We eat rice porridge cooked with raisins and a cinnamon stick. It's served with milk, granulated sugar, and cinnamon. An old tradition is to put an almond in the pot, and whoever gets the almond is destined to get married in the following year.
Not all of your viewers would know about Meijer. It's only in six states in the Midwest. I retired from one in Indianapolis earlier this year after working there over 27 years. Still shop there all the time.I love your videos.😊
@@lindacombs7424 We have them here in Ohio, and I've gotten some good deals there. I even started getting my vaccines through their pharmacy. It's such a nice big open store, and the pharmacy is very efficient.
Oooo I have a muffin pan tip for if you’re not using the whole pan! If you fill the empty cavities with water to the same height as the wells in use, then everything will bake as evenly as it normally would. It also helps your bake time match the original recipe.
Thanks for this tip. I had a muffin pan that got warped because I didn’t fill all the wells when I baked something in the oven. Next time I will use your tip and I won’t have a wrecked muffin pan at the end. 😁❤️
Back in the 80's, my Grandma and Grandpa were over at my brother's to visit for their great-grandbaby's bday. My grandpa mistook potpourri in a bowl on the coffee table as a snack. He ate a small handful of it, chewed it FOREVER, and didn't say a word about it after he ate it. One of the funniest memories I have of him.
Giggling because this happened to my Dad too! At my niece''s apartment! We were there for a holiday get together and Dad helped himself to the bowl of "snack mix" which was actually a bowl of potpourri. ❤😂
I still have these Pillsbury Christmas booklets. They published many but the Christmas ones are the best. When you held it up, I said I have that book!!!
I still have mine, too, and I also recognized this one immediately! The Double Chocolate Spritz cookies are a favourite. The Land O'Lakes booklets were also excellent. I have many of those too. One of my greatest treasures is a tattered copy of Margo Oliver's Weekend Cookbook, I think from the 70s, that was my mom's. We made so many things from that book, and it still has her handwritten notes. Thanks for a fabulous video.
Your channel popped up on my feed, and I’m so glad it did! I love your cooking and presentation style! Im a 69 yo baby boomer, so your recipes bring back all kinds of memories. I’m a fan!❤
Please do a video of microwave only vintage recipes! I was a teenager in the 80s and remember the microwave craze. I really only use the microwave now for reheating…but my mom to this day uses the microwave to cook all sorts of things. 🤔
Hehehe, Hubby and I were married in 1982. One of our favorite hobbies is to go antiquing. When we first started going, we would notice things that were in our grandparents' homes. Then has years go by, it was things that were in our parents' homes. We went out this past fall to an antique mall and found many things that are in our home now! Wedding gifts we received all those years ago, are now located in the antique stores. Made us laugh because it has come full circle now with our 'stuff.' So yes, the 80's are considered vintage now. Growing up in the 60's and 70's my mother only bought concentrated juice. She would always say, 'I'm not paying extra for the water when I can have it for free at home.' I gave up buying concentrated juices a long time ago.
Interesting that the compote is called a 'compote' - I think, in the UK, we would just call that a fruit salad (a fancy one to be fair) and use compote for a pure fruit jam. Also, did anyone else see the cheese and pineapple hedgehog at 80s parties? It was essentially, half a grapefruit covered in foil with cocktail sticks of pineaple chunks, cheddar cheese, and glace cherries shoved in. It was, er, the height of sophiscation.
My mum used to make apple compote and sometimes rhubarb compote. It was like a half cooked puré with chunks of the fruit, and you'd eat it with milk. The Swedish variation of your hedhog was an erect cucumber in a flowerpot. It was supposed to resemble a cactus.😳 The childrens variation of this was the same cucumber cactus but with pieces of candy on the toothpicks. 🫣 It was the eighties. Need I say more?
My daughter was born in 1981. I was active duty US Air Force, married to active duty US Air Force. I can't recall how many times I'd have to whip up a formal dinner for 6 to 8, after flying a 12 hour sortie, with a toddler! ANYTHING I could do ahead, I did. I'd even set the table days in advance, with a sheet over it to make sure no dust settled! I had to call the tower to remind my husband to pick up the flowers for the centerpiece. He would forget and humble yard flowers had to make do. Cheeseballs and crackers can be done a week in advance. Somehow I managed to not smell like jet fuel as I changed into dinner dress. No wonder I said farewell to the Air Force after 20 years. 🎉
Growing up, for Christmas morning my mom would just use the crescent rolls as rolls but before rolling, she would spread a butter/cinnamon/brown sugar/nut mixture down, roll, bake then top with the icing. So easy and good
These were great! Also a possibly helpful note: I learned a couple months ago that Pillsbury's crescent rolls are vegan. (I'm not sure about other brands). They allowed me to provide my vegan sister and SIL an equally tasty (and MUCH easier to make) alternative to the standard cinnamon rolls I brought to a family event.
I have no problem watching you get into whatever you're making, lol. It all looks very tasty. I was a kid in the late 50s-early 60s but am fine with 80s food. I remember when ham, broccoli and cheese became a thing with my mom. Now that I'm on the older "vintage" side (near 70), I'm especially fond of Corelle dishes because they take up so little room in my cupboard and don't weigh a ton. I have the Woodland Brown set. (I can testify that a Corelle plate can shatter into a million places, though, lol). In a small thrift store a few years ago, I was thrilled to find a box of a Corelle Christmas pattern (green line, holly berries), just the plates and small coffee mugs, and I grabbed them. I like the red-green pattern so well I just incorporated the Christmas set into my everyday dishes and use them both year round.
