We eat rice porridge cooked with raisins and a cinnamon stick. It's served with milk, granulated sugar, and cinnamon. An old tradition is to put an almond in the pot, and whoever gets the almond is destined to get married in the following year.
Not all of your viewers would know about Meijer. It's only in six states in the Midwest. I retired from one in Indianapolis earlier this year after working there over 27 years. Still shop there all the time.I love your videos.😊
@@lindacombs7424 We have them here in Ohio, and I've gotten some good deals there. I even started getting my vaccines through their pharmacy. It's such a nice big open store, and the pharmacy is very efficient.
Back in the 80's, my Grandma and Grandpa were over at my brother's to visit for their great-grandbaby's bday. My grandpa mistook potpourri in a bowl on the coffee table as a snack. He ate a small handful of it, chewed it FOREVER, and didn't say a word about it after he ate it. One of the funniest memories I have of him.
Giggling because this happened to my Dad too! At my niece''s apartment! We were there for a holiday get together and Dad helped himself to the bowl of "snack mix" which was actually a bowl of potpourri. ❤😂
Your channel popped up on my feed, and I’m so glad it did! I love your cooking and presentation style! Im a 69 yo baby boomer, so your recipes bring back all kinds of memories. I’m a fan!❤
Oooo I have a muffin pan tip for if you’re not using the whole pan! If you fill the empty cavities with water to the same height as the wells in use, then everything will bake as evenly as it normally would. It also helps your bake time match the original recipe.
Thanks for this tip. I had a muffin pan that got warped because I didn’t fill all the wells when I baked something in the oven. Next time I will use your tip and I won’t have a wrecked muffin pan at the end. 😁❤️
It may be June 2024 but I am totally making this for a light supper (in the toaster oven). The ham & broccoli roll-ups will be a huge hit with fruit salad (which is a regular menu item for us). I might make the rolls and raspberry starter, idk. Thanks for this menu. Have a blessed day 💖✝
I still have these Pillsbury Christmas booklets. They published many but the Christmas ones are the best. When you held it up, I said I have that book!!!
I still have mine, too, and I also recognized this one immediately! The Double Chocolate Spritz cookies are a favourite. The Land O'Lakes booklets were also excellent. I have many of those too. One of my greatest treasures is a tattered copy of Margo Oliver's Weekend Cookbook, I think from the 70s, that was my mom's. We made so many things from that book, and it still has her handwritten notes. Thanks for a fabulous video.
Hehehe, Hubby and I were married in 1982. One of our favorite hobbies is to go antiquing. When we first started going, we would notice things that were in our grandparents' homes. Then has years go by, it was things that were in our parents' homes. We went out this past fall to an antique mall and found many things that are in our home now! Wedding gifts we received all those years ago, are now located in the antique stores. Made us laugh because it has come full circle now with our 'stuff.' So yes, the 80's are considered vintage now. Growing up in the 60's and 70's my mother only bought concentrated juice. She would always say, 'I'm not paying extra for the water when I can have it for free at home.' I gave up buying concentrated juices a long time ago.
Please do a video of microwave only vintage recipes! I was a teenager in the 80s and remember the microwave craze. I really only use the microwave now for reheating…but my mom to this day uses the microwave to cook all sorts of things. 🤔
Keep in mind in the 80's we had browning trays to cook food on in the microwave to get a good color on it so the other menu might have been good back then (but I doubt it lol). Anything I ever cooked in the microwave was a huge flop. My first microwave my Mom got for me for college in 1985 and she thought we could make chicken in it. The chicken never got cooked no matter how long we microwaved it. Neither one of us knew that the wattage of the microwave had a lot to do with how food cooked. Mine never made anything but popcorn and half the time it was burnt because we didn't buy it in the bags - it was too expensive! I had an apparatus that was supposed to perfectly pop corn in it, which never happened. IMO the microwave is only good for making cake in mugs, popcorn & nachos, quick (extra crispy) bacon and to warm things up. I think the menu you chose looks really yummy, so yummy that I might make it this Christmas Day for brunch. I love watching your channel and the recipes you make. Loads of fun!! Merry Christmas!
These were great! Also a possibly helpful note: I learned a couple months ago that Pillsbury's crescent rolls are vegan. (I'm not sure about other brands). They allowed me to provide my vegan sister and SIL an equally tasty (and MUCH easier to make) alternative to the standard cinnamon rolls I brought to a family event.
I had to laugh when you held up the cookbook. I bought this new back in 1987. I made the broccoli ham sleepover rolls and everyone really liked it. I made some cookies from it in the past, but when you flashed a page in the back, I made those Chocolate-Dipped Dried Apricots. They were just OK but at the time, dried apricots were like hard tack. I still own the book. Great vid and it did bring back memories.
