From very early on in Chronically Vintage's life, sharing recipes - both vintage ones and others that have been a much beloved part of my family's meals for years now - has been an integral element of this blog, and something - as a massive fan of food history and cooking alike - that I've really adored doing.
The number of recipes that have appeared over the years continues to grow all the time, and so I thought that it would be awesome if there was one handy-dandy sport where you could easily look back through all of the recipes that have ever appeared on this site.
Below, organized alphabetically within various categories, are many diverse, easy-to-make, delicious dishes that have been featured in various posts over the years. Please note that this list is updated shortly after each time a new recipe is added to the site, so be sure to check back often for oodles of yesteryear culinary inspiration.
Happy cooking and bon appetit!
Appetizers and Snacks
Broiled Green Onion and Cheddar Cheese Puffs
Deviled Eggs
Lily Tea Sandwiches
My favourite Vintage Inspired Cheese Ball
Breads & Muffins
Grape-Nuts Bread
Pan Cooked Irish Soda Bread
Orange Raisin Muffins
Breakfast & Brunch
Creamed Chicken and Corn Meal Waffles
Hominy and Chili Scramble
Maple Syrup and Bacon French Toast Sandwich
Rosemary, Baby Potato and Fried Egg Skillet
Souper Mushroom Scramble
Cookies
Baby Ruth Cookies
Banana Drop Cookies
Brown Sugar Chews
Butter Riches
Cherry Nut Shortbread Cookies
Cherry Snowball Cookies
Chocolate Sugar Crisp Cookies
Crunch Drops
Gingersnaps
Marigoons
Pomanders
Spiced Apple Cinnamon Butterscotch Chip Cookies
Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies
Walnut Spice Kisses
Desserts
Apple Crisp
Apricot Baskets
Apple Dumplings
Autumn Spice Cake
Burnt Sugar Cake
Caramel Apples
Checkerboard Cake
Cherry Top-Notch Pie
Choco-Walnut Potato Cake
Chocolate Almond Cream Roll
Chocolate Bread Pudding
Chocolate Brownie Pie
Chocolate Chip Cake
Chocolate Coconut Marble Bars
Chocolate Fudge Pie
Chocolate Marshmallow Pie
Chocolate Meringue Pie
Chocolate Pear Cream Pie
Chocolate Peppermint Parfaits
Citrus Pear Pie
Coco Chiffon Cake
Coconut Golden Brownies
Coconut Patties
Coconut Pumpkin Chiffon Pie
Cranberry-Apple Pie
Crisco's Cherry Pie
Double Chocolate Marble Cake
Fifty Awesome Strawberry Recipes (many are desserts, others are savory dishes, drinks, etc)
Fluffy Marshmallow Frosting
French Creams
Fruit Basket Pie (Cherry + Pineapple Pie)
Fruit Salad Pie
Gingerbread Peach Cake
Golden Harvest Pumpkin Pie
Honey Chocolate Cake
Honey Pound Cake
Individual Strawberry Shortcakes
Lemon Chiffon Pie
Lemon Gold Cake
Magic Chocolate Pie
Magic Truffles (Fudge)
Maple Syrup and Apple Bread Pudding topped with Sugared Apples
Marshmallow Cream Fudge
Midwinter Marble Cake
Nut Roll
One Bowl Chocolate Cake with Chiffon Frosting
Orange Cake
Party Cheesecake
Party Oranges
Peaches 'n' Cream Cake
Pineapple Marguerite (Marshmallow) Dessert
Pink Coconut Snowball Cupcakes
Pumpkin Cake
Queen of Bread Puddings
Rainbow Cake (great for Easter)
Raisin Pie
Raisin Queen Pudding
Rich Cinnamon Buns
Rosy Apple (Cinnamon) Pie
Scalloped Bananas
Spice Berry Cake
Springtime Fancy Cake
Spring Rhapsody Cake
Springtime Berries 'N' Cream Roll-Ups
Square Dancing Cake
Strawberry Long Cake
Super Easy Two-Ingredient 1950s Chocolate Peanut Bark (plus 25 great alternative versions)
Topsy-Turvy Cranberry Upside-Down Cake
Tropical Philly Cheesecake
Drinks
Five Vintage Cocktail Recipes (to help you ring in the New Year!)
