COOKING A VINTAGE DINNER! ✨ SWISS STEAK 🥩 SCALLOPED POTATOES 🥔 ORANGE SALAD 🥗 WHAT'S FOR DINNER

Thank you so much for watching this vintage recipe cook with me! Today I am collaborating with Noel from Noel's BIG Family life and making swiss steak, scalloped potatoes, endive salad, and chocolate cake.
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Jelly Roll Cake
4 egg yolks
¼ cup sugar
½ tsp vanilla
4 egg whites
½ cup sugar
¾ cup sifted cake flour
1 tsp baking powder
¼ tsp salt
Powdered sugar
Beat egg yolks until thick and lemon colored. Gradually beat in ¼ cup sugar and vanilla. Beat egg whites until almost stiff; gradually add remaining ½ cup sugar and beat until very stiff. Fold yolks into whites. Sift flour, baking powder and salt together, fold in. Bake in greased, parchment lined 15x10” jelly roll pan at 375 for 10-12 minutes. Do not overbake. Turn out onto clean towel sprinkled with powdered sugar. Sprinkle cake with more powdered sugar, add sheet of parchment and roll cake up in towel. Place on rack to cool. When completely cool, carefully unroll and add filling. Roll up and store in refrigerator until ready to serve.
Chocolate Filling
5 tbs flour
¾ cup sugar
½ tsp salt
2 cups milk, scalded
1.5 oz unsweetened chocolate
2 slightly beaten eggs
1 tsp vanilla
Mix flour, sugar and salt. Scald milk and add chocolate, stirring until melted. Mix flour mixture with milk and cook over double boiler for 15 minutes or until thick. Temper eggs with small amount hot liquid, stir into chocolate mixture. Continue cooking 5 minutes and add vanilla. Cool in refrigerator until completely cool and spread on jelly roll cake.
Scalloped Potatoes
6 medium potatoes
3 tbs butter
2 tbs flour
3 cups milk
1 tsp salt
¼ tsp pepper
1 tbs chopped onion
Shredded sharp cheddar cheese (optional)
Cook flour and butter together in saucepan, add milk and season with salt and pepper. Cook until thickened, add cheese. Peel potatoes and slice into thin rounds. Grease 9x13 casserole dish, add half of potatoes and season with salt. Sprinkle onions over and pour half the sauce on top. Repeat layer. Cover and bake in 350 oven until cooked through. Remove foil and return to oven so top can brown. Sprinkle with parsley and serve.
Swiss Steak
2 lbs round or chuck steak, 1.5-2 inches thick
½ cup flour
2 tsp salt
½ tsp pepper
Oil or shortening
1 onion, diced
1 can diced tomatoes
1 can beef broth
Pound steaks. Mix together flour, salt and pepper. Dredge steaks in flour mixture and fry in hot oil until browned on both sides. Add onion, broth and tomatoes to dutch oven. Cover and bake at 350 for 1.5 hours.
Asparagus
Cut off woody bases of asparagus. Wash thoroughly and place into shallow pan with 1 cup water. Salt asparagus and steam for 5 minutes. Drain and top with butter, salt and pepper.
Orange Endive Salad
1 bunch curly endive
2 large oranges, peeled and sectioned
½ large onion, sliced
1 clove garlic, minced
6 tbs olive oil
2 tbs tarragon vinegar
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp salt
1 tsp paprika
Wash and chop endive. Place in bowl and arrange oranges and onion over greens. Whisk or shake together remaining ingredients. Dress salad directly before serving.
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[@NoelsBIGfamilylife]

Thank you so much for doing this collab :) We loved the scalloped potatoes too. I have never been brave enough to make a jelly roll cake but you make it look so easy !!! You did a great job on this video and it was so fun to watch !!!!!

[@Jen-Chapin]

Noel's BIG Family Life thank you!!!

[@Morris17.]