In Poland there's an old timey candy made with dried prunes soaked in alcohol, stuffed with a walnut and dipped in chocolate. I bet soaking the apricots in something fruity would make them softer and more flavorful. It doesn't necessarily have to be alcohol if you're making them.
@Miss_Kisa94 I have soaked apricots and other dried fruits in apple juice, orange juice, cranberry juice even ginger ale successfully fir my sober living family. Personally, I love the booze soaked fruits. But I love my family more. I also got this book circa '87/''88. I was home from college and cooking up a storm. I felt very fancy.
@@Miss_Kisa94 I think it was 🇬🇧📺Two Fat Ladies making devils on horseback who mentioned when using dried fruit you can soak them overnight in tea to help the flavor too.
I have no problem watching you get into whatever you're making, lol. It all looks very tasty. I was a kid in the late 50s-early 60s but am fine with 80s food. I remember when ham, broccoli and cheese became a thing with my mom. Now that I'm on the older "vintage" side (near 70), I'm especially fond of Corelle dishes because they take up so little room in my cupboard and don't weigh a ton. I have the Woodland Brown set. (I can testify that a Corelle plate can shatter into a million places, though, lol). In a small thrift store a few years ago, I was thrilled to find a box of a Corelle Christmas pattern (green line, holly berries), just the plates and small coffee mugs, and I grabbed them. I like the red-green pattern so well I just incorporated the Christmas set into my everyday dishes and use them both year round.
This could only be better if you had an 80's Corelle Christmas dinner plate and a Christmas glass from Arby's. I never had that little cookbooklet but it definitely looks like the kinds of recipes that were in magazines then. Refrigerated crescent rolls used to be much higher quality back then. This was a fun video and brought back a lot of good 80's memories, thank you.
I used to make the same things for my kids growing up in the early 70s. Making food look fancy was the only way for me to get them to eat veggies. No recipe just using my imagination. Simple and delicious. Who knew recipes existed.
If you cut fresh ginger into small pieces, you can freeze them. Then when you are cooking you can pull out a piece and use a zester to add it to your recipe. Fresh ginger really amps up the flavor.
I love Pillsbury Kitchens cook book I have one. My mom would cook several things from that cook book. After she passed I got the cookbook and Started to cook a few meals and treats from it
Growing up, for Christmas morning my mom would just use the crescent rolls as rolls but before rolling, she would spread a butter/cinnamon/brown sugar/nut mixture down, roll, bake then top with the icing. So easy and good
I don’t know why but the broccoli sleepover gave me such a strong mental image/memory of the 1989(?) Disney Christmas sing along songs animation with all the kids sleeping in the bed and Santa uses an umbrella to stretch (and close the hole in) one of the stockings so the gifts fit. 😆🎄
Ok, this was my FAVORITE episode so far! I grew up in the 80s and my mom was always trying the trendy recipes of the day and she totally would have made these! Fruit soups, chocolate soups were super cool then! This book was totally showing middle class housewives how to do 80s yuppie cooking. All the trendy suburban moms were making stuff like this in the 80s. I hope you eventually cover: stir frys, pasta salads and microwave recipes. Sounds really boring now, but those were new then and wok and microwave cooking were all the rage in the 1980s!!❤❤❤
Interesting that the compote is called a 'compote' - I think, in the UK, we would just call that a fruit salad (a fancy one to be fair) and use compote for a pure fruit jam. Also, did anyone else see the cheese and pineapple hedgehog at 80s parties? It was essentially, half a grapefruit covered in foil with cocktail sticks of pineaple chunks, cheddar cheese, and glace cherries shoved in. It was, er, the height of sophiscation.
My mum used to make apple compote and sometimes rhubarb compote. It was like a half cooked puré with chunks of the fruit, and you'd eat it with milk. The Swedish variation of your hedhog was an erect cucumber in a flowerpot. It was supposed to resemble a cactus.😳 The childrens variation of this was the same cucumber cactus but with pieces of candy on the toothpicks. 🫣 It was the eighties. Need I say more?
I used to love those little cook books. They often had easy recipes that were great for working mom’s to have some quick holiday recipes. I especially liked the holiday ones.
Throwing this out there for the few who may not know. When pre-2000ish recipes call for canned tuna, pay attention to the ounces. The small tuna cans used to be about 7 to 7.5 ounces but today they are only 5 ounces so you'll need to use 3 cans if the recipe calls for 2 small cans. Also, don't waste the liquid down the drain but give it to the dog or cat and add a bit of water to weaken the sodium. Yes, I have a couple of those booklets and one is just crescent rolls.
