I love the Rumaki. My father made it in the 70's and used half chicken liver and water chestnut in each one. The sauce was Teriyaki, not BBQ. Also, the Bugle dip looks great.
I make the bacon wrapped water chestnuts, but I do mine with a blend of Heinz chili sauce, brown sugar, and a little bit of mayo. They are absolutely delicious. I bake them unsauced until they are mostly rendered before I add sauce, bake a bit longer, sauce again, and then finish off. This minimized the burning of any sugared sauce mixture and allows the bacon to crisp up better.
On party nights, we kids were relegated to the playroom with an older/teen “babysitter.” We were served our very own appetizer tray: it consisted of the ends, sloppy ones, smushed ones, slightly burnt ones, ripped crust ones, and outright mishaps shaped into bite-sized things on a cocktail pick. We were none the wiser and we gleefully polished off every morsel while playing Twister, The Barbie Game, or Charades. ❤
The sloppy ones & the ends are always the best bc they have extra good stuff inside!! I always felt so special as a kid, like my mom/grandma made those ones just for me. 🥰
I think I know what your grandmother's "Bugel dip" recipe was. This dip recipe is an older recipe that was very popular at one time. 8 ounce package of cream cheese, 5 ounce jar of kraft Old English spread in the glass jar, 1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce, and 1/2 tsp garlic powder
As a newlywed in the early 90s I made pickle rolls with deli roast beef and german mustard spread on after the cream cheese and diced red onion thrown in. They were like cold rouladen.
I'm loving the comments on this video - everyone has memories of these recipes but "slightly" different! We used 2 slices of ham on our roll-ups, and my mom's version of the water chestnuts was to coat the bacon in brown sugar before wrapping them. I remember seeing them come out of the oven and being told I couldn't eat them for AN HOUR because "the caramel will burn your tongue right off". 😂
My family has made the pickle rolls for decades, except we use canned asparagus instead of dill pickles. Because asparagus is much thinner, you simply roll them tighter. If anyone finds the tartness of the pickle too much, try it with asparagus instead 😊
Ahh... I grew up in simpler times - only two ingredients! ;-) The "holiday" appetizer I remember is the old Lipton onion soup mix, blended in to sour cream as a dip for chips. As I said, simpler times. I do remember later though (I had already left home by this point) my mother making little hotdogs in a super simple barbecue sauce in chafing dish. It was 1/2 cup each of ketchup, brown sugar and bourbon. Bring to boil, reduce heat and add two packages cocktail hot dogs. I'm pretty sure she used the ones called Little Smokies. Keep warm and serve in a chafing dish (or crockpot). This recipe is definitely old enough for your channel - early 1970s!
My mother made a dip when she had no Lipton or Mrs. Grass's onion soup mix, that was about 1/2 cup minced onion with the juice, an 8 ounce package of cream cheese, and milk to thin to dip consistency. I add a grinding of black pepper to mine, but it's really optional. When I was a young military wife, the big thing was the cocktail hot dogs or meatballs in grape jelly with a couple hits of Tobasco. Sound icky, really yummy.
Oh, thank you for the Little Smokies recipe! I am planning on bringing it to an early Christmas community dinner we’re having this week, and I can’t for the life of me remember how my mother (who passed at age 97 in 2019) made it. I do know she used either or both crushed canned pineapples and apple jelly. I can’t find a decent apple jelly, so I found a delicious peach jam made with Amaretto (perhaps my favorite liqueur) that I’m going to use. It was delicious! Honestly, I don’ think you can go wrong with Little Smokies and just about anything! Happy Holidays! 🧑🏼🎄🎄
Anna, those electric skillets were so handy! I’ll bet your mom and I are about the same age. My mom always used an electric skillet for so many meals. Surely they must still be available, just not as popular as they were with my mom’s generation of housewives and moms. I think an electric skillet would be perfect for keeping an appetizer like Rumaki warm. Happy Holidays! 🧑🏼🎄🎄
Looked up bugle recipes and this one looked like the color of the dip it contained 8 oz cream cheese softened , 1/2 cup yellow onions chopped, 1/3 cup tomato salsa, 1/4 cup ketchup, 3 tbsp mayonnaise, and 1 tsp garlic powder, and salt and pepper seasoned to taste. It’s called bugle cheese dip but may not be the original. Going to send to my brother as he loves bugles.
Oh, we did pepper jelly poured over the block of cream cheese, served with Ritz crackers. So good! Depending on the pepper jelly you get (like, jalapeno peppers or hot peppers) it can be really spicy or not, but the cream cheese cuts the spice.
