VINTAGE LUNCH BOX RECIPES 🥪 1960s Picnic Food Ideas!
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If you're looking for picnic food ideas or planning a Mother's Day menu, give these vintage lunch box recipes a try!
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HERB DIP (pg 23)
1/2c sour cream
1c mayonnaise
1tsp chopped capers
1tsp dill weed
1tsp dried tarragon
1Tbsp chopped chives
1Tbsp chopped parsley
1/4tsp paprika
salt and pepper to taste
Combine all ingredients and refrigerate.
DEVILED EGG SANDWICHES (pg 530)
10 slices white bread
Soft butter or margarine
5 hard cooked eggs, chopped
1tsp prepared mustard
1/4tsp onion salt
1/8tsp bottled steak sauce
1Tbsp chopped parsley
2Tbsp chopped pimiento
2tsp cider vinegar
1/4c mayonnaise
Spread bread lightly with butter.
Combine eggs and rest of ingredients, tossing with fork until well mixed.
Use to fill 5 sandwiches.
NUT-PINEAPPLE CREAM CHEESE FILLING
3oz soft cream cheese
2Tbsp grated orange peel
1/4c finely chopped walnuts or pecans
2Tbsp drained crushed pineapple
Combine all ingredients, mixing until smooth and fluffy. Makes 2/3c.
MCCALL'S BEST CHOCOLATE CUPCAKES (pg 137)
1c sifted all purpose flour
1/4c sifted unsweetened cocoa
3/4c sugar
3/4tsp baking soda
1tsp salt
1/3c shortening
1/2c buttermilk or sour milk*
1tsp vanilla extract
1 egg
1. Preheat oven to 375. Grease and flour bottoms of cupcake cups or place paper liners in cupcake pan.
2. Into large bowl, sift flour with cocoa, sugar, soda, and salt.
3. add shortening, buttermilk, and vanilla.
4. At low speed, beat 30 seconds, scraping side of bowl with rubber spatula. At medium speed, beat 2 minutes.
5. Add egg; continue beating 1 minute longer
6. Spoon batter evenly into prepared cupcake cups, filling about half full
7. Bake about 20 minutes, or until surface springs back with gently pressed with fingertip.
8. Remove to wire rack; cool thoroughly. Frost as desired.
* To sour milk: Place 1 1/2tsp vinegar or lemon juice in measuring cup. Add milk to measure 1/2c. Let stand a few minutes before using.
VANILLA BUTTER-CREAM FROSTING (pg. 144)
1/3c soft butter or margarine
3 1/2c sifted confectioners' sugar
3 to 4Tbsp cream or milk
1 1/2tsp vanilla extract, or 1 tsp vanilla extract and 1/4tsp almond extract
1. In medium bowl, with mixer at medium speed, or wooden spoon, beat butter with sugar, cream and vanilla until smooth and fluffy. If frosting seems too thick to spread, gradually beat in a little more cream.
2. Makes enough to fill and frost an 8" or 9" layer cake; or frost a 13 x 9 x 2" cake.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
0:58 Herb Dip
2:33 Deviled Egg Sandwiches
4:26 Nut-Pineapple Cream Cheese Filling
5:51 Thanks to Factor for sponsoring this video!
7:29 Sandwich Assembly
9:57 Herb Dip and Sandwich Taste Test
15:09 McCall's Best Chocolate Cupcakes
18:59 Vanilla Butter-Cream Frosting
22:07 Cupcake Taste Test
23:25 Cookbook Chat - McCall's Cook Book (1963)
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I’m Evelyn’s daughter and she would adore you and your videos. She had cookbooks from every decade and was a master at making pies of every kind. Thank you Anna!
Inside info: Anna loves a picnic.
Are you her husband? You are so fortunate. You get to try all these delicious recipes
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I love inside info!
I used to have a tea room. And when you started making the pineapple/pecan sandwich, I was thinking ohhh that would make a great tea sandwich. Definately making it at my next little tea party with friends!!!
