a quick lemon iced tea mix and Tang for my office. It was always
cold there and I could only drink so much coffee. I made it hot. Hot tang, anyone remember that?
I remember this! I believe it was called Russian tea. I loved it -- fun memory! 😊
My aunt used to do that! And each layer was a different color which was pretty
My Mom always made homemade granola in the 70s. It was very similar to this recipe but she would also add some brown sugar and cinnamon
I really appreciated the homemade gifts 🎁 segment. I feel like this is a lost art of gift giving.
I put mustard in mac n cheese, hamburgers, and potatoe salad.
And Puppies Are Like That, I had that book too! Aww, the 70s. :)
So love this. I graduated in 1977 and have had many malted milk recipes. This channel brings me back. Thank you. ❤
I love getting and making food gifts Thank you for sharing. FYI when I stir my granola I set the bowl on my baking pan
I would love to see you test some spice mixes as well as tea blends!❤
Instead of adding more horseradish to give it more zing, you could add some wasabi powder.
I love making gifts to give people. Everything from Hot Cocoa Mix to seasonings. Seasoning are a great thing. I give a lot of seasoning mixes like taco mix, Italian seasoning mix, enchilada sauce, wonton dipping sauce, etc.
You bring back some beautiful memories.
Maybe try the Coleman's English mustard powder? It's a good bit hotter than others and should give you the kick you want.
That mustard would get used on any and all meat dishes in my household. And for anyone who needs a gluten free alternative to wheat germ, flax seed meal/ground flax seed makes a good substitute in flavour and texture
Thanks for the tip!
Yes, I think it would be good on sandwiches and subs!😋
I would definitely add cinnamon to that granola, and probably a bit more horseradish to that spread. Good idea you have to try these yourself before gifting them!
Granola is always great to gift someone. It can be customized for the person you are gifting it it to. Well done
I am addicted to your channel! Many of these recipes take me back to my mother's kitchen, where I was her main helper for decades.
I make Monster Cookies for gifts! Everyone seems to like them, the recipe makes 13 dozen cookies, and they freeze really well. It’s one of those recipes that’s in just about every church or group cookbook. One year I didn’t make them, and everyone was sooo sad, so I ended up making a “late” batch. They all got their cookies. 😊
The mustard would be good on a charcuterie board. I love stuff like this. Great video
Make up the drink with hot coffee- the best of both worlds!
As I have this cookbook, I have no idea why I havent actually used one recipe from it yet. Will be correcting that this week. All of these looked good, especially the drink mix. I now have some ideas for gifts for people I can add without going too much into the pocketbook.
Thanks, Anna, for another great video!
Thank you for watching! ☺
Woo Hoo, Anna's at her shenanigans again. Lets go!😂❤
The granola was so good! Food as gifts is the best gift
This book is a gem for any homemaker. Love it
I recently found a book called "Jazzy Jars" that has decorating and recipe ideas but it isn't nearly as comprehensive or creative in terms of recipes. I can't wait to hunt this book down!
I’ve never made food gifts, but do enjoy getting them. I just wanted to say how much I enjoy your channel. In addition to content, your voice is just so easy to listen to.
Thank you! ☺
You picked 2 unusual gifts, the mint malted chocolate and the mustard. They were very interesting! Some people do love pretzels so that would be a great gift for someone like that.
Apricot is my faaaave
Love making food gifts! I do chocolate type things for neighbors, do spice mixes for family and even done an herb rice mix. I adore butter mints so that mix might be for me. Tip on making mustard, vinegar stops the mustard from becoming hot. So often recipes will have you add the vinegar at the end. Chinese-style mustard is only powder and water and that is why it's hot.
I would love more content like this, on food as gifts as the winter holidays approach! Thanks, these look yummy.
My husband is an ovaltine addict so I may try the hot cocoa powder. I already have a granola recipe (I leave fruit out completely but another good fruit combination is candied orange peel and dried cranberries).
That granola looked great
I have really enjoyed it on yogurt! I have some of it away at our Friendsgiving celebration.
I am so excited for this. I love making food items as gifts since I know everyone will eat it😂
Also, it's not a dust collector.
The homemade mustard sounds really interesting! I always find myself (and others) overloaded on sweets during the end-of-year holidays, so I tend to try and look for savory things if I'm gifting foodstuffs.
Made granola a lot when I was a kid. Mom did maple syrup, cinnamon, raisins and chopped dates....the rest is the same though. She stopped making it cause we would eat it in a day so wasn't saving any money on cereal😂 we loved it and she was making a turkey roasting pan at a time
I've made pickled onions, my grandfather's recipe, as gifts many times plus enough cookies to make Betty Crocker jealous lol.The holidays always meant special foods to give and enjoy. I enjoy the channel and look forward to more great recipes!