Yes bacon water chestnuts have been a staple since the early-mid 90’s. Some apps are truly timeless. I know in my early 20’s I felt very sophisticated making them lol 😅
I’m 15 years older than you but I too remember these party appetizers. Definitely a Mid-West thing, good times. I thought of another one while watching you. Meatballs, a jar of chili sauce and a jar of grape jelly in the crockpot. Yum-O ! Thanks for sharing. Merry Christmas 🎄
Oh, I know those bacon-wrapped dates as "angels on horseback"! I like stuffing some cream cheese inside the date, where the pit was, and then baking the bacon-wrapped dates until they are heated through and the bacon is crispy. Haven't made those in years, but they are so good!
My sons had an international food night at school and a classmate brought the ham/pickle rolls and said it was a Polish dish. I never knew it was a midwestern thing. They tasted great.
Shaking my head the whole time. As a born East Coaster from the Finger Lakes area of NY, we had none of these except the electric skillet! 😃 We did mini sausages in grape jelly/bbq sauce, the wine cheese and nut ball w/ Ritz crackers and such like. Wishing you a Merry Christmas - thank you for your hard work and delightful laugh/smile. 🎄(also a huge ALDI fan!)
My parents always made rumaki for their New Years Eve parties in the 1960s & 70s, I was still very little, but my oldest sister remembers Mom using small slices of chicken livers in them. When I was older, in the 1970s she'd gotten a bit lazy and was just using a lump of chopped chicken liver paste. I remember the taste vividly, I loved the savory marinade and the crunch of the water chestnut, and well, who doesn't love bacon? The earthy taste of the liver, I wasn't wild about, but it worked with everything else. Now I have to make these. All variants, liver, chopped liver and sans liver.
I look forward to your videos every Sunday. They really lift my spirits. I too love vintage recipes. Thanks for all your hard work to bring us these videos. Merry Christmas!
Yes, 100% my mom would make something similar…I grew up in Michigan. We would use one 5oz jar of Kraft Old English, one 5oz jar Pimento Cheese, & one 5oz jar of Roka Blue. Couple dashes of tobasco and a little garlic powder and onion powder.
I'm totally here for the 90's stuff, even if it's not technically "vintage". It's nostalgic for us millennials! I didn't grow up with any of these, so it's interesting to see what kinds of snacks or appetizers others folks grew up eating. We mostly had guacamole, queso, and salsa. Or pigs in blankets.
This one really brings back the memories! The pickle rolls never disappoint. Back in the 60s my mom used Buddig beef for these, both with and without the pickles. I've also had slices of salami rolled with just the cream cheese. People just can't stop eating them! There are almost never any leftovers.
We make the pickle rolls with dried beef. I like the Armour brand that comes in a jar. It’s super salty but we like it that way. I cut the pickle into spears to account for the smaller diameter of the dried beef.
Love those pickle things, so Midwestern lol. They're also really good with a layer of that chipped beef in a jar that you can get at most grocery stores.
I've never had the pickle roll ups like this. I'll give it a try though. I've only had pickle roll ups using salami, cream cheese & a baby/petite pickle. Another favorite is the chipped/dried beef cream cheese ball with scallions. Yum! You're such a joy to watch! I always catch myself smiling at some long forgotten memory while watching you make the vintage recipes 😊 thanks!
@@yazarc I'm from northern Illinois so maybe it is regional. I had it once in Iowa and it was made from pickles, but not a whole pickle, only a quarter. I thought those were good too.
I grew up just above the West Virginia border in PA, I remember my relatives making mini pepperoni rolls, pizzelles, pirogies, Swedish meatballs, so many tasty memories 😋 I moved to the south, since then, I’ve introduced my in-laws to a whole lot of different foods from my neck of the woods 😅
OMG these recipes take me back to my childhood. I love pickle rolls, and I remember a bugle dip but i have no clue what was in it. once in a while me and my husband just have appetizer nights for dinner, I will make sausage balls, bacon wrapped little smokies, cheese ball, pickle rolls and The lime Party punch( we always use lime kool aid but you can use any flavor) but its basically, kool aid, pineapple juice and ginger ale. I love those nights. To me appetizer are more comfort food than a bowl of mac and cheese is to some lol. I love your videos and cant wait to watch more. As a cookbook collector myself I love seeing other appreciate and love them as much as I do
My mom would buy port wine cheese spread for "fancy occasions." She had a brown crock with a swing clamp lid. Wish I had that crock, now.. For New Year's one year while we were on our winter break, my friend decided to make rumaki. Just the water chestnuts, bacon, and bbq sauce. She used mint flavored toothpicks. Would not recommend!🤣
My mom would make the pickle rolls with buddig beef when it was square. She would use pickle spears and leave them whole. Cheese, pickles and beef. How can you go wrong. Thank you for taking me back in time.
My mom, since at least the 1970's, would always make ham and cream cheese pinwheels for any appetizer occasion. She'd mix finely diced green pepper, dehydrated onion, garlic powder, season salt, and worcestershire sauce into the cream cheese and spread it on the rectangular ham slices like you do here. No pickles, just the cream cheese mixture and ham. They were SO GOOD. I haven't had them in years. I'm going to make them this year, thank you for reminding me of them!
