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In the world of ever-changing products, re-formulations, down-sizing, up-pricing and the overall rip-off to the consumer in the name of corporate consolidation and increased profits, they have decided to change Ivory soap. Apologies if I'm late to the party. This is something I just noticed...

Hi everyone, A dear friend of mine is helping to set up a historic home at the Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village here in Dearborn, Michigan. They are furnishing the kitchen as it was in the house in the 1960's. The museum is looking for a 1959 Frigidaire refrigerator, in white, preferably...

Hi everyone, A friend recently gave me a RCA portable fridge/cooler. It plugs in to a standard outlet, and has a small compartment to store food/drinks. I've never seen one of these before and I haven't been able to find any information online about it. Do any of you have any information on...

Hello! I recently picked up a Flair Custom Imperial that is complete except there is one small knob missing that goes to the meat thermometer setting. The same knob is also used for the surface/oven lights switch. Does anyone happen to have one in their spare parts? Thanks so much! Kevin

Happy New Year Everyone (we can still say that, right??) I didn't have an avocado green stove in my collection, and while I know it is a color that some detest, I actually kind of like it :-) This stove was available close to me and it was so clean and well cared for that I decided to get it...

Well, it's always been hard for me to say no to a pretty face. This has caused me all kinds of grief throughout my life ;-) Here is a refugee from an estate sale that I hauled home on Sunday. I don't have a lot of self-cleaners in my collection, but this one was so clean and nice looking, I...

Here’s some of the electric roasters in the collection at Cavalcade. I always loved collecting these, I just wish they didn’t take up so much space!

A friend dropped off a box full of old newspaper clippings of recipes that belonged to a relative of hers that had passed away. I spent hours going through them - most from the 50’s through the 70’s. One was from October 1956 and it was the recipe for the cake that Ike requested for his...

I came across this recipe in an electric skillet cookbook from the 70s and wanted to give it a try, as we are big mushroom fans. It was easy and did not disappoint! Even better, it gave reason to use one of the electric skillets!

Ralph and I would always change the stove out at the cottage once a year. Now that all the ranges are in one place, we can do it more often. I changed out the Westinghouse I’ve been using since I finished the studio and put in a ‘58 Frigidaire.

We decided to do a version of a dish from our friends in the south. Some call it chicken and noodles or chicken and slicks, but we call it chicken and pastry. This was good comfort food!

So many of us collect all kinds of small appliances and out of all the different ones I've picked up over the years, my favorite and most used is the electric skillet. We took a look at some of the skillets on display.

A favorite snack of ours that, I guess, is somewhat healthy ;-) Well, better to eat these instead of a bag of potato chips.

It's rhubarb season in Michigan and I have a few plants in my yard that I generally harvest and freeze so I can use throughout the year. A friend gave me a box filled with old newspaper clippings of recipes and as I was going through them (so many great recipes) I found this recipe for rhubarb...

In the US we’d call them cookies, but this recipe is for a traditional biscuit of Australia and New Zealand. ANZAC stands four Australian and New Zealand Army Corp and this recipe was popular during wartime as the cookies are sturdy and traveled well without breaking. A very simple recipe, but...

It’s still fairly cool here in Michigan as spring is taking its sweet time to arrive. I saved the ham bone from our Easter dinner and I took it out of the freezer and made some soup.

I was reading about how this cake was a sensation when a woman from Houston, TX entered into the 1966 Pillsbury Bake Off. Seems like it created a run on Bundt pans, which up to then had been modest selling items. We made it last week, and I have to say, this was one scrumptious cake!

Recently while under the shelter-in-place order here in Michigan, my sister and I spent a few hours putting together a 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle that featured covers of vintage cook books. The puzzle was a gift received from my brother a few years ago, and with extra time at home it seemed like a...

We pulled some of the toasters off the shelves at Cavalcade and took a closer look. While we were at it we toasted up some bread!

A small custom cabinet maker shop located in a small Michigan town was being liquidated a couple weeks ago and there were lots of interesting items there, especially if you were looking for wood working equipment. There was an old showroom and one of the displays had this GE drop in range with...