1950s PARTY SNACKS 🎉 Easy Appetizer Recipes!

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    If you're in search of easy appetizer recipes, you've come to the right place! These 1950s party snacks can be prepared quickly and are sure to please.
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    CORN CHIP CHEESE DIP (pg 25)
    2 - 3oz packages of cream cheese
    3Tbsp light cream
    1 Tbsp mayonnaise
    1/2tsp paprika
    1/4tsp salt
    3 cloves garlic, finely cut (optional)
    1tsp Worcestershire
    2tsp lemon juice
    1tsp prepared mustard
    corn chips
    Do ahead, if desired: Mix cheese with cream until smooth; add rest of ingredients except corn chips; refrigerate.
    To serve: Arrange cheese dip in bowl, with corn chips around it. Let guests dip their own.
    PIZZA ROLL UPS (pg 50)
    1c grated cheddar cheese
    1/3c canned tomato sauce
    1/2c chopped ripe olives
    1/8tsp dried oregano or chili powder
    14 fresh thin bread slices (must be soft and easy to roll
    3Tbsp melted butter or margarine
    Do ahead: Combine cheese, tomato sauce, ripe olives, and oregano.
    Trim crusts from bread, then spread slices with cheese mixture, roll up each slice like a miniature jelly roll, and fasten with pick (if needed), Cut in halves if desired.
    Brush roll-ups with melted butter, then lay on baking sheet; refrigerate.
    About 30 minute before serving, start heating oven to 400. Bake roll ups about 15 minute or until brown. Serve at once.
    PEACH KABOBS (pg 53)
    24 cubes cooked ham
    24 canned cling peach chunks
    2Tbsp soy sauce
    1Tbsp brown sugar
    1Tbsp vinegar
    Several hours ahead: On each pick, string a cube of ham and a peach chunk. Refrigerate until needed.
    To serve: Arrange kabobs on broiler; brush with mixture of soy sauce, brown sugar, and vinegar. Broil, turning, until hot and golden. Serve hot.
    Luncheon meat may be substituted for cooked ham, and pineapple chunks for peaches, if desired.
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    TIMESTAMPS
    0:00 Intro
    0:37 Corn Chip Cheese Dip
    2:51 Thanks to Lume for sponsoring this video!
    4:42 Pizza Roll-Ups
    8:40 Peach Kabobs
    10:32 Taste Test Time!
    13:44 Cookbook Chat - Good Housekeeping's Appetizer Book (1958)
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  • @cooking_the_books
    @cooking_the_books  Před měsícem +5

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  • @Diogenes1360
    @Diogenes1360 Před měsícem +65

    Being in my 60's, I really enjoy watching these videos, they bring-back many fond memories from my youth.

  • @mirandamom1346
    @mirandamom1346 Před měsícem +51

    In the late 1970s, some friends and I had a potluck party comprised solely of appetizers and desserts. One of my favorite memories.

    • @beverlycrowell_
      @beverlycrowell_ Před měsícem +12

      My mother-in-law did this every Christmas Eve as the evening meal. Afterward, the children got to open the gifts from grandma and grandpa.
      We played old Christmas albums, especially Bing Crosby.

    • @queenbunnyfoofoo6112
      @queenbunnyfoofoo6112 Před měsícem +1

      @@beverlycrowell_ What a beautiful memory! Thank you for sharing that with us!

    • @angelinaduganNy
      @angelinaduganNy Před měsícem +1

      @@beverlycrowell_That sounds like the most ideal Christmas Eve….

    • @LilyGarden528
      @LilyGarden528 Před měsícem +2

      ​@beverlycrowell_ we did the same! Pigs in a blanket, olives, meat and cheese tray and crackers, cookies, little donuts. All the goodies. As kids we loved it, it was all the snackies we were limited on for the rest of the year. 🎉

    • @lisaspikes4291
      @lisaspikes4291 Před 27 dny

      My brother and his wife got married in the afternoon, and for their reception, they had just appetizers and little desserts. It was great!

  • @kaytiej8311
    @kaytiej8311 Před měsícem +12

    At 62, I finally have my lifetime summed up in one phrase - if in doubt wrap it in bacon!