My daughter was born in 1981. I was active duty US Air Force, married to active duty US Air Force. I can't recall how many times I'd have to whip up a formal dinner for 6 to 8, after flying a 12 hour sortie, with a toddler! ANYTHING I could do ahead, I did. I'd even set the table days in advance, with a sheet over it to make sure no dust settled! I had to call the tower to remind my husband to pick up the flowers for the centerpiece. He would forget and humble yard flowers had to make do. Cheeseballs and crackers can be done a week in advance. Somehow I managed to not smell like jet fuel as I changed into dinner dress. No wonder I said farewell to the Air Force after 20 years. 🎉
When you said broccoli in a sleeping bag I can jut picture an animated advertiement with dancing broccoli wrapping themselve up in ham and jumping into a pan to be covered in the egg mixture to be cooked. lol
Not all of your viewers would know about Meijer it's only in six states in the Midwest. I retired from one in Indianapolis earlier this year after working there over 27 years. I still shop there all the time.I love your videos. 😊
There was a cake mix for the oven that came with the pan and frosting. It was what spurred my love of baking and cooking. It was a dry cake, or at least it was for me. I was between 10 and 12 when I used them. By the time I was 12, I was using my grandmas old cookbooks to bake and cook with. I wasn't allowed to experiment much as my mom had certain food adversions and difficulty in chewing certain things. I love these shows as they bring back many good memories. Thank you.
As a fellow “vintage” person (I’m also 42 lol) wow those recipes brought back some memories! I do remember those microwavable cakes and I recall they kinda reminded me of the brownies in tv dinners
Everything looks so good! I got married and became a wife in 1988 and that roll-ups recipe is SO 1980's! I can imagine myself making those back then. Your commentary during the construction process really made me laugh. I still don't know what the onion rings are for but they do seem very 80's. I do remember that microwaves were at their height in popularity (and cost!) during the 80s and most every from-scratch recipe that I cooked in them was just....off. I can remember people trying to cook entire Thanksgiving turkeys in them! Um...no....don't. I've got to tell you that my days are generally very stressful and sometimes traumatic and one of my favorite ways to decompress is to watch your videos.
This was so great!!! It really brought back memories of my own youth. I liked the ham wrapped broccoli as it was on it own, without the egg and served cold. But i'll bet that if you put those ham wrapped broccoli into Twinkie baking tray, and put each one into each Twinkie form, and then poured egg over each one, that would look pretty cool.
I bought those little cookbooks so often that my mom finally got me a subscription! Must've been late 90s when I was newly married. I was so excited to read through every new issue when they came in the mail! The recipes were always very doable. I still have a shelf of these books that I haven't been able to part with - I'm going to pull a few out tomorrow and find something to make! Really fun episode, and core memories unlocked! 😊
It’d be kinda cool to do a comparison video of a vintage “checkout aisle” magazine vs. a modern one to see how recipe trends have changed over time. I also can’t remember if modern grocery stores have books like this one still but I’m definitely keeping my eye out the next time I’m in line!
The grocery stores, where I live, Central Coast, CA do😃 They have Taste of Home and things like that. However…..they cost as much as as buying a book 🤦♀️ I just look on line now 😉☺️🕊
Just bought a collection of pillsbury cookbook from the 80s just like the one shown in the video at my local library. It has a huge collection in each binder. Thanks for sharing this video!!
I used to buy those books all of the time for various holidays when I was picking up the TV Guide! That entire menu really does look very appetizing and very doable!
Woot woot! Waited all week. 1988 is still vintage, 35 years. I wonder how the raspberry soup would be heated. Either way, I think you've got a winner there. But I am in the pro-raspberry camp. Yes, there were crescent rolls in 1988, and there were crescent sheets as well. There was also pizza in a tube that Pillsbury offered. Another quick yummy recipe! You have a Giant Eagle? Kudos! I do have several Aldis, 2 Meijers, 2 Pick 'n Save (Kroger), and several Festival Foods (independent but use Albertson's house brands). All in all, very festive and delicious!
great nostalgic video, I was a new bride and picked up a couple of those cookbooks in the grocery aisle. also, yes to a microwave menu! thank you for the smiles, and I might have to try those roll-ups.
Pillsbury also had little cookie booklets they put inside their 5 lb bags of flour at Christmas time. I have one taped on a recipe card in my Better Homes and Garden Cookbook. It is well worn. I really enjoyed this video. Thanks for sharing!
In 1988 I was 15, so I'm in between vintage and antique. Those almond sticky buns look super delicious! I'm going to make the broccoli and ham (should have put a ring on it) roll-ups and almond sticky buns for my next fancy-pants brunch.
In 1980's I was in my twenties and just getting into cooking. Had a cold cherry soup at a restaurant. Had to make it. It was a starter to a meal. Pretty much canned cherries, sour cream and almond extract as I recall. Talking to a friend about making it again since I recently discovered some lovely, canned Oregon cherries. Try the cherry soup. Remember in the 1980's brunches were a big deal also. Love your broccoli in sleeping bags!