@Jen-Chapin we ate Swiss steak all the time... my mom always made a gravey with hers and just cooked it on the stove with the steaks smothered in the gravey 😋 now I want some 🤤 🤤 Swiss steak and gravey with mashed potatoes.... also, try using some cream cheese with the scalloped potatoes 😋 something else I now want 🤤 🤤 and I bet if you would have put some cool whip in the chocolate for the cake... that would have been good and thickened it up, too... sorry, I know with the vintage dishes, you just try to follow the recipe... just some of my thoughts as I watched along

[@kateevans4802]

Definitely needs to become a series! Being from the UK it’s so interesting to me to see vintage American cooking! ❤️

[@ashledashnaw2575]

Being an American, I find it interesting as well lol. It's amazing how much the typical diet for the typical American has changed throughout the years. Although, the jello dishes they made back then were a little much lol. Lime jello with tuna fish mixed in it wouldn't be on our top list of recipes anymore lol.

[@maddiealliemommy]

I have that same cookbook. So much work went into the meals back in the 50's.

[@patricialee6960]

Hi Jen. I'm here from NOel's and I am glad she mentioned your channel. It looks like you have a lot of the things I remember and love. I am an 82 yr. old viewer. I separate eggs the same way and have for years. Makes sense to me. This was one of the meals my mother made for us. Makes my mouth water watching you make dinner.

[@Jen-Chapin]

Thank you!

[@gingertunstall7739]

My mother gave me that cookbook when I got married and the Orange/ Frissee(different than endive) Salad is still a favorite. I passed along to my daughter when she got married but she returned it a few years later. When asked if she cooks her reply is always "No. But I eat out very well". Sigh...........

[@eathomelive]

The best way to get your adult kids to cook, is to get them in the kitchen as early as possible. It's not guaranteed though. Some people just don't enjoy it, even if raised in the kitchen it and see it as a chore like doing dishes or cleaning the toilet. It can also be difficult, when you are tired and just want to make a quick meal, etc... It's super hard to find that balance. Most of today's young people don't cook or aren't interested when you do try to get them in there. It's healthier, better tasing, and less expensive. Just a basic combo meal is $13.95 at most of our fast food places. I can make a delicious meal that will feed us for 2-3 days with $15.

[@sharoncompton]

"Cheese is not optional" Amen!

[@janicegrenning2268]

Pleeeze do more of these vintage meals, I have an old BH & G cookbook that I still go to and love to see these old recipes and what they put together for meals. Thanks!

[@singsongvideolover]

I hope vintage recipes becomes a regular video. You did a wonderful job and I enjoyed it so much! I collect Pyrex and vintage cookbooks so this is right up my alley! Thanks, girl😍

[@andicryderman4102]

I will admit... I chuckled a bit when you mentioned the cookbook and that your grandma had one. You said that you couldn’t just ask for the book. Well, I did! My grandma and I cooked a lot together. I always would mention the great recipes in those vintage cookbooks. And even some of the newer ones. If you would buy her a cook book she would write on the back of the cover “ To (………) when my cooking days are over. I was lucky to get some great vintage cookbooks when her cooking days were done. This video made my heart smile!

[@lindseygarrett7738]

I absolutely love this. Hope it becomes a series. I have had a craving inside me for all things vintage. Especially cooking. I find myself often in antique malls looking aro und. It warms my heart!

[@okbookgirl]

Library book sales are the best place to find vintage cookbooks.

[@haley0489]

I love watching your channel. It’s like Food Network when they actually cooked before all the contests and reality tv shows took over! I appreciate that you’re an experienced home chef. Sometimes I watch other vlogs and feel like they cook out of obligation, they lack passion and experience.

[@Jen-Chapin]

Thank you!

[@charlesjubb2061]

Loved watching this one. My Mom (who also was a nurse) was married to my Dad in 1955 and she used this cookbook from then on. Bermuda onion is an older name for red onion. I think maybe your cake filling did not thicken because you were using flour which needs to get boiling to thicken, cornstarch would thicken at a lower temperature. Just ideas...I really enjoy your videos, thanks for your hard work!

