Introducing a new static page of vintage recipes

On a dark and stormy night recently, as rain pelted the windows with vicious ferocity and the room was illuminated by the blinding flash of wild bolts of lightning, the idea came to me that it was high time that I rounded up all of the recipes that have every appeared here and plunked them down in one handy-dandy spot so that readers everywhere could quickly and easily scroll through the tasty dishes that have been featured here over the years and find just the thing for their next family meal, dinner party, or even holiday feast alike.

How the two events - a turbulent storm and the idea of making a static page (in the navigation bar at the top of the site) full of vintage recipes - came to be connected is really anyone's guess. I think though that it may have to with the fact that, for as long as I can recall (and part of me has always liked to think that this is because I born on a stormy night) whenever a tempest approaches, and then begins its frenzied dance across the graphite hued sky, I find myself filled with a sort of electric energy that always gives me a lot of mental clarity and makes me feel immensely recharged for a short spell. As such, it doesn't surprise me at all that this idea arrived amongst the claps of thunder on a sizzling hot, soaking wet evening.

As long time readers and new followers alike are likely to know, sharing my love of both food history and cooking has always been a key element here at Chronically Vintage. Recipe posts started popping up early on in this blog's life and have continued on a regular basis ever since. Whether I was dishing about some of the recipes that have been near and dear to me and my family for years (and in some cases, generations) or posting the instructions for a highly varied array of old school eats, there's been no shortage of culinary fun here.

I'm really thrilled actually that the this idea popped into my head, as it's one of those things that as soon as you think of it, it seems so incredibly obvious and which you know you need to implement asap. And so, my dears, that's exactly what I did. Starting that very night, I began culling through back posts and gathering up as many recipes as I could find (each recipe is listed as a link which takes you to the post where it originally appeared).

I tired diligently to track down each and every recipe that has ever appeared on this site, but should you ever happen to find one that isn't listed on the newly created vintage recipe page, please let me know and I'll add it on the double.




{Like myself, I know that many of your adore both cooking and vintage recipes, so I hope that you'll discover (or rediscover) some awesome meal ideas on this newly created page. Charming 1940s illustration of a happy homemaker via Captian Geoffrey Spaulding on Flickr.}


After mulling over how best to arrange the recipes, I decided to list them alphabetically within various categories (such as main dishes, vegetable dishes, cookies, desserts, etc), as I figured that this approach would best mirror how many cookbooks are arranged and would facilitate the easy finding of any type of dish you might be trying to locate a vintage recipe for.

As new recipes spring up here, they too will be added to the list shortly thereafter, so that whether you're hunting for something you remember seeing back in 2010 or a tasty treat from just last month, you can quickly scroll through the list and track it down.

Cooking and all things pertaining the culinary arts have been very near and dear to my heart, and I've adored sharing so many easy, classic recipes with you over the years. I hope that you'll enjoy this new vintage recipe page and look forward to sharing many, many more virtual meals with you in the future.