Way Back When - Cooking and Food Advertising Imagery of those Golden Days of Past Times. Nostalgic historical ads, recipes our great-grandmothers might have cooked, party ideas from a century ago!
The Way to Bake Beans. (Newspaper Recipe circa 1912)
To make baked beans soak one and one-half pints small white beans overnight in soft water. In the morning drain and parboil, but not enough to crush the beans. Place in the bottom of a bean pot several slices of bacon (salt or fresh pork), then put in about half the beans, over which sprinkle salt, a heaping spoonful of brown sugar or New Orleans molasses, then more slices of the bacon. Over this place the rest of the beans with the salt, sugar or molasses and bacon on top. Cover with soft water and bake at least eight hours, though they are better if baked all day. Add soft water as needed.
Retro Newspaper Advertisement for Campbell's Soup from June, 1912 - a remedy for "HouseMaid's Grouch", they have 21 savory and satisfying kinds (even Mock Turtle) at 10 cents a can!
Edwards Mince Meat Vintage Ad circa December, 1913 - "For real goodness it has no rival"!
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How to Have a Cake Party. (Party Idea described in vintage newspaper, November 1913)
"On each card of invitation was the simple request 'Please represent some kind of cake.' As the guests entered the parlor each was given a tally card to which a pencil was attached, on which to write her guesses as to what kind of cakes her neighbors represented, and a lively hour or more was spent in the guessing.
This is the way the various cakes were represented: A cup suspended from the belt, cup cake; wings fastened to back, angel cake; wearing yellow cotton gown, yellow cake; wearing a very short dress skirt, short cake; wearing much silver jewelry, silver cake; wearing much gold jewelry, gold cake; names of politicians pinned on dress, election cake; small vials of cinnamon, clove and nutmeg suspended on ribbons from brooch, spice cake; wearing many ribbons, ribbon cake; wearing mitts, hermits; placard with letters M O and pictures of little girls, molasses cake; toy hen in nest worn as hair ornament, layer cake; yeast cakes strung and worn as a necklace, raisin cake; placard with 'staf, clef and do', then a necklace of nuts meant that wearer represented doughnuts."
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Velva Syrup Retro Advertisement circa 1913 - Advising the housewives of 1913 to "Serve Velva on YOUR Table : you can't know how really good Velva Syrup is, unless you serve it to your family - not at any one meal - but at all three!"
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IDEA FOR A CHILDREN'S PARTY. (Party Idea described in vintage newspaper, December 1912)
- "Little Bopeep asks her Little Friends to Try to Find Her Sheep." From Woman's Home Companion
- Little Bopeep has lost her sheep,
- and cannot tell where to find them;
- Saturday afternoon at the hour of 3
- She wants you to try and find them.
The above verse is neatly written on Mother Goose invitation cards and delivered to each playmate. Purchase a number of inexpensive, small, white, woolly sheep, and hide these about the room in places that will be difficult for the small folks to discover.
When all have arrived let Little Bopeep tell them once more that the sheep are lost, that she wants them all to try to find them, and that they have strayed no farther than that room. Each child is then given a crook (a paper covered cane) and the hunt is begun. As soon as a child finds a sheep she is instructed to sit down, and so on until all have found sheep.
The sheep are then collected and put away, to be returned to the children before they go home.
From a Mother Goose book cut out a number of the characters best known to the children and mount them upon squares of cardboard of a uniform size. Following the hunt for the sheep bring forth these cards, hold one up before the little folks, and ask who recognizes the person. For example, the picture may be that of Little Boy Blue. In a moment or two some child will remember the picture and instantly recognize it as that of Little Boy Blue. Then ask the child to recite the rhyme connected with Little Boy Blue. The young folks will become interested and will be amused with this until the whole collection has been gone through.
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