  • @inkaliciousable
    @inkaliciousable Před 29 dny +7

    Just a quick reminder- don't broil in a Pyrex/glass dishes. My worst cooking mishap was a VERY expensive lasagna, EVERYTHING made from scratch. The mozzarella wasn't quite as golden as I wanted, so I turned the broiler on for a minute...and then I heard a loud noise. My lasagna exploded. Shards of glass and lasagna everywhere. I cried. And cried. Disaster dinner party.
    Thanks for being my pretend friend, Anna! ❤

  • @Leguminator
    @Leguminator Před měsícem +38

    Party finger foods & apps are totally the best food group.

  • @The3GMom
    @The3GMom Před měsícem +35

    Your videos make me happy

  • @melodysfiresidefarm
    @melodysfiresidefarm Před měsícem +33

    My Aunt was a big cocktail party gal with the spread of finger foods! She collected the whole set of the little books and they’re in a green binder which I inherited along with all her amazing cookbooks. Her and my mom were the only ones I knew who made candy for every get togethers also. We had such great food back in the day!😊

  • @julie9589
    @julie9589 Před měsícem +14

    I was born in 1958, was a history major, I love snacks and appetizers and these foods remind me of the holidays and parties when I was a kid. THANK YOU for the video. ❤❤❤

  • @sebeckley
    @sebeckley Před měsícem +41

    If you don't have it, you need James Beard's (yes, that James Beard) "Hors D'Oeuvre and Canapes." Published first in the 40s, he revised it in '62. It was republished with an intro by Julia Child in 1999 without changes and is still in print in its 1962 state.

  • @susans9491
    @susans9491 Před měsícem +13

    We call party food ‘nibbly things’ a phrase I borrowed long ago from an old BBC comedy series called Absolutely Fabulous, or AbFab. We make nibbly things for dinner sometimes. A very simple favorite is Ritz or Townhouse crackers , cream cheese and a drizzle of pineapple habañero salsa (from Costco). Try it, you’ll be hooked!❤

  • @laurawilliams7122
    @laurawilliams7122 Před měsícem +17

    I agree with you. I loooove party foods! If you ask me, they should have their own place in the food pyramid. 😋

  • @mmoretti
    @mmoretti Před měsícem +21

    The original, old fashioned Pepperidge Farm very thin loaves of bread in the white wrapper would be ideal. My mother used to buy it to make cucumber sandwiches and my sister and I would spread the bread with jelly, roll them up and slice them and they came out perfectly

    • @TaviaShadowstar11
      @TaviaShadowstar11 Před měsícem +2

      I was thinking of that bread too.

    • @susanrobinson408
      @susanrobinson408 Před měsícem +1

      I wonder if that bread is still available? My mom was an appetizer gal and she used that and the tiny party rye so often.

    • @rw8873
      @rw8873 Před měsícem

      @@susanrobinson408 My local regional grocery store (Redner's) and my local Wal-Mart carry it!

    • @mmoretti
      @mmoretti Před měsícem

      Yes it is, at least I see it in Massachusetts grocery stores.

  • @kathyradford7187
    @kathyradford7187 Před měsícem +16

    I love this channel.

  • @angelinaduganNy
    @angelinaduganNy Před měsícem +6

    My grandmother used to use that book for snacks for Christmas Eve. That was back in the 80’s and 90’s. She since passed away at the age of 96.

  • @EmmaRedvers81
    @EmmaRedvers81 Před 26 dny +2

    That House Plants book looked really interesting. 😊. Loved this one those party books look so fun.

  • @Notable2Nikki
    @Notable2Nikki Před 25 dny +1

    I loved how in Mad Men, Betty Draper made celery with cream cheese on a big platter. It's a fancy nibbler from the 50s for sure!

  • @cantstopsinging
    @cantstopsinging Před měsícem +7

    I can make a meal from appetizers- thanks for the upload

    • @redrooster1908
      @redrooster1908 Před měsícem +1

      We gals did this in the late 80s: 2 apps each, 3 gals, 6 goodies to share. Cheers!! 🍾 🥂

  • @queenbunnyfoofoo6112
    @queenbunnyfoofoo6112 Před měsícem +10

    I like the idea of cutting the pizza rolls in half. Just stick a fluffy toothpick in the half and you fancied it up even more 😂. Plus by making it smaller you have room on your plate for a variety of snacks. You can always go back for seconds.

  • @Rhaenspots
    @Rhaenspots Před měsícem +11

    When you mentioned your favorite food I was thinking, celery :D

  • @smtpgirl
    @smtpgirl Před měsícem +15

    pigs in a blanket made with phyllo dough. Hmm, I see that pigs in a blanket was mentioned in Betty Crocker's Cooking for Kids in 1957.

