90s PARTY FOOD IDEAS 😋 3 Ingredient Appetizer Recipes!

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If you're looking for holiday appetizer ideas, you've come to the right place. Today I'm sharing my favorite 3 ingredient appetizer recipes from the 90s! These are the very special foods we always had at holiday gatherings and potlucks when I was a kid. 90s party food ideas aplenty!
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PICKLE ROLLS
1 - 8oz block of cream cheese, softened
6 to 8 slices of thin deli ham (rectangular shaped works best!)
6 to 8 whole dill pickles
Drain pickles on paper towels. Blot moisture from ham slices with paper towels. Spread each ham slice with cream cheese, reach almost all the way to the edges. Place pickle on short end of ham slice. Roll and chill. Slice when ready to eat. You should be able to get 5 or 6 slices out of each roll.
RUMAKI
1/2lb bacon
1 - 8oz can whole water chestnuts, drained
1/4c of your favorite bbq sauce
Preheat oven to 375. Cut each slice of bacon into thirds. Wrap each smaller slice of bacon around a whole water chestnut and spear with a toothpick. Place on baking sheet and brush each appetizer with bbq sauce. Bake 35 to 40 minutes, brushing with additional sauce halfway through.
BUGLE DIP
1/4c port wine cheese spread
1/2c sour cream
1/4tsp paprika
pinch of onion powder (optional)
Bugles (for serving)
Mix port wine cheese spread, sour cream and paprika until well combined. Serve dip with Bugles or corn chips.
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Timestamps
0:00 Intro
1:05 Pickle Rolls
6:55 Rumaki
12:21 Bugle Dip
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@cooking_the_books 7 ай бұрын

Have you tried any of these recipes? Let me know in the comments! ❤

@ski-yq9ur 7 ай бұрын

I love the Rumaki. My father made it in the 70's and used half chicken liver and water chestnut in each one. The sauce was Teriyaki, not BBQ. Also, the Bugle dip looks great.

@Patricia-lg8vg 7 ай бұрын

our family has made the pickles with budding corned beef around the pickle and cream cheese. 🙂

@user-kh9jv8cx3l 7 ай бұрын

Yes, I have made the ham, pickles, cream cheese apps for years. And the rumaki with the chicken lovers. YUMMY!!!!

@user-kh9jv8cx3l 7 ай бұрын

Correction: Chicken LIVERS?!

@TimetravelingArchaeologist 7 ай бұрын

I make the bacon wrapped water chestnuts, but I do mine with a blend of Heinz chili sauce, brown sugar, and a little bit of mayo. They are absolutely delicious. I bake them unsauced until they are mostly rendered before I add sauce, bake a bit longer, sauce again, and then finish off. This minimized the burning of any sugared sauce mixture and allows the bacon to crisp up better.

@cathlynballard8409 7 ай бұрын

On party nights, we kids were relegated to the playroom with an older/teen “babysitter.” We were served our very own appetizer tray: it consisted of the ends, sloppy ones, smushed ones, slightly burnt ones, ripped crust ones, and outright mishaps shaped into bite-sized things on a cocktail pick. We were none the wiser and we gleefully polished off every morsel while playing Twister, The Barbie Game, or Charades. ❤

@kristinwright6632 7 ай бұрын

Twister! Or for me the Dating Game. Or cards. Canasta or Gin Rummy were favorites.

@alexandrakennedy2000 7 ай бұрын

The sloppy ones & the ends are always the best bc they have extra good stuff inside!! I always felt so special as a kid, like my mom/grandma made those ones just for me. 🥰

@tracyhenderson5116 7 ай бұрын

I love this! 😂

@agodlyhome 7 ай бұрын

I think I know what your grandmother's "Bugel dip" recipe was. This dip recipe is an older recipe that was very popular at one time. 8 ounce package of cream cheese, 5 ounce jar of kraft Old English spread in the glass jar, 1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce, and 1/2 tsp garlic powder

@ashleyhoots 7 ай бұрын

I remember that as a kid. That’s what we would eat with it.

