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Friday, October 12, 2018

Vintage Halloween Recipes

Last week on our Facebook Page, we asked you guys if you kept handwritten recipes, recipe cards, recipe books, or if you had all gone digital. The OVERWHELMING response was that you guys are still paper people.

So we're sharing some vintage Halloween recipes with you today! And if you look through your stash of paper recipes, you might be surprised to find some of these. Although, admittedly, Halloween specific recipes are a bit harder to find than Christmas or even Thanksgiving recipes.

People have been kind enough to upload and share these vintage Halloween recipes, complete with their awesome vintage graphics, from cookbooks, recipe booklets, advertisements, magazines, grocery store flyers, newsletters, and various other sources. You might have some of these in your own stash!

Did you guys know that Halloween used to be much more of a baking holiday than it is today?


Back in the 1940s and 1950s, people often handed out homemade goodies to trick-or-treaters instead of candy. It was during the 1950s that the candy industry decided that the month of October (which includes Halloween) had the potential to boost their fall sales.

Throughout the 1960s, though, it was still likely for people to hand out other types of treats. It wasn't until the 1970s that candy came to be seen as the preferred treat of Halloween.

And of course, throughout all of these decades, people were having Halloween parties, and baking treats for those occasions!

Some of these Halloween treats might remind you of your own childhood, while others might be new to you! Try to spot any recipes that you remember from Halloweens past.

We're having a party! Better start with some vintage Halloween invitations! Aren't these just the cutest?



And then we'll need to plan out some party activities.  This page from a 1935 Children's Party Book suggests games like Apple Ducking (bobbing for apples), Bowls of Fortune, Eye Guessing, and Bag Bursting as well as instructions for carving a jack-o-lantern. It also shares recipes for Halloween apples (candy apples), marshmallow faces for hot cocoa, and sand-witches (finger sandwiches). Notice Halloween is still spelled here with an apostrophe.


And now on to more recipes! These are some familiar recipes! Caramel apples, gingersnaps, and hot mulled cider. Do you remember any of these recipes around Halloween time?



And here are some simple directions for making a Pumpkin Face Cake by Betty Crocker in The Golden Magazine. Love the Halloween graphics on this!


Here are two pages from The Holiday Cookbook with cute 1950s vintage graphics. There's a whole list of Halloween garnishes plus recipes for goblin franks, hot spiced cider, tangy cider punch, pumpkin ice cream, caramel apples, and popcorn balls! Notice Halloween is still spelled here with an apostrophe.






A cute cat and witch are showing off recipes for Halloween Party Treats like witch's brew, ghost sandwiches, and goblin cookies on this groovy 1970s page. 



This 1948 ad for Spry shortening includes a recipe for a Choc-o-lantern Cake. 


This 1935 newsletter from Kroger grocery store gives ideas for a variety of Halloween themed party food like harvest salad, devil's cupcakes, hoodoo sandwiches, goblins in sheets, goblin head salad, jack-o-lantern salad, spooky sandwiches, witches' upside-down cake, and caramel apples on a stick.


And this one surely falls into the category of "I haven't seen that one before!" Here's a meatloaf recipe with an orange pimiento cheese sauce for Halloween night from an A&P grocery store flyer! The apple desserts are carved to look like jack-o-lanterns!


Do you have any favorite recipes that you always serve at Halloween? These are a few Harris Sisters' recipes that are perfect for Halloween time. Let us know if you give any of them a try. (Or if you try any of these vintage recipes!)



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