💝💝💝 Cooked in the 80's for my, at the time, 7 year old son! Cooked brunch from Betty Crocker. Love this menu. Going to make! Thank you. Have so many of those little books I passed on to my daughter. Wish I had kept them. Will just pick up some of the new ones. Yes, they are still put out by all kinds of companies!!! Thank you so much!!! ❇❇❇
I came across your channel this year because I have an interest in food history, but I was immediately drawn because you remind me so much of a wonderful co-worker I had who was so nice and so much fun to be around. This video, however, threw me back to the 1980s, with my mother, as we both excitedly and anxiously tried out new recipes for her office Christmas party. It was a sweet remembrance. Thank you.
Love this! Seemed like the most random assortment of items ever but as you described it I could really see how it went together. I love your excitement! I would have been 8 if I was at the brunch in 1988.
I used to buy a lot of the pillsbury booklets at the checkout! This one was in my Mom's cookbook collection when she passed, I think my brother snagged it. We do a similar fruit salad for Christmas brunch that contains mandarin oranges, pink and white grapefruit and maraschino cherries, with a sprite wash. Will have to try the ginger ale, thought. Thanks for the trip down holiday memory lane : )
Do your Christmas morning traditions include any of these dishes? I'd love to hear about it! ❤️
We eat rice porridge cooked with raisins and a cinnamon stick. It's served with milk, granulated sugar, and cinnamon. An old tradition is to put an almond in the pot, and whoever gets the almond is destined to get married in the following year.
Not all of your viewers would know about Meijer. It's only in six states in the Midwest. I retired from one in Indianapolis earlier this year after working there over 27 years. Still shop there all the time.I love your videos.😊
I have to have Who Hash (canned roast beef hash) and eggs on Christmas morning. Orange sweet rolls, in those little tubes.
We have snowman pancakes with sausage link arms on Christmas morning every year.
@@lindacombs7424 We have them here in Ohio, and I've gotten some good deals there. I even started getting my vaccines through their pharmacy. It's such a nice big open store, and the pharmacy is very efficient.
I think your glee each time you tried something was the best part of this video.
Back in the 80's, my Grandma and Grandpa were over at my brother's to visit for their great-grandbaby's bday. My grandpa mistook potpourri in a bowl on the coffee table as a snack. He ate a small handful of it, chewed it FOREVER, and didn't say a word about it after he ate it. One of the funniest memories I have of him.
😂😂😂😂😂 Sweet story!!
Poor grandpa 🥰
Giggling because this happened to my Dad too! At my niece''s apartment! We were there for a holiday get together and Dad helped himself to the bowl of "snack mix" which was actually a bowl of potpourri. ❤😂
I am 41 and now am going to lovingly call myself “vintage” 😂. The sticky buns look amazing!
Your channel popped up on my feed, and I’m so glad it did! I love your cooking and presentation style! Im a 69 yo baby boomer, so your recipes bring back all kinds of memories. I’m a fan!❤
Oooo I have a muffin pan tip for if you’re not using the whole pan! If you fill the empty cavities with water to the same height as the wells in use, then everything will bake as evenly as it normally would. It also helps your bake time match the original recipe.
Thanks for this tip. I had a muffin pan that got warped because I didn’t fill all the wells when I baked something in the oven. Next time I will use your tip and I won’t have a wrecked muffin pan at the end. 😁❤️
My Mom taught me that. I use to complain that I didn’t think it was necessary. Didn’t do it once and learned my lesson
I thought adding water to an oven was a technique for French baguette, I wonder what it does to crescent dough!
Flipping them out would be a mess! 😅😂
@@caygabie4100 clearly you have a secret camera hidden somewhere in my apartment because you have seen me try to cook! 🤣🎥
I remember a snacking cake in the early 80's that came with a pan.
It may be June 2024 but I am totally making this for a light supper (in the toaster oven). The ham & broccoli roll-ups will be a huge hit with fruit salad (which is a regular menu item for us). I might make the rolls and raspberry starter, idk. Thanks for this menu. Have a blessed day 💖✝
I still have these Pillsbury Christmas booklets. They published many but the Christmas ones are the best. When you held it up, I said I have that book!!!
I need to keep an eye out for more of them. This one was so much fun!
Me too ☺️
Yes! I have the Pillsbury Bake-off books. They’re great because they’re all winners!
I still have mine, too, and I also recognized this one immediately! The Double Chocolate Spritz cookies are a favourite. The Land O'Lakes booklets were also excellent. I have many of those too. One of my greatest treasures is a tattered copy of Margo Oliver's Weekend Cookbook, I think from the 70s, that was my mom's. We made so many things from that book, and it still has her handwritten notes. Thanks for a fabulous video.