What kind of bread would you serve with it? I was wondering if croissant would be good? Or maybe brioche?!
@@luvzdogz Brioche sounds great, but I don't think I want anything to fancy to take away from the flavor of the filling. I was also thinking with the orange zest in the mix, a lovely orange bread loaf sliced very thin would be lovely!
@@jomcgee6094yes, very think sliced bread for a proper tea sandwich.
Those cupcakes look amazing! A dear friend of mine passed away in March, and today her husband gave me her mini cupcake baking pan. This thing makes 48 mini cupcakes! She must have made big batches for church dinners over the years. I think McCall's Best Chocolate Cupcakes would be a good recipe to inaugurate the pan for myself. We remember so many loved ones along with our food memories. I hope your friend Renee will find joy using her grandma's cookbook.
I'm so sorry for your loss.That's such a thoughtful gift to remember her by! I'm sure she'll be peering over your shoulder when you make that first batch of cupcakes.
So true.☺️
So true! I always feel like my departed loved ones are in the kitchen with me as I make up Mom’s Swedish pancakes, Aunt Betty’s meatloaf, Aunt Doris’s banana bread, Aunt Helen’s lemon bars or Aunt Mary’s Chicken Divan. I use Grandma’s Pyrex bowls of course (blue, red, green and yellow) and sometimes even shed a few tears. There’s really nothing like cooking to bring back memories, for me at least!❤
Use an OXO good grips cookie scoop to make even cupcakes.
I have a mini muffin pan from my grandma and that's what I do. Hope your cupcakes turn out great!
At 2:38 I see a recipe for Peanut Butter and Bacon Sandwiches, and I am INTRIGUED
Peanut Butter and Bacon on white bread toast was a STAPLE in my family growing up! It is ooey gooey and delicious! It did not have mayo on it but I have seen BLTs with mayo and peanut butter at sandwich shops though.
I’m intrigued, too. I’m currently out of bread, so I hope I remember this idea when I get another loaf. Sounds like a “man” meal. 😊
I just love the headlight on your mixer.
Sounds like that dip might go well with cucumbers as well. Perhaps as a sandwich spread for a cucumber sandwich.
Great idea!!!!!!
@@cherriaydelotte8327 I agree!
Oh! Need to give that a try!
I have a copy of the McCall's cookbook from 1963. It's wonderful. My copy once belonged to an elderly neighbor who went into a nursing home after her health got bad. Her kids were planning to trash her cookbook collection as they cleaned out her house. I saved them. That day my old cookbook collection got an incredible boost. She had dozens of old cookbooks from the 1940s through the 1990s. 😊
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Omg, that's awesome! That lady will live on as long as her cookbooks are being used. Please make the recipes that are bookmarked or checked off. Those are her special dishes.
I have just recently found your channel and it has quickly become one of my favorites. I was born in 1956 and remember alot of the cookbooks you talk about. Just wanted to let you know how much I have been enjoying your channel.
@lindasalisbury7129 Me too! 1956 ~ and loved the cookbooks from back then. Campbell's Soup Recipe book, Betty Crocker, JC, etc.....
The name of this channel is absolutely brilliant.
😂 Not Anna pretending that her cookbooks are Pokemon. She gotta collect them All! I ❤it!!
Oh my gosh, we had a grocery store 1955-1985 and back then we need an ice man that was a business, for our soda case . I think it lasted 3 days. I remember him coming and that huge piece of ice was heavy and he was a short man but that did not deter him. By 1961 we got an electric soda case.😀
Looks like L'il Guys is still in business and they still have the egg salad sandwich on Hawaiian Rolls - I'll be checking that place out soon!
YAY so glad to hear they’re still around!