I love Pillsbury Kitchens cook book I have one. My mom would cook several things from that cook book. After she passed I got the cookbook and Started to cook a few meals and treats from it
Throwing this out there for the few who may not know. When pre-2000ish recipes call for canned tuna, pay attention to the ounces. The small tuna cans used to be about 7 to 7.5 ounces but today they are only 5 ounces so you'll need to use 3 cans if the recipe calls for 2 small cans. Also, don't waste the liquid down the drain but give it to the dog or cat and add a bit of water to weaken the sodium. Yes, I have a couple of those booklets and one is just crescent rolls.
If you cut fresh ginger into small pieces, you can freeze them. Then when you are cooking you can pull out a piece and use a zester to add it to your recipe. Fresh ginger really amps up the flavor.
I don’t know why but the broccoli sleepover gave me such a strong mental image/memory of the 1989(?) Disney Christmas sing along songs animation with all the kids sleeping in the bed and Santa uses an umbrella to stretch (and close the hole in) one of the stockings so the gifts fit. 😆🎄
This could only be better if you had an 80's Corelle Christmas dinner plate and a Christmas glass from Arby's. I never had that little cookbooklet but it definitely looks like the kinds of recipes that were in magazines then. Refrigerated crescent rolls used to be much higher quality back then. This was a fun video and brought back a lot of good 80's memories, thank you.
I had to laugh when you held up the cookbook. I bought this new back in 1987. I made the broccoli ham sleepover rolls and everyone really liked it. I made some cookies from it in the past, but when you flashed a page in the back, I made those Chocolate-Dipped Dried Apricots. They were just OK but at the time, dried apricots were like hard tack. I still own the book. Great vid and it did bring back memories.
In Poland there's an old timey candy made with dried prunes soaked in alcohol, stuffed with a walnut and dipped in chocolate. I bet soaking the apricots in something fruity would make them softer and more flavorful. It doesn't necessarily have to be alcohol if you're making them.
@Miss_Kisa94 I have soaked apricots and other dried fruits in apple juice, orange juice, cranberry juice even ginger ale successfully fir my sober living family. Personally, I love the booze soaked fruits. But I love my family more. I also got this book circa '87/''88. I was home from college and cooking up a storm. I felt very fancy.
@@Miss_Kisa94 I think it was 🇬🇧📺Two Fat Ladies making devils on horseback who mentioned when using dried fruit you can soak them overnight in tea to help the flavor too.
I used to make the same things for my kids growing up in the early 70s. Making food look fancy was the only way for me to get them to eat veggies. No recipe just using my imagination. Simple and delicious. Who knew recipes existed.
Those microwave cake and icing mixes came with little white disposable cake pans. I don't really remember much about the cakes themselves other than cooking them in the microwave and they tasted like cake, lol. But seeing that ad unlocked the memory of making those mixes and cooking them in those white plastic rectangular pans that came in the box, with the mix pouch and icing pouch tucked inside. I'd try to squeeze every last little bit of icing out, then I'd lick the last bit of icing off the packet before throwing it away.
I used to love those little cook books. They often had easy recipes that were great for working mom’s to have some quick holiday recipes. I especially liked the holiday ones.
All the ingredients for the broccoli and ham recipe would be great just chopped up and baked in a casserole. The whole menu sounds great. For any time of year.
1988. Fond memories of long distance "dating" my future hubby. No internet. Writing love letters. Paying full cost long distance phone charges😂 yep. Vintage? Yes!!
I remember when all the long distance company battles were a thing . MCI and all the rest. You'd better have a Good Reason to make a long distance call, too. My mother spoke extra loud when she talked to someone LD. Not sure if that was holdover behavior from old/bad phone lines.
There was a cake mix for the oven that came with the pan and frosting. It was what spurred my love of baking and cooking. It was a dry cake, or at least it was for me. I was between 10 and 12 when I used them. By the time I was 12, I was using my grandmas old cookbooks to bake and cook with. I wasn't allowed to experiment much as my mom had certain food adversions and difficulty in chewing certain things. I love these shows as they bring back many good memories. Thank you.
Ok, this was my FAVORITE episode so far! I grew up in the 80s and my mom was always trying the trendy recipes of the day and she totally would have made these! Fruit soups, chocolate soups were super cool then! This book was totally showing middle class housewives how to do 80s yuppie cooking. All the trendy suburban moms were making stuff like this in the 80s. I hope you eventually cover: stir frys, pasta salads and microwave recipes. Sounds really boring now, but those were new then and wok and microwave cooking were all the rage in the 1980s!!❤❤❤
Keep in mind in the 80's we had browning trays to cook food on in the microwave to get a good color on it so the other menu might have been good back then (but I doubt it lol). Anything I ever cooked in the microwave was a huge flop. My first microwave my Mom got for me for college in 1985 and she thought we could make chicken in it. The chicken never got cooked no matter how long we microwaved it. Neither one of us knew that the wattage of the microwave had a lot to do with how food cooked. Mine never made anything but popcorn and half the time it was burnt because we didn't buy it in the bags - it was too expensive! I had an apparatus that was supposed to perfectly pop corn in it, which never happened. IMO the microwave is only good for making cake in mugs, popcorn & nachos, quick (extra crispy) bacon and to warm things up. I think the menu you chose looks really yummy, so yummy that I might make it this Christmas Day for brunch. I love watching your channel and the recipes you make. Loads of fun!! Merry Christmas!