The little broccoli sleepover was sooo cute! 🤗
Hehehe, Hubby and I were married in 1982. One of our favorite hobbies is to go antiquing. When we first started going, we would notice things that were in our grandparents' homes. Then has years go by, it was things that were in our parents' homes. We went out this past fall to an antique mall and found many things that are in our home now! Wedding gifts we received all those years ago, are now located in the antique stores. Made us laugh because it has come full circle now with our 'stuff.' So yes, the 80's are considered vintage now.
Growing up in the 60's and 70's my mother only bought concentrated juice. She would always say, 'I'm not paying extra for the water when I can have it for free at home.' I gave up buying concentrated juices a long time ago.
Are you related to me?😂😂😂 Sounds like my mother.
Well, this video made me feel old. Nice to see recipes from the late 1900s making a comeback 😂
I can't stop seeing the ham and broccoli with broccoli sleeping bags now! Lol.
I love how cozy, fun and nostalgic this video is! The 80s were the best!! 🥰
Thank you!! ❤
They were!
The people at Betty Crocker should send you a thank you note for endorsing their recipes. That first recipe looks very good!
Except they were Pillsbury recipes...😉
Please do a video of microwave only vintage recipes! I was a teenager in the 80s and remember the microwave craze. I really only use the microwave now for reheating…but my mom to this day uses the microwave to cook all sorts of things. 🤔
I would have TOTALLY snatched up one of those warm toasty almond sticky buns and nothing could have stopped me! 😆
It took everything I had not to devour one immediately! 😂
Woww!!!!!
yummy 😋 & tempting recipe!
Looks delicious ....
LK dn 👍
Amazing presentation 👌👌👌
Keep in mind in the 80's we had browning trays to cook food on in the microwave to get a good color on it so the other menu might have been good back then (but I doubt it lol). Anything I ever cooked in the microwave was a huge flop. My first microwave my Mom got for me for college in 1985 and she thought we could make chicken in it. The chicken never got cooked no matter how long we microwaved it. Neither one of us knew that the wattage of the microwave had a lot to do with how food cooked. Mine never made anything but popcorn and half the time it was burnt because we didn't buy it in the bags - it was too expensive! I had an apparatus that was supposed to perfectly pop corn in it, which never happened. IMO the microwave is only good for making cake in mugs, popcorn & nachos, quick (extra crispy) bacon and to warm things up. I think the menu you chose looks really yummy, so yummy that I might make it this Christmas Day for brunch. I love watching your channel and the recipes you make. Loads of fun!! Merry Christmas!
*This was so much fun!!!* I'm going to put on my leg warmers and an apron with shoulder pads and try some of these 😂
These were great! Also a possibly helpful note: I learned a couple months ago that Pillsbury's crescent rolls are vegan. (I'm not sure about other brands). They allowed me to provide my vegan sister and SIL an equally tasty (and MUCH easier to make) alternative to the standard cinnamon rolls I brought to a family event.
WHOA I had no idea about the crescent rolls! Thank you for telling me. Good to know!
WOW!!! Thanks for that information. I’m a retired Sous Chef and I had no idea 🤷♀️
I feel really old now 🤣👍
Oh wow. The 80’s loved canned mandarins.
My father's second wife worked at General Mills. They made a microwave cake with the little pan included.
I’m 42 as well. Thanks for breaking your rule! 🥳🥳🥳
I had to laugh when you held up the cookbook. I bought this new back in 1987. I made the broccoli ham sleepover rolls and everyone really liked it. I made some cookies from it in the past, but when you flashed a page in the back, I made those Chocolate-Dipped Dried Apricots. They were just OK but at the time, dried apricots were like hard tack. I still own the book. Great vid and it did bring back memories.
In Poland there's an old timey candy made with dried prunes soaked in alcohol, stuffed with a walnut and dipped in chocolate. I bet soaking the apricots in something fruity would make them softer and more flavorful. It doesn't necessarily have to be alcohol if you're making them.
@Miss_Kisa94 I have soaked apricots and other dried fruits in apple juice, orange juice, cranberry juice even ginger ale successfully fir my sober living family.
Personally, I love the booze soaked fruits. But I love my family more.
I also got this book circa '87/''88. I was home from college and cooking up a storm. I felt very fancy.
@@Miss_Kisa94 I think it was 🇬🇧📺Two Fat Ladies making devils on horseback who mentioned when using dried fruit you can soak them overnight in tea to help the flavor too.
I have no problem watching you get into whatever you're making, lol. It all looks very tasty. I was a kid in the late 50s-early 60s but am fine with 80s food. I remember when ham, broccoli and cheese became a thing with my mom.
Now that I'm on the older "vintage" side (near 70), I'm especially fond of Corelle dishes because they take up so little room in my cupboard and don't weigh a ton. I have the Woodland Brown set. (I can testify that a Corelle plate can shatter into a million places, though, lol). In a small thrift store a few years ago, I was thrilled to find a box of a Corelle Christmas pattern (green line, holly berries), just the plates and small coffee mugs, and I grabbed them. I like the red-green pattern so well I just incorporated the Christmas set into my everyday dishes and use them both year round.