First- I’ve always wanted to say that!!! I like collecting lunch boxes.i would hate it if Anna yelled at me about my hard-cooked eggs 🥚
It’s hard to imagine Anna yelling at anyone! Playful joshing for sure 😋
I would never! 🤣
@@Rhaenspots😂🤣😂🤣 true
@@cooking_the_bookswow- your book collection has certainly expanded!!!!
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Tea sandwich with thin sliced plain banana bread and using the nut/ pineapple spread is yummy 👍 So retro too. Groovy ✌️
Every recipe for my 2023 Christmas family dinner came from the McCalls 1963 cookbook and every recipe was a winner. The applesauce cake is delicious and the pork loin pineapple dish was superb. The apple cabbage slaw was also wonderful. The cookbook is timeless and an excellent one to use all these years later. I have the orange cover, so groovy! Thanks for using it in this video. So nice to remember your friend’s grandmother in a special way.
It’s such a fantastic book!
That explains why my mom had the red book. Our kitchen counters were spanish red.
What a lovely dedication to Ms. Evelyn, thank you for taking some time to remember her...what a kind way to learn a little bit of her!
Oh yeah! That pineapple-nut cream cheese spread would be wonderful on a nut bread!
My go-to egg salad is mayo, mustard, and sweet pickle relish added to grated hard boiled eggs. But I'm not going to pretend that it's the one true way to make egg salad! It's just my favorite. When making a sandwich out of it, that's when I crack some black pepper over it.
Sprinkle in a little paprika for deviled egg salad. That's my trick.
Another great one, Anna😃
Haven’t been able to watch much lately as we finally found a house after losing ours in the 2023 flood on the Central Coast. It’s cool and vintage and we’re remodeling the inside🤗
But I’m back😃and getting motivated to be able to cook again 😉👍
You’re great at motivating and I just love your videos so much☺️
Thanks 👍😃🕊
All the best to you as you fill your new home with love and good times!
I really enjoyed this one. My youngest granddaughter refuses to eat in the school cafeteria. She’s a picky eater so fixing her lunch is a challenge for sure. I have 2 of the cute little holders with the separate side for dip. I bought them several years ago. Celery and carrots with ranch dip or peanut butter and celery have been carried in these little containers for a while. I look forward to your videos. They are so much fun. 👍🏻☺️
I hated school food from kindergarten through college. Always carried a lunchbox.
I absolutely love watching your videos. You're such a cool person. I love the lunch box container things LOL! 😂
Great sandwich spread ideas! Now, I understand why Nana always prepared Papa's sandwiches w/ butter, then the mustard and fixings. Doesn't soak the bread... nice. The lunchboxes are wicked! Thank you for today! Peace Oh... the lemon Marange pie! Nana did that one justice too!
This weirdly reminds me of Shirley Jackson's novels. The way she wrote about her era's little lunches and picnics always made me want to try them, despite the disturbing settings.
ok I love this comment because I love Shirley Jackson's novels! 😅
I don't usually feel the need to buy vintage cookbooks because I'm not very good about using my modern cookbook but this video made me want Mccall's!! Great video
Your shelves are a feast for the eyes!!! I love trying to recognize the cookbooks and all of the different canisters and accessories and oh my!!! A video "tour" of your shelves would be a great treat - how you organize your vast, varied and growing collection!! You've given me a new appreciation for trying new recipes, especially weird sounding ones that might have intimidated me previously. You add lightheartedness and wholesome fun to a troubled world!
A twist on those sandwiches: grill them like grill cheese, you will taste the differences and wonder why you haven't done it before. I would love to see the cooked icing on a cake, brownie, or ever a cookie. Thanks for sharing and have a great day
Anna, you make me smile. Thank you for being REAL.
Aww I was born in 1963!!
My Mom always read McCalls.magazine .!
Loved this video. All of the recipes looked yummy ! Especially the cupcakes. They were beautiful 🧁❤
Oh! Could you do a video with different tea sandwiches or foods to have with afternoon tea? That would be so fun!
I love a good picnic.