I grew up with Pickle Rolls as well! We used pickle spears and my parents would add prepared horseradish to the cream cheese - YUM! I think these will be making a comeback at my holiday get togethers this year. Thank you for the nostalgic video :)
Horseradish would be such a great addition! I might have to try that. There's a local bagel place here that mixes up their own blend of cream cheese with horseradish, black pepper, and thyme. 😋
I had those pickle rolls at my first wedding reception in 1988 and my aunt made them for me as a gift! I don't think I've had them since then but I still crave them. I might have to make some! We called them Pickle Pinwheels in South Carolina. They really are delicious! Now you also have me craving Bugles with that dip! Kraft might not make that port wine cheese spread anymore. I spent forever the other night looking for their Roka blue cheese spread (another classic vintage favorite that they also sold in a glass jar!) which apparently is rarely sold and I could only find jars for $17 and up online. It seems like a lot of our great ingredients are dying out.
I remember roka blue cheese! I had forgotten about that, sadly they discontinued it in 2020. Now I only see the old english cheese. We used to save the jars as glasses that us kids used for koolaid!
I make the bacon wrapped water chestnuts, but I do mine with a blend of Heinz chili sauce, brown sugar, and a little bit of mayo. They are absolutely delicious. I bake them unsauced until they are mostly rendered before I add sauce, bake a bit longer, sauce again, and then finish off. This minimized the burning of any sugared sauce mixture and allows the bacon to crisp up better.
I just made the bacon wrapped water chestnuts yesterday for a family gathering. My adult son always requests them. I don't brush them with any sauce before or while baking. We dunk them in chili sauce as we eat them. Delicious and never any left. The other appetizers sound tasty!
Your pinch and dash grandma makes me think of mine! She always made what we call pea salad at Christmas time (“pea salad on earth” 😂). My aunt makes it now and had to figure out measurements for the rest of us to make it, based on how she always had it. Shell pasta, cubes of velveeta, olives, onions, peas, other things I don’t remember. Very mid-century but so good and an absolute tradition in my family.
still buy port wine cheese for Christmas- a homage to my Mom - had every year and only at Christmas in the 60's and 70's when I took over the holidays- I kept up the tradition in the 60's it came in a brown stoneware crock
These all look so tasty - and simple! 😋Enjoyed hearing you talk about these in the context of your childhood holiday food. It brought to mind making “finger foods” as a kid with my mom at Christmas time for when we had visitors - two in particular, pitted dates stuffed with peanut butter and then rolled in granulated sugar, and dried beef spread with cream cheese (something like your pickle rolls without pickles) and rolled and sliced to make “pinwheels.” Thank you for sharing these recipes!
Chuckling at the dip. Asking mom about something that’s such a memory and they have no clue what you’re talking about! We have a toxic trait of making things once and never making them again! I love this video! Thanks for sharing. The pickle rolls are a Christmas staple. ❤😊
I grew up in Texas and really don't remember these I remember cheese ball dips and little smokies in BBQ sauce or sweet sauce. I also remember meatballs in a slow cooker. 😂. Most definitely thanks for taking me back.
Interesting! I have always made "pickle" rolls with green olives! I think I need to try pickles. Anna, I made the Tropical cheeseball(with unsweetened coconut) and the Pistachio fluff(aka Watergate salad) for a party on Friday and they were a big hit!
My mother sometimes made something similar to these pickle roll ups only she used jarred pickled asparagus and sometimes jarred pickled green beans. Usually with cream cheese and Turkey though. We were not a ham family when i was growing up. Great video! ❤
That "yes yes yes" during the Bugle Dip bit had very strong Nicholas Cage energy. My family was definitely a Salami wrapping for our Midwest Sushi, but I can appreciate the even-ness of the rectangle ham. :D
Everything looks so good! Growing up my parents would have large Christmas parties and my favorite appetizer was cream cheese chipped beef balls using the Buddig chipped beef in the packet. We would make tons of them and I could eat my weight in those! Such good memories!
My aunt makes that every holiday. She's gone the easy route and just leaves it in the bowl. Not as pretty, but we take any leftovers home and then we fight over them. It's just never as good when I make it myself
I have found 5 different Bugle dip recipes and every one is different and the cute part is nearly all say something like this is how my family made it… That’s so cool that different families had different recipes for Bugles… I remember they were cheaper than regular potato chips and I guess that’s why they were so popular from the 60’s on. I know I just liked having them as finger hats before popping them in my mouth when I was a little kid 😂😂
Instantly recognized ma’s pickled pigs on your thumbnail. Oddly enough she didn’t start making them until we left Iowa for Texas, but they’ve been a hit everywhere I’ve offered them.