Not all of your viewers would know about Meijer it's only in six states in the Midwest. I retired from one in Indianapolis earlier this year after working there over 27 years. I still shop there all the time.I love your videos. 😊
When you said broccoli in a sleeping bag I can jut picture an animated advertiement with dancing broccoli wrapping themselve up in ham and jumping into a pan to be covered in the egg mixture to be cooked. lol
As a fellow “vintage” person (I’m also 42 lol) wow those recipes brought back some memories! I do remember those microwavable cakes and I recall they kinda reminded me of the brownies in tv dinners
The sticky buns look delicious. Being in Australia I have memories of hot Christmas weather. My Mum would serve her famous hors d'oeuvre of rolled up deli meats mostly ham with small cube cheese and a red or green cocktail pickle onion speared together with a toothpick. She makes a really delicious trifle even our doctor gets one at Christmas.
This was so great!!! It really brought back memories of my own youth. I liked the ham wrapped broccoli as it was on it own, without the egg and served cold. But i'll bet that if you put those ham wrapped broccoli into Twinkie baking tray, and put each one into each Twinkie form, and then poured egg over each one, that would look pretty cool.
Pillsbury also had little cookie booklets they put inside their 5 lb bags of flour at Christmas time. I have one taped on a recipe card in my Better Homes and Garden Cookbook. It is well worn. I really enjoyed this video. Thanks for sharing!
In 1988 I was 15, so I'm in between vintage and antique. Those almond sticky buns look super delicious! I'm going to make the broccoli and ham (should have put a ring on it) roll-ups and almond sticky buns for my next fancy-pants brunch.
I cannot believe you're 42, you boomer!😆No worries, I'm 50. I know I look unreasonably young for my age but I really thought you were in your twenties. I was so jealous that you had such a beautiful kitchen at such a young age. Now I'm only holding onto a healthy bit of jealousy. Mom and grandma used canned EVERYTHING, and the mentality lingers. I asked Mom to pick up some fresh figs on her way home from the store the other day; she brought home some dried figs from the produce section. We realized she'd never even seen a fresh fig. She always makes me open the refrigerated dough cans too. But she laughed at me when the home visit nurse startled me with a finger prick today and called me a rookie.
I used to buy those books all of the time for various holidays when I was picking up the TV Guide! That entire menu really does look very appetizing and very doable!
Woot woot! Waited all week. 1988 is still vintage, 35 years. I wonder how the raspberry soup would be heated. Either way, I think you've got a winner there. But I am in the pro-raspberry camp. Yes, there were crescent rolls in 1988, and there were crescent sheets as well. There was also pizza in a tube that Pillsbury offered. Another quick yummy recipe! You have a Giant Eagle? Kudos! I do have several Aldis, 2 Meijers, 2 Pick 'n Save (Kroger), and several Festival Foods (independent but use Albertson's house brands). All in all, very festive and delicious!
I like the ham and broccoli roll up idea, although me personally I might just chop everything up and stick it into a muffin tin for mini quiches. The original has a very retro appeal though, which I think is cute. I recently went through some of my stepmom's cookbooks and found one from 1929, so this Christmas season might be a time for experimentation for me! Even if I probably won't make (or can't eat) many of the recipes you feature, it's always good inspiration =) Also, even if the 80's isn't really "vintage", I still think it's neat when you do videos from that era. I'm a few years younger than you so it's nostalgic for me too. Those were the days!
I bought those little cookbooks so often that my mom finally got me a subscription! Must've been late 90s when I was newly married. I was so excited to read through every new issue when they came in the mail! The recipes were always very doable. I still have a shelf of these books that I haven't been able to part with - I'm going to pull a few out tomorrow and find something to make! Really fun episode, and core memories unlocked! 😊
The microwave cake and frosting! Oh my gosh, we made that in my home ec class in high school in 2003 or 2004! It was so good and I still talk about it to this day, although, I haven't made it since and have lost the recipe. In the same class, we made a Thanksgiving turkey in the microwave which was less good. 😂
That is totally something I’d see my mom make for a “fancy” holiday brunch in the 80s! Well done! And totally shocked ur a GenXer. Totally thought you were like mid 20s!!!
I used to buy a lot of the pillsbury booklets at the checkout! This one was in my Mom's cookbook collection when she passed, I think my brother snagged it. We do a similar fruit salad for Christmas brunch that contains mandarin oranges, pink and white grapefruit and maraschino cherries, with a sprite wash. Will have to try the ginger ale, thought. Thanks for the trip down holiday memory lane : )
Just bought a collection of pillsbury cookbook from the 80s just like the one shown in the video at my local library. It has a huge collection in each binder. Thanks for sharing this video!!
💝💝💝 Cooked in the 80's for my, at the time, 7 year old son! Cooked brunch from Betty Crocker. Love this menu. Going to make! Thank you. Have so many of those little books I passed on to my daughter. Wish I had kept them. Will just pick up some of the new ones. Yes, they are still put out by all kinds of companies!!! Thank you so much!!! ❇❇❇
I *loved* the microwave cake and frosting mixes! I ate so many of them in high school. They were always a little goopy on the bottom but they were great for a quick sweet fix! And they were tiny so I could eat the whole pan and didn't have to share, LOL.