When you made the pineapple nut cream cheese spread, I knew exactly what it tasted like. My mom would make crustless finger sandwiches with it in the early 60's for get together with her friends.
All the recipes sounded really yummy.
I also always have chopped pimientos in my fridge, but its because i have a lot of cookbooks from the midcentury like yourself and almost every "fancy" or "spanish" recipe includes them 😂
The cupcake method is called reverse creaming it is supposed to make a more velvety tender texture.
I’ve only done so on gingerbread cookie dough and it’s a fabulous recipe so I’m very interested in trying these cupcakes!
If you're familiar with the first Betty Crocker cookbook (1952?), nearly all of the cake recipes use the reverse creaming method. They called it the "double quick method." That cookbook's cake section is a little confusing at first. The reverse creaming method is on the left-hand page. On the right-hand page is the same recipe, using today's more familiar mixing method. (Fat+sugar+eggs first...) They gave you a choice of your preferred method. Supposedly, reverse creaming produces a cake with a better texture. 😊
You are a sweetheart, so fun and positive. Who here would also love to have Anna as their neighbor? I know we would.
Mine is red..lol I have been using my book since I got married in 1982. It is my go to book since then. Mine is the NEW MCCalls Cook Book. I also have all the paper backs that were a monthly subscription. They also have been used alot!!!
The red and white lunchbox is a bento box.
And I think I'd have to make the egg salad with scrambled eggs, if I made it. And I may! It actually looked delicious. 😋 (I'm not a fan of most egg salads. I don't like hard-boiled egg white.)
I think the pineapple spread is more of a cracker spread. At least that's how it looks to me.
Wow. When I came upon your channel I was mesmerized because I thought I was the only one who bought and used those old school grocery store little cook books. I remember being on a tangent in the 80's of making and feeding the family recipes from the famous Pillsbury Bake Off. I was really on a trip. It was very dramatic and like a show. HA. Thank you so much for caring, too, about such things. You are a good girl. Love, your friend, Eileen
I look forward to your Sunday videos - loving thinking about Spring
Anna, Lil Guys is still kicking on Damen, if that’s the one you’re talking about! 🥰
Yes that’s the one! 😊
I began cooking years ago from this cookbook. It was my Moms that she handed down to me when i got married. I still have it. Wonderful recipes in this book! 🙂
My daughter has a similar lunch box like that, my grandson takes it to school. He threw the silverware away the first time he brought it to school. He's 8 😊
My mom made the cupcake recipe all the time! We were a family of three and a dozen was perfect for us chocolate lovers!
My go-to egg salad dressing is mayo, onion powder, and celery salt.
i usually add a dash of hot sauce.
love the lunch boxes! they were both so cute!
While i'd love to try the sandwiches you made (they looked delicious), i was way more interested in that peanut butter and bacon sandwich recipe under the egg sandwhich recipe. i'm gonna look that recipe up and try it. I LOVE PB anything.
These worked well because I am making a lot of cold meals right now. I'm trying to not use my A/C as long as possible.
I love the McCall’s Cookbook, and I’m glad you featured it again.Also, the dedication was touching. I can’t wait to try these recipes - I’m always looking for sandwiches spreads - and especially since they are meatless - nice to have more meatless options. Thank you for a great video.
Carrots 🥕 and snow peas 🫛 rock 👌
They’re such a pretty color combo so it makes us want to eat them!
Most cooking videos, I tend to skip the tag end of the video. But yours are so thoroughly enjoyable, that I very very rarely do. Thank you for another great video and for sharing this time with us. You're slowly inspiring me to take on new cooking challenges which has been a long road for me. Keep up the good work.
I make that walnut bread quite often now. It’s delicious!
Maybe a Ladies Luncheon theme some day.
Flavour combo for white cake or white icing for me is: equal parts: vanilla, lemon, and almond. All real not artificial flavourings. Thank u so much for this great video. Evelyn should be proud of her shout out. Ur so kind.
