20 Vintage Recipes Just Like Grandma Used to Make

eatingwell ^ | 11/12/2024 | Camryn Alexa Wimberly

[ChicagoConservative27]

Take a trip down memory lane with these vintage recipes featuring classics your grandma grew up with. If you're searching for a simple appetizer, main course or dessert, we add a fun, modern spin to vintage recipes like stuffing chicken salad in avocados or making an everything bagel-flavored cheese ball. Other recipes like Macaroni Salad with Creamy Avocado Dressing, ​​Skillet Chicken Potpie and ​​Baked Mac & Cheese are delicious, filling and the perfect nostalgic bite.

[sit-rep]

I sure do miss Grandma's Strudel!!(Serbian) Used to start out with a ball of dough no bigger than a soft ball and jiggling it with her fingers, stretch that dough paper thin draping it over the edge of our family dining table!! adding that cinnamon apple filling or raisin and rolling it up for the baking pan!! dang that was good!!

Mom used to go on crazy rants because she could never do it without ripping the dough!! Grandma used to laugh and it upset my dad because he has to live with it after grandma left!! Oh man those were good times!!

[Liz]

Cute.

[Pollard]

Deviled Eggs from the Marlboro Country Cookbook

12 large eggs
1/2 cup mayonnaise
2 tsp Dijon Mustard
2 tsp sweet pickle juice
1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp paprika
dash to 1/8 tsp cayenne pepper

Boil, cool and peel eggs
Slice long way
Mix egg yolks and all other ingredients except paprika
Fill egg whites
Sprinkle paprika on finished eggs

We usually skip the pickle juice and up the cayenne a little.

You can put the filling in a plastic bag with the corner cut off to fill the egg whites using cake decorating technique.

[phormer phrog phlyer]

Thanks for posting.

[ChicagoConservative27]

You are welcome

[mad_as_he$$]

Neither of my Grandmothers would of known what an avocado is.

[mad_as_he$$]

👍

[FamiliarFace]

Thanks, Liz. Looks yummy!

[goodnesswins]

Yeah...like any grandma used a “rotisserie chicken”

[nopardons]

BTTT

[FamiliarFace]

Sounds amazing!

Back in the day, Mom joked that Dad married her only because her mom made the best strawberry shortcake. Always with a wink of the eye. Grandma’s shortcake was spectacular, but Mom figured it out, too. Both were excellent cooks and bakers. I have tried to keep up the excellence.

[Mathews]

My grandmas never used a crock-pot, store bought rotisserie chicken or any other fancy cooker used on some of these lists. They used cast iron and enamel ware.

[MayflowerMadam]

We found a very old recipe book at the family homestead, pre-Grandma. A couple of them called for cocaine. (I think my cousin stole that book ‘cause I haven’t been able to fine it.)

[MayflowerMadam]

My grandma had no crockpot. I don’t think she, or even Mom, made those things. (But some look really good.)

[MayflowerMadam]

Pretty sure Grandma never even heard of avocados.

[Damifino]

My Grandma didn’t make me any of this crap.

Macaroni Salad with Creamy Avocado Dressing? I don't think my grandmother even knew what an Avocado was.

[Sirius Lee]

I grew up on a lot of these. We weren’t rich. No fast foods. Nothing fancier than cube steaks. Lots of tuna casseroles tho.

[MayflowerMadam]

“mom made the best strawberry shortcake.”

I loved Mom’s, who used biscuits — none of those prissy angel food cake thingies. When the strawberry juice would soak into the biscuit ... ooohhhh! (And I don’t even like strawberries.)

[MayflowerMadam]

Creamed tuna and peas on toast.

Sometimes when times were bad, just bread and gravy.

[Toespi]

Hilarious, not only did my grandmother not know what an avocado was, my mom didn’t either. However, our kitchen did have avocado appliances