So, I guess the Rumaki turned out good!! When you were basting them, I was worried that the sugar in the BBQ sauce would cause them to burn before the bacon was cooked through, but it looks just fine! I would have been scared, and cooked them halfway, then took them out and dunked them. I think I would mix a tablespoon of soy sauce in with that BBQ sauce, too.
My momma made the ham/cream cheese rolls a lot growing up. They were a staple at baby showers, etc. She didn't use pickles in hers, but I've had them at church suppers. Time to make some. Lol. Thanks Anna.
I think the red specks in the Bugles dip were chili powder. I'm from the Midwest and my mother made a cheese log (log, not a ball...lol) that had a dash of chili powder in it.
Have you tried any of these recipes? Let me know in the comments! ❤
I love the Rumaki. My father made it in the 70's and used half chicken liver and water chestnut in each one. The sauce was Teriyaki, not BBQ. Also, the Bugle dip looks great.
our family has made the pickles with budding corned beef around the pickle and cream cheese. 🙂
Yes, I have made the ham, pickles, cream cheese apps for years. And the rumaki with the chicken lovers. YUMMY!!!!
Correction: Chicken LIVERS?!
I make the bacon wrapped water chestnuts, but I do mine with a blend of Heinz chili sauce, brown sugar, and a little bit of mayo. They are absolutely delicious. I bake them unsauced until they are mostly rendered before I add sauce, bake a bit longer, sauce again, and then finish off. This minimized the burning of any sugared sauce mixture and allows the bacon to crisp up better.
On party nights, we kids were relegated to the playroom with an older/teen “babysitter.” We were served our very own appetizer tray: it consisted of the ends, sloppy ones, smushed ones, slightly burnt ones, ripped crust ones, and outright mishaps shaped into bite-sized things on a cocktail pick. We were none the wiser and we gleefully polished off every morsel while playing Twister, The Barbie Game, or Charades. ❤
Twister! Or for me the Dating Game. Or cards. Canasta or Gin Rummy were favorites.
The sloppy ones & the ends are always the best bc they have extra good stuff inside!! I always felt so special as a kid, like my mom/grandma made those ones just for me. 🥰
I love this! 😂
I think I know what your grandmother's "Bugel dip" recipe was. This dip recipe is an older recipe that was very popular at one time. 8 ounce package of cream cheese, 5 ounce jar of kraft Old English spread in the glass jar, 1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce, and 1/2 tsp garlic powder
I remember that as a kid. That’s what we would eat with it.
I remember that, too! Now i want to make it to see if it stands the test of time. Thank you for that! Happiest New Year 💚🙏🕊
So, I just picked up my phone and "googled" Bugle Dip" and WoW recipes (all very similar) popped up.....
Good Luck
I remember that as being the base for most cheese balls in the 70’s and early 80’s as well… it’s a good foundation for a lot of yum cheesy stuff.
As a newlywed in the early 90s I made pickle rolls with deli roast beef and german mustard spread on after the cream cheese and diced red onion thrown in. They were like cold rouladen.
That's what I'm making this year .. rouladen 🥰
Yes. When I moved east and got married I traded the ham for beef, added roasted red pepper, chopped, to the cream cheese, or added horseradish to it.
I make them with dried beef and a little horse radish in the cream cheese
I'm loving the comments on this video - everyone has memories of these recipes but "slightly" different! We used 2 slices of ham on our roll-ups, and my mom's version of the water chestnuts was to coat the bacon in brown sugar before wrapping them. I remember seeing them come out of the oven and being told I couldn't eat them for AN HOUR because "the caramel will burn your tongue right off". 😂
In mid-Michigan we opt for the ham rolls with green onion instead of pickle. Its a tradition for my MIL to bring a truckload every year! 🎄❤️
I'm a michigander and have always used green onions. 😊
My family has made the pickle rolls for decades, except we use canned asparagus instead of dill pickles. Because asparagus is much thinner, you simply roll them tighter. If anyone finds the tartness of the pickle too much, try it with asparagus instead 😊
I hate dill pickles; asparagus sounds like a good substitution.
I think picked asparagus would be a nice choice also.
Pickled asparagus.
Ahh... I grew up in simpler times - only two ingredients! ;-) The "holiday" appetizer I remember is the old Lipton onion soup mix, blended in to sour cream as a dip for chips. As I said, simpler times.
I do remember later though (I had already left home by this point) my mother making little hotdogs in a super simple barbecue sauce in chafing dish. It was 1/2 cup each of ketchup, brown sugar and bourbon. Bring to boil, reduce heat and add two packages cocktail hot dogs. I'm pretty sure she used the ones called Little Smokies. Keep warm and serve in a chafing dish (or crockpot). This recipe is definitely old enough for your channel - early 1970s!
My mother made a dip when she had no Lipton or Mrs. Grass's onion soup mix, that was about 1/2 cup minced onion with the juice, an 8 ounce package of cream cheese, and milk to thin to dip consistency. I add a grinding of black pepper to mine, but it's really optional.