Hot Mulled Cider
Raspberry Mint Crush
Seven Delightful 1950s Party Punches
Frozen Desserts
Banana Sundae Sauce
Candy Stick Ice Cream
Chocolate Ice Cream
Chocolate velvet (sundae) sauce
Frozen Custard
Frozen Fruit Salad
Jiffy Caramel Sauce (to top ice cream - or anything else - with)
Kool-Aid Ice Cream
Lemon Blossom Cake
Lemon Freeze
Magic Florida Lime Icebox Cake
Maple Nut Ice Cream
Minted Pineapple Sauce (to top ice cream with)
Peppermint Brownie Baked Alaska
Skyscraper Sundae
Snow Sauce (to top ice cream)
The Ice-Creamiest Ice Cream
Vanilla Ice Cream
Holidays
Assorted mid-century Easter recipes
Assorted 1950s Halloween recipes
Be My Valentine Cake
Catch-A-Valentine Cake
Christmas Tree Cookies
Christmastime Chocolate Mint Brownies
Coconut Candy Cane Cake
Coconut Snowman Cake
Delightfully Decorated 1950s Christmas Cake
Delrich Variety Cookies
Devil's Food Whirligig Cake
Easter Egg Cake
Easter Glory Cake
Easter Nests
Easter Sunday Pie
Enchanted Chocolate Cake
Gingerbread Cookies
Halloween Cat Faces (Nut Bars)
Halloween Mincemeat Cakes
Halloween Salad
Halloween Sandwiches
Holidates
Jack O' Lantern Yum-Yums
Lucky Clover Cake (for St. Patrick's Day)
Merry Christmas Cookies
Snowballs
Starlight Mint Surprise Cookies
Swedish Crisps (Cookies)
Jams and Sweet Sauces
Eunice's English Lemon Curd
Ten-Minute Cranberry Sauce
Main Dishes & Savoury Sauces
Baked Meatloaf Dumplings
Busy Day Baked Beans
Chicken Noodle Casserole
Chili con Carne
Chili or Stew Casserole
Crème Fraiche, Sweet Corn & Tuna Penne
Crown o' Gold Meatloaf
Cornpatch Meatballs
Dinner-In-A-Roll
Garden Patty-Go-Around
Grandma Jean’s Classic Hamburger Picnic Pie
Harvest Chicken
Hearty Sausage Macaroni Casserole
Highland (Beef) Pot Roast
Lemon Butter Sauce
Macaroni Parmigiana
My Mom's Classic Turkey Pot Pie
Penny-Wise Chicken Pot Pie
Sauce Parisienne
Schill Family Spaghetti Sauce
7-Layer Casserole
Spaghetti Stuffed Peppers
Spicy Barbeque Sauce
Super easy 1940s salmon cakes
Swedish Meatballs
Tomato Rarebit
Tuna Fish Mold
Turkey Roulettes
Vegetable Meatloaf
Welsh Rarebit
Salads
Calico Slaw (gelatin salad)
Corn Beef and Slaw Salad
Fresh Mint and Fennel Salad with Shaved Parmesan
Grape Cluster Salad
Peach Blossom Salad
Pineapple Salad Bowls
Quinoa, Bell Pepper and Green Onion Salad
Rainbow Toss Pasta Salad
Real Potato Salad
(1940s) Savory Watermelon Salad
Tossed Potato Salad
Side Dishes
Chef's Potato Salad
Chuck Wagon Beans
Crowd Pleasing Creamy Coleslaw
Feta Cheese and Mixed Spring Veggie Pilaf
Gluten-free Turkey Stuffing
Mushroom Rice Pilaf
My Mom’s Traditional Turkey Stuffing
Onion Rings
Oyster Corn Bread Dressing (Stuffing)
Parsnip, Potato and Caramelized Onion Mash
Ripe Olive Potato Salad
Scalloped Tomatoes
Spanish Beans
Stuffed Eggplant
Time Saver Corn Meal Dressing (Stuffing)
Zesty Baked Beans
Soups & Stews
Asian Chicken Noodle and Vegetable Soup
Chicken Stew with Dumplings
Chinese Style Noodle Soup
Creamy Gala Apple, Butternut Squash and Carrot Soup
Milky Way Soup
Quick Tomato Vegetable Soup
Tomato Fish Chowder
The number of recipes that have appeared over the years continues to grow all the time, and so I thought that it would be awesome if there was one handy-dandy sport where you could easily look back through all of the recipes that have ever appeared on this site.