@MayimHastings 7 ай бұрын

I remember that, too! Now i want to make it to see if it stands the test of time. Thank you for that! Happiest New Year 💚🙏🕊

@urbinae99 7 ай бұрын

So, I just picked up my phone and "googled" Bugle Dip" and WoW recipes (all very similar) popped up..... Good Luck

@07laines07 6 ай бұрын

I remember that as being the base for most cheese balls in the 70’s and early 80’s as well… it’s a good foundation for a lot of yum cheesy stuff.

@kenzienomc 7 ай бұрын

I'm loving the comments on this video - everyone has memories of these recipes but "slightly" different! We used 2 slices of ham on our roll-ups, and my mom's version of the water chestnuts was to coat the bacon in brown sugar before wrapping them. I remember seeing them come out of the oven and being told I couldn't eat them for AN HOUR because "the caramel will burn your tongue right off". 😂

@mirandamom1346 7 ай бұрын

My in-laws always served clam dip at their Christmas party. One year I was asked to make it. I was amazed to hear that it was canned clams and cream cheese. Nothing else. Can I add hot sauce? No. Horseradish? No. Soy sauce? Certainly not. So I mixed together the can of clams and cream cheese as directed, and it was delicious (scooped up with plain potato chips)! Sometimes simplicity works. 🙂

@homeonthefrontrange3276 7 ай бұрын

Omgosh my mom used to make that.. I might need to revisit it

@emmasnell1467 7 ай бұрын

My gfs family does clam dip too! Omg with a lot more seasoning such as fresh garlic and worcestershire. I was shocked when it was eaten up in a matter of minutes this past year

@ladyflimflam 7 ай бұрын

As a newlywed in the early 90s I made pickle rolls with deli roast beef and german mustard spread on after the cream cheese and diced red onion thrown in. They were like cold rouladen.

@Tropicalpisces 7 ай бұрын

That's what I'm making this year .. rouladen 🥰

@rosezingleman5007 7 ай бұрын

Yes. When I moved east and got married I traded the ham for beef, added roasted red pepper, chopped, to the cream cheese, or added horseradish to it.

@knemetz80 7 ай бұрын

I make them with dried beef and a little horse radish in the cream cheese

@yazarc 7 ай бұрын

I can’t believe you didn’t do the classic block of cream cheese with shrimp (or Krab) with Heinz chili sauce dumped over the top. Served on a ritz!

@cooking_the_books 7 ай бұрын

I am allergic to shellfish, otherwise I would!

@e.urbach7780 7 ай бұрын

Oh, we did pepper jelly poured over the block of cream cheese, served with Ritz crackers. So good! Depending on the pepper jelly you get (like, jalapeno peppers or hot peppers) it can be really spicy or not, but the cream cheese cuts the spice.

@cooking_the_books 7 ай бұрын

@@e.urbach7780 I love the cream cheese & pepper jelly combo!

@GussieWondriska 7 ай бұрын

I love this! Making it for Christmas.

@donnarion1147 7 ай бұрын

Ahh... I grew up in simpler times - only two ingredients! ;-) The "holiday" appetizer I remember is the old Lipton onion soup mix, blended in to sour cream as a dip for chips. As I said, simpler times. I do remember later though (I had already left home by this point) my mother making little hotdogs in a super simple barbecue sauce in chafing dish. It was 1/2 cup each of ketchup, brown sugar and bourbon. Bring to boil, reduce heat and add two packages cocktail hot dogs. I'm pretty sure she used the ones called Little Smokies. Keep warm and serve in a chafing dish (or crockpot). This recipe is definitely old enough for your channel - early 1970s!

@loriloristuff 7 ай бұрын

My mother made a dip when she had no Lipton or Mrs. Grass's onion soup mix, that was about 1/2 cup minced onion with the juice, an 8 ounce package of cream cheese, and milk to thin to dip consistency. I add a grinding of black pepper to mine, but it's really optional. When I was a young military wife, the big thing was the cocktail hot dogs or meatballs in grape jelly with a couple hits of Tobasco. Sound icky, really yummy.

@donnarion1147 7 ай бұрын

@@loriloristuff Oh yes! I had forgotten the meatballs in grape jelly. It was surprisingly good (or at least I thought so at the time).