  • @redrooster1908
    @redrooster1908 Před měsícem +9

    Tooth pick appetizers had holders in the 50s and 60s. My Mom had a half basketball sized piggy made of wood with dozens of.pick sized holes to hold the goodies on toothpicks. Lil' smokies weenies and pineapples on picks were a favorite.

  • @mdeethebee9588
    @mdeethebee9588 Před měsícem +3

    Reminds me of Chers character in Mermaids... she only cooks hors d'ourves ^_^

  • @ndines6237
    @ndines6237 Před měsícem +2

    I have a great recipe, I ate these at a party in the 80’s. I don’t know where the recipe came from, maybe you you’ll be saying that this is common and everyone knows this, but it was new to me and I’ve never seen it since!
    Take slices of Italian bread, normal size. Mix: a dollop of mayonnaise and shredded mozerella cheese. Don’t know amounts. You want it the consistency of say how you would mix tuna and mayo. It will be paste-y. Toast bread lightly. Then spread bread generously with the cheese/mayo mixture. Sprinkle half the slices with paprika, sprinkle some with garlic powder (or maybe garlic powder, can’t remember). Or both seasonings on the bread. Then put the bread slices under the broiler till hot and bubbly but not necessarily browned. Just oozy cheesy goodness. DELICIOUS!
    Basically mayo and shredded mozerella is great combo! (Cheese toasties?)

  • @SauerPatchGardening
    @SauerPatchGardening Před měsícem +5

    I bought a tiny juicer like you have. Its adorable

  • @orsie200
    @orsie200 Před měsícem +1

    Bacon-wrapped water chestnuts are a family favorite of ours. We also like cucumber sandwiches on rye bread.

  • @shimmerysummersun
    @shimmerysummersun Před měsícem +6

    Your little toothpick holder is adorable!

  • @Madelinechriston
    @Madelinechriston Před 9 hodinami

    Thanks for these fun recipes Anna! I love knowing what people were eating before was born! Such a nicer, simpler life in so many ways❤ I can use these on their own ir as an inspiration.😊

  • @kdramsey965
    @kdramsey965 Před měsícem +1

    So many thoughts! Add some crushed red pepper flakes to the oregano version of the pizza roll ups. Roll the peach chunk with the sliced ham from the deli.

  • @rebeccaturner5503
    @rebeccaturner5503 Před měsícem +4

    Lets here it for munchies !!! Over filling the bane of an enthusiastic cook....And Lady I am so glad I don't have to do your dishes!

  • @dmbalsam
    @dmbalsam Před měsícem +9

    I see you have the Mcalls Cook Book. That was my bible to cooking when I was first married. It wasn’t my only book, but my go to.

    • @cooking_the_books
      @cooking_the_books  Před měsícem +7

      Love to hear this! and coincidentally...next week's video will feature the McCall's Cook Book! I'm editing it right now. 😊

  • @BrowneyedGirlmjd
    @BrowneyedGirlmjd Před měsícem +4

    You forgot to mention your bonus recipe with this video!!!! The Mushroom Hats. 🍄‍🟫🎩…. I could see the recipe when you were previewing the pizza roll ups. I’ll be trying those too. 😋 oh and Sunday nights are not my favourite part of the week because I know Monday morning is coming but you make Sunday evening more enjoyable with your videos. ❤️

  • @clkemp6725
    @clkemp6725 Před 28 dny +1

    Fun! The cookbook came out the year I was born.

  • @boething
    @boething Před měsícem +7

    I just unpacked some cookbooks from the early 1940s, books my mother used when she majored in home economics at Oregon State College, now Oregon State University. This was during the WWII years, and some of the recipes were a little sketchy for me-Stuffed Cockscombs, Braised Possum, and Squirrel Pie. These were well known published cookbooks at the time. Treasures for sure!

    • @melissalambert7615
      @melissalambert7615 Před měsícem +3

      Cool. Hello from Corvallis, home of Oregon State U. When it was a college it was mostly an agricultural school. We still have the dairy cows and sheep. But offer some computer sci degrees. Have a cool wave tank for predicting tsunamis. I have a recipe for beaver tail, so I get the other recipes.

    • @queenbunnyfoofoo6112
      @queenbunnyfoofoo6112 Před měsícem +2

      People back then would hunt for a good portion of their meat. I have an old cookbook of my mom's that has a whole section dedicated to those dishes.