When I was a young military wife, the big thing was the cocktail hot dogs or meatballs in grape jelly with a couple hits of Tobasco. Sound icky, really yummy.
@@loriloristuff Oh yes! I had forgotten the meatballs in grape jelly. It was surprisingly good (or at least I thought so at the time).
I’ve definitely eaten onion soup mix mixed with sour cream as chip dip.
Oh, thank you for the Little Smokies recipe! I am planning on bringing it to an early Christmas community dinner we’re having this week, and I can’t for the life of me remember how my mother (who passed at age 97 in 2019) made it. I do know she used either or both crushed canned pineapples and apple jelly. I can’t find a decent apple jelly, so I found a delicious peach jam made with Amaretto (perhaps my favorite liqueur) that I’m going to use. It was delicious! Honestly, I don’ think you can go wrong with Little Smokies and just about anything! Happy Holidays! 🧑🏼🎄🎄
Anna, those electric skillets were so handy! I’ll bet your mom and I are about the same age. My mom always used an electric skillet for so many meals. Surely they must still be available, just not as popular as they were with my mom’s generation of housewives and moms. I think an electric skillet would be perfect for keeping an appetizer like Rumaki warm. Happy Holidays! 🧑🏼🎄🎄
Looked up bugle recipes and this one looked like the color of the dip it contained 8 oz cream cheese softened , 1/2 cup yellow onions chopped, 1/3 cup tomato salsa, 1/4 cup ketchup, 3 tbsp mayonnaise, and 1 tsp garlic powder, and salt and pepper seasoned to taste. It’s called bugle cheese dip but may not be the original. Going to send to my brother as he loves bugles.
One of the bugle dip recipes called for Western salad dressing which was a favorite of mine back then!
Try Bugles with green onion dip! It was my favorite snack in the 80s. :)
I can’t believe you didn’t do the classic block of cream cheese with shrimp (or Krab) with Heinz chili sauce dumped over the top. Served on a ritz!
I am allergic to shellfish, otherwise I would!
Oh, we did pepper jelly poured over the block of cream cheese, served with Ritz crackers. So good! Depending on the pepper jelly you get (like, jalapeno peppers or hot peppers) it can be really spicy or not, but the cream cheese cuts the spice.
@@e.urbach7780 I love the cream cheese & pepper jelly combo!
I love this! Making it for Christmas.
I've made the pickle rolls and bacon water chest nuts EVERY CHRISTMAS EVE for as long as I can remember. This year is no different. Love them!
Yes bacon water chestnuts have been a staple since the early-mid 90’s. Some apps are truly timeless. I know in my early 20’s I felt very sophisticated making them lol 😅
Rumaki has been around a long while. I have it in a cookbook from 1966.
I heard the first ones called "fish eyes" back in the 1990's. YUM!
Anything wrapped in bacon was fancy to me as a kid. ❤
I’m 15 years older than you but I too remember these party appetizers. Definitely a Mid-West thing, good times. I thought of another one while watching you. Meatballs, a jar of chili sauce and a jar of grape jelly in the crockpot. Yum-O ! Thanks for sharing. Merry Christmas 🎄
We made those same meatballs in my middle school Home Ec class! ☺
In the south east we did meatballs, tiny smoky sausages chili sauce and grape jelly…
I love bacon wrapped dates. My tapas place serves them with a red pepper sauce. Also amazing if you stuff the date with goat cheese or an almond.
I also love bacon wrapped dates! and goat cheese. and almonds! Ok now I need to go out for Tapas. 😂
Oh, I know those bacon-wrapped dates as "angels on horseback"! I like stuffing some cream cheese inside the date, where the pit was, and then baking the bacon-wrapped dates until they are heated through and the bacon is crispy. Haven't made those in years, but they are so good!
I'll stuff dates with goat cheese or even a small bit of sharp cheddar. Great little snack.
My sons had an international food night at school and a classmate brought the ham/pickle rolls and said it was a Polish dish. I never knew it was a midwestern thing. They tasted great.
Shaking my head the whole time. As a born East Coaster from the Finger Lakes area of NY, we had none of these except the electric skillet! 😃 We did mini sausages in grape jelly/bbq sauce, the wine cheese and nut ball w/ Ritz crackers and such like. Wishing you a Merry Christmas - thank you for your hard work and delightful laugh/smile. 🎄(also a huge ALDI fan!)
My parents always made rumaki for their New Years Eve parties in the 1960s & 70s, I was still very little, but my oldest sister remembers Mom using small slices of chicken livers in them. When I was older, in the 1970s she'd gotten a bit lazy and was just using a lump of chopped chicken liver paste. I remember the taste vividly, I loved the savory marinade and the crunch of the water chestnut, and well, who doesn't love bacon? The earthy taste of the liver, I wasn't wild about, but it worked with everything else.