@theblindredneck747 7 ай бұрын

I’ve definitely eaten onion soup mix mixed with sour cream as chip dip.

@cydkriletich6538 7 ай бұрын

Oh, thank you for the Little Smokies recipe! I am planning on bringing it to an early Christmas community dinner we’re having this week, and I can’t for the life of me remember how my mother (who passed at age 97 in 2019) made it. I do know she used either or both crushed canned pineapples and apple jelly. I can’t find a decent apple jelly, so I found a delicious peach jam made with Amaretto (perhaps my favorite liqueur) that I’m going to use. It was delicious! Honestly, I don’ think you can go wrong with Little Smokies and just about anything! Happy Holidays! 🧑🏼‍🎄🎄

@cydkriletich6538 7 ай бұрын

Anna, those electric skillets were so handy! I’ll bet your mom and I are about the same age. My mom always used an electric skillet for so many meals. Surely they must still be available, just not as popular as they were with my mom’s generation of housewives and moms. I think an electric skillet would be perfect for keeping an appetizer like Rumaki warm. Happy Holidays! 🧑🏼‍🎄🎄

@annettefournier9655 7 ай бұрын

Anything wrapped in bacon was fancy to me as a kid. ❤

@alexandrakennedy2000 7 ай бұрын

In mid-Michigan we opt for the ham rolls with green onion instead of pickle. Its a tradition for my MIL to bring a truckload every year! 🎄❤️

@BacktheBlue60 6 ай бұрын

I'm a michigander and have always used green onions. 😊

@blessedgirl717 7 ай бұрын

Looked up bugle recipes and this one looked like the color of the dip it contained 8 oz cream cheese softened , 1/2 cup yellow onions chopped, 1/3 cup tomato salsa, 1/4 cup ketchup, 3 tbsp mayonnaise, and 1 tsp garlic powder, and salt and pepper seasoned to taste. It’s called bugle cheese dip but may not be the original. Going to send to my brother as he loves bugles.

@yoohootube 7 ай бұрын

One of the bugle dip recipes called for Western salad dressing which was a favorite of mine back then!

@staceyn2541 7 ай бұрын

Try Bugles with green onion dip! It was my favorite snack in the 80s. :)

@devinmelancon4901 7 ай бұрын

My family has made the pickle rolls for decades, except we use canned asparagus instead of dill pickles. Because asparagus is much thinner, you simply roll them tighter. If anyone finds the tartness of the pickle too much, try it with asparagus instead 😊

@frang58 7 ай бұрын

I hate dill pickles; asparagus sounds like a good substitution.

@mollysidney1963 7 ай бұрын

I think picked asparagus would be a nice choice also.

@mollysidney1963 7 ай бұрын

Pickled asparagus.

@julie9589 2 ай бұрын

Bittersweet memories for me: My mom was a great hostess and the holidays were one party after another with dozens of guests. My family is spread out now, I never married and mom and dad gone. But I have wonderful memories and these apps bring it all back. 😊❤

@Ave43able 7 ай бұрын

I've made the pickle rolls and bacon water chest nuts EVERY CHRISTMAS EVE for as long as I can remember. This year is no different. Love them!

@terrij2410 7 ай бұрын

Yes bacon water chestnuts have been a staple since the early-mid 90’s. Some apps are truly timeless. I know in my early 20’s I felt very sophisticated making them lol 😅

@nemo7782 6 ай бұрын

Rumaki has been around a long while. I have it in a cookbook from 1966.

@keturahpadgette1093 7 ай бұрын

I made the pickle rolls with prosciutto and Boursin cheese once because I happened to have that on hand. It was unbelievably good! It's the only way I make them now.

@BitsyP 7 ай бұрын

OMG Boursin makes everything better! I might have to try this, never would have thought to use it but my mouth is watering now!

@donnakenny9345 7 ай бұрын

My sons had an international food night at school and a classmate brought the ham/pickle rolls and said it was a Polish dish. I never knew it was a midwestern thing. They tasted great.

@sebeckley 7 ай бұрын

I love bacon wrapped dates. My tapas place serves them with a red pepper sauce. Also amazing if you stuff the date with goat cheese or an almond.