    • @boething
      @boething Před měsícem +1

      When I was married, we ate lots of elk and venison. And my son attended OSU. I’m a native Oregonian, mostly Eastern Oregon but now Central Oregon.

    • @melissalambert7615
      @melissalambert7615 Před měsícem

      @@boething Over the years I've had friends who hunted. Enjoyed venison a few times. I've tried all sorts of game. Been in Corvallis for 28 years. Still nice town but much busier. Few of my neighbors are native Oregonians.

  • @Q-.-Q
    @Q-.-Q Před měsícem +6

    Thanks for a fun video, Anna!
    My fave party food to bring are the lil smokies sausages rolled up with bacon and cooked under the broiler with brown sugar. (My secret ingredient is Cinnamon! Gives a special hint to the brown sugar glaze!)

  • @katherinerobinson1935
    @katherinerobinson1935 Před měsícem +1

    Cream cheese mixed with Worcestershire and garlic powder spread on deli ham and rolled up then sliced

  • @eathomelive
    @eathomelive Před měsícem +1

    Hidden Valley makes a dip called fiesta dip. Making it with cream cheese and sour cream and serving it with Fritos scoops is so good.

  • @annalanzotti-venrick3989
    @annalanzotti-venrick3989 Před 26 dny +2

    I liked the "3 muskateers bar" recipe and the 60's style beach music playing in the background so i subscribed to your channel and now im watching this appetizer one. Thank you so much for these!! ❤❤❤

    • @cooking_the_books
      @cooking_the_books  Před 26 dny

      Oh wow!! I have had a sudden uptick in views on that video and wondered if people were subscribing from it. WELCOME! Glad to have you here. ❤️

  • @lilithmoody7356
    @lilithmoody7356 Před měsícem +4

    I love your videos. I've used your "vintage" cookbooks over my who life. In the 60s &70s my mom and l made a 4-ingredient version of your first recipe: tom paste, diced Velveeta, oil, and black olives. Spread on a package of small readymade dinner role that we split horizontally and broil. I loved them. Spread leftover was even better the next day! Thanks for these wonderful videos!

  • @susanmcroberts8877
    @susanmcroberts8877 Před měsícem +1

    That cook book is awesome. I love the retro-space age graphics. And I love your channel!

    • @susanmcroberts8877
      @susanmcroberts8877 Před měsícem +1

      I wrote my first comment early in the video. Those cook books are SO awesome. Although I am soon moving into a empty nester home, I think I will have to collect these!!!

  • @cavalcadeoffood
    @cavalcadeoffood Před měsícem

    Thank you for the fun episode! These little snacks are even more fun on the great vintage plates you use! Thanks, Anna!

  • @brendashope1558
    @brendashope1558 Před měsícem

    When I first had my own apartment I collected those cookbooks and I absolutely LOVED them. The recipes and the whole “vibe” of the pictures and wording.
    I was diagnosed with Celiac a few years later so I donated them, but I am kinda wishing I had kept them just for fun
    I usually stick to quick and easy party snacks like shrimp, charcuterie or veggies and dip. Thankfully there are many gf cracker options now. Thanks for the fun video, those ham and fruit bites are gf so I’ll add those to my party list! 🎉

  • @ndines6237
    @ndines6237 Před měsícem

    I have the McCall cooking school course in 2 large binders. It was one of those deals where every 2 weeks or so they mailed you a recipe card. On the front was a pic of the finished dish and the entire recipe somehow magically fit on the back of the card. 8 and a half by 11. I have both binders full. From the 80’s. French techniques were demonstrated in the recipes. Every recipe that I made was good, and to this day still good. Doesn’t feel dated. I love and cherish that set. Especially the cake and bread section.

  • @loriloristuff
    @loriloristuff Před měsícem +5

    ❤❤❤ party food!
    Now I have to run over to Meijer and get some corn chips! I have everything but corn chips.
    I would use Pastorelli's in the pizza rollups with scamorza cheese. The olives definitely stay. The garlic butter for brushing is a great idea.
    The kabobs are perfect.
    Those are indeed Ritz crackers with whipped cream cheese and a grape half.
    One of my easiest hors d'ovres is to get some salami slices and whipped cream cheese. I make "stacks" by puting down a salami slice spread with the cream cheese, add another slice of salami, repeat the process 2 more times, with salami on top, chill for a couple of hours, then slice the stacks into 4 sections and stick a toothpick the middle of each section. If it’s a party and not just a yen for salami snacks, I make 8, 10 or even 12 stacks to split up. Really easy, adaptable.
    Thanks for another great video!🎉

    • @cooking_the_books
      @cooking_the_books  Před měsícem +3

      I’m a Meijer gal too! 😁

    • @loriloristuff
      @loriloristuff Před měsícem +2

      ❤ my Meijer, a whole 1 mile from the house! I would go there, anyway. The Aldi is across the street from Meijer. Perfect grocery shopping.