[@ourcountrylife7086]

I LOVED this!!!! I grew up cooking with my Granmama, who never used a recipe or made something the same way twice! My mom gave me this cookbook and it’s the closest to my Granmama’s cooking I’ve ever found. Really fun video!!

[@debracoulter1250]

I love old cookbooks! I pick them up at antique stores and I have some of my grandmas books as well. I love the pictures, diagrams, etc.

[@Nell4620]

We had that same yellow bowl in my kitchen growing up - brought back lots of memories to see! It was part of a three bowl set - sure wish I still had them!

[@Girlfmva]

Nell4620 we had it too! I still have it in fact. We always made potato salad in it.

[@gwenfrazier7027]

I’m loving the groovy music!! It really goes well with the recipe. 🥰 I’d love to see more vintage cooking. I think that a lot of fabulous foods from our childhood (70’s and 80’s) have been forgotten. I love that this was older than I am!

[@lindagavin7010]

I make swiss steak a lot using moose cube steaks, diced tomatoes plus a can of cream of tomato soup, onion and green pepper. One of my family’s favorites. Your cake was a win because the thing didn’t crack when you rolled it up! I’ve made dozens and they almost always crack. I read a tip in your comments that you’re not supposed to let them cool too much, so I’ll try that next time. Great video! Connor is the cutest.

[@cindystrother7710]

THANK YOU FOR THINKING OF PEOPLE LIKE ME WHO CAN NOT COOK BY PUTTING YOUR YUMMY DELICIOUS RECIPES AND DIRECTIONS UNDERNEATH. AWESOME

[@katfaile9579]

love the vintage cooking; brings back lots of good memories. thanks for sharing.. love Connor helping you :)

[@rhondaking1998]

Love, love, love this. I have a Betty Crocker cookbook from the 80s. I’ve made the same scalloped potato recipe for about 30 years now. I haven’t added cheese to the sauce but great idea. I do however lay slices of velveeta cheese in between the layers. The Swiss steak looked yummy. I’ve been making that for years except I use tomato sauce and add carrots and potatoes to it. I will be making this for dinner. You’re awesome Jen! Thanks for sharing. 💞

[@Jen-Chapin]

Thank you Rhonda!!

[@elizabethwhite8930]

Please do more of these vintage cooking videos! Loved it

[@carystaines6530]

I am pretty old school, trained by my mom and grandma like you and many others out there. I really miss doing these old recipes and think we could do well to bring back some of those older flavor profiles and techniques. I just started making my own bread a couple weekends ago. Do you bake bread? I’d love to see more and I think I may just have to pull out some of my old recipe books and see what sounds good. Thanks for the inspiration!

[@Jen-Chapin]

I haven’t made bread in such a long time!! I have made homemade yeast rolls before also and they are so good!

[@cameronmcbroom]

Loved the vintage cooking! Please do more of these. I always look forward to your videos, thanks for sharing 💛

[@taraupchurch3243]

Love this!!! I hope this becomes a series!

[@veronicam1726]

This cook book brings me back to my childhood!!! I remember learning from this book with both my parents...I love it!! 💖💖

[@moonchild8422]

I definitely hope you continue this series! I have my grandmas same cookbook and I was just thinking the other day how I'd love to start trying meals either once or twice a week from the cookbook. I'm a vintage Pyrex collector as well!

[@deborahpugh4578]

A cookbook from the year I was born! I remember my mother cooking from this book. She bought me a 'modern' version when I got married in 1977. I still have it.

[@abbywonder3825]

I love vintage cookbooks. I found one of all meals made with jello. After I told my family, I was banned from hosting holiday meals for the next few years. Lol

[@dellahicks7231]

Abby growing up in the 60's and 70's, Aspic was a staple at many family meals, (It is a tomato based jellied salad, there are recipes on Google if you are so inclined!) but there were others as well, a coleslaw type jellied concoction, peaches floating in something, my husband laughs they were like some weird science experiment!

