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Easter hot cross buns from the 1967 Women’s Weekly recipe cards

April 6, 2012 by Stacey 33 Comments

I love this funny little Women’s Weekly box of recipes from days gone by, and I love the hot cross bun recipe – I make it every easter!

But WHO was it eating all the aspic in 1967? WHY was it so popular

The Women's Weekly 1967 recipe box is full of vintage gems!

You get lulled into a false sense of security with the delicious chocolate layer sponge and rock buns at the start.

The Women's Weekly 1967 recipe box is full of vintage gems!

But you still have a fair idea that the “slimmers” section is not going to get anybody excited. Ever.

The Women's Weekly 1967 recipe box is full of vintage gems!

I like to think I’d eat this now. I am fairly terrified of macaroni pies and anything that looks too dry-noodle-y. I sort of prefer it swimming in sauce and not all moulded and looking at me like that.

but hey… cheese.

The Women's Weekly 1967 recipe box is full of vintage gems!

I love the colour they’ve chosen to make these prawns look natural. These are some neon-ass prawns. You’ll probably turn into a ninja turtle if you eat them.

and apple? with a pimiento-stuffed olive? why?

oh and parsley. don’t forget the parsley.

The Women's Weekly 1967 recipe box is full of vintage gems!

always, always, always reminds me of the dinner party death scene in monty python’s the meaning of life.

“how can we all have died at the same time?”

“the salmon mousse.”

The Women's Weekly 1967 recipe box is full of vintage gems!

I’ve heard bacon makes everything better… but I’m still pretty scared. Days before proscuitto, I guess!

The Women's Weekly 1967 recipe box is full of vintage gems!

this is pretty cute but I won’t be eating it.

The Women's Weekly 1967 recipe box is full of vintage gems!

… so many things i want to say about this fish in white sauce business

but we’re family-friendly ’round these parts.

plus i’m too traumatised.

The Women's Weekly 1967 recipe box is full of vintage gems!

again with the moulded rings! no wonder spinach had a bad name for like, ever.

The Women's Weekly 1967 recipe box is full of vintage gems!

um.

The Women's Weekly 1967 recipe box is full of vintage gems!

man, do i miss corned beef. probably the only thing i do miss.

luckily i still have pimiento-stuffed olives out of a jar and funky sandwiches.

and paprika on eggs.

The Women's Weekly 1967 recipe box is full of vintage gems!

Deep fried bread boxes filled with stuff and prawns! I’ve had prawn toasts in my previous life, and the bread… the deep fried bread… I’m not willing to put myself through such torture ever, ever again.

The Women's Weekly 1967 recipe box is full of vintage gems!

What a delightful shade of vomit gravy on those brown, sad carcasses!

The Women's Weekly 1967 recipe box is full of vintage gems!

“I wonder if I deliberately made this photo blurry to save my eyes from the … beef… in … jelly…

*barf*<

But then…

Easter Hot Cross Buns from the 1967 Women’s Weekly Recipe Cards

I made these hot cross buns last easter for my sister, who is a total hot cross bun connoisseur.

I won easter that year.

Women's Weekly recipe cards from 1967 throw up these awesome hot cross buns. So good!

see?

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  1. Madeline @ The things we do says

    April 6, 2012 at 8:27 pm

    So gross! Did you know Pip from Meet Me at Mikes was working her way through cooking recipes from the WW box a year or so ago? She managed to find some that looked half decent. My mum used to have some of these cards too but never the whole box.

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  2. Kelley @ magnetoboldtoo says

    April 6, 2012 at 10:32 pm

    So i was going to have a second hot cross bun but after seeing these recipes I am surprisingly not hungry any more

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  3. Mumstrosity says

    April 6, 2012 at 11:08 pm

    Woweee that's an interesting lot. I wonder how many peckish people whipped up a batch of HCB only to get to the end of the card and find out they could only serve them on Good Friday. “Well, we'd better store these away for 6 months”

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  4. Glowless says

    April 7, 2012 at 3:24 am

    So,um, the fish in white sauce… you don't have to say it.
    I'm also reminded of a parsley joke but will keep your site family friendly and NOT share it 😛

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  5. Elizabeth Harding says

    April 7, 2012 at 3:39 am

    I loved going through this box of recipes as a child and couldn't wait until the day my mum passed this little box of secret recipe cards onto me… until now. I never realised that within the 3 or 4 favourite and well used recipe cards was a bunch of dog food recipes and many many laughs. Thank you for sharing this, i will never quite look at it the same way. 

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  6. Katherine says

    April 7, 2012 at 5:02 am

    Some of those are equal parts appalling and mesmerising. Thank goodness for hot cross buns.