@cooking_the_books 7 ай бұрын

I also love bacon wrapped dates! and goat cheese. and almonds! Ok now I need to go out for Tapas. 😂

@e.urbach7780 7 ай бұрын

Oh, I know those bacon-wrapped dates as "angels on horseback"! I like stuffing some cream cheese inside the date, where the pit was, and then baking the bacon-wrapped dates until they are heated through and the bacon is crispy. Haven't made those in years, but they are so good!

@melissalambert7615 7 ай бұрын

I'll stuff dates with goat cheese or even a small bit of sharp cheddar. Great little snack.

@ninabooker2904 7 ай бұрын

I’m 15 years older than you but I too remember these party appetizers. Definitely a Mid-West thing, good times. I thought of another one while watching you. Meatballs, a jar of chili sauce and a jar of grape jelly in the crockpot. Yum-O ! Thanks for sharing. Merry Christmas 🎄

@cooking_the_books 7 ай бұрын

We made those same meatballs in my middle school Home Ec class! ☺

@07laines07 6 ай бұрын

In the south east we did meatballs, tiny smoky sausages chili sauce and grape jelly…

@jenn4youtube 7 ай бұрын

“The chef’s treat” is now in my vocabulary. Thank you

@lisaj2491 7 ай бұрын

I look forward to your videos every Sunday. They really lift my spirits. I too love vintage recipes. Thanks for all your hard work to bring us these videos. Merry Christmas!

@cooking_the_books 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for your kind comment. I'm so glad to hear that my videos lift your spirits! Merry Christmas! 🎄

@mitomom4947 7 ай бұрын

Such a great video! Pickle rolla on Christmas afternoon party time!! Merry Christmas, Anna 🎄

@rw8873 7 ай бұрын

Shaking my head the whole time. As a born East Coaster from the Finger Lakes area of NY, we had none of these except the electric skillet! 😃 We did mini sausages in grape jelly/bbq sauce, the wine cheese and nut ball w/ Ritz crackers and such like. Wishing you a Merry Christmas - thank you for your hard work and delightful laugh/smile. 🎄(also a huge ALDI fan!)

@jetlaggedchef6806 7 ай бұрын

You're the most real cook on KZfaq and I'm 100% here for it! Love your recipes. I think I need a 90s theme party with all these appetizers!

@cooking_the_books 7 ай бұрын

Aw thank you so much! I am pretty much the same IRL as I am on KZfaq. 😄

@robinsmith5442 6 ай бұрын

I heard the first ones called "fish eyes" back in the 1990's. YUM!

@electricimani 7 ай бұрын

I love this idea of recreating your childhood faves from memory. cooking without a recipe is so fun!

@amyschmelzer6445 7 ай бұрын

We make the pickle rolls with dried beef. I like the Armour brand that comes in a jar. It’s super salty but we like it that way. I cut the pickle into spears to account for the smaller diameter of the dried beef.

@aprilhampton6298 7 ай бұрын

I was 15 in 1990. Good times! I'm not a fan of water chestnuts but I do love to wrap bacon around pineapple and bake it.

@andreagelenter 7 ай бұрын

My mom would buy port wine cheese spread for "fancy occasions." She had a brown crock with a swing clamp lid. Wish I had that crock, now.. For New Year's one year while we were on our winter break, my friend decided to make rumaki. Just the water chestnuts, bacon, and bbq sauce. She used mint flavored toothpicks. Would not recommend!🤣

@cooking_the_books 7 ай бұрын

Omg MINT flavored toothpicks!! I'm dying! 😂

@mollysidney1963 7 ай бұрын

Those little brown crocks show up at goodwill's all the time, or they used to.

@dianethompson6804 7 ай бұрын

I've never seen your channel before. Cooking the Books is a hilarious name!!!

@ellingtongriffin5521 7 ай бұрын

Omg BUGLES! Now it’s a party.

@redrooster1908 4 ай бұрын

I catered weddings and big parties in the 80s. Bacon wrapped waterchessnuts were fancy wedding cocktail hour nibbles.