    • @lindacombs7424
      @lindacombs7424 Před měsícem +1

      I retired from a Meijer in Indianapolis last year. I worked there for over 27 years and it's still the only place I shop.

  • @SauerPatchGardening
    @SauerPatchGardening Před měsícem +6

    I have the cake taker that matches your canisters in the background of your studio. The metal ones with blue and green flower design. I just noticed them when you were doing your chat. So cute

    • @cooking_the_books
      @cooking_the_books  Před měsícem +1

      Oh that's so neat! I just love the pattern. The largest canister is currently full of buttons. 😅

  • @kims.9752
    @kims.9752 Před měsícem +6

    This was as wonderful as I hoped it would be. This also is my favorite kind of food: snacks, appetizers, party food - whatever you wanna call it it’s what I want to eat most of the time. Thanks for showing these to us. And I think I have that cookbook somewhere I’ll have to dig for it.

  • @laurahughes5118
    @laurahughes5118 Před měsícem +3

    You could always roll the Pizza Roll Ups on the diagonal to "fancy them up".

  • @suzanneburg8363
    @suzanneburg8363 Před měsícem +5

    I want to thank you for your organization as you prepare your foods. Ive gotten really spoiled with your videos because they are so well put together. The flour poof outs and mixer blowups that occasionally happen are funny. Please dont edit those things or silly slipups out! They are funny. However, yoyr overall presentation is so smooth and delightful to watch. Thanks for all the work!

  • @dreamweaver3406
    @dreamweaver3406 Před měsícem +6

    I like a good bean dip, layer beans, sour cream, green onion, guacamole, and cheese and olives, of course😀 put in the oven for 10 to 15 minutes to melt the cheese and it’s yummy with corn chips or tortilla chips

  • @yvonnecowan5994
    @yvonnecowan5994 Před měsícem +1

    I live here in Texas and I’m a native. Most barbecues are not complete without a big bowl of queso dip. It usually consist of hamburger meat made with taco seasoning and Velveeta and a can or two of rotelle spicy as you like. I like mine with the scoops personally. Some people instead of hamburger meat use ground Mexican chorizo and that doesn’t need the extra seasonings from the taco packets. It’s all delicious pretty much anyway you use it. I have, however, known people to go overboard on the heat from the canned rotelle. Besides him, I might also think of using chunks of turkey with the peach and maybe with the pineapple and ham and just a tiniest bit of Dijon mustard in the sauce. I think it would be absolutely delicious. I might consider using flour tortillas instead of bread because usually I smash my bread so flat that it sticks to everything so I might go that route instead but everything else I absolutely like what you said about it. I’m excited to try some of these maybe for Dinner for my husband and I in the near future. Thanks for all of your hard work.

  • @user-jy8zt8oj7i
    @user-jy8zt8oj7i Před měsícem +1

    I recently went to a rummage sale and because of you I was rummaging through all the cook books trying to find some you have featured. I bought one from the 60s. Love your videos!

  • @debbieblaylock9997
    @debbieblaylock9997 Před měsícem +6

    I was born in September of 58 .i love your videos this let me know how the cook Books were back then

  • @Rei.Eatsfoods
    @Rei.Eatsfoods Před měsícem +1

    craving chips and dip now lol

  • @tmross4
    @tmross4 Před měsícem +1

    If you have a tortilla press, you could flatten the bread so they are all the same thickness. It also works on canned biscuit dough.

    • @sharroon7574
      @sharroon7574 Před měsícem

      I have one of those! What do you do with flattened biscuit dough?

    • @tmross4
      @tmross4 Před měsícem

      Most recent, this dish called "Uglies". You flatten canned biscuits and place them in a greased muffin tin. Then fry hamburger with onions and your choice of spices. Drain hamburger. Divide between the muffin cup and sprinkle shredded cheese of your choice. Bake at 400°F for about 15 minutes. Let cool for 10 minutes, and remove from cups.

