Jane's Recipes - 69 Bake Off

Another example of the bake-off style marketing recipe book.  Short of pushing "TV" dinners, pushing pre-made pie shells, cookie dough and refrigerate biscuit and crescent rolls. The whole convenience factor was aimed at (newly) working wives.

Jane's Recipes - 1964 Bake Off

One of the features of family focused magazines was the inclusion of "Bake Off" winning recipes. Eventually, these morphed into some very strange concoctions that used jello molds and odd combinations. these all appear to be relatively tame. These came as a perforated booklet designed to be torn out and saved. 

 

 

 

 

Jane's Recipes - Cast Iron

As you can imagine I really enjoy open fire cooking and cast iron.  I was surprised to find this in the box. I don't remember seeing any of these molds in Jane's kitchen. I'm not sure where she got this pamphlet.  It may be useful if you have one of these John Wright cookie molds.

 

 

Jame's Recipes - Fudge

When you start looking at these old recipes you start to find some that "everyone" makes.  These are good examples.  The Foolproof Chocolate Fudge recipe is on an old Broden Sweetened Condensed Milk label.  This is the one that my mom used when she didn't want to go through the long, involved "make a ball" process from Aunt Sug's fudge recipe.  I have that one someplace and will post it sometime.

Jane's Recipes

While cleaning out some stuff I found my mother-in-law's recipe box.  I've scanned in those that she actually used. I've always been fascinated by vintage recipes.  I used to follow a "rescued recipes" blog so I figured I'd post these, scanned in, "as-is." I may post pictures and comments if I feel like trying them out. Jane was a lunch lady and then a teacher's aide. She usually cooked from memory so most of these are for desserts or baked goods.  I just don't need to add that much to my mid section.