@bradleybohn8115 6 ай бұрын

Yes, 100% my mom would make something similar…I grew up in Michigan. We would use one 5oz jar of Kraft Old English, one 5oz jar Pimento Cheese, & one 5oz jar of Roka Blue. Couple dashes of tobasco and a little garlic powder and onion powder.

@sinaimunoz6934 7 ай бұрын

I’m from Mexico and I loved you videos and your energy I feel like we are close friends 🤭💖

@helenb7559 3 ай бұрын

From Ohio and I love pickle rolls. I just use thinly sliced corned beef instead but I still love them in the 2020’s!

@samanthat7553 7 ай бұрын

As a Lancaster county, PA native, we make our mid-west sushi with Lebanon sweet bologna instead of ham 😂

@five_pennies 7 ай бұрын

My family also makes the pickle rolls, but we use a green onion instead and call them ham roll ups. I'm definitely trying them with pickles this year! My favorite most nostalgic party food though is sausage balls. It's just Bisquick mixed with breakfast sauage, (the kind that comes in a tube like cookie dough) shredded cheese, and just enough buttermilk to get it to a biscuit dough consistancy, shape it into little balls and bake. Some people eat them with yellow mustard but I like them plain. My nana was also the experimental/measure with your heart type, when she taught me how to made cornbread it "this much cornmeal, this much buttermilk" not a measuring cup in sight, but it turned out perfect every time, and to this day I can't explain to someone how to make it without actually making it.

@staceyn2541 7 ай бұрын

My worst kitchen failure was making those little sausage balls! I could not get them to stick together and not be dry. I blamed the sausage for being too lean. I added milk, I added water, I added butter. It just would not come out right. I still don't know what went wrong. It was pretty traumatic. Nearly 45 years old then, and I was undone by sausage balls.

@natewrites7803 7 ай бұрын

The ham and pickle slices are also called "Frog eyes." My mom made "Mock Rumaki" which was just for us kids, rumaki but swapping out the liver for a green pimento olive. She also baked the rumaki twice. Once to render most of the fat off, then the second time with the sauce which was ketchup, brown sugar and a little yellow mustard.

@cooking_the_books 7 ай бұрын

Ooh I love the idea of an olive! 😋

@-LivingProof 7 ай бұрын

I've never had the pickle roll ups like this. I'll give it a try though. I've only had pickle roll ups using salami, cream cheese & a baby/petite pickle. Another favorite is the chipped/dried beef cream cheese ball with scallions. Yum! You're such a joy to watch! I always catch myself smiling at some long forgotten memory while watching you make the vintage recipes 😊 thanks!

@AvidbivA 15 күн бұрын

Love your videos. Love your laugh. Its just like hanging out with my bff. 😊

@adriennef4637 7 ай бұрын

My family fills Bugles with spray cheese. Its a total salt bomb but I swear its so addictive!

@Cutenerdywoman 3 ай бұрын

I kinda remember that dip at parties. recipes were so easy to find. usually in the coupon sections of the paper.

@karensanders4376 7 ай бұрын

I have made the pickle rolls, but use refrigerated dills. I have also made them with green onion in the center instead of pickle. everyone loves them.

@debbrarose9969 7 ай бұрын

My family uses green onion instead of pickle. Just trim the green part that doesn't fit. Krakus is the ham of choice.

@yazarc 7 ай бұрын

My family also uses green onion. I’m from northern Michigan. Maybe it was a regional thing?

@debbrarose9969 7 ай бұрын

@@yazarc I'm from northern Illinois so maybe it is regional. I had it once in Iowa and it was made from pickles, but not a whole pickle, only a quarter. I thought those were good too.

@sunnybrook311 6 ай бұрын

I’m a midwestern girl and I LOVE the pickle rolls!!!

@debbiet.8175 7 ай бұрын

I've done ham, cream cheese and pickled okra...delicious.

@Zenaitha 7 ай бұрын

My family in California also loves making these with pepperoncini’s!

@jamesallen01 7 ай бұрын

I'm totally here for the 90's stuff, even if it's not technically "vintage". It's nostalgic for us millennials! I didn't grow up with any of these, so it's interesting to see what kinds of snacks or appetizers others folks grew up eating. We mostly had guacamole, queso, and salsa. Or pigs in blankets.