Now I have to make these. All variants, liver, chopped liver and sans liver.
I look forward to your videos every Sunday. They really lift my spirits. I too love vintage recipes. Thanks for all your hard work to bring us these videos. Merry Christmas!
Thank you for your kind comment. I'm so glad to hear that my videos lift your spirits! Merry Christmas! 🎄
Such a great video! Pickle rolla on Christmas afternoon party time!! Merry Christmas, Anna 🎄
Omg BUGLES! Now it’s a party.
I've never seen your channel before. Cooking the Books is a hilarious name!!!
“The chef’s treat” is now in my vocabulary. Thank you
I catered weddings and big parties in the 80s. Bacon wrapped waterchessnuts were fancy wedding cocktail hour nibbles.
You're the most real cook on RUclips and I'm 100% here for it! Love your recipes. I think I need a 90s theme party with all these appetizers!
Aw thank you so much! I am pretty much the same IRL as I am on RUclips. 😄
Yes, 100% my mom would make something similar…I grew up in Michigan. We would use one 5oz jar of Kraft Old English, one 5oz jar Pimento Cheese, & one 5oz jar of Roka Blue. Couple dashes of tobasco and a little garlic powder and onion powder.
My mom puts horseradish in the cream cheese. It's so good.
1981? Me too!
I was 15 in 1990. Good times! I'm not a fan of water chestnuts but I do love to wrap bacon around pineapple and bake it.
I'm totally here for the 90's stuff, even if it's not technically "vintage". It's nostalgic for us millennials! I didn't grow up with any of these, so it's interesting to see what kinds of snacks or appetizers others folks grew up eating. We mostly had guacamole, queso, and salsa. Or pigs in blankets.
I love this idea of recreating your childhood faves from memory. cooking without a recipe is so fun!
Every Christmas my husband makes Rumaki using chicken livers wrapped in bacon.
I've done ham, cream cheese and pickled okra...delicious.
From Ohio and I love pickle rolls. I just use thinly sliced corned beef instead but I still love them in the 2020’s!
This one really brings back the memories! The pickle rolls never disappoint. Back in the 60s my mom used Buddig beef for these, both with and without the pickles. I've also had slices of salami rolled with just the cream cheese. People just can't stop eating them! There are almost never any leftovers.
It takes real effort to use today’s tissue paper-thin Buddig beef! Still deciding if it’s worth it
We make the pickle rolls with dried beef. I like the Armour brand that comes in a jar. It’s super salty but we like it that way. I cut the pickle into spears to account for the smaller diameter of the dried beef.
Oh god those bacon wrapped deep-fried chestnuts, this was New Years Eve for all of the 1990’s.
Love those pickle things, so Midwestern lol. They're also really good with a layer of that chipped beef in a jar that you can get at most grocery stores.
I kinda remember that dip at parties. recipes were so easy to find. usually in the coupon sections of the paper.
Your Bugles dip reminds me vaguely of the taco sour cream dip I remember from my childhood. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane!
I'm 20, but my mom mas made bacon wrap water chestnuts many times for parties! (she was a teen in the early 90s)
I've never had the pickle roll ups like this. I'll give it a try though. I've only had pickle roll ups using salami, cream cheese & a baby/petite pickle. Another favorite is the chipped/dried beef cream cheese ball with scallions. Yum! You're such a joy to watch! I always catch myself smiling at some long forgotten memory while watching you make the vintage recipes 😊 thanks!
My family uses green onion instead of pickle. Just trim the green part that doesn't fit. Krakus is the ham of choice.
My family also uses green onion. I’m from northern Michigan. Maybe it was a regional thing?
@@yazarc I'm from northern Illinois so maybe it is regional. I had it once in Iowa and it was made from pickles, but not a whole pickle, only a quarter. I thought those were good too.
Omg the memories.
I grew up just above the West Virginia border in PA, I remember my relatives making mini pepperoni rolls, pizzelles, pirogies, Swedish meatballs, so many tasty memories 😋
I moved to the south, since then, I’ve introduced my in-laws to a whole lot of different foods from my neck of the woods 😅
OMG these recipes take me back to my childhood. I love pickle rolls, and I remember a bugle dip but i have no clue what was in it. once in a while me and my husband just have appetizer nights for dinner, I will make sausage balls, bacon wrapped little smokies, cheese ball, pickle rolls and The lime Party punch( we always use lime kool aid but you can use any flavor) but its basically, kool aid, pineapple juice and ginger ale. I love those nights. To me appetizer are more comfort food than a bowl of mac and cheese is to some lol. I love your videos and cant wait to watch more. As a cookbook collector myself I love seeing other appreciate and love them as much as I do
What's not to like.....some pig, some cow and a Veges rep. Love it
YES!! ALWAYS blot the ham and the pickles!!
Such an important step!
Love your videos. Love your laugh. Its just like hanging out with my bff. 😊
My mom always made those bacon-wrapped water chestnuts!