  • @macsarcule
    @macsarcule Před měsícem +3

    Fancy party foods?! 😃🎉🥳✨
    Cute Owl pick holder!!! 😮🥹🦉
    The corn chip dip is going right in my recipe box! Yum!
    I hope you’re doing well and being kind to yourself, thank you Anna! ✌️😌✨

  • @PoohnTiggersMom
    @PoohnTiggersMom Před měsícem +1

    Have you ever cooked from the Meta Givens cookbook? It's wonderful. My mother gave each of us a copy as we left home to form our own families.

  • @CrunchyScott
    @CrunchyScott Před měsícem

    Party food for dinner! Definitely a thing in my house🥳

  • @kathrinekerns8398
    @kathrinekerns8398 Před měsícem +4

    I really believe I would add some pepperoni to the pizza rolls. With pizza sauce too. Yummy.

  • @heather482
    @heather482 Před měsícem +1

    Love your owl toothpick holder I would do the ham with pineapple and cheese. ❤

  • @r.j.whitaker
    @r.j.whitaker Před měsícem +3

    I love appetizers! When I was single, I would often make a version of the little pizza snacks.
    I plan to make the little ham kebabs for my husband. He's a big fan of ham and pineapple 🍍 🐷

    • @yvonnecowan5994
      @yvonnecowan5994 Před měsícem +1

      Yes, and they would be really easy to enlarge for a whole meal. You could make a couple apiece for meal and serve it with a salad or something, and it would be lovely.

  • @kurt11110
    @kurt11110 Před měsícem +2

    those all look delicious. and i’m with you, anna, on the pineapple 🍍 and ham 🐷 kabobs. that series of cookbooks came out the year before i was born, and i think we did make the toast/pizza roll ups once or twice. strange that i wasn’t too sold on black olives as a kid, because i love them now. same with green and kalamata. they taste best as an anti-pasta anticipatory auxiliary to the main course, along with some red table wine ❤

  • @jchow5966
    @jchow5966 Před 25 dny +1

    I enjoyed this so much!!!!! 💟☮️

  • @Tamara-db3ep
    @Tamara-db3ep Před měsícem +2

    Yes, good housekeeping magazine is still available as far as getting subscriptions.

  • @nancywelsh8028
    @nancywelsh8028 Před měsícem +3

    Hello Anna. I think this is a really fun idea. Why not make a few appetizer treats. It becomes an instant party. Thank you for sharing these with us. ❤️🫶🏻😘🍿🍦☀️

  • @leslieMClass80
    @leslieMClass80 Před měsícem +6

    I love the pizza roll ups! So easy. I’ve been looking for different ideas for my husband’s lunch for work. I could make those and he can reheat them in the microwave at work.

  • @DragonBreath
    @DragonBreath Před měsícem +2

    I really like your channel Anna. Party food and appetizers are my favorite too. Especially the ones made with cream cheese 🙂

    • @cooking_the_books
      @cooking_the_books  Před měsícem

      Thank you so much 🙂 I too love cream cheese appetizers!

  • @jumpweed
    @jumpweed Před 27 dny +2

    I am from Russia originally, so I am watching your videos as the US history, I mean- "food history". Very interesting, thank you!
    Hm, I haven't tried 90% of these dishes. Not because we didn't have enough food but because American food habits were different. Now they are pretty similar.
    Also, I find your videos as antidepressants for me. Seriously!
    Can't stop watching!
    ❤❤❤

  • @taehyunginjeans
    @taehyunginjeans Před 27 dny

    I have a few of these! I have: hamburger & hotdog book, breads & sandwiches, book of cookies, meat cookbook, and party pie book :D They're so cute!

  • @lisaspikes4291
    @lisaspikes4291 Před 27 dny

    I think I would put the glaze for the kabobs in a shallower dish and roll the kabobs in it, then let them sit in the glaze for awhile in the fridge before I broiled them. Mmmmm.

  • @meedwards5
    @meedwards5 Před 7 dny +1

    Since you are not mentioning a pyrex explosion from bring under a broiler, I am assuming you didn't broil those lovely ham and peach kabobs in the pyrex dish? If not, you got lucky. It took me hours to clean up after my pyrex baking dish exploded while doing a last minute broil of chicken thighs

  • @writingraven3314
    @writingraven3314 Před měsícem

    I love the illustrations. And ooHHH. wouldn't it be nice if you could find the Good Housekeeping Binder at a thrift store to put the books in?? Maybe I'm too excited about that idea.

