Betty Crocker's Wonderland Cookies

Calumet Meat Pie

Sunset Salad / Tart Tomato Salad

From Quick Easy Jell-o Wonder Dished, 1930  

Baking Powder Biscuits

Coconut Cream Pie

Irresistible Peanut Butter Cookies

Angel Food Cake

Angel Food Cake

Source:  The Modern Family Cook Book By Meta Given, Copyright 1943

Cocoa Sandwiches

This sounds like a Reese's peanut butter sandwich to me.  Sounds pretty good.  You can probably tweak it to make it a little more healthy as well.

Prize Butter Tarts

Prize Butter Tarts

12 tart shells, store bought or home made
1 egg beaten
1/3 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
2 tablespoons milk
1/2 cup raisins, currants or chopped pecans
1 teaspoon Watkins Baking Vanilla


Preheat oven to 450 degrees F
Prepare tart shells.    Mix all ingredients together; fill tart shells 2/3 cup full.  Bake in a hot oven (450 degrees F) for 8 minutes; reduce temperature to 350 degrees F. and bake 15 - 20 minutes longer or until pastry is delicately brown/

Yield: 12 tarts

The original Toll House Cookie recipe (from 1939)

The original Toll House Cookie recipe (from 1939)

Ingredients

1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup butter or other shortening
1 egg
1-1/2 cups sifted flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons hot water
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 economy-size bar semisweet chocolate (7 ounces)
1/2 cup chopped walnuts

Directions

Important: Cut each small square of semisweet chocolate into four pieces.

Cream butter or other shortening and add sugars and beaten egg. Dissolve soda in the hot water and mix alternately with the flour sifted with the salt. Lastly, add the chopped nuts and the pieces of semisweet chocolate. Flavor with the vanilla and drop by half teaspoons on a greased cookie sheet. Bake 10 to 12 minutes in a 375 degree Fahrenheit oven. Makes 50 cookies.

Hermits

Old Fashioned Carrot Cake

Old Fashioned Carrot Cake

2 cups sugar

1-1/2 cups cooking oil

4 large eggs, room temperature

2 teaspoons Watkins Vanilla Extract

2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon Watkins Cinnamon

3 cups shredded carrots (about 6 medium)

1 cup chopped walnuts

Frosting

1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened

1/4 cup butter, softened

1 tsp. Watkins Vanilla Extract

3 cups confectioners' sugar

Preheat oven to 350°. Grease and flour a 10-in. fluted tube pan.

Beat first four ingredients until well blended. Whisk together flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon; gradually beat into sugar mixture. Stir in carrots and walnuts.

Transfer to prepared pan. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 50-60 minutes. Cool in pan 10 minutes before removing to a wire rack; cool completely.

For frosting, beat cream cheese, butter and vanilla until smooth. Gradually beat in confectioners' sugar. Spread over cake.

Waldorf Salad

Ice Cream Pie

Ice Cream Pie 

Step 1.  Ice Cream

Blend together lightly in a bowl 1 pint of vanilla ice cream and 1 cup milk.

Step 2.  Jello-O

Add a package of Chocolate Instant Pudding Mix.  Beat until just mixed.

Step 3.  A baked pie shell.

Pour into a inch baked pie shell.  Let stand in the refrigerator about one hour.

Jello Instant pudding is the magic that makes this pie smooth and cut-able.  Keeps up to 24 hours in the refrigerator.  And how those Jello instant flavours blend with ice cream!

Try these pairings for a beginning.   You will discover other dream pie combinations yourself. 

Plain Muffins

Plain Muffins  

I am not to sure what is up with the heading. Plain muffins and other bland foods. I have made this recipe before. You can either add fruit, cinnamon or simple add cheese.