I created a Vintage Food Tag! Care to play along?

As the rather self-explanatory title of today's post sums up, I recently decided to create a fun vintage food related tag, which I answered myself in the YouTube video below.  :)

I touched on this in my video, but just to recap, I had seen many tags over the years, plenty of which related to vintage, but none that directly focused on vintage food. As I'm a huge fan of this topic (as evidenced by the many posts, recipe ones included, that I've penned on the topic here over the years), I thought it would be a blast to start a tag starring vintage food related questions.

If you'd like to play along as well, and I really hope that you will, you can do so either via a blog post and/or a YouTube video, so it's totally open to folks in either (or both) spheres.

Here, more or less word for word :), are the fifteen questions that I created, as they appear in my video:

1. What are three of your favourite vintage foods that are still around (aka, on the market) nowadays?

2. What is one of the vintage (food) brand that you like the most and why (do you like it)?

3. Do you cook vintage recipes sometimes yourself?

4. Do you have a favourite vintage recipe?

5. What is one of your most treasured recipes that came down to you through your family or someone else dear to you?

6. Who/what is your favourite vintage food mascot?

7. What is your favourite vintage decade from a culinary standpoint?

8. One or more great vintage store bought foods that you wish they'd bring back?

9. Do you ever serve vintage dishes for parties, holidays, or other special occasions?

10. And if so, is there one (holiday, etc) in particular that you like to make vintage dishes for above all the others?

11. Do you collect vintage cookbooks/recipe booklets?

12. Do you have a favourite vintage cookbook?

13. One thing that you think was better about vintage food/recipes?

14. And one thing that you think is better about modern food/recipes?

15. What would your dream vintage meal be? 

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Of course, if you don't want to answer all these questions, but would like to share your replies for one or more of them with me, please feel free to do so either here in the comment section of this post or over on YouTube.

Fall really does equal the return of comfort food season, which was also a big driving force behind the creation of this fun tag, and I'm absolutely thrilled about that fact! There are several delicious fall and winter vintage recipes that I've been tucking away throughout the year to share with all of you here once the mercury plummeted and I'll certainly be doing just that in coming months.

Many thanks to all those who play along - be sure to share links to your posts or videos if you do so that I can check out and enjoy reading/hearing your answers to the Vintage Food Tag as well!

Awesomely festive 1950s Coconut Pumpkin Chiffon Pie

✯ Day 292 of Vintage 365 ✯

 

With less than two weeks to go until All Hallows Eve, it's all I can do to contain my excitement. There's no holiday I look forward to - or get more eager about - than Halloween!

Decorations long out, spooky movies already in heavy rotation (vintage and light-hearted ones, I'm not a fan of modern day slasher and horror films, but I'll certainly take Boris Karloff or Bela Lugosi any day!), Thanksgiving now behind us (those of us north of the 49th, that is), it's time to turn my thoughts to fantastically festive foods to make in the days leading up to - and very much including on - October 31st.

Naturally given their longstanding association with Halloween, few foods better lend themselves to this spooky, fun filled day than pumpkins.

I’m wild for the taste of pumpkin in pretty much any recipe, from soups to muffins, pureed and stirred into hot cereals or even in the sweet form of pumpkin ice cream. Not only do I love the flesh, but I adore eating pumpkin seeds, freshly roasted and squeezed out of this sinewy ivory hued shells as a well earned reward for a day spent carving jack-o-lanterns.

Just as pumpkin is a complete natural for this gorgeously autumnal time of the year, so do are all things sweet! From caramel apples to tiny foil wrapped chocolate bars gathered in a pillow sack, October is the month that just begs to be dipped in chocolate and savoured!

Pairing sweet with pumpkin in the vintage cooking arena, one comes across today's delightful recipe from 1951 for Coconut Pumpkin Chiffon Pie.

Billed in the original Baker's Coconut ad it appeared in as being a "Cloud O' Pumpkin", this silky, fragrant, delectable recipe is nearly cloudlike, thanks to the fact that it's a chiffon pie (making it a good choice after a hearty, stick-to-your-ribs comfort food meal of the sort fall time is naturally chocked full of).

{This frighteningly delicious vintage recipe for Coconut Pumpkin Chiffon Pie would make a most welcome addition to any Halloween or Thanksgiving Day spread. Image via curly-wurly on Flickr. Click here for a larger version of this great 50s recipe.}

 

The inclusion of nutmeg, ginger and cinnamon - not to mention the coconut itself – insures that as this creamy, rust hued pie cooks, your whole home smells so intoxicatingly fabulous it'll be all you can do not to stick a form in a steal a bite or two while the pie is still cooking!

If you're serving this pie as party fare, you could always duplicate or multiple the recipe as needed and turn it into tiny coconut pumpkin chiffon tarts, if you wanted (another option would be apply the same winning combination of flavours to your favourite plain/vanilla cupcake base, topping the tiny cake with spiced buttercream frosting and a hefty sprinkling of toasted coconut).

Beautifully yummy whether eaten piping hot, room temperature or chilled, this wonderful pumpkin dessert takes a 1950s classic (chiffon pie) and turns it into a truly timeless recipe that will see you through a lifetime of autumn and Halloween meals!