  • @logandodson1484
    @logandodson1484 Před měsícem +2

    RE: Jellyrolls, to me, the oregano makes a pizza roll, and the chili powder would almost make a southwest bean dip flavor.

  • @mysticmom616
    @mysticmom616 Před měsícem

    I think using a fresh peeled peach would be delicious on the kabobs!!

  • @cristywyndham-shaw5111
    @cristywyndham-shaw5111 Před měsícem

    Party Food! Yes, please!! Not much of a chips and dip fan myself, but I really fancy bits like the pizza rollups and peach and ham skewers. Lil Smokies wrapped in crescent dough are my favs. Hope you do another one of these party food ones. 🥳🥳🥳🎈🎊🎉🎈

  • @thomasvee5021
    @thomasvee5021 Před měsícem

    I love appetizers - and for me, they often end up being the meal. I especially loved the pizza roll-ups, and adding garlic in the butter (to brush them with) sounds very good. I’ll definitely be trying that. Great video!

  • @rw8873
    @rw8873 Před měsícem +1

    I laugh every time you talk about loving olives! The fact that people want to pick on you about not liking celery but you like olives! How many celery lovers hate olives? Whose the brave one now?! Thank you for your dedication to this channel.

  • @dupioni
    @dupioni Před měsícem

    Kielbasa and pineapple kabobs! YESSSSSSSSSSS!!!

  • @cookingwithsherry
    @cookingwithsherry Před měsícem +2

    Never heard of peach kabobs ! Thanks for sharing

  • @pamchamberlin6703
    @pamchamberlin6703 Před měsícem

    Bet that dip would be great with Bugles!

  • @cecoya
    @cecoya Před měsícem +1

    My Grandma made stuff like this all the time especially around the holidays. She always came up with something and everyone enjoyed it too. Have a great day

  • @jenn4youtube
    @jenn4youtube Před 15 dny

    Ok the pizza rolls? look so good. This makes me want to have a party, but only for me, and i just eat a lot

  • @aprilhampton6298
    @aprilhampton6298 Před měsícem

    I do a similar party food to the ham one. I use chunks of pineapple and wrap a half slice of bacon around it and put a toothpick in it. I use a mixture of pineapple juice and brown sugar to glaze them with. Bake them until the bacon is done to your preference.

  • @sweetlifehappywife3460
    @sweetlifehappywife3460 Před měsícem +3

    This is my favorite channel!! Great fun video Anna ❤❤❤❤

  • @abunchahooey
    @abunchahooey Před měsícem

    “When in doubt, wrap it in bacon” 😂 I have one: when in doubt, top with buttered bread crumbs! 😂 That dip you made would be a good sandwich condiment I think.

  • @tracydavis3919
    @tracydavis3919 Před měsícem +2

    These recipes reminded me of the movie Mermaids. IYKYK❤

  • @robinrinaldi4966
    @robinrinaldi4966 Před měsícem +2

    I have this cookbook series and I love them. I’ve found that a lot of the recipes are very good. Thanks for the video. I look forward to o them every week.

  • @maureensigler6271
    @maureensigler6271 Před měsícem

    Another great episode Anna....so enjoy your podcast... thanks for all your efforts ❤

  • @tracytracy622
    @tracytracy622 Před měsícem

    Spam and pineapple kebabs, yumm! I think kielbasa as another substitute would be tasty, yes. And definitely shredded/chopped pepperoni instead of the olives (though I love black olives!) and garlic in the butter for brushing, mm mm MM! 😁

  • @Susanfuzz
    @Susanfuzz Před měsícem

    In the sixties, we used to make toasted bread roll ups with seasoned cream cheese and canned asparagus spears, very fancy! Yours looked amazing too! I think a maraschino cherry would be nice on the kabob :)

  • @sandytesch2029
    @sandytesch2029 Před měsícem +2

    I want to try the Fritos dip. Thanks for showing your flexi zester a few weeks back. I got one and used it for zest of two whole lemons yesterday. What a great tool, how it flexes around the fruit and no white pith only zest. Have a great week!

  • @kimt9971
    @kimt9971 Před měsícem +1

    Great video. Thanks! 👍

  • @belindajacalne994
    @belindajacalne994 Před měsícem +2

    Hi Anna, Party food is fun and delicious! It should not be just for parties, don't you agree? Why shouldn't every day be a party! Pizza roll ups! YUM!I love how you mix it up in every video! LOVE your cookbook library! I am so jealous! I'm looking forward to your next video!😊 Have a great week!❤

    • @cooking_the_books
      @cooking_the_books  Před měsícem +1

      I totally agree, every day can be a party! 😄 Thank you for your kind words, and I hope you also have a great week.