This could only be better if you had an 80's Corelle Christmas dinner plate and a Christmas glass from Arby's. I never had that little cookbooklet but it definitely looks like the kinds of recipes that were in magazines then. Refrigerated crescent rolls used to be much higher quality back then. This was a fun video and brought back a lot of good 80's memories, thank you.
They're too chemically tasting these days so haven't bought any in forever.
I have a set of the Arby glasses! My mom sent all her coworkers to Arby’s to collect those glasses for my hope chest. 😁
I used to make the same things for my kids growing up in the early 70s. Making food look fancy was the only way for me to get them to eat veggies. No recipe just using my imagination. Simple and delicious. Who knew recipes existed.
Your kids were lucky. 😊
Now I want almond sticky buns! Those look amazing! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
They were seriously so delicious. I am thinking about making another batch this week!
DELIGHTFUL! I'm making these recipes for our Easter Brunch too ... what a great video. THANK YOU!
If you cut fresh ginger into small pieces, you can freeze them. Then when you are cooking you can pull out a piece and use a zester to add it to your recipe. Fresh ginger really amps up the flavor.
That's something I always keep on hand. Helped my ginger cookies immensely this year.
I love that you talk to yourself and read the recipe out loud and make up stories! I do the exact same thing!
I love Pillsbury Kitchens cook book I have one. My mom would cook several things from that cook book. After she passed I got the cookbook and Started to cook a few meals and treats from it
Growing up, for Christmas morning my mom would just use the crescent rolls as rolls but before rolling, she would spread a butter/cinnamon/brown sugar/nut mixture down, roll, bake then top with the icing. So easy and good
I love the 80s recipes! Nostalgic.
I was born in 1988 I feel special...im vintage now 😂😂
Now that’s a holiday brunch that I would enjoy. I think I might try making those ham roll ups they look the yummiest. 😋
I don’t know why but the broccoli sleepover gave me such a strong mental image/memory of the 1989(?) Disney Christmas sing along songs animation with all the kids sleeping in the bed and Santa uses an umbrella to stretch (and close the hole in) one of the stockings so the gifts fit. 😆🎄
Ok, this was my FAVORITE episode so far! I grew up in the 80s and my mom was always trying the trendy recipes of the day and she totally would have made these! Fruit soups, chocolate soups were super cool then! This book was totally showing middle class housewives how to do 80s yuppie cooking. All the trendy suburban moms were making stuff like this in the 80s. I hope you eventually cover: stir frys, pasta salads and microwave recipes. Sounds really boring now, but those were new then and wok and microwave cooking were all the rage in the 1980s!!❤❤❤
So glad you enjoyed this one! ❤
Such fun recipes! I love the visual of the broccoli bundles. Thanks! ❤😊
Interesting that the compote is called a 'compote' - I think, in the UK, we would just call that a fruit salad (a fancy one to be fair) and use compote for a pure fruit jam.
Also, did anyone else see the cheese and pineapple hedgehog at 80s parties? It was essentially, half a grapefruit covered in foil with cocktail sticks of pineaple chunks, cheddar cheese, and glace cherries shoved in. It was, er, the height of sophiscation.
I kind of thought the same thing regarding the compote recipe. I always imagine compote as fruit that has been cooked down like jam.
My mum used to make apple compote and sometimes rhubarb compote. It was like a half cooked puré with chunks of the fruit, and you'd eat it with milk.
The Swedish variation of your hedhog was an erect cucumber in a flowerpot. It was supposed to resemble a cactus.😳 The childrens variation of this was the same cucumber cactus but with pieces of candy on the toothpicks. 🫣
It was the eighties. Need I say more?
We had a porcupine made from savory cheese all made with that salty dried beef shaped like the animal and just bare pretzel sticks and olives for eyes
Raspberry is my favorite berry. I’ve never been able to relate to all the strawberry love out there 😜!
Yeah I love raspberries. Strawberries are ok but too tart for me.
WHAT! You are 42?! I thought you were around 28!😅 I loooove these Holidays recipes so much and I love that you’re growing so much on RUclips. 🥰
I used to love those little cook books. They often had easy recipes that were great for working mom’s to have some quick holiday recipes. I especially liked the holiday ones.
The bowl you mixed the fruit salad in had the exact colors of the salad!
I only noticed that after I started editing the video! 😂
Pillsbury is top notch. I would trust any of their cookbooks for super star recipes.