@user-qt3pd1dl8l 7 ай бұрын

Love your vintage recipes, I am 63 years old and love the recipes I grew up on

@lilkitty1129 7 ай бұрын

I grew up with Pickle Rolls as well! We used pickle spears and my parents would add prepared horseradish to the cream cheese - YUM! I think these will be making a comeback at my holiday get togethers this year. Thank you for the nostalgic video :)

@cooking_the_books 7 ай бұрын

Horseradish would be such a great addition! I might have to try that. There's a local bagel place here that mixes up their own blend of cream cheese with horseradish, black pepper, and thyme. 😋

@bettywales6874 7 ай бұрын

This one really brings back the memories! The pickle rolls never disappoint. Back in the 60s my mom used Buddig beef for these, both with and without the pickles. I've also had slices of salami rolled with just the cream cheese. People just can't stop eating them! There are almost never any leftovers.

@onelazysusan 7 ай бұрын

It takes real effort to use today’s tissue paper-thin Buddig beef! Still deciding if it’s worth it

@jenniwalker9180 7 ай бұрын

My mom puts horseradish in the cream cheese. It's so good.

@lyndakoonce4921 7 ай бұрын

I never saw pickle rolls before. I'm going to try them. I think I'm going to try sprinkling a little dill weed on a few. The rumaki I had, had brown sugar instead of barbeque sauce on top, but you would have to put them in a pan without the rack, I think. Rack was a great idea! I'm 74, so I remember a lot of the stuff you make. Love it!

@cooking_the_books 7 ай бұрын

dill would be a great addition! 😋

@mizmerrill 4 ай бұрын

Your Bugles dip reminds me vaguely of the taco sour cream dip I remember from my childhood. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane!

@giannidescalzo2101 4 ай бұрын

Love those pickle things, so Midwestern lol. They're also really good with a layer of that chipped beef in a jar that you can get at most grocery stores.

@madzabinga8382 7 ай бұрын

Interesting! I have always made "pickle" rolls with green olives! I think I need to try pickles. Anna, I made the Tropical cheeseball(with unsweetened coconut) and the Pistachio fluff(aka Watergate salad) for a party on Friday and they were a big hit!

@cooking_the_books 7 ай бұрын

Oh I love to hear that you tried some of the recipe I shared! Glad they were a hit. ❤

@fionafox420 7 ай бұрын

I grew up just above the West Virginia border in PA, I remember my relatives making mini pepperoni rolls, pizzelles, pirogies, Swedish meatballs, so many tasty memories 😋 I moved to the south, since then, I’ve introduced my in-laws to a whole lot of different foods from my neck of the woods 😅

@crowbirdyy 6 ай бұрын

I'm 20, but my mom mas made bacon wrap water chestnuts many times for parties! (she was a teen in the early 90s)

@situzen185 7 ай бұрын

Every Christmas my husband makes Rumaki using chicken livers wrapped in bacon.

@teressebirkett3387 7 ай бұрын

What's not to like.....some pig, some cow and a Veges rep. Love it

@The3Storms 7 ай бұрын

Instantly recognized ma’s pickled pigs on your thumbnail. Oddly enough she didn’t start making them until we left Iowa for Texas, but they’ve been a hit everywhere I’ve offered them.

@ohleander02 7 ай бұрын

My mother sometimes made something similar to these pickle roll ups only she used jarred pickled asparagus and sometimes jarred pickled green beans. Usually with cream cheese and Turkey though. We were not a ham family when i was growing up. Great video! ❤

@thewholebucket897 6 ай бұрын

Pickle rolls in my house were made with dried beef. It was crazy salty but tasty as can be.

@boit7039 7 ай бұрын

My MIL’s bugle dip was just softened cream cheese and sweet red pepper relish. Nowadays I cut it with nonfat Greek yogurt to make it a little bit less artery clogging

@rhondadupras2477 7 ай бұрын

The ham and creamed cheese is one of my favorites!!!! My Aunt made those in the 80s and I thought she was a genius, lol.