The ham and creamed cheese is one of my favorites!!!! My Aunt made those in the 80s and I thought she was a genius, lol.
My mom would buy port wine cheese spread for "fancy occasions." She had a brown crock with a swing clamp lid. Wish I had that crock, now.. For New Year's one year while we were on our winter break, my friend decided to make rumaki. Just the water chestnuts, bacon, and bbq sauce. She used mint flavored toothpicks. Would not recommend!🤣
Omg MINT flavored toothpicks!! I'm dying! 😂
Those little brown crocks show up at goodwill's all the time, or they used to.
I have made the pickle rolls, but use refrigerated dills. I have also made them with green onion in the center instead of pickle. everyone loves them.
Pickle rolls AKA Hoosier sushi!! Great recipes. I'm making two of them for Christmas Eve!! Thank you!
Pickle rolls in my house were made with dried beef. It was crazy salty but tasty as can be.
My mom would make the pickle rolls with buddig beef when it was square. She would use pickle spears and leave them whole. Cheese, pickles and beef. How can you go wrong. Thank you for taking me back in time.
Glad my video could help bring back a nice memory. ☺
We called these ham rolls and we use the zesty dill pickles, yum!
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My mom, since at least the 1970's, would always make ham and cream cheese pinwheels for any appetizer occasion. She'd mix finely diced green pepper, dehydrated onion, garlic powder, season salt, and worcestershire sauce into the cream cheese and spread it on the rectangular ham slices like you do here. No pickles, just the cream cheese mixture and ham. They were SO GOOD. I haven't had them in years. I'm going to make them this year, thank you for reminding me of them!
Huh. That is almost exactly the recipe for a standard cheese ball! Sounds like your mom got creative!
@@staceyn2541 That is highly likely!
I grew up with Pickle Rolls as well! We used pickle spears and my parents would add prepared horseradish to the cream cheese - YUM! I think these will be making a comeback at my holiday get togethers this year. Thank you for the nostalgic video :)
Horseradish would be such a great addition! I might have to try that. There's a local bagel place here that mixes up their own blend of cream cheese with horseradish, black pepper, and thyme. 😋
Midwest gal myself and your first one, pickle rolls, bring back great memories. I haven't made them in a while though. Perhaps I should.
We called pickle 🥒 rolls ... pickle in the middle! My daughter loves them to this day and she's 33! She will say," mom, make pickle in the middles"!
I had those pickle rolls at my first wedding reception in 1988 and my aunt made them for me as a gift! I don't think I've had them since then but I still crave them. I might have to make some! We called them Pickle Pinwheels in South Carolina. They really are delicious! Now you also have me craving Bugles with that dip! Kraft might not make that port wine cheese spread anymore. I spent forever the other night looking for their Roka blue cheese spread (another classic vintage favorite that they also sold in a glass jar!) which apparently is rarely sold and I could only find jars for $17 and up online. It seems like a lot of our great ingredients are dying out.
My store still carries the Kraft cheese spread. It's in with the crackers and cheese in a can. My store, top shelf, so look up.
I remember roka blue cheese! I had forgotten about that, sadly they discontinued it in 2020. Now I only see the old english cheese. We used to save the jars as glasses that us kids used for koolaid!
I grew up in the early 70’s. We always had a dip on Christmas Eve…ketchup/catsup added to sour cream…so yummy & easy! Dip w ruffles chips.
My mom did the bacon wrapped water chestnuts. And that was a special holiday appetizer.
I make the bacon wrapped water chestnuts, but I do mine with a blend of Heinz chili sauce, brown sugar, and a little bit of mayo. They are absolutely delicious. I bake them unsauced until they are mostly rendered before I add sauce, bake a bit longer, sauce again, and then finish off. This minimized the burning of any sugared sauce mixture and allows the bacon to crisp up better.
I just made the bacon wrapped water chestnuts yesterday for a family gathering. My adult son always requests them. I don't brush them with any sauce before or while baking. We dunk them in chili sauce as we eat them. Delicious and never any left. The other appetizers sound tasty!
@@juliatepe5760 I'll have to try that without adding ingredients to make a glaze, probably healthier too lol.
Your pinch and dash grandma makes me think of mine! She always made what we call pea salad at Christmas time (“pea salad on earth” 😂). My aunt makes it now and had to figure out measurements for the rest of us to make it, based on how she always had it. Shell pasta, cubes of velveeta, olives, onions, peas, other things I don’t remember. Very mid-century but so good and an absolute tradition in my family.
still buy port wine cheese for Christmas- a homage to my Mom - had every year and only at Christmas in the 60's and 70's when I took over the holidays- I kept up the tradition in the 60's it came in a brown stoneware crock
My mom (84) still makes the pickle rolls. She calls them Lutheran Sushi
These all look so tasty - and simple! 😋Enjoyed hearing you talk about these in the context of your childhood holiday food. It brought to mind making “finger foods” as a kid with my mom at Christmas time for when we had visitors - two in particular, pitted dates stuffed with peanut butter and then rolled in granulated sugar, and dried beef spread with cream cheese (something like your pickle rolls without pickles) and rolled and sliced to make “pinwheels.” Thank you for sharing these recipes!