In 1980's I was in my twenties and just getting into cooking. Had a cold cherry soup at a restaurant. Had to make it. It was a starter to a meal. Pretty much canned cherries, sour cream and almond extract as I recall. Talking to a friend about making it again since I recently discovered some lovely, canned Oregon cherries. Try the cherry soup. Remember in the 1980's brunches were a big deal also. Love your broccoli in sleeping bags!
It’d be kinda cool to do a comparison video of a vintage “checkout aisle” magazine vs. a modern one to see how recipe trends have changed over time. I also can’t remember if modern grocery stores have books like this one still but I’m definitely keeping my eye out the next time I’m in line!
The grocery stores, where I live, Central Coast, CA do😃 They have Taste of Home and things like that. However…..they cost as much as as buying a book 🤦♀️ I just look on line now 😉☺️🕊
Oh my gosh Anna, i have to go to AT LEAST 2 grocery stores in a given week to get the items on my list and i grumble all the way wondering why i can't get everything in one place. I spend so much on gas. So i feel your pain 😂😢😂. I just love your videos, thank you for making the multiple trips for us 😊. Wow, adding on here, i remember the late 80s now so much more from your review of this book. I was graduating from college in 88 and i do remember the microwave (the size of a living room television) we had and the cake mixes we made in it. Wow, memories.
It may be June 2024 but I am totally making this for a light supper (in the toaster oven). The ham & broccoli roll-ups will be a huge hit with fruit salad (which is a regular menu item for us). I might make the rolls and raspberry starter, idk. Thanks for this menu. Have a blessed day 💖✝
Do your Christmas morning traditions include any of these dishes? I'd love to hear about it! ❤️
We eat rice porridge cooked with raisins and a cinnamon stick. It's served with milk, granulated sugar, and cinnamon. An old tradition is to put an almond in the pot, and whoever gets the almond is destined to get married in the following year.
Not all of your viewers would know about Meijer. It's only in six states in the Midwest. I retired from one in Indianapolis earlier this year after working there over 27 years. Still shop there all the time.I love your videos.😊
I have to have Who Hash (canned roast beef hash) and eggs on Christmas morning. Orange sweet rolls, in those little tubes.
We have snowman pancakes with sausage link arms on Christmas morning every year.
@@lindacombs7424 We have them here in Ohio, and I've gotten some good deals there. I even started getting my vaccines through their pharmacy. It's such a nice big open store, and the pharmacy is very efficient.
I think your glee each time you tried something was the best part of this video.
Oooo I have a muffin pan tip for if you’re not using the whole pan! If you fill the empty cavities with water to the same height as the wells in use, then everything will bake as evenly as it normally would. It also helps your bake time match the original recipe.
Thanks for this tip. I had a muffin pan that got warped because I didn’t fill all the wells when I baked something in the oven. Next time I will use your tip and I won’t have a wrecked muffin pan at the end. 😁❤️
My Mom taught me that. I use to complain that I didn’t think it was necessary. Didn’t do it once and learned my lesson
I thought adding water to an oven was a technique for French baguette, I wonder what it does to crescent dough!
Flipping them out would be a mess! 😅😂
@@caygabie4100 clearly you have a secret camera hidden somewhere in my apartment because you have seen me try to cook! 🤣🎥
Back in the 80's, my Grandma and Grandpa were over at my brother's to visit for their great-grandbaby's bday. My grandpa mistook potpourri in a bowl on the coffee table as a snack. He ate a small handful of it, chewed it FOREVER, and didn't say a word about it after he ate it. One of the funniest memories I have of him.
😂😂😂😂😂 Sweet story!!
Poor grandpa 🥰
Giggling because this happened to my Dad too! At my niece''s apartment! We were there for a holiday get together and Dad helped himself to the bowl of "snack mix" which was actually a bowl of potpourri. ❤😂
I still have these Pillsbury Christmas booklets. They published many but the Christmas ones are the best. When you held it up, I said I have that book!!!
I need to keep an eye out for more of them. This one was so much fun!
Me too ☺️
Yes! I have the Pillsbury Bake-off books. They’re great because they’re all winners!
I still have mine, too, and I also recognized this one immediately! The Double Chocolate Spritz cookies are a favourite. The Land O'Lakes booklets were also excellent. I have many of those too. One of my greatest treasures is a tattered copy of Margo Oliver's Weekend Cookbook, I think from the 70s, that was my mom's. We made so many things from that book, and it still has her handwritten notes. Thanks for a fabulous video.
Your channel popped up on my feed, and I’m so glad it did! I love your cooking and presentation style! Im a 69 yo baby boomer, so your recipes bring back all kinds of memories. I’m a fan!❤
The little broccoli sleepover was sooo cute! 🤗
I remember a snacking cake in the early 80's that came with a pan.
I am 41 and now am going to lovingly call myself “vintage” 😂. The sticky buns look amazing!