    • @belindajacalne994
      @belindajacalne994 Před měsícem

      Thank you, Anna! You're the best!

  • @melrupp2129
    @melrupp2129 Před měsícem +3

    Equal parts heavy cream and 1/2 & 1/2 is a good approximation for light cream. Which i prefer for coffee, but it's not available in my area, either.

  • @quiltr141
    @quiltr141 Před měsícem +2

    My mom had that cookbook.

  • @juliannaschroeder6857
    @juliannaschroeder6857 Před měsícem

    Anna! I've really been enjoying your videos. I, too, love me some retro midcentury recipes, which is what I grew up eating, especially at potlucks and such, when ladies would present their wackiest Jell-O and other creations. (Braunschweiger balls!) I'd love to see you delve into a book that is my absolute favorite, the 1949 edition of the Good Housekeeping Cook Book, ed. Dorothy B. Marsh. IMO, it's perhaps the last general-audience, "complete" cookbooks that does NOT rely heavily on processed-food shortcuts. It is also very exhaustive, and gives a great view of what was considered normal, including menus, holiday foods, place settings, etc. The recipes usually begin with whole foods (but also some canned or "glassed," preserved plain foods) and are not gimmicky. They make some substitutions, at times, where ethnic or specialty foods were certainly not readily available. But I've found some astonishingly legit recipes in there for things like springerle cookies (uses anise *seeds*) and pizza (which suggests *olive* oil). I've heard its recipe for apple pie is one of the best ever published. By the 60s, the newer editions of the book would have cutesy names and be full of processed and prepackaged "shortcut" foods. They really turned a corner after its publication, and it's one of my favorite all-time cookbooks, for its straight-ahead recipes: opulentopossum.blogspot.com/2009/05/treasury-of-retro-recipes.html Here's one of my blog posts about its recipe for pizza, which was new enough to Americans at that time that it needed clarification: "pronounced peet-za . . . It’s like a huge pancake, topped with a tomato-cheese mixture, and baked until crust is crisp and golden brown. Hot out of oven, it’s cut into wedges. You fold a wedge; eat it with your fingers. Use as appetizer, bread with dinner, main course for lunch, or evening snack." opulentopossum.blogspot.com/2011/02/peet-za-united-states-1949.html . . . Cheers!

  • @Shooshoobella7
    @Shooshoobella7 Před měsícem

    I'm guessing that homemade pizza was not a thing back in the 50's, and I doubt if mozzarella, pepperoni or pizza sauce were readily available either, so it makes sense that the pizza-roll recipe called for cheddar, olives and regular tomato sauce. But like you said, you could certainly modernize it with your own ingredients to give a more authentic pizza flavor. I make quick, personal pizzas in my toaster oven all the time, using bread and pasta sauce, pepperoni or ham and shredded mozzarella (or other cheese) I keep on hand. Yum!

  • @OZARKMOON1960
    @OZARKMOON1960 Před měsícem +1

    Lots of fun ideas for things you can throw together last minute - and modify to suit your tastes (definitely garlic butter to brush the pizza rolls).

  • @mazzjazz1518
    @mazzjazz1518 Před 16 dny

    Pepperidge Farm makes a loaf of Very Thin Sliced Bread. You can get white or whole wheat.

    • @cooking_the_books
      @cooking_the_books  Před 16 dny

      unfortunately it wasn't available at the grocery stores near me at the time I made this video.

  • @lorid1348
    @lorid1348 Před měsícem

    Yes, I'd love to go eat the nibblers but I remember my mom wearing a girdle everywhere.....that's a no go! I love this channel!

    • @user-uj6fy5fw2n
      @user-uj6fy5fw2n Před měsícem

      I am in my 70’s, and when we hit 12 years old, we were required to wear a girdle under our dresses and skirts. My mother’s maxim was “A lady doesn’t jiggle!” My, how times have changed, lol.😊

    • @lorid1348
      @lorid1348 Před měsícem

      @@user-uj6fy5fw2n I remember my mom saying that too!

  • @ndines6237
    @ndines6237 Před měsícem

    Anna not sure mushroom would work in pizza roll ups, when they cook they will realease moisture - might get soggy? I love the sit down part of your videos where you show details of the cookbooks. Love your collection! And love that you show us so much of the inside of them!