Getting Ready

Betty Crocker's Party Book, 1960.

Christmas Decorations

Santa Claus Cupcakes

Bake cupcakes using white or yellow cake mix. Prepare frosting - color half the frosting bright red. To frost, place cupcakes upside-down around the edge of a cooling rack. Using white frosting, form a beard, then bring the nose area up into a peak. Put a "red hot" cinnamon candy on the peak for a nose. Make eyes with currants (or chocolate chips) dipping one side in frosting to make it stick. Place a little white frosting along the top of the cupcake with red frosting brought up to a point. Add a small piece of marshmallow for a tassel. Leave on the rack until frosting sets.

Gumdrops

Betty Crocker's Good and Easy Cookbook, 1954.

Holiday Open House

Wassail Bowl
Cold Cider
Fruit Cake
Christmas Cookies
Stuffed Dates
Nuts
Cream Mints
Kix Cone Trees

Kix Cone Trees
1/4 cup butter
1/2 lb. marshmallows
5 cups Kix
wooden skewers
colored sugar or fine colored candies

Stir butter and marshmallows over low heat until syrupy. Pour over Kix in greased bowl; stir briskly. Pack lightly into greased paper cone-shaped drinking cups. Insert skewers for trunks of trees. When cool, remove paper cups and roll cones in sugar or tiny candies. Push end skewer into large gumdrop or thick slice of apple. 9 to 10 Christmas trees.

Turkey Day

Betty Crocker's Party Book, 1960.

Thanksgiving Gilded Fruit Centerpiece
You'll need:
can of gold spray
fresh pineapple
variety of fresh fruits and nuts
greens

Protect area where you will be spraying with lots of newspapers. Wrap pineapple leaves with foil; then spray all the fruit gold. Allow to dry.

You may want to gild artificial fruit and keep it year to year (or not).

Thanksgiving Dinner
Tomato Bouillon
Vegetable sticks with cheese dip
Roast Turkey with Stuffing
Chive Mashed Potatoes
Gravy
Jellied Cranberry Sauce
Lima Beans with Mushrooms
Creamed Oinions
Harvest Gold Salad
Hot Yeast Rolls
Corm Sticks
Jack Horner Cake (with prunes)
Frozen Pumpkin Pie

Harvest Gold Salad
1 1/2 cups carrot juice
1 pkg. lemon flavored gelatin
2/3 cup shredded cabbage
1/3 cup green pepper
1/3 cup chopped onion
1 tbsp. horse radish
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup crushed pineapple, not drained

Heat carrot juice and dissolve gelatin in it. Chill until thick and syrupy. Fold in rest of ingredients. Pour into 1 qt. ring mold or individual molds. Chill until firm. Unmold on lettuce and top with mayonnaise.

Used to "Excite Hunger."

Betty Croker Picture Cook Book, 1950.

Appetizers




Here are some retro "appies" for your holiday season.

Roquefort Spread
Soften 1/3 cup Roquefort or blue cheese, 1/4 cup whilte cream cheese; blend with 2 tbsp. mayo, 1/4 to 1 tsp. Worchestershire sauce, and onion and lemon juice.

Hot Cheese Puffs
Beat 2 egg whites until stiff. Beat in 1/2 tsp. baking powder, 1/4 tsp. salt, 1/4 tsp. paprika. Fold in 1 cup grated sharp cheddar cheese. Heap on 1 1/2" rounds of prepared toast beds. Broil about 5 min. until lightly brown.

Toast Beds
Remove crust from white bread, cut with round or different shaped cutters. Saute on one side only in a skillet with butter. About 1/2 hour before serving spread untoasted side lightly with mayo, then with appetizer, heat serve immediately.

Aloha

Betty Crocker's Party Book, 1960

Hawaiian Sunset Supper

Cold Fruit Punch in Coconut Halves
Luau Pork Sandwiches
Sweet Potato Casserole
Salad Tropicale
Coconut Palm Cake

Salad Tropicale
Bananas, pineapple, and citrus fruits are a must in a fruit salad for a Hawaiian party. Add melon balls or other fruits according to the season. Serve in Fruit-filled Pineapple Boats: Cut fresh pineapple in half, leaves and all. Cut out core and fruit leaving shell about 1/2" thick. Serve each guest a pineapple boat filled with Salad Tropicale.



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