Please do a video of microwave only vintage recipes! I was a teenager in the 80s and remember the microwave craze. I really only use the microwave now for reheating…but my mom to this day uses the microwave to cook all sorts of things. 🤔
Hehehe, Hubby and I were married in 1982. One of our favorite hobbies is to go antiquing. When we first started going, we would notice things that were in our grandparents' homes. Then has years go by, it was things that were in our parents' homes. We went out this past fall to an antique mall and found many things that are in our home now! Wedding gifts we received all those years ago, are now located in the antique stores. Made us laugh because it has come full circle now with our 'stuff.' So yes, the 80's are considered vintage now.
Growing up in the 60's and 70's my mother only bought concentrated juice. She would always say, 'I'm not paying extra for the water when I can have it for free at home.' I gave up buying concentrated juices a long time ago.
Are you related to me?😂😂😂 Sounds like my mother.
My father's second wife worked at General Mills. They made a microwave cake with the little pan included.
Interesting that the compote is called a 'compote' - I think, in the UK, we would just call that a fruit salad (a fancy one to be fair) and use compote for a pure fruit jam.
Also, did anyone else see the cheese and pineapple hedgehog at 80s parties? It was essentially, half a grapefruit covered in foil with cocktail sticks of pineaple chunks, cheddar cheese, and glace cherries shoved in. It was, er, the height of sophiscation.
I kind of thought the same thing regarding the compote recipe. I always imagine compote as fruit that has been cooked down like jam.
My mum used to make apple compote and sometimes rhubarb compote. It was like a half cooked puré with chunks of the fruit, and you'd eat it with milk.
The Swedish variation of your hedhog was an erect cucumber in a flowerpot. It was supposed to resemble a cactus.😳 The childrens variation of this was the same cucumber cactus but with pieces of candy on the toothpicks. 🫣
It was the eighties. Need I say more?
We had a porcupine made from savory cheese all made with that salty dried beef shaped like the animal and just bare pretzel sticks and olives for eyes
Well, this video made me feel old. Nice to see recipes from the late 1900s making a comeback 😂
I love how cozy, fun and nostalgic this video is! The 80s were the best!! 🥰
Thank you!! ❤
They were!
I would have TOTALLY snatched up one of those warm toasty almond sticky buns and nothing could have stopped me! 😆
It took everything I had not to devour one immediately! 😂
My daughter took my Halloween cook booklet when she moved out..LOL
My daughter was born in 1981. I was active duty US Air Force, married to active duty US Air Force. I can't recall how many times I'd have to whip up a formal dinner for 6 to 8, after flying a 12 hour sortie, with a toddler! ANYTHING I could do ahead, I did. I'd even set the table days in advance, with a sheet over it to make sure no dust settled! I had to call the tower to remind my husband to pick up the flowers for the centerpiece. He would forget and humble yard flowers had to make do. Cheeseballs and crackers can be done a week in advance. Somehow I managed to not smell like jet fuel as I changed into dinner dress. No wonder I said farewell to the Air Force after 20 years. 🎉
I’m vintage lol born in 88
Heck yeah! Vintage people unite! 😂
I can't stop seeing the ham and broccoli with broccoli sleeping bags now! Lol.
I was 17 in 1988! 😂
I was 15.
Growing up, for Christmas morning my mom would just use the crescent rolls as rolls but before rolling, she would spread a butter/cinnamon/brown sugar/nut mixture down, roll, bake then top with the icing. So easy and good
These were great! Also a possibly helpful note: I learned a couple months ago that Pillsbury's crescent rolls are vegan. (I'm not sure about other brands). They allowed me to provide my vegan sister and SIL an equally tasty (and MUCH easier to make) alternative to the standard cinnamon rolls I brought to a family event.
WHOA I had no idea about the crescent rolls! Thank you for telling me. Good to know!
WOW!!! Thanks for that information. I’m a retired Sous Chef and I had no idea 🤷♀️
I feel really old now 🤣👍
I have no problem watching you get into whatever you're making, lol. It all looks very tasty. I was a kid in the late 50s-early 60s but am fine with 80s food. I remember when ham, broccoli and cheese became a thing with my mom.
Now that I'm on the older "vintage" side (near 70), I'm especially fond of Corelle dishes because they take up so little room in my cupboard and don't weigh a ton. I have the Woodland Brown set. (I can testify that a Corelle plate can shatter into a million places, though, lol). In a small thrift store a few years ago, I was thrilled to find a box of a Corelle Christmas pattern (green line, holly berries), just the plates and small coffee mugs, and I grabbed them. I like the red-green pattern so well I just incorporated the Christmas set into my everyday dishes and use them both year round.
The people at Betty Crocker should send you a thank you note for endorsing their recipes. That first recipe looks very good!
Except they were Pillsbury recipes...😉
I love Pillsbury Kitchens cook book I have one. My mom would cook several things from that cook book. After she passed I got the cookbook and Started to cook a few meals and treats from it
*This was so much fun!!!* I'm going to put on my leg warmers and an apron with shoulder pads and try some of these 😂
Throwing this out there for the few who may not know. When pre-2000ish recipes call for canned tuna, pay attention to the ounces. The small tuna cans used to be about 7 to 7.5 ounces but today they are only 5 ounces so you'll need to use 3 cans if the recipe calls for 2 small cans. Also, don't waste the liquid down the drain but give it to the dog or cat and add a bit of water to weaken the sodium.
Yes, I have a couple of those booklets and one is just crescent rolls.
