Maybe Vermont Stores could help you. They will develop old recipes from the 50s and 60s if people ask. I wanted them to bring back a NYC staple called Melo-Rolls. Up your nose with a Melo-Roll was a cat call when I was a kid. It’s an ice cream. I had no recipe, though.
Here’s a blond sangria from Milk Street that I served with appetizers two weeks ago:
1/4 white sugar
8 basil leaves
750 ml bottle of white vinho verde, chilled
2 large celery stalks, cut on the diagonal into 1-inch pieces
Two 2-inch cinnamon sticks
3 T orange juice, plus 1/2 orange, thinly sliced
2 T lemon juice, plus 1/2 lemon thinly sliced
1 peach or nectarine, halved, pitted and sliced
2 cups chilled seltzer or soda water
Put it in a large pitcher or punch bowl and chill.
The vinho verde is Portugese and is a light, somewhat sweet wine. It was fun hunting it down in Alabama but I found it and a great wine shop!
I only used 1 cinnamon stick (two is way too much!) and skipped the peaches because I thought it would muddy the drink.
People kept going back for more; it was very popular.