The Spirit of Seventy-Six!

In honor of the 250th birthday of the Declaration of Independence, all recipes through August 16, 2026 were from Centennial and Bicentennial cookbooks and the 1796 first American cookbook. I’ve also published a Sestercentennial Cookery with recipes and photos.

Cheese and Rice Casserole: Lucile Schmalzel’s Rice Casserole, from the 1973 Benson Arizona Favorite Foods Cook Book.; seventies; 1970s; cheese; rice; eggs; recipe; milk; Benson, Arizona; pimentos; pimientos

Don’t overcook this. It should be like the best scrambled eggs, just barely set. Goes great with salsa. This will be a great breakfast on Thanksgiving: easy to make and possibly even using a leftover or two from the other preparations going on.

Drop in again soon for another vintage recipe! I’ll have a different recipe every Sunday afternoon throughout the year. Keep an eye on this page or subscribe to the RSS feed for further details. You can also browse past featured Club recipes as well as some of the vintage promotional cookbooks I’ve used as sources. And I collect many of these recipes in A Traveling Man’s Cookery Book.

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If you are cooking for your family or your friends, you owe them the pleasure of your company. — Renny Darling (The Joy of Eating)