I always squeeze the tuna juice over kibble for dogs, they love it!
My cats get so excited when I open a tuna can! 🐈 ❤
Yes to microwave recipes
If you cut fresh ginger into small pieces, you can freeze them. Then when you are cooking you can pull out a piece and use a zester to add it to your recipe. Fresh ginger really amps up the flavor.
That's something I always keep on hand. Helped my ginger cookies immensely this year.
I don’t know why but the broccoli sleepover gave me such a strong mental image/memory of the 1989(?) Disney Christmas sing along songs animation with all the kids sleeping in the bed and Santa uses an umbrella to stretch (and close the hole in) one of the stockings so the gifts fit. 😆🎄
This could only be better if you had an 80's Corelle Christmas dinner plate and a Christmas glass from Arby's. I never had that little cookbooklet but it definitely looks like the kinds of recipes that were in magazines then. Refrigerated crescent rolls used to be much higher quality back then. This was a fun video and brought back a lot of good 80's memories, thank you.
They're too chemically tasting these days so haven't bought any in forever.
I have a set of the Arby glasses! My mom sent all her coworkers to Arby’s to collect those glasses for my hope chest. 😁
Now I want almond sticky buns! Those look amazing! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
They were seriously so delicious. I am thinking about making another batch this week!
I had to laugh when you held up the cookbook. I bought this new back in 1987. I made the broccoli ham sleepover rolls and everyone really liked it. I made some cookies from it in the past, but when you flashed a page in the back, I made those Chocolate-Dipped Dried Apricots. They were just OK but at the time, dried apricots were like hard tack. I still own the book. Great vid and it did bring back memories.
In Poland there's an old timey candy made with dried prunes soaked in alcohol, stuffed with a walnut and dipped in chocolate. I bet soaking the apricots in something fruity would make them softer and more flavorful. It doesn't necessarily have to be alcohol if you're making them.
@Miss_Kisa94 I have soaked apricots and other dried fruits in apple juice, orange juice, cranberry juice even ginger ale successfully fir my sober living family.
Personally, I love the booze soaked fruits. But I love my family more.
I also got this book circa '87/''88. I was home from college and cooking up a storm. I felt very fancy.
@@Miss_Kisa94 I think it was 🇬🇧📺Two Fat Ladies making devils on horseback who mentioned when using dried fruit you can soak them overnight in tea to help the flavor too.
I used to make the same things for my kids growing up in the early 70s. Making food look fancy was the only way for me to get them to eat veggies. No recipe just using my imagination. Simple and delicious. Who knew recipes existed.
Your kids were lucky. 😊
Those microwave cake and icing mixes came with little white disposable cake pans. I don't really remember much about the cakes themselves other than cooking them in the microwave and they tasted like cake, lol. But seeing that ad unlocked the memory of making those mixes and cooking them in those white plastic rectangular pans that came in the box, with the mix pouch and icing pouch tucked inside. I'd try to squeeze every last little bit of icing out, then I'd lick the last bit of icing off the packet before throwing it away.
I used to love those little cook books. They often had easy recipes that were great for working mom’s to have some quick holiday recipes. I especially liked the holiday ones.
All the ingredients for the broccoli and ham recipe would be great just chopped up and baked in a casserole. The whole menu sounds great. For any time of year.
Magazine sections in grocery stores, yes. I live in a smallish tourist town. Grocery store magazines take up half an aisle on one side.
Those little Pillsbury supplemental cookbooks from the '80s and '90s are really good My mom used to use them all the time.
I’m 42 as well. Thanks for breaking your rule! 🥳🥳🥳
1988. Fond memories of long distance "dating" my future hubby. No internet. Writing love letters. Paying full cost long distance phone charges😂 yep. Vintage? Yes!!
I remember when all the long distance company battles were a thing . MCI and all the rest. You'd better have a Good Reason to make a long distance call, too. My mother spoke extra loud when she talked to someone LD. Not sure if that was holdover behavior from old/bad phone lines.
Woww!!!!!
yummy 😋 & tempting recipe!
Looks delicious ....
LK dn 👍
Amazing presentation 👌👌👌
There was a cake mix for the oven that came with the pan and frosting. It was what spurred my love of baking and cooking. It was a dry cake, or at least it was for me. I was between 10 and 12 when I used them. By the time I was 12, I was using my grandmas old cookbooks to bake and cook with. I wasn't allowed to experiment much as my mom had certain food adversions and difficulty in chewing certain things.
I love these shows as they bring back many good memories. Thank you.
Ok, this was my FAVORITE episode so far! I grew up in the 80s and my mom was always trying the trendy recipes of the day and she totally would have made these! Fruit soups, chocolate soups were super cool then! This book was totally showing middle class housewives how to do 80s yuppie cooking. All the trendy suburban moms were making stuff like this in the 80s. I hope you eventually cover: stir frys, pasta salads and microwave recipes. Sounds really boring now, but those were new then and wok and microwave cooking were all the rage in the 1980s!!❤❤❤
So glad you enjoyed this one! ❤
Oh wow. The 80’s loved canned mandarins.
Raspberry is my favorite berry. I’ve never been able to relate to all the strawberry love out there 😜!
Yeah I love raspberries. Strawberries are ok but too tart for me.
DELIGHTFUL! I'm making these recipes for our Easter Brunch too ... what a great video. THANK YOU!