Chuckling at the dip. Asking mom about something that’s such a memory and they have no clue what you’re talking about! We have a toxic trait of making things once and never making them again! I love this video! Thanks for sharing. The pickle rolls are a Christmas staple. ❤😊
Another favorite at our house was baked rueben dip and the little party rye slices.
A good friend of mine makes reuben dip a her signature party app. I absolutely love it! 😋
I love Ruben Dip with those little party rye slices!
I grew up in Texas and really don't remember these I remember cheese ball dips and little smokies in BBQ sauce or sweet sauce. I also remember meatballs in a slow cooker. 😂. Most definitely thanks for taking me back.
Interesting! I have always made "pickle" rolls with green olives! I think I need to try pickles. Anna, I made the Tropical cheeseball(with unsweetened coconut) and the Pistachio fluff(aka Watergate salad) for a party on Friday and they were a big hit!
Oh I love to hear that you tried some of the recipe I shared! Glad they were a hit. ❤
The last recipe sounds like Fireside cheese dip.
My mother sometimes made something similar to these pickle roll ups only she used jarred pickled asparagus and sometimes jarred pickled green beans. Usually with cream cheese and Turkey though. We were not a ham family when i was growing up.
Great video! ❤
My family fills Bugles with spray cheese. Its a total salt bomb but I swear its so addictive!
I love the pickle ham roll-ups. We ate them in Atlanta, so not just a Midwestern thing
I made the pickles, ham and cream cheese slices for 2 different groups of people and they were a big hit. Thanks for sharing recipe.
That "yes yes yes" during the Bugle Dip bit had very strong Nicholas Cage energy.
My family was definitely a Salami wrapping for our Midwest Sushi, but I can appreciate the even-ness of the rectangle ham. :D
Everything looks so good! Growing up my parents would have large Christmas parties and my favorite appetizer was cream cheese chipped beef balls using the Buddig chipped beef in the packet. We would make tons of them and I could eat my weight in those! Such good memories!
I love a good cheeseball! 😋
My aunt makes that every holiday. She's gone the easy route and just leaves it in the bowl. Not as pretty, but we take any leftovers home and then we fight over them. It's just never as good when I make it myself
I have found 5 different Bugle dip recipes and every one is different and the cute part is nearly all say something like this is how my family made it…
That’s so cool that different families had different recipes for Bugles… I remember they were cheaper than regular potato chips and I guess that’s why they were so popular from the 60’s on.
I know I just liked having them as finger hats before popping them in my mouth when I was a little kid 😂😂
Instantly recognized ma’s pickled pigs on your thumbnail. Oddly enough she didn’t start making them until we left Iowa for Texas, but they’ve been a hit everywhere I’ve offered them.
So, I guess the Rumaki turned out good!! When you were basting them, I was worried that the sugar in the BBQ sauce would cause them to burn before the bacon was cooked through, but it looks just fine! I would have been scared, and cooked them halfway, then took them out and dunked them. I think I would mix a tablespoon of soy sauce in with that BBQ sauce, too.
I used to make bacon wrapped chicken livers instead of the water chestnuts. Yummy!
We had a variation of the pickle rolls.. we made them with baby gerkins…the little sweet pickles! 😊
I've had the pickle rolls with small sweet pickles. Good.
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Pickle rolls aka lunch for me. Love those.
We always made them with cocktail onions and green olives instead of pickles. Family favorite. Rolled them the other direction so we got more.
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In PA we put sweet Lebanon Bologna wrapped with cream cheese
Loved watching you recreate a recipe you remembered from childhood. It's such a great feeling when you figure it out!
What a fun video! I can't wait to make those pickle rolls. Bugles have been discontinued in Canada! I know, I hear the gasps of horror too.
We would cut pickles in quarters lengthwise
Our dip had the cheese in the jar but not the port wine one. It also had Mayo and deviled ham. Always served with Bugels.
My momma made the ham/cream cheese rolls a lot growing up. They were a staple at baby showers, etc. She didn't use pickles in hers, but I've had them at church suppers. Time to make some. Lol. Thanks Anna.
we did a jar of hot Pace Picante(the thinner og stuff, not chunky) over a warmed block of cream cheese. Eaten with corn chips.
I think the red specks in the Bugles dip were chili powder. I'm from the Midwest and my mother made a cheese log (log, not a ball...lol) that had a dash of chili powder in it.
Making my mouth water!
This reminds me of something my dad used to make . Mix cream cheese with French dressing and dip in Fritos ! Yum