[@staceypistole1017]

I absolutely love vintage recipes! Please do more of these! 💛

[@irasemabiggs6434]

Thank you thank you. I loved this video. Please make more with retro recipes..blessings to you and your family.

[@bishyleelee9196]

Loved the vintage recipe, would really love to see more of these, maybe a series. Have your u also thought about trying recipes from other countries cook books like maybe the UK?

[@wendelinharrison9571]

I’ve got that yellow bowl!! 🥰🎈 This was fun! Revisiting recipes from childhood can really take you back😊

[@marisajomcdowell458]

Watching kiddos watch their moms bake is so sweet and nostalgic for me!

[@arkeishasmith5946]

This was a super great idea. Thanks for taking us along.

[@JKW24LUV]

Yes! More vintage recipes please. This video was so fun!

[@Max-sd9gq]

Hello from the UK 🙋🏼; always watching from the sidelines; loved this video (and the music was a fab choice); thank you for sharing these lovely recipes and for all your hard work. Best wishes, Max. x

[@jeredasnyder2479]

LOVED this video. Please do more vintage cooking!!!

[@bonniebonebrake1538]

Great video! I have a cookbook like yours. 1970. I also have a yellow bowl exactly like you have. It was my moms. Oh the memories of her cooking. Go Hawkeyes!!!!!

[@feliciaoakes1602]

I absolutely love old cookbooks! Thanks for an awesome video.

[@MrsAlmaTrumble]

I love watching you and Noel and her beautiful family. She's an awesome lady. I'm subscribed to both of her channels and I really enjoy getting ideas for meals from you both. Everything you made looks so delicious.

[@rosezingleman5007]

Gee I wish I’d seen this sooner. What fun. I’m 64, so this is right out of my childhood. I would’ve made some stiff whipped cream and used that choc custard as the flavoring. Your roll technique is so good. I haven’t made a jelly roll cake in decades! It all looks so so delicious. Thanks for posting it.

[@loriweaver5776]

I loved this video! I love vintage things and also like cooking vintage foods. I have the green vintage pyrex bowls that were my grandmother's. My favorite bowls and I use them all the time. Thanks for this video I really enjoyed it!

[@valmac3887]

I love these kinds of throw back videos.

[@katieulmer3551]

I love this! I’m obsessed with vintage Pyrex. I have my kitchen decorated with all my old bowls. Definitely making the scalloped potatoes soon 😋

[@MissMandiGirl]

I absolutely LOVED everything about this video! I collect old Cookbooks especially ones put out by churches and organizations. I loved the food, the music, the older serving dishes! I hope to see many more videos like this one in the future! Thank you Jen!! 👏🏻 ❤️

[@cassiearvin9858]

DEFINITELY DO MORE!! Loved this!!

[@janetpfiz3597]

My mother made jelly rolls. As kids we thought this was a wonderful treat. I used to make them also and after watching this, I am making one today. Thanks for the memories.

[@bethanyrae5913]

My mom has this cookbook as a hand me down from my grandma, I remember her making recipes out of this as I was growing up. I’m definitely going to have to order one for myself. 😁

[@moongoddess8568]

Love it! What a fun idea! Thanks! 😋

[@cdjo4845]

Absolutely love the vintage recipes! I have the same cookbook. Also enjoyed your swaggy music 😀

[@michelepashia6641]

Just a random "tip/idea" for leftover orange (citrus) peels... If you have a garbage disposal they will leave a fresh scent when added (just a couple, DON'T over do it 😊) and if you throw orange peel, cinnamon even Apple peels in a pot of boiling water on the stove your house will smell AHHmazing and a great way to "recycle" and have a bonus freshener 💖

[@kristenevans4557]

My grandmother never added tomatoes in her beefy onion gravy. She also just used cube steak. No need to pound that. It’s my ultimate comfort food memory and something I still make for my family. I use almost a whole container of beef stock. It cooks with the onions (about 2 big ones) and about a cap full of kitchen bouquet. I serve it with mashed potatoes, just like she did, better to soak up all that yummy gravy goodness.