Hi Anna, I have a 1914 cookbook for you
I'd like to see what's in it, for sure!
Great video. Your enthusiasm for vintage cookbooks is so wonderful! I'm really enjoying your channel.
How sweet of you to dedicate this video to your friend's grandmother Evelyn's memory!
Today's recipes all sound delicious. I've always wanted to try deviled eggs, and this seems to be a great way to do just that.😊
I paused to try to read the recipe below the egg salad: peanut butter 'n' bacon sandwiches. I know people do combine those savory and sweet flavors but I also saw in the recipe sweet pickle relish and mayo. Hmmm I'm not sure about that!! LOL
Yes, I was looking at that one and the pickle relish really threw me off. 😂 I’ve had peanut butter and bacon sandwiches and they are so darn good and definitely diet friendly 😂 but not so sure about the relish or mayo.
Peanut butter and bacon with lettuce is marvelous!!!!
This seems like a special cookbook- one to keep an eye out for. Thanks for another interesting video, Anna. And sending thoughts to your friend Renee in memory of her Grandmother Evelyn.
RE: chopped eggs, I have found over the years, a pastry blender works great
Lady, you live next door to the Queen of Baking Supplies, come over and you can borrow whatever couplings and/or tips you need!
I too always have pimentos. My grocery store sells a cream cheese pineapple spread like that in a tub with the pimento cheese. Think I might try that recipe next time!
I have a blue cover book that was my Mom's. I remember her using a cheesecake recipe. I enjoy your videos.
Who else remembers their 1st lunchbox? Mine was Roger Rabbit & I hated it but it was all Momma could afford as a single parent. I wanted the Strawberry Shortcake & Care Bears one so bad!😂
It feels like summer where I am in Missouri. Today it's almost 85 degrees and the humidity is 89%! 😕
Hello! Completely enjoying your channel. I have a copy of Woman's Home Companion Cookbook, circa 1946 that I grabbed for $1 at a thrift store. Very in depth and interesting piece of work. It weighs in at three pounds. A mix of color and black and white photos. Tons of techniques. I recently looked in it for a German potato salad recipe. I could only find one called a "hot potato salad." I wonder if it was due to the timing of the release? There is so much more to vintage cookbooks than the recipes, for certain. :)
with the cream cheese sandwich use brown bread.....this is a found in the beans area...
Omg that sounds awesome! Have not had brown bread forever! I like it toasted
I was in the HomeGoods store by me last week and they have containers and lunch sets just like the one that you showed; I’m assuming they might be a different brand, but they look exactly the same, and I got a few. I love them! Especially the little lunch set with the fork, knife, and spoon- I’ve been using it a lot to bring to work. Great video, thank you!
I'd love to see a compilation video of "my favorite vintage recipes for summer/picnics" or maybe by season?
They still sell those Sistema containers. My daughter uses them for her lunch’s since they are easy for her to open. Plus it keeps her food from getting smashed. Love the recipes you picked. Those cupcakes look so good. Hope you have a great week Anna 💕
Icing is a life saver when it comes to mess-ups. Everything looks so good and i love the containers
Always a good day when Anna posts ♡♡
This time of year zucchini bread would be good with the cream cheese spread!
Vanilla meringue pie?? I’ve never heard of that! I don’t see how it could be bad! The sandwich spreads and dip and cupcakes all looked delicious! 😊
Simple egg salad is one of my go to sandwiches. We thrifted a brand new Cuisinart egg cooker that makes the most perfect hard boiled eggs. I love that little appliance so much, lol. Great video as always, Anna!
Add a little peanut butter to your vanilla frosting. It's fantastic on a chocolate chocks.
So great! Omg, those cupcakes are goin’ on my list!
