Posted in: Vintage Vittles Vintage Vittles: A bevy of beverages

Happy late Valentine’s Day, readers! This week, the yield of combing through recipe collections this week is a selection of beverages — some boozy, some not — to tempt you with.  As faithful Hi readers,...

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Posted in: Vintage Vittles Vintage Vittles: Food For Health

You would be upset with me if you looked in my kitchen right now. After a few days at home with my family — and a few late nights out at concerts for my day...

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Posted in: Vintage Vittles Vintage Vittles: A Veritable Wonderland of Local Cookbooks

Welcome to 2014, lovelies! It seems impossible it’s 2014 already (full disclosure: I wrote 2013 on a two different checks this week). As we skyrocket into the future, I want to make sure that we...

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Posted in: Vintage Vittles Vintage Vittles: Roast Chicken and Biscuits

Is there anything more comforting than roast chicken on a cold winter’s day? What about roast chicken with a hearty side of biscuits? I’ve adapted this recipe from the Favorite Recipes of the Ladies of the...

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Posted in: Vintage Vittles Vintage Vittles: Ayres’ Pumpkin Fingers

Hello, HI-ers! It’s my birthday today. Yes, I’m turning the big ol’ 25 — officially one quarter of a century old. I’m usually tasked with bringing cakes to different family and friend birthday parties, but...

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Posted in: Vintage Vittles Vintage Vittles: No Grocery Needed

Hello, HI readers! I’m having the Holy Trinity of bad days: I’m swimming in deadlines for my day job, my car is frozen solid to its parking space,  and I believe I’ve given myself food...

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Posted in: Vintage Vittles Vintage VIttles: Civil War Nectar

A bit unbelievable that Thanksgiving is upon us already. I’m sure your family, like mine, has many recipes included in your November meal that have been passed down from family elders. I’d love if you...

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Posted in: Vintage Vittles Vintage Vittles: Riley’s Shortbread

Our Hired Girl, when it’s bakin’-day She’s out of patience allus, An’ tells us, “Hike outdoors an’ play,”  An’ when the cookies’s done, she’ll say “Land sake! she’ll come an’ call us! An’ when the...

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Posted in: Vintage Vittles Vintage Vittles: A Mulled Wine Cheat

As you read this, I’m ensconced in a tent somewhere in Yellowwood State Forest. To answer your unspoken question: yes, it’s cold. So cold, in fact, I prepared this week’s Historic Indianapolis recipe with this...

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Posted in: Vintage Vittles Vintage Vittles: Chicken Velvet Soup

This photo is property of Tea With Friends.com. I was so hungry by the time I finished my soup, I ate it and forgot the final picture! My shoes are soaked. My jacket is dripping....

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Posted in: Vintage Vittles Vintage Vittles: Booth Tarkington’s Lemon Pie

“He began to eat; he continued to eat; in fact, he did well. So did his two comrades. Not that the melancholy of these three was dispersed — far from it! With ineffaceable gloom they...

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Posted in: Vintage Vittles Vintage Vittles: James Whitcomb Riley’s Jelly Cake

Returning, with a letter, which she laid Upon the kitchen-table while she made A hasty crock of “float,”-poured thence into A deep glass dish of iridescent hue And glint and sparkle, with an overflow Of...

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Posted in: Vintage Vittles Vintage Vittles: George Pogue’s Corn Dodgers

To me, a library is the closest thing to heaven on Earth. I spent so many lazy summer afternoons and winter weekends holed up in a chair in libraries all over the city. And the...

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Posted in: Vintage Vittles Vintage Vittles: Dreaming of Sugar Cream Pie

I remember paging through my mom’s recipe box as a young girl. I pulled them out, one by one, and she identified their origins by the handwriting. There was instructions for my father’s fudge –...

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