You can never go wrong with Pillsbury (or Betty Crocker). Lol
Keep in mind in the 80's we had browning trays to cook food on in the microwave to get a good color on it so the other menu might have been good back then (but I doubt it lol). Anything I ever cooked in the microwave was a huge flop. My first microwave my Mom got for me for college in 1985 and she thought we could make chicken in it. The chicken never got cooked no matter how long we microwaved it. Neither one of us knew that the wattage of the microwave had a lot to do with how food cooked. Mine never made anything but popcorn and half the time it was burnt because we didn't buy it in the bags - it was too expensive! I had an apparatus that was supposed to perfectly pop corn in it, which never happened. IMO the microwave is only good for making cake in mugs, popcorn & nachos, quick (extra crispy) bacon and to warm things up. I think the menu you chose looks really yummy, so yummy that I might make it this Christmas Day for brunch. I love watching your channel and the recipes you make. Loads of fun!! Merry Christmas!
Not all of your viewers would know about Meijer it's only in six states in the Midwest. I retired from one in Indianapolis earlier this year after working there over 27 years. I still shop there all the time.I love your videos. 😊
I'm in FL and have never seen a Maier. But I've heard of them thanks to a lot of YT channels
I missed Meijer SO MUCH while we were living in California!
@@cooking_the_books see? I didn't even know how to spell it. LOL. We just got ALDI about 2 years ago.
When you said broccoli in a sleeping bag I can jut picture an animated advertiement with dancing broccoli wrapping themselve up in ham and jumping into a pan to be covered in the egg mixture to be cooked. lol
As a fellow “vintage” person (I’m also 42 lol) wow those recipes brought back some memories! I do remember those microwavable cakes and I recall they kinda reminded me of the brownies in tv dinners
The bowl you mixed the fruit salad in had the exact colors of the salad!
I only noticed that after I started editing the video! 😂
Brought me back to my young wife and mom days in the 80's. Thank you I really enjoyed the video.
A microwave meal would be fun!
Omg! 42! I thought we were the same age lol I’m 10 years younger than you. 😂 I guess lots of fun cooking keeps a person young! 😊
The sticky buns look delicious. Being in Australia I have memories of hot Christmas weather. My Mum would serve her famous hors d'oeuvre of rolled up deli meats mostly ham with small cube cheese and a red or green cocktail pickle onion speared together with a toothpick. She makes a really delicious trifle even our doctor gets one at Christmas.
This was so great!!! It really brought back memories of my own youth.
I liked the ham wrapped broccoli as it was on it own, without the egg and served cold.
But i'll bet that if you put those ham wrapped broccoli into Twinkie baking tray, and put each one into each Twinkie form, and then poured egg over each one, that would look pretty cool.
1988, the year I was born. Yay! I'm a vintage human!
The cake mix in question that had the pan inside the box was called "Microrave". Made by Betty Crocker.
I love the 80s recipes! Nostalgic.
Now that’s a holiday brunch that I would enjoy. I think I might try making those ham roll ups they look the yummiest. 😋
Pillsbury also had little cookie booklets they put inside their 5 lb bags of flour at Christmas time. I have one taped on a recipe card in my Better Homes and Garden Cookbook. It is well worn. I really enjoyed this video. Thanks for sharing!
In 1988 I was 15, so I'm in between vintage and antique. Those almond sticky buns look super delicious! I'm going to make the broccoli and ham (should have put a ring on it) roll-ups and almond sticky buns for my next fancy-pants brunch.
I think the 80s in now vintage at 40 years out. The sticky bun and broccoli bake did look good
Don't think you'd find minced ginger in earlier cookbooks but by late 80s there was much more flavor enhancers accepted generally.
Talk about an unexpected trip down memory lane! I was a young newlywed around that time, and loved the little recipe booklets!
I cannot believe you're 42, you boomer!😆No worries, I'm 50. I know I look unreasonably young for my age but I really thought you were in your twenties. I was so jealous that you had such a beautiful kitchen at such a young age. Now I'm only holding onto a healthy bit of jealousy.
Mom and grandma used canned EVERYTHING, and the mentality lingers. I asked Mom to pick up some fresh figs on her way home from the store the other day; she brought home some dried figs from the produce section. We realized she'd never even seen a fresh fig. She always makes me open the refrigerated dough cans too. But she laughed at me when the home visit nurse startled me with a finger prick today and called me a rookie.
I was born in 1988 I feel special...im vintage now 😂😂
I thought you were going to say, "A little cornucopia of broccoli," but "A little broccoli in a sleeping bag" works, too. 😄
I love that you talk to yourself and read the recipe out loud and make up stories! I do the exact same thing!
I used to buy those books all of the time for various holidays when I was picking up the TV Guide! That entire menu really does look very appetizing and very doable!
Woot woot! Waited all week.
1988 is still vintage, 35 years.
I wonder how the raspberry soup would be heated. Either way, I think you've got a winner there. But I am in the pro-raspberry camp.
Yes, there were crescent rolls in 1988, and there were crescent sheets as well. There was also pizza in a tube that Pillsbury offered. Another quick yummy recipe!
You have a Giant Eagle? Kudos! I do have several Aldis, 2 Meijers, 2 Pick 'n Save (Kroger), and several Festival Foods (independent but use Albertson's house brands).
All in all, very festive and delicious!
