Welcome to our Sunday Dinner and Celebrations page! Our mission is to celebrate home-life with monthly exclusive and delicious Sweetie-licious recipes and ideas, in that we all will continue the rich tradition of lovely family dinners in our homes. We are thrilled to share our treasured library of recipes and traditions to help make our lives meaningful, our homes happy, and our palates joyous!
A few years back, I stumbled onto this vintage cookbook in an antique store, and just had to have it; not only for the recipes, but the pictures and illustrations were just too charming to pass up! After perusing through it recently, I decided that the whole cookbook needed to be highlighted on our Sunday Dinners webpage!
One of my favorite aspects of old cookbooks is the window of vintage light it lets in on our modern world. These cookbooks depict how folks ate, dressed, how they lived, and the wonderful recipes they contributed to today's wonderful world of food! This cookbook is charmingly dated, as it refers to gender roles often, so keep that in mind while reading the excerpts below. It is from 1960 after-all, a time when American housewives' baked cookies in heels! So, so glad that habit fell out of favor! Enjoy a look back in time to a backyard barbeque and the wonderful recipes for you all to enjoy!
(All the text in quotation marks is from the Big Boy Barbeque Book published in 1960 by the Tested Recipes Institute, Inc.)