Throwing this out there for the few who may not know. When pre-2000ish recipes call for canned tuna, pay attention to the ounces. The small tuna cans used to be about 7 to 7.5 ounces but today they are only 5 ounces so you'll need to use 3 cans if the recipe calls for 2 small cans. Also, don't waste the liquid down the drain but give it to the dog or cat and add a bit of water to weaken the sodium.
Yes, I have a couple of those booklets and one is just crescent rolls.
I always squeeze the tuna juice over kibble for dogs, they love it!
My cats get so excited when I open a tuna can! 🐈 ❤
Those little Pillsbury supplemental cookbooks from the '80s and '90s are really good My mom used to use them all the time.
My children were 5 and 6 in 1988 so i love this.
Talk about an unexpected trip down memory lane! I was a young newlywed around that time, and loved the little recipe booklets!
My daughter was born in 1981. I was active duty US Air Force, married to active duty US Air Force. I can't recall how many times I'd have to whip up a formal dinner for 6 to 8, after flying a 12 hour sortie, with a toddler! ANYTHING I could do ahead, I did. I'd even set the table days in advance, with a sheet over it to make sure no dust settled! I had to call the tower to remind my husband to pick up the flowers for the centerpiece. He would forget and humble yard flowers had to make do. Cheeseballs and crackers can be done a week in advance. Somehow I managed to not smell like jet fuel as I changed into dinner dress. No wonder I said farewell to the Air Force after 20 years. 🎉
Brought me back to my young wife and mom days in the 80's. Thank you I really enjoyed the video.
When you said broccoli in a sleeping bag I can jut picture an animated advertiement with dancing broccoli wrapping themselve up in ham and jumping into a pan to be covered in the egg mixture to be cooked. lol
Oh my goodness, my mom had those exact plates! I was 21 in 1988 and I don't mind at all that you call the recipes vintage.
Not all of your viewers would know about Meijer it's only in six states in the Midwest. I retired from one in Indianapolis earlier this year after working there over 27 years. I still shop there all the time.I love your videos. 😊
I'm in FL and have never seen a Maier. But I've heard of them thanks to a lot of YT channels
I missed Meijer SO MUCH while we were living in California!
@@cooking_the_books see? I didn't even know how to spell it. LOL. We just got ALDI about 2 years ago.
Yes to microwave recipes
There was a cake mix for the oven that came with the pan and frosting. It was what spurred my love of baking and cooking. It was a dry cake, or at least it was for me. I was between 10 and 12 when I used them. By the time I was 12, I was using my grandmas old cookbooks to bake and cook with. I wasn't allowed to experiment much as my mom had certain food adversions and difficulty in chewing certain things.
I love these shows as they bring back many good memories. Thank you.
You can never go wrong with Pillsbury (or Betty Crocker). Lol
So happy I clicked on this video! You did a great job! I also agree those sticky buns look like a game changer! I may have to try them soon! Thanks! ❤
As a fellow “vintage” person (I’m also 42 lol) wow those recipes brought back some memories! I do remember those microwavable cakes and I recall they kinda reminded me of the brownies in tv dinners
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Everything looks so good! I got married and became a wife in 1988 and that roll-ups recipe is SO 1980's! I can imagine myself making those back then. Your commentary during the construction process really made me laugh. I still don't know what the onion rings are for but they do seem very 80's. I do remember that microwaves were at their height in popularity (and cost!) during the 80s and most every from-scratch recipe that I cooked in them was just....off. I can remember people trying to cook entire Thanksgiving turkeys in them! Um...no....don't. I've got to tell you that my days are generally very stressful and sometimes traumatic and one of my favorite ways to decompress is to watch your videos.
Please, please, please make a microwave meal series! That would be super funky!
I thought you were going to say, "A little cornucopia of broccoli," but "A little broccoli in a sleeping bag" works, too. 😄
I graduated HS in 1989. Love the 80’s.
you got me with the dried mustard in the egg dish. I’d like to try making an omelette with some dried mustard in it!
This was so great!!! It really brought back memories of my own youth.
I liked the ham wrapped broccoli as it was on it own, without the egg and served cold.
But i'll bet that if you put those ham wrapped broccoli into Twinkie baking tray, and put each one into each Twinkie form, and then poured egg over each one, that would look pretty cool.
I like watching these because I feel such a loss of creativity in the kitchen. I would have never thought of a raspberry soup!!
I bought those little cookbooks so often that my mom finally got me a subscription! Must've been late 90s when I was newly married. I was so excited to read through every new issue when they came in the mail! The recipes were always very doable. I still have a shelf of these books that I haven't been able to part with - I'm going to pull a few out tomorrow and find something to make! Really fun episode, and core memories unlocked! 😊
It’d be kinda cool to do a comparison video of a vintage “checkout aisle” magazine vs. a modern one to see how recipe trends have changed over time.
I also can’t remember if modern grocery stores have books like this one still but I’m definitely keeping my eye out the next time I’m in line!