Oh my goodness, my mom had those exact plates! I was 21 in 1988 and I don't mind at all that you call the recipes vintage.
I remember in the late ‘80s broccoli 🥦 & cheese 🧀 was popular. They served it at our prom dance.
My mom used to do a savory spin on those crescent roll buns with a ham and cheese mixture
I like the ham and broccoli roll up idea, although me personally I might just chop everything up and stick it into a muffin tin for mini quiches. The original has a very retro appeal though, which I think is cute. I recently went through some of my stepmom's cookbooks and found one from 1929, so this Christmas season might be a time for experimentation for me! Even if I probably won't make (or can't eat) many of the recipes you feature, it's always good inspiration =)
Also, even if the 80's isn't really "vintage", I still think it's neat when you do videos from that era. I'm a few years younger than you so it's nostalgic for me too. Those were the days!
Love your idea of mini quiche! Thank you! ❇❇❇
You know you grew up in the 80's when you went to Christmas dinner at your Aunt's house and she cooked the whole turkey in the microwave!
Microwaves were huge back then too. My Dad called ours the giant coffee heater.
WHAT! You are 42?! I thought you were around 28!😅 I loooove these Holidays recipes so much and I love that you’re growing so much on TH-cam. 🥰
I bought those little cookbooks so often that my mom finally got me a subscription! Must've been late 90s when I was newly married. I was so excited to read through every new issue when they came in the mail! The recipes were always very doable. I still have a shelf of these books that I haven't been able to part with - I'm going to pull a few out tomorrow and find something to make! Really fun episode, and core memories unlocked! 😊
Such fun recipes! I love the visual of the broccoli bundles. Thanks! ❤😊
I'm making this. Today. The sticky buns and the ham roll ups.
The microwave cake and frosting! Oh my gosh, we made that in my home ec class in high school in 2003 or 2004! It was so good and I still talk about it to this day, although, I haven't made it since and have lost the recipe. In the same class, we made a Thanksgiving turkey in the microwave which was less good. 😂
That is totally something I’d see my mom make for a “fancy” holiday brunch in the 80s! Well done! And totally shocked ur a GenXer. Totally thought you were like mid 20s!!!
I used to buy a lot of the pillsbury booklets at the checkout! This one was in my Mom's cookbook collection when she passed, I think my brother snagged it. We do a similar fruit salad for Christmas brunch that contains mandarin oranges, pink and white grapefruit and maraschino cherries, with a sprite wash. Will have to try the ginger ale, thought. Thanks for the trip down holiday memory lane : )
I was 13 years old in 1988
Just bought a collection of pillsbury cookbook from the 80s just like the one shown in the video at my local library. It has a huge collection in each binder. Thanks for sharing this video!!
Pillsbury is top notch. I would trust any of their cookbooks for super star recipes.
💝💝💝 Cooked in the 80's for my, at the time, 7 year old son! Cooked brunch from Betty Crocker. Love this menu. Going to make! Thank you. Have so many of those little books I passed on to my daughter. Wish I had kept them. Will just pick up some of the new ones. Yes, they are still put out by all kinds of companies!!! Thank you so much!!! ❇❇❇
I *loved* the microwave cake and frosting mixes! I ate so many of them in high school. They were always a little goopy on the bottom but they were great for a quick sweet fix! And they were tiny so I could eat the whole pan and didn't have to share, LOL.
In 1980's I was in my twenties and just getting into cooking. Had a cold cherry soup at a restaurant. Had to make it. It was a starter to a meal. Pretty much canned cherries, sour cream and almond extract as I recall. Talking to a friend about making it again since I recently discovered some lovely, canned Oregon cherries. Try the cherry soup. Remember in the 1980's brunches were a big deal also. Love your broccoli in sleeping bags!
It’d be kinda cool to do a comparison video of a vintage “checkout aisle” magazine vs. a modern one to see how recipe trends have changed over time.
I also can’t remember if modern grocery stores have books like this one still but I’m definitely keeping my eye out the next time I’m in line!
The grocery stores, where I live, Central Coast, CA do😃
They have Taste of Home and things like that. However…..they cost as much as as buying a book 🤦♀️
I just look on line now 😉☺️🕊
Oh my gosh Anna, i have to go to AT LEAST 2 grocery stores in a given week to get the items on my list and i grumble all the way wondering why i can't get everything in one place. I spend so much on gas. So i feel your pain 😂😢😂. I just love your videos, thank you for making the multiple trips for us 😊. Wow, adding on here, i remember the late 80s now so much more from your review of this book. I was graduating from college in 88 and i do remember the microwave (the size of a living room television) we had and the cake mixes we made in it. Wow, memories.
I loved those microwave cakes, yes, they had pans with them.
Yay!! I've been waiting for you all day. It is such a treat when you post!!
Yay! Thank you! ❤
I graduated HS in 1989. Love the 80’s.
let's see an all day microwave meal day. Breakfast, lunch and dinner :)
It may be June 2024 but I am totally making this for a light supper (in the toaster oven). The ham & broccoli roll-ups will be a huge hit with fruit salad (which is a regular menu item for us). I might make the rolls and raspberry starter, idk. Thanks for this menu. Have a blessed day 💖✝
I was 14 in 1988 and a freshman in high school. The sticky bind would be good with granny Smith apples instead of nuts.