For the hot cocoa mix, if you didn't have a blender, or you don't want to use one, for whatever reason, I think you could crush up the butter mints by putting them in a plastic freezer bag and hitting them with a hammer or rolling a rolling pin on them. If you do that, you want to cover the plastic bag with a dish towel to keep the bag from getting a hole in it as quickly. Turn it over several times and try not to always hit it in the same spot. It helps if you have it up against something hard. A granite counter top would work, but be careful not to damage it, of course. I think it might actually grind finer this way than it would with the blender, since blenders are meant for liquid.
Crasins & or dried cranberries, dried papya/mango & coconut
I just found your channel a few days ago and I am so glad I did! You have helped me reawaken my love of cooking and baking! So, thank you!! I love giving food as gifts! And I love that the book is from the year I was born. 😀
Hello and WELCOME! Glad you're here. ❤
One of my aunties was something of a foodie back in the 70's and I'll never forget the year everybody got homemade mustards. We kids didn't enjoy them but my parents loved them. And like others, I have so many fond memories of Russian Tea mix and homemade hot cocoa mixes put in giftable cute containers.
This book looks so cute and I absolutely love to make homemade food gifts for people during the holidays. Even if I am going to give someone a gift card, I usually also give them a food gift that I make homemade. Every year I give Christmas cookies to my neighbors, co-workers, and the various delivery people in my life, but I also make homemade candies too. The homemade treat that people most often ask me for is English toffee. English toffee is my Mom's favorite candy, so I made sure to develop a recipe that is especially good so that I can make it for her all the time.
Would you mind sharing your recipe for English Toffee please?
At ShopRite the wheat bran is in the cereal aisle by the oats.
Love it! My friends and I still do this. Homemade snacks and mixes as gifts is a gift someone can always use, and doesn't break the bank. 😊
I gave away home steeped gin one year. That was popular, but I had to be pretty organized and start well ahead of Christmas.🍸
I saw this book on ebay and was interested in it. I then tried to find any reviews for it and found a single one on Amazon. It was not a great review. It basically said there were a few good recipes but most were dated and she was keeping it as just a part of her vintage cookbook collection. I decided not to get the book....until YOU! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, for this video and your immense charm. I just went over to ebay and purchased the book! You're the best.
So glad you found this video helpful! I personally really enjoy this book. It's very nostalgic for me. Sure, some of the recipes may be a bit dated...but that's never scared me away from a cookbook before! 😂
@@cooking_the_books , I'm a bit dated myself (64 ~sigh), so this should be the beginning of a long and beautiful friendship. 😉
Do people still use wheat germ? We had a half empty jar of that stuff in our fridge for maybe 10 years back in the 70s and 80s. I have no idea why anyone bought it, what it was used for, or why it wasn't thrown out. I tried it once and it was a grossly unpleasant experience. My advice, don't make food gifts too pretty, people will be loathe to use it because it's just so nice! Yes, I am including myself in that. :)
We used to make friendship tea all the time.
I was just sitting here with my McCalls cookie collection book, (1965) and getting new ideas to give out as gifts. Now I will add some of these ideas! Esp the minty chocolate malt mix, sounds yummy! Thanks 😊
glad to know if item is able to be mailed due to military sending..college or people living not in total care facilities but places with just a little more help or supervisio.. I'm going to try to find this book!! thanks..btw plan to do the mustard for Easter !!
This is a very fun video. I love the Cooky Book as well, and I love making cookies. Also, I love your festive apron. Thank you for sharing the recipes. The ornament and miniture of the Cooky Book are adorable - you have clever fans. Amazing video - I’ve already watched it several times hehe. ❤
Will you be making more homemade gifts? I hope so!!
The granola mix seems very time-consuming so I probably wouldn’t make that. The horseradish mustard seems really interesting and I think it would be delicious on a roast beef sandwich. The cocoa mix seems like it could be really yummy.
Your channel is such a delight! Thanks for sharing these vintage ideas.
What a fun episode! I'd love a part 2, part 3, part 4.
Hope your Thanksgiving was wonderful. Thanks for this very enjoyable video.
Hey, do you like Golden raisins? I find them much more palatable then brown raisins.
I like your videos. Trying vintage recipes is great!