Below, organized alphabetically within various categories, are many diverse, easy-to-make, delicious dishes that have been featured in various posts over the years. Please note that this list is updated shortly after each time a new recipe is added to the site, so be sure to check back often for oodles of yesteryear culinary inspiration.
Happy cooking and bon appetit!
Appetizers and Snacks
Broiled Green Onion and Cheddar Cheese Puffs
Deviled Eggs
Lily Tea Sandwiches
My favourite Vintage Inspired Cheese Ball
Breads & Muffins
Grape-Nuts Bread
Pan Cooked Irish Soda Bread
Orange Raisin Muffins
Breakfast & Brunch
Creamed Chicken and Corn Meal Waffles
Hominy and Chili Scramble
Maple Syrup and Bacon French Toast Sandwich
Rosemary, Baby Potato and Fried Egg Skillet
Souper Mushroom Scramble
Cookies
Baby Ruth Cookies
Banana Drop Cookies
Brown Sugar Chews
Butter Riches
Cherry Nut Shortbread Cookies
Cherry Snowball Cookies
Chocolate Sugar Crisp Cookies
Crunch Drops
Gingersnaps
Marigoons
Pomanders
Spiced Apple Cinnamon Butterscotch Chip Cookies
Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies
Walnut Spice Kisses
Desserts
Apple Crisp
Apricot Baskets
Apple Dumplings
Autumn Spice Cake
Burnt Sugar Cake
Caramel Apples
Checkerboard Cake
Cherry Top-Notch Pie
Choco-Walnut Potato Cake
Chocolate Almond Cream Roll
Chocolate Bread Pudding
Chocolate Brownie Pie
Chocolate Chip Cake
Chocolate Coconut Marble Bars
Chocolate Fudge Pie
Chocolate Marshmallow Pie
Chocolate Meringue Pie
Chocolate Pear Cream Pie
Chocolate Peppermint Parfaits
Citrus Pear Pie
Coco Chiffon Cake
Coconut Golden Brownies
Coconut Patties
Coconut Pumpkin Chiffon Pie
Cranberry-Apple Pie
Crisco's Cherry Pie
Double Chocolate Marble Cake
Fifty Awesome Strawberry Recipes (many are desserts, others are savory dishes, drinks, etc)
Fluffy Marshmallow Frosting
French Creams
Fruit Basket Pie (Cherry + Pineapple Pie)
Fruit Salad Pie
Gingerbread Peach Cake
Golden Harvest Pumpkin Pie
Honey Chocolate Cake
Honey Pound Cake
Individual Strawberry Shortcakes
Lemon Chiffon Pie
Lemon Gold Cake
Magic Chocolate Pie
Magic Truffles (Fudge)
Maple Syrup and Apple Bread Pudding topped with Sugared Apples
Marshmallow Cream Fudge
Midwinter Marble Cake
Nut Roll
One Bowl Chocolate Cake with Chiffon Frosting
Orange Cake
Party Cheesecake
Party Oranges
Peaches 'n' Cream Cake
Pineapple Marguerite (Marshmallow) Dessert
Pink Coconut Snowball Cupcakes
Pumpkin Cake
Queen of Bread Puddings
Rainbow Cake (great for Easter)
Raisin Pie
Raisin Queen Pudding
Rich Cinnamon Buns
Rosy Apple (Cinnamon) Pie
Scalloped Bananas
Spice Berry Cake
Springtime Fancy Cake
Spring Rhapsody Cake
Springtime Berries 'N' Cream Roll-Ups
Square Dancing Cake
Strawberry Long Cake
Super Easy Two-Ingredient 1950s Chocolate Peanut Bark (plus 25 great alternative versions)
Topsy-Turvy Cranberry Upside-Down Cake
Tropical Philly Cheesecake
Drinks
Five Vintage Cocktail Recipes (to help you ring in the New Year!)