[@amanahk15]

Love the idea of vintage style recipes.

[@tbowman85]

I love Noelle and your channel. You guys make meal prep and planning seamless. Great collaboration!

[@doriannegreene4936]

This was so fun to watch!! Thanks for another awesome video!! I love collecting old books too ❤

[@ks76854]

This is a great idea for a video! I would love to see more! Also your scalloped potatoes are making me drool 😋

[@wendywesley7423]

This video was so fun! I have been in a looking for something new to try and this vintage meal looks interesting! Thanks so much. I just made cabbage rolls from by Betty Crocker cookbook and they were good. Cheers

[@theresaodea3811]

This was so great!!

[@lynnkayseas3055]

Hey Jen, great video your an amazing homemaker and very inspirational . Keep them videos coming they are great to watch. From Margaret in canada

[@cindystrother7710]

THANKS FOR KEEPING IT REAL NOT everyone can afford the newer APPLIANCES

[@gloriousgemz2653]

You have truly inspired me to step out of my comfort zone as it relates to cooking . Thank you 😊

[@barbarajohnson7782]

That was the year I was born. I will have to check out EBay for some vintage cookbooks! Thanks Jen, love your videos!

[@callmecristal]

I love this video idea! Please do more of these!!

[@breequig889]

Yes Jen!! Thank you! Great video!❤

[@beckyhelwig498]

Loved this video. It brought me back to my childhood days with my mother and grandmother fixing those kind of Sunday meals. When my mother passed away 2 1/2 yrs ago my sister took all of the family recipies and won't give me any but I have the memories and that's what counts. Can't to to see another one.

[@johannahobbs5781]

So fun!!!! Such memories of my grandmother's cooking. Plus total bonus points for the retro...and let's say it..brady bunch music. I'm totally going to make Salisbury steak this weekend. Also...can we imagine - women did this whole dance everyday...no wonder "tv dinners" we're so popular. Thanks Jen!!!!

[@sherylg1980]

This is a great idea!! I’m watching now! ☕️😍 Thanks Jen!

[@stephaniejones2828]

Another fantastic video Jen!!!! I would love if your vintage cooking became a regular series :-)Everything looked wonderful & I just ordered the cookbook from your link!Thanks for sharing and love your channel and everything you do!!

[@rebeccacerrillo495]

I would love to see more vintage cooking videos! It’d be cool to see strawberry rhubarb pie, goulash, and also any kind of school cafeteria recipes such as cheese zombies & tomato soup. I’m slightly obsessed with school cafeteria recipes lol 😂 My elementary school actually had cooked meals- no prepackaged stuff!

[@heidefries1825]

Strawberry rhubarb is soooooo good!

[@brendatate8986]

Love this meal! I have made those scalloped potatoes before and they are delicious! Please do more of these vintage recipes! Have a wonderful weekend!

[@Evehere57]

oh my I havent thought about swiss steak in along time thanks Im going to try it.

[@joybowles1453]

Good video !loved the vintage recipe book.. I also have the same old cookbook.. love to try those scalloped potaatoes

[@mariepenela2656]

Yes, please more vintage cooking.

[@tracywishom9999]

Thank you so much for this video. This is something I've always wanted to do. I love everything vintage/shabby chic type of things. My mother had a cookbook like that, I'll never forget that red and white check , I don't think her's was from the fifties. You have given me the push, by sharing this awesome video, "LOVE IT "!!!

[@acountrylife]

I really liked this style of video with the vintage recipes. It didn’t feel much different than how I cook today.

[@ashleyerinneal3804]

Loved it!

[@nancysnyder8301]

Just more more and yes more!! Hello Pupper and young man!! ❤️❤️❤️

[@katalinszabo8322]

Enjoyed very much!! I am going to try it, Hope you make more meals out of the book!!!!!👍👍👍👍👍

[@daniellel.7365]

I loved this vintage meal! I am a cookbook maniac. Great idea.

[@shastityfoots]

I love the idea of vintage meals!