The granola recipe is very similar to one my mom made when I was a kid. Toasting oats, coconut, almond slivers, sesame seeds, and wheat germ, that's been coated with honey, is the best smell ever. My mom's didn't have the sunflower seeds or fruit. Do you have any more granola recipes? She swears all my favorite recipes are in her stuff somewhere, but she hasn't been able to find a few of my all time favs like this one. My mom was a big Better Homes fan so I wouldn't be surprised if hers came from someone's BH&G cookbook. This stuff on cereal, yogurt, ice cream... so good!
I'll have to look through and see if there are any more standout granola recipes in my collection!
I grew up with a variation of the cocoa mix, I think it was dried milk powder, Nestle's Quick and maybe powdered sugar? We gave it as gifts and kept a huge honkin' Tupperware canister full on the counter through the winter. Was extra decadent made with milk.
The mustard would make a great bonus handmade gift to go along with the cheese & meat gift sets for a dad or grandpa! I love these giftable recipes! The granola looked so good too.
So enjoyable to watch you make these treats and I love looking at cookbooks with you. I love to make peanut brittle and spiced nuts to give as gifts.
I love the mint chocolate malted mix! I’ve been thinking about gifts for my neighbors and that might just fit the bill. As a young child,I remember my mother getting boxes ready and wrapped to send to relatives in other states. Just like a very familiar song states, these were literally brown paper packages tied up with cotton string! She would then take a sponge and wet the string so it would tighten up. We would wait with anticipation for the box to arrive from our Grandmother! Always filled with homemade treats like apple butter and divinity.
Thank you for another great video and bringing back some fond memories. Is there a recipe for Russian Tea in that collection? 😊
Thank you for sharing!!
You are so welcome! Thanks for watching. ❤
Great video Anna. I really liked that the cookbook gave ideas on storage and shelf life, it's brilliant! I've never seen that before. What an awesome cookbook, thank you for sharing!
What a neat cookbook! I would love any of ideas you shared/made with us today for a gift. Thank you!👍🙂👍
Hooray! This was super great and fun! 🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🛷✨
My son loves mustard with summer sausages and cheese slices.
Great combo! 😋
That granola looks really good! I might have to try it! I made the tropical cheese ball, from your 1981 Philadelphia Cream Cheese cookbook video, for thanksgiving, and it was a great success! My mom loved it, and my grandma even wanted the recipe for a potluck!
So glad the tropical cheese ball was a hit! 😀
I’ve only recently discovered your great channel! I’ve watch many old cookbook channels, but you are best at choosing unique, but tasty recipes that deserve resurrection!
Thank you so much for your support! Glad you enjoy my videos. ❤️
I was at a Christmas bazaar and raffle just this morning at church 😊I got some decorations... The mustard sounds really neat. I'm always intrigued by granola but I don't really like hard or super crunchy foods. Maybe you can just mix the nuts and fruits with cornflakes
Thoroughly enjoyable video! Thank you :)
❤ these ideas!
I want to try all of these! I made homemade mustard once and I tasted it right when it was done and I almost died!! It was soooooo gross!! I didn’t know I was supposed to wait a week before eating it to let it rest and come together!! I was seriously afraid for you tasting yours, I’m glad it went much better than my experience!! 😂😂
Yummy, I used to make a instant coffee mix and buy Christmas gift jars, was enjoyed it.
This is a very clever video, and timely for upcoming Holidays. I have made and given cookie mix (with instructions) in a decorated Mason jar as well as have given baked good in a decorated boxes. These are good gifts (to give w/ a gift card) for folks who are hard to shop for (I have some fussy friends). But that is the extent of my gift making experience. I love these ideas. The mustard (while unique) looks delicious. I love granola - I’ll likely try that recipe at least. Thank you for sharing the recipes.
omg, the memories you bring back! absolutely loved this book, it's a winner, and I just love your videos, keep up the good work! And back then no one ate foods that were very spicy, hence the boring mustard sauce,
Such a fun video! The drink mix sounds delicious…there’s a tea flavor that’s “butter mint” and it’s divine! I also just got a mint chocolate tea flavor, yum! I’ve gifted tins or boxes of fun teas. 😍
Love these ideas! I enjoy gifting food, I don’t usually mail it but I have received cookies in the mail before!
I just ordered the book
I hope you love it!
I enjoy your videos and your joy of going through the recipes. I must comment though on the Puppies are Like That book on your shelf. It was my favorite book as a child and just seeing that book makes me smile each time.
New subbie! Love your channel. I also love all things vintage and have a collection of pyrex. Thanks for your fun videos!
Hello and WELCOME! So glad you're here. 😊
What a great book! I'm making pumpkin spice syrup to add to your coffee.
Sounds great! 😋