Vintage Recipes - A Mid-Century Easter Menu

It's been a busy time at our place (see my instagram tab for photos) - twins birthdays, a trip to Townsville to pick up our eldest daughter from Uni, school holidays, settling in to our new office, concerts and of course then we all got colds! I am really looking forward to a few days off to rest and recuperate.

But now it's Easter, so there is food to prepare, eggs to decorate and a bunny to plan with - I must tell him to be careful of the newly planted lawn when he hides the eggs! Firstly to the food, as the shops will be shut tomorrow. We try and do fish on Good Friday, Easter Buns on Saturday and roast pork for Sunday Lunch - after the Easter Egg Hunt.

I am planning on Tuna Mornay for Friday, as my girls are not fond of seafood but will eat anything with cheese in it - you can find the recipe on my tumblr blog, it's from a Kraft Cheese Ad.

And then I found this menu from 1950 looks quite simple, and well suited to our Queensland lifestyle!

I love to make our Easter buns, with the children's help of course - although this usually consists of adding chocolate chips to the mixture and picking out the sultanas! Last year I almost managed neat crosses with a runny white flour/sugar/water mix piped on, although the girls would really like white chocolate crosses. Here's a recipe for buns, form 1952.

Tomorrow will also see egg blowing for decorated eggs - we are going to try glitter this year.  Wish me luck!

Happy Easter!

A vintage 1930s Easter

Some Easter images from the 1930's for you, as we head towards a long weekend of chocolate eggs, bunnies and Easter hunts (and maybe even church).

Getting ready for Easter, 1930s

Decorating at the Rowntree factory, UK 1930s

Oh to be an actress in the 30s - they got all the great photo shoots!

Heather Angel poses as Easter Bunny

c. 1933

Mary Carlisle as the Easter Bunny - c. 1930’s

Big bunny

Wishing you a

1930s Easter Card

Deb xxx

7 & 8 April - Easter Weekend

I hope you are having a happy Easter!
Here in Mackay there are four main ideas of how to spend Easter:-

1. Go camping (fishing and boating), and enjoy the great out doors;
2. Stay home, check out the markets and local music, do lunch and eat;
3. Go to church, at least on Good Friday and Easter Sunday; or
4. Stay home and tackle a renovation project.

WE have, of course, decided to do all four.  We like the great outdoors in small doses – sleeping with mozzies does not appeal, nor does getting up at dawn with the kids for 3 days in a row.  So we visit one of our local beaches for a few hours instead, and get some gardening done at home.  We also do lunch – Easter Sunday with the folks, and Monday with friends.  We don’t do church (sorry, but I have friends that do),but I put classical fm on the radio and listen to choirs over the weekend.  And of course we do some DIY – this weekend the downstairs bathroom and laundry.  It’s still ongoing, so I will post some before and after photos soon.

This Easter is lovely because we have all our children back home, plus our eldest son’s girlfriend.  So lunch was great fun, and of course Easter bunny also visited so the little kids hunted for eggs in the garden.

         

Terrine for entree, roast pork and veg for main, and assorted choc delights for dessert.
No war information this weekend, just some images.  Here is a sweet little movie of one family’s Easter picnic in 1942, and a lovely photo of ladies after church in Texas, USA, all in their best hats.

enjoy!

And here is one from Australia in Easter 1942, of RAAF personnel digging trenches while stationed at the Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton Gardens, Melbourne.  You can read about it here.

Deb xxx