@brittanywintermute1764 7 ай бұрын

These all look great. I will be making the bacon wrapped chestnuts.

@Niamh07421 7 ай бұрын

still buy port wine cheese for Christmas- a homage to my Mom - had every year and only at Christmas in the 60's and 70's when I took over the holidays- I kept up the tradition in the 60's it came in a brown stoneware crock

@lavonmoffat1634 7 ай бұрын

Love these ideas. It's always nice to have easy appetizer recipes.

@cooking_the_books 7 ай бұрын

Thank you! I'm always a fan of the fast/easy/delicious genre of recipes. 😋

@heathersmeather 7 ай бұрын

I’ve got some of my grandmothers written recipes, which I treasure. One of the recipes is “Bar B Q Chestnuts”, which we had every new years. Similar to yours, just the sauce is 3/4 cup ketchup and 1/2 cup sugar. We also baked a little before adding sauce. I remember these and thought there was bbq sauce on them. My mom and aunt said “nope” just ketchup and sugar. 😁 I think the pickle rolls are genius.

@karendaley3184 7 ай бұрын

What a fun video! I can't wait to make those pickle rolls. Bugles have been discontinued in Canada! I know, I hear the gasps of horror too.

@ChrisB-nx4gw 7 ай бұрын

My mom would make the pickle rolls with buddig beef when it was square. She would use pickle spears and leave them whole. Cheese, pickles and beef. How can you go wrong. Thank you for taking me back in time.

@cooking_the_books 7 ай бұрын

Glad my video could help bring back a nice memory. ☺

@912jazmar 7 ай бұрын

Just found your channel. I love it so much. So cool to see all of the sides and recipes through the decades.

@cooking_the_books 7 ай бұрын

Thank you and WELCOME! 😊

@annettehicks2338 7 ай бұрын

We called these ham rolls and we use the zesty dill pickles, yum!

@sarah28681 6 ай бұрын

OMG these recipes take me back to my childhood. I love pickle rolls, and I remember a bugle dip but i have no clue what was in it. once in a while me and my husband just have appetizer nights for dinner, I will make sausage balls, bacon wrapped little smokies, cheese ball, pickle rolls and The lime Party punch( we always use lime kool aid but you can use any flavor) but its basically, kool aid, pineapple juice and ginger ale. I love those nights. To me appetizer are more comfort food than a bowl of mac and cheese is to some lol. I love your videos and cant wait to watch more. As a cookbook collector myself I love seeing other appreciate and love them as much as I do

@Mommee77 7 ай бұрын

Another favorite at our house was baked rueben dip and the little party rye slices.

@cooking_the_books 7 ай бұрын

A good friend of mine makes reuben dip a her signature party app. I absolutely love it! 😋

@loriloristuff 7 ай бұрын

I love Ruben Dip with those little party rye slices!

@susananderson8995 7 ай бұрын

OMG. I love pickle rolls. We are having apps for Christmas Eve. This is now on my list. Thank you for the idea.

@cooking_the_books 7 ай бұрын

You're welcome!! I LOVE an appetizer night! 😋

@One4UT 7 ай бұрын

We love pickle rolls. We found out about them years ago as Cowboy Sushi! So simple but good!

@cooking_the_books 7 ай бұрын

They are a must-have at every gathering in my family!

@SamBarge1 7 ай бұрын

My husband made them with baloney instead of ham. But he lived in Winnipeg, where baloney is a food group.

@daynightandsarah 7 ай бұрын

Loved watching you recreate a recipe you remembered from childhood. It's such a great feeling when you figure it out!

@GussieWondriska 7 ай бұрын

Instead of pickles my mom used cooked asparagus with flavored cream cheese and tavern ham. She made water chestnuts wrapped in bacon and used ketchup, sugar and peach baby food. It was cooked in the sauce. We still make them today.

@moonbeamcottageonmartinicove 7 ай бұрын

These all look so tasty - and simple! 😋Enjoyed hearing you talk about these in the context of your childhood holiday food. It brought to mind making “finger foods” as a kid with my mom at Christmas time for when we had visitors - two in particular, pitted dates stuffed with peanut butter and then rolled in granulated sugar, and dried beef spread with cream cheese (something like your pickle rolls without pickles) and rolled and sliced to make “pinwheels.” Thank you for sharing these recipes!