Hot Mulled Cider
Raspberry Mint Crush
Seven Delightful 1950s Party Punches
Frozen Desserts
Banana Sundae Sauce
Candy Stick Ice Cream
Chocolate Ice Cream
Chocolate velvet (sundae) sauce
Frozen Custard
Frozen Fruit Salad
Jiffy Caramel Sauce (to top ice cream - or anything else - with)
Kool-Aid Ice Cream
Lemon Blossom Cake
Lemon Freeze
Magic Florida Lime Icebox Cake
Maple Nut Ice Cream
Minted Pineapple Sauce (to top ice cream with)
Peppermint Brownie Baked Alaska
Skyscraper Sundae
Snow Sauce (to top ice cream)
The Ice-Creamiest Ice Cream
Vanilla Ice Cream
Holidays
Assorted mid-century Easter recipes
Assorted 1950s Halloween recipes
Be My Valentine Cake
Catch-A-Valentine Cake
Christmas Tree Cookies
Christmastime Chocolate Mint Brownies
Coconut Candy Cane Cake
Coconut Snowman Cake
Delightfully Decorated 1950s Christmas Cake
Delrich Variety Cookies
Devil's Food Whirligig Cake
Easter Egg Cake
Easter Glory Cake
Easter Nests
Easter Sunday Pie
Enchanted Chocolate Cake
Gingerbread Cookies
Halloween Cat Faces (Nut Bars)
Halloween Mincemeat Cakes
Halloween Salad
Halloween Sandwiches
Holidates
Jack O' Lantern Yum-Yums
Lucky Clover Cake (for St. Patrick's Day)
Merry Christmas Cookies
Snowballs
Starlight Mint Surprise Cookies
Swedish Crisps (Cookies)
Jams and Sweet Sauces
Eunice's English Lemon Curd
Ten-Minute Cranberry Sauce
Main Dishes & Savoury Sauces
Baked Meatloaf Dumplings
Busy Day Baked Beans
Chicken Noodle Casserole
Chili con Carne
Chili or Stew Casserole
Crème Fraiche, Sweet Corn & Tuna Penne
Crown o' Gold Meatloaf
Cornpatch Meatballs
Dinner-In-A-Roll
Garden Patty-Go-Around
Grandma Jean’s Classic Hamburger Picnic Pie
Harvest Chicken
Hearty Sausage Macaroni Casserole
Highland (Beef) Pot Roast
Lemon Butter Sauce
Macaroni Parmigiana
My Mom's Classic Turkey Pot Pie
Penny-Wise Chicken Pot Pie
Sauce Parisienne
Schill Family Spaghetti Sauce
7-Layer Casserole
Spaghetti Stuffed Peppers
Spicy Barbeque Sauce
Super easy 1940s salmon cakes
Swedish Meatballs
Tomato Rarebit
Tuna Fish Mold
Turkey Roulettes
Vegetable Meatloaf
Welsh Rarebit
Salads
Calico Slaw (gelatin salad)
Corn Beef and Slaw Salad
Fresh Mint and Fennel Salad with Shaved Parmesan
Grape Cluster Salad
Peach Blossom Salad
Pineapple Salad Bowls
Quinoa, Bell Pepper and Green Onion Salad
Rainbow Toss Pasta Salad
Real Potato Salad
(1940s) Savory Watermelon Salad
Tossed Potato Salad
Side Dishes
Chef's Potato Salad
Chuck Wagon Beans
Crowd Pleasing Creamy Coleslaw
Feta Cheese and Mixed Spring Veggie Pilaf
Gluten-free Turkey Stuffing
Mushroom Rice Pilaf
My Mom’s Traditional Turkey Stuffing
Onion Rings
Oyster Corn Bread Dressing (Stuffing)
Parsnip, Potato and Caramelized Onion Mash
Ripe Olive Potato Salad
Scalloped Tomatoes
Spanish Beans
Stuffed Eggplant
Time Saver Corn Meal Dressing (Stuffing)
Zesty Baked Beans
Soups & Stews
Asian Chicken Noodle and Vegetable Soup
Chicken Stew with Dumplings
Chinese Style Noodle Soup
Creamy Gala Apple, Butternut Squash and Carrot Soup
Milky Way Soup
Quick Tomato Vegetable Soup
Tomato Fish Chowder
{Wonderfully lovely 1940s illustration of a woman cooking a meal in her kitchen as the winter snow piles up outside. Image via Captain Geoffrey Spaulding on Flickr.}