The grocery stores, where I live, Central Coast, CA do😃
They have Taste of Home and things like that. However…..they cost as much as as buying a book 🤦♀️
I just look on line now 😉☺️🕊
Just bought a collection of pillsbury cookbook from the 80s just like the one shown in the video at my local library. It has a huge collection in each binder. Thanks for sharing this video!!
My daughter took my Halloween cook booklet when she moved out..LOL
My mom used to do a savory spin on those crescent roll buns with a ham and cheese mixture
I just now am watching this. I'm gonna make this and stretch it out for a week of breakfasts because I am that special 😊
I used to buy those books all of the time for various holidays when I was picking up the TV Guide! That entire menu really does look very appetizing and very doable!
I would love to see a whole meal done in the microwave. I have never even thought to try that! Great job Anna!
Thank you! ❤
1988, the year I was born. Yay! I'm a vintage human!
So cute!❤
Woot woot! Waited all week.
1988 is still vintage, 35 years.
I wonder how the raspberry soup would be heated. Either way, I think you've got a winner there. But I am in the pro-raspberry camp.
Yes, there were crescent rolls in 1988, and there were crescent sheets as well. There was also pizza in a tube that Pillsbury offered. Another quick yummy recipe!
You have a Giant Eagle? Kudos! I do have several Aldis, 2 Meijers, 2 Pick 'n Save (Kroger), and several Festival Foods (independent but use Albertson's house brands).
All in all, very festive and delicious!
I loved those microwave cakes, yes, they had pans with them.
I love the fact that these are fueled by nostalgia. It makes them taste so much better. 😊
great nostalgic video, I was a new bride and picked up a couple of those cookbooks in the grocery aisle. also, yes to a microwave menu! thank you for the smiles, and I might have to try those roll-ups.
I have that book and was looking at it today ! Nice to see what turns out well .
I have that cookbook. I have quite a few of those from different years. 😂😂❤❤
Pillsbury also had little cookie booklets they put inside their 5 lb bags of flour at Christmas time. I have one taped on a recipe card in my Better Homes and Garden Cookbook. It is well worn. I really enjoyed this video. Thanks for sharing!
Those buns look so good!!! And look at all those patrons! Nice nice nice
Yay!! I've been waiting for you all day. It is such a treat when you post!!
Yay! Thank you! ❤
This was such a nice brunch menu! It really looked very good.
In 1988 I was 15, so I'm in between vintage and antique. Those almond sticky buns look super delicious! I'm going to make the broccoli and ham (should have put a ring on it) roll-ups and almond sticky buns for my next fancy-pants brunch.
In 1980's I was in my twenties and just getting into cooking. Had a cold cherry soup at a restaurant. Had to make it. It was a starter to a meal. Pretty much canned cherries, sour cream and almond extract as I recall. Talking to a friend about making it again since I recently discovered some lovely, canned Oregon cherries. Try the cherry soup. Remember in the 1980's brunches were a big deal also. Love your broccoli in sleeping bags!
💝💝💝 Cooked in the 80's for my, at the time, 7 year old son! Cooked brunch from Betty Crocker. Love this menu. Going to make! Thank you. Have so many of those little books I passed on to my daughter. Wish I had kept them. Will just pick up some of the new ones. Yes, they are still put out by all kinds of companies!!! Thank you so much!!! ❇❇❇
❤❤❤ the 80s rock! Major nostalgia here. I'm 48 and I'm feeling this brunch. So adorable, so yummy. Brocolli sleepover time!!!
I thought that they looked like little bouquets 💐 but broccoli having a sleepover is way more fun
Everything looks delicious.
You know you grew up in the 80's when you went to Christmas dinner at your Aunt's house and she cooked the whole turkey in the microwave!
Microwaves were huge back then too. My Dad called ours the giant coffee heater.
I came across your channel this year because I have an interest in food history, but I was immediately drawn because you remind me so much of a wonderful co-worker I had who was so nice and so much fun to be around. This video, however, threw me back to the 1980s, with my mother, as we both excitedly and anxiously tried out new recipes for her office Christmas party. It was a sweet remembrance. Thank you.
I was 8 years old in 1988 and I love this!!
Love this! Seemed like the most random assortment of items ever but as you described it I could really see how it went together. I love your excitement! I would have been 8 if I was at the brunch in 1988.
I say it for so many videos. I love your videos and you narrate them so well. All the dishes look sooooooo good.
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoy them. 😊
I used to buy a lot of the pillsbury booklets at the checkout! This one was in my Mom's cookbook collection when she passed, I think my brother snagged it. We do a similar fruit salad for Christmas brunch that contains mandarin oranges, pink and white grapefruit and maraschino cherries, with a sprite wash. Will have to try the ginger ale, thought. Thanks for the trip down holiday memory lane : )