Vintage "Baked Dish" Recipes

These two vintage casserole recipes were simply labeled "Baked Dish." Both were handwritten on a 3"x5" card and sound like good old fashioned home cooking.

Beef & Beans Baked Dish

1 can kidney beans
3 Small potatoes
1 pound ground beef
1 small onion
1 can tomato soup
1 dash pepper
1 dash salt

1. Fry ground beef
2. Chop onion finely
3. Dice potatos
4. Mix all ingredients except soup together and pour into casserole dish
5. Pour soup over top, cover, and bake for 1-3/4 hours at 350 degrees

Servings: 6
Cooking time: 1 hour and 45 minutes

Beefy Baked Dish

2 cans cream of mushroom soup
1 pound ground beef
1 small onion
1 small can peas
4 small sliced potatoes

1. Dice onion and fry with ground beef
2. Peel & slice potatoes
3. Drain meat and mix all ingredients together and bake at 350 for 1-1/2 hours

Servings: 6
Cooking time: 1 hour and 30 minutes

Vintage Candy Recipes

It's getting close to the holidays, so I thought I would post some of the vintage candy recipes from the now infamous, at least in my family, shoe box of recipes.

Both recipes were found in the shoe box, hand written on a single piece of yellowed paper.

Chocolate Coconut Drops

2 squares (1 oz each) Unsweetened Chocolate

1 15 oz Can Sweetened condensed milk

2 cups flaked coconut (about 1/2 pound)

½ cup chopped walnuts


1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Melt chocolate in sauce pan on low heat
3. Remove from heat and stir in remainining ingredients.
4. Drop mixture by teaspoonfuls on greased baking sheet
5. Turn off oven heat and place sheet of candy in oven.
6. Leave in oven for about 15 minutes or until candy has glazed appearance
7. While warm, remove candy from baking sheet.

Servings: 48



Old Fashioned Fudge


2 cups sugar

2/3 cup milk

2 squares unsweetened chocolate

2 tbs corn syrup

¼ tsp salt

2 tbs butter or margarine

1 tsp vanilla

½ cup chopped walnuts


1. Butter 9"x5"x3" loaf pan
2. Combine sugar, milk, chocolate, corn syrup, & salt in a 2 quart sauce pan
3. Cook over medium heat stirring constantly until sugar is melted and chocolate is dissolved
4. Cook stirring occasionally until candy thermometer reads 234 degrees.
5. Remove from heat and add butter.
6. Cool to 120 degrees without stirring then add vanilla
7. Beat steady & continuous for 5-10 minutes with wooden spoon until candy is thick and no longer glossy
8. Quickly stir in nuts and spread mixture evenly in greased pan.
9. Cool until firm and cut into 1" squares.

Servings: 32

Vintage Peanut Butter Recipes

More vintage recipes from the ever fun shoe box. These were all on a single newspaper clipping with ads on backside dated 1974.

Peanut Butter Muffins

2 cups sifted flour
3 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
¼ cup sugar
1/3 cup Peanut butter, smooth or crunchy
2 eggs
1 cup milk
¼ cup vegetable oil

1. Sift together dry ingredients
2. Cut in Peanut butter
3. Combine beaten eggs and milk and then pour into dry ingredients
4. Add oil and stir just enough to moisten dry ingredients
5. Pre-heat oven to 400.
6. Pour batter into greased muffin pans (2/3 full)
7. Bake in preheated oven for 25 minutes.

Servings: 12
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 25 minutes
Ready in: 35 minutes

Peanut Butter Banana Bread

2 packages Active dry yeast
1/3 cup warm water
¾ cup smooth peanut butter
½ cup packed brown sugar
¾ cup mashed bananas (about 2 bananas)
1 egg
1 cup scalded & Cooled Milk
1½ tsp salt
6 cups flour

1. Dissolve yeast in warm water and let set until bubbly.
2. In a large bowl beat together peanut butter & brown sugar until creamy.
3. Stir in the bananas, egg, cooled milk, dissolved yeast, and salt Blend mixture well.
4. Add 2 cups of flour, and stir vigorously. Keep adding remaining flour until dough is stiff.
5. Move dough to a well floured board and knead well for about 10 minutes. Add additional flour as needed to keep dough from sticking to board.
6. When dough is smooth and elastic, place dough in large greased bowl and flip dough so both sides are greased.
7. Cover loosely and let stand in warm place (85 degree F.) until double in bulk, about 1½ hours.
8. Punch dough down and divide in two equal parts. cover dough and let rest 10 minutes
9. Shape dough into two loaves by rolling dough out until about ¾ inch thick. Wrap or roll dough like a jelly roll and seal ends and place in 2 loaf pans
10. Cover and let rise in warm place again until double in bulk.
11. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and then bake for 40-45 minutes
12. Allow to cool in pan for 10 minutes before removing from pans

Yield: 2 loaves
Preparation time: 3 hours and 30 minutes
Ready in: 4 hours and 15 minutes

Yummy Fruit Sauce
Great over fresh fruit or ice cream

1/3 cup peanut butter
½ cup sugar
1/3 cup dark corn syrup
1/3 cup water
½ tsp salt
¼ cup raisins or candied fruit
½ tsp vanilla

1. Measure and set aside smooth or crunchy peanut butter
2. Combine sugar, corn syrup, water, & salt in saucepan. Let simmer for 10 minutes.
3. Cool to lukewarm, then stir in peanut butter. Stir until well mixed
4. Stir in raisins or fruit and vanilla.
5. Serve over fresh fruit or ice cream.

Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 10 minutes
Ready in: 25 minutes