Frighten Mr. Milktoast

Was Halloween 2015 really a whole month ago??? Where does time go?! Even with the taste of Thanksgiving still in our mouths, and visions of xmas sugarplums dancing just on the horizon it's hard to bid farewell to the best holiday of them all for another whole year. I say it all the time over at my other blog, but it's certainly true-- "Everyday is Halloween" for some of us, but for others let me remind you with todays post of spooky fun highlights from the October 1960 issue of Humpty Dumpty's Magazine for Little Children. Please do your part to help keep those Halloween Hell fires burning bright all year long with games, songs, crafts, costumes, masks!!!, and general monster madness-- your neighborhood witches, ghosts, and black cats are counting on you!

"Philly" Dip Party Handbook

We've already covered the desserts for the big day this week, now it's time for the other important food stuff-- and no, I don't mean the turkey and taters-- I mean the MF'in dips!!! If you've stumbled upon this blog and aren't hip to dips, well today's your lucky day cuz we've got 17 extraordinary ways to flavorfully enhance those chips, shrimps, celery sticks, and Hell, maybe some of you will be dipping your toes into it-- mmm mmm, it's all good! I'm pretty much set on anything that includes Worcestershire sauce in the ingredients, and since that's nearly every recipe here, it's gonna be a tough decision to make cuz OMG they all look amazing! Also amazing here is the fun lay-out of this mid century Philadelphia Cream Cheese booklet itself, (did anyone else know they've been around since 1880??!!) --with cheery little party illustrations and temp-tasty photography that really makes me what to get started on the dip-appetizers NOW!!! Which one will you choose?

Junior Chef

We're stuck on food here in November, and just days away from Thanksgiving! Mom and dad are busy hustling up the menu for Thursday (well, mom is anyway), but what about the kids?! Sears pondered the exact same thing back in the 60's and thus, created the fun line of Junior Chef Baking Mix Sets that came complete with a how-to booklet, utensils, pans and trays, and all kinds of fun little boxed packets of delicious treats to mix 'n make right there in your own kid-chen! Get it? :) I only have the fantastically illustrated booklet and one packet of (unused) vanilla frosting (box art also amazing), but you can see more by googling or searching around eBay-- which is exactly what I did and found the very last image of the super cute lid art at the end of the post! So! Neato! And I'm sooooo ready for cakes, cookies, and pies!!!

Cakes and Pies

Another great 70's McCall's recipe collection, Book of Cakes and Pies, is 60+ pages of delicious dessert delicacies! Poundcakes, pastries, meringue and cream pies, fruit pies and foam-type cakes--whew! I get the sweats just saying those words in my head! The book is also a wonderful collection of illustrative fun and cuteness from Jean Courtright whose style harkens back to the 50's with loads of smiling faces about to get seriously stuffed with super sugar / carb overload! Yep, you'd be smiling too! We're getting closer to Thanksgiving, what desserts are you guys planning?

Family-Style

More cute illustrative key art and photography highlight yet another yummy 70's McCall's cook book, this one dedicated to the "Family-Style" meal of making breakfast, lunch, and din-din fun for everyone-- or just for the two of you, or even the dreaded company who are also dieters-- AIEEEE!!! I'll have a few more food related posts coming up next, as we make our way towards Thanksgiving, because yeah, November around here is usually all about food Food FOOD!!! :)