13. Vintage Recipes

Be sure to check out our vintage recipe archive online at:
http://bit.ly/1vDXn6h.  Over 1200 wonderful vintage recipes are listed.  Email
recipes@tias.com if you would like to submit a recipe.

As with collectibles, people also have very strong feelings about foods from
their past.  Sometimes these special recipes get lost.  This section is to help
 people who are looking for lost recipes from their past.  If you submit a
request, please include the geographical region where you tasted the recipe. 
If you have a vintage recipe request send it to recipes@tias.com and we might
just publish it here.

TIAS.com merchants have thousands of cookbooks for sale! You can
see them here: http://www.tias.com/books/cooking/

Be sure to check out our vintage kitchen collectibles section online at:
http://www.tias.com/showcase/1/Kitchen_Collec...

We'd love to do a Christmas Cookie recipe swap! Please email your family's
favorite Chistmas Cookie recipe to recipes@tias.com.  Here's one from a very
early and well-used Betty Crocker Picture Cook Book complete with "Betty's"
comment:

Russian Tea Cakes Crunchy, sugared, nut-filled snowballs:

This favorite with men came to us from a man. Carl Burkland, a radio executive
of New York City, made them himself for me one Christmas season.

Mix together thorouthly...
1 cup soft butter
1/2  cup sifted confectioners' sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla

Sift together and stir in...
2 1/4 cups sifted Gold Medal flour
1/4 teaspoon salt

Mix in...
3/4 cup finely chopped nuts

Chill dough. Roll into 1" balls. Place on ungreased baking sheet (cookies do
not spread).  Bake until set, but not brown.  While still warm, roll in
confectioners' sugar.  Cool.  Roll in sugar again.

TEMPERATURE: 400 degrees (mod. hot oven).
TIME: Bake 10 to 12 min.
AMOUNT: About 4 doz. 1 1/2" cookies


Email recipes@tias.com if you have a vintage recipe you'd like to share or if
you're looking for a recipe!
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