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  7. Annieb25 says

    April 7, 2012 at 7:27 am

    I LOVE looking at old recipes. How things have changed, thankfully for the better!  Maybe our kids will think our food is strange?  Hard to imagine what they could make that would be better – unless the way of the world of cooking heads down the Heston Blumenthal pathway! 

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  8. Veggie Mama says

    April 7, 2012 at 9:30 am

    Oh man, I already think he's strange!

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  9. Veggie Mama says

    April 7, 2012 at 9:30 am

    This isn't even half of the bad ones…

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  10. Veggie Mama says

    April 7, 2012 at 9:31 am

    Hahaha there is precious little I would actually cook from this adorable box of yesteryear!

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  11. Veggie Mama says

    April 7, 2012 at 9:31 am

    Gag, gag, gaggity-gag!

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  12. Veggie Mama says

    April 7, 2012 at 9:32 am

    Hahah this made me die laughing, I thought the same thing! Wait! You can't eat those til tomorrow! Or in this case, next year…

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  13. Kelley @magnetoboldtoo says

    April 7, 2012 at 10:50 am

    I spent 20 minutes swearing at my phone trying to comment… now I forget what I said.

    So this is a tribute.

    Heh

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  14. Diane Balch says

    April 7, 2012 at 11:48 am

    What a hoot the old recipes are frightfully funny. 

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  15. Sharon @ Funken Wagnel says

    April 7, 2012 at 6:06 pm

    'Tinned salmon is social suicide!'

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  16. BabyMacBeth says

    April 7, 2012 at 9:07 pm

    Savoury boxes?
    Clams/muscles floating in a fishy white sauce?
    I'm leaving before I say ANYTHING inappropriate….x

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  17. Veggie Mama says

    April 8, 2012 at 12:46 am

    It didn't make you hungry? Hm. I wonder why!

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  18. Veggie Mama says

    April 8, 2012 at 12:46 am

    Dear, it's a Mr Death, he's come about the reaping?

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  19. Veggie Mama says

    April 8, 2012 at 12:46 am

    And just plain frightful!

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  20. Veggie Mama says

    April 8, 2012 at 12:47 am

    Stupid phone. Anyway… Salmon mousse on your menu this week?

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  21. Domesblissity says

    April 8, 2012 at 11:22 am

    Hi Stacey, just stumbled across your blog via a recommendation from Janelle at Me & Mia. What a wonderful walk down memory lane with those recipe cards. I'm sure my Mum had a set of those as did all Mums in the 70's. Oh, and I remember eating a lot of aspic inspired dishes all served from the obligatory Tupperware mould. (PS Are you the same Stacey on Qld Bloggers?)

    Love your blog.

    Anne @ Domesblissity xx

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  22. Sharon @ Funken Wagnel says

    April 8, 2012 at 1:15 pm

     You realise now I'll have to watch it again? Love it!

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  23. Melissa Walker Horn says

    April 8, 2012 at 1:42 pm

    Baaaaahaha. *sucking in a deep breath*  Baaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhaahaha.

    That jelly beef thing looks horrendous. So, so bad. 

    The hot cross buns, oh yum!

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  24. Robert Dulaney says

    April 9, 2012 at 3:08 am

    i effing love vintage food photos. so gross. haha.

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  25. Veggie Mama says

    April 9, 2012 at 3:21 am

    yes I am! and aspic…. gross! Love those tupperware moulds though!

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  26. Veggie Mama says

    April 9, 2012 at 3:22 am

    haha same. I will be doing that very thing this evening.

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  27. Veggie Mama says

    April 9, 2012 at 3:22 am

    Thank goodness there was actually something good stuck in there with the freaky shit!

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  28. Veggie Mama says

    April 9, 2012 at 3:22 am

    Dude, I get such a kick out of them. I've photographed all the ugliness in my vintage cookbooks for future gagging x

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  29. Aurora says

    June 18, 2012 at 9:01 am

    Hi Stacey, just followed a link to your blog from mummys on the phone.  Love the vintage food stuff.  I have a set of these cards (they were my mum's)  and I remember pouring over them as a child thinking it all looked so exotic.  I collect old cookbooks too, but I call the genre “ugly food” LOL!!

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  30. Veggie Mama says

    June 18, 2012 at 9:02 am

    oh my gosh, it's SO UGLY! I can't even buy veg cookbooks from earlier than the '90s, because although the recipe sounds good, the pictures are horrific! Welcome aboard the Veggie Mama train 🙂

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  31. Lisa Mckenzie says

    March 27, 2014 at 2:25 pm

    These are so bad they are good in a weird way!!

    Reply

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