And that nut pineapple cream filling, yes! I’m in! Maybe even in between layers of a layer cake! Like a carrot cake to still be a little sweet, but cut the overall sweet for the cake by being the middle layer 🙂
I’m also from a small town and get the “from school”. 102 people in my hometown, I’m a farm kid, and my class in our consolidated school district had 17 kids in my graduating class and we were one of the big classes. The two classes before me had 8 and 9 kids respectively. My combined jr. high and high school had about 85 kids. Crazy, right?
Thank you Anna, this was awesome! 😃👍✨
I love watching you I was born 1961 and I enjoy a lot thank you
Speaking on the runniness of the egg salad, you chose to chop your egg, my mother, a caterer, would often grate eggs for salad and increasing the surface area may have made the salad less loose
Think she is right and it was the vinegar. But, I just recently found out about grating the eggs and it works beautifully.
I love Almond extract…especially in my French Toast!!❤❤❤😋
Eggs, miracle whip, onion, mustard and tuna 😊
I have the green books and had it when I got married in the 70s. I spotted your’s in the last video. My bible back when learning to cook.
33:41 Peanut-Butter 'n' Bacon Sandwiches. I've got to try that one.
Those cupcakes look absolutely wonderful. I think that you should try a peanut butter icing on them I think that would be delightful.❤
I have containers from the 1970s. If it works it stays. Like seeing the kitchenware you enjoy. You can freeze unfrosted cupcakes. I kept frozen slices of applesauce cake for when unexpected guests drop in for coffee. Your cupcakes are beautiful.
Egg salad is my favorite sort of sandwich, I am definitely trying out this recipe!!
Raw snow peas are sooo good 😊
I hope you make that baked ham recipe someday from the McCalls cookbook 😋
That pineapple nut spread looks delicious 😋
Mine did. She split them down the middle and put the frosting on the inside instead of on top, so the frosting didn't stick to the Handiwrap or wax paper.
I don’t know what I loved more from this video, the recipes or your cute little lunch containers!!! I have a ton of containers and use different ones based on what I’m bringing for lunch. The days I’m in the office. I try really hard not to spend extra money on buying lunch and it does help if my boring lunch is at least in a cute container. My mum always put butter on all our sandwiches so I do that too. Oh and one of the best sandwiches ever is raisin bread and cheese slices (the famous ones wrapped in plastic) .🥪🥒🍎🍉🍪
Li’l Guys is still open 😊 I’ve never been there but I will have to try. I love egg salad ❤
I have seen Sistema brand at Walmart. Sorry if I spelled the brand wrong spelling is not my strong suit😊
0:44 oh my gosh! I think I had those checkered books that are laying on the side in a stack. They came as a boxed set with a mini book/pamphlet for mixed drinks. I regret re-donating them a little bit, but I think someone was excited to find them.
❤😊👍🥚🍍🍞🧁Delicious and interesting recipes. Love those lunchboxes!😊 I would put the nutty pineapple spread on a croissant. Nice video. 💐🌸🌺🏵🌼🌷
I want to see you make the peanut butter and bacon sandwich that was under the deviled egg salad
Love your aprons and the containers 😊🌹🌹
Kraft used to make a jarred version of the pinapple cheese spread. I think you made a port/cheese spread like theirs around Christmas in fact.
Tarragon is one of my favorite herbs. I love the licorice flavor. I remember my grandmother making the pineapple cream cheese spread. As a child I thought it was strange, perhaps I would like better now. When you mix this way it is called reverse creaming, which is supposed to make a better crumb on cakes.
Vanilla Meringue Pie sound fascinating. What a beautiful book!
Love the herb filling/dip. Green beans would be my go to with that one!
I'd love to try those cupcakes 🤤
I am so excited for these recipes! They all sound great and i just recently found my yellow mc calls cook book at a thrift shop for $5.00!
I cant wait for my day off to play!
I believe I have this cookbook and if I do, I inherited it from my grandmother. Mine is the blue one, which would have matched her kitchen.
Now I need to look at home...