[@kaybanks8781]

This is a great video. I hope you start a series doing this. I'm inspired. I have my mother's Betty Crocker cookbook from the 50s so I think I'm going to try this.

[@melissagillespie9402]

I love that you used vintage recipes! I’d love to see more videos like this!

[@jacquemcarthur9783]

Loved this video...brought back childhood memories...please do lots more💞💞💞

[@rangerlove7]

This took me careening back to my childhood. Loved it!

[@andreadodson2817]

So fun! I have two of my grandmother's cookbooks, a 1959 Betty Crocker cookbook and 1960s Better Homes and Garden cookbook. They have her notes in them, so they are such treasures! I'd actually recommend you try the bread recipe in it. So good!

[@heidefries1825]

You're so lucky to have your grandmother's cookbooks and the notes are simply priceless. My grandmother didn't use cookbooks but used a specific spoon, which I was fortunate to end-up with ... think of her EVERY time I use it.

[@gloriapeel6887]

Great dinner! Everything looks so yummy!

[@perryandmichelle]

Love the vintage concept. Hope you do more of these. The cake looked like a big burrito with mole sauce. Thanks for sharing!

[@glennjacobsen1803]

Love this video. Fun to read old cookbooks and cook the recipes. ♡♡cheryl

[@Gigi-fv9ky]

I really loved this and hope you do more retro dinners...and invite me over, lol. Both my mother and grandmother have/had this cookbook and I am pretty sure I have one, too, purchased as a later edition about 20 years ago. I grew up on a farm and, even more so as I get older, loved this style of cooking and I so miss my grandmother that this just hits all the nice memories. Thanks!

[@cindystrother7710]

LOVE THAT YOU EXPLAIN AS YOU GO FOR PEOPLE LIKE ME WHO CAN NOT COOK THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH

[@michaelpond6386]

Best cookbook ever “365 ways to serve hamburger “. Vintage and very unique.

[@michaelpond6386]

It’s the Doyne Nickerson version

[@buttercupdvm]

I loved this video! I make Swiss steak all the time!! I make it with cubed moose steak (have never used beef steak in this), tomatoes, onions, bell peppers on the stovetop. I was warned to stir often and use low heat as tomatoes like to burn. I usually serve it over mashed potatoes, though egg noodles will do. I didn’t know this was a vintage recipe, but makes sense as I never have seen it in print- my mom just told me how she makes it. It is great to use with moose steak because moose steak is notoriously tough and the tomatoes and time help tenderize it. My dad has a cuber, which is like a grinder, but just puts little holes all through the moose steak. We process the entire moose (either by grinding burger or cubing) when we harvest (hunt) in September.

[@douglasvilledarling2935]

Lindsay Wingerter yes, my mom made it (in the 70s and 80s) on the stove, served over rice. She would serve Chicken Paprika (baked in sour cream) over egg noodles

[@stephanienavarra7167]

Love this idea!!! Please do it again! Would love to see more! It all sounds great too!

[@ms_texas]

Oh this looked delicious! I really enjoyed watching you cook from a vintage cookbook. My mom and grandma both had this same cookbook!

[@patriciabarnhart1886]

That cookbook was a wedding in 1965. Still use it.

[@tracitisserand6563]

OMG too fun! I cook from that book often. Mine is old and faded and falling apart, but very much loved.

[@kathycourington4748]

Loved this, love vintage! Love swiss steak, like you my mother always made it. So good...

[@donnabirney4558]

Omg! I’m totally making this entire meal! I’d completely forgotten about Swiss steak which was a staple in our house growing up. Love this video and I’d love to see more from your vintage cookbook!

[@landoflincoln2336]

I haven't had swiss steak since I was a kid. My Mom used to make it with chuck steak and stewed tomatoes. The Betty Crocker cookbook was the only cookbook that she had. My sister has it now. I have a newer version, but I may have to go search for a vintage one. I also have vintage pyrex that I love. Yes please, more vintage recipes!