@kitschville 7 ай бұрын

I had those pickle rolls at my first wedding reception in 1988 and my aunt made them for me as a gift! I don't think I've had them since then but I still crave them. I might have to make some! We called them Pickle Pinwheels in South Carolina. They really are delicious! Now you also have me craving Bugles with that dip! Kraft might not make that port wine cheese spread anymore. I spent forever the other night looking for their Roka blue cheese spread (another classic vintage favorite that they also sold in a glass jar!) which apparently is rarely sold and I could only find jars for $17 and up online. It seems like a lot of our great ingredients are dying out.

@melissalambert7615 7 ай бұрын

My store still carries the Kraft cheese spread. It's in with the crackers and cheese in a can. My store, top shelf, so look up.

@katvsdaedreamz8628 7 ай бұрын

I remember roka blue cheese! I had forgotten about that, sadly they discontinued it in 2020. Now I only see the old english cheese. We used to save the jars as glasses that us kids used for koolaid!

@winwinmyfriend4727 7 ай бұрын

I grew up in Texas and really don't remember these I remember cheese ball dips and little smokies in BBQ sauce or sweet sauce. I also remember meatballs in a slow cooker. 😂. Most definitely thanks for taking me back.

@susanrobinson408 7 ай бұрын

Pickle rolls AKA Hoosier sushi!! Great recipes. I'm making two of them for Christmas Eve!! Thank you!

@barbwall3678 7 ай бұрын

I grew up in the early 70’s. We always had a dip on Christmas Eve…ketchup/catsup added to sour cream…so yummy & easy! Dip w ruffles chips.

@lorimartin3724 7 ай бұрын

Midwest gal myself and your first one, pickle rolls, bring back great memories. I haven't made them in a while though. Perhaps I should.

@watchmaniswatching7240 7 ай бұрын

We called pickle 🥒 rolls ... pickle in the middle! My daughter loves them to this day and she's 33! She will say," mom, make pickle in the middles"!

@slavenssarah 7 ай бұрын

My mom did the bacon wrapped water chestnuts. And that was a special holiday appetizer.

@julias7920 6 ай бұрын

We always made them with cocktail onions and green olives instead of pickles. Family favorite. Rolled them the other direction so we got more.

@misspomerol 6 ай бұрын

Oh god those bacon wrapped deep-fried chestnuts, this was New Years Eve for all of the 1990’s.

@nicoler.8581 7 ай бұрын

I don't know how I went 44 years of my life without ever really knowing what rumaki is...thanks for clearing up that mystery for me! 😅

@rosezingleman5007 7 ай бұрын

Pretty sure I had pickle rolls either in Wisconsin in the early 80s or Chicago in the mid-eighties. Maybe at weddings of my college friends, which were typically self-catered by the bride’s family? These were big German/Polish events with polka bands.

@pammienakh 4 ай бұрын

I used to make bacon wrapped chicken livers instead of the water chestnuts. Yummy!

@TimetravelingArchaeologist 7 ай бұрын

@juliatepe5760 7 ай бұрын

I just made the bacon wrapped water chestnuts yesterday for a family gathering. My adult son always requests them. I don't brush them with any sauce before or while baking. We dunk them in chili sauce as we eat them. Delicious and never any left. The other appetizers sound tasty!

@TimetravelingArchaeologist 7 ай бұрын

@@juliatepe5760 I'll have to try that without adding ingredients to make a glaze, probably healthier too lol.

@bengriffin9830 7 ай бұрын

Your pinch and dash grandma makes me think of mine! She always made what we call pea salad at Christmas time (“pea salad on earth” 😂). My aunt makes it now and had to figure out measurements for the rest of us to make it, based on how she always had it. Shell pasta, cubes of velveeta, olives, onions, peas, other things I don’t remember. Very mid-century but so good and an absolute tradition in my family.

@janiceflores8922 7 ай бұрын

We had a variation of the pickle rolls.. we made them with baby gerkins…the little sweet pickles! 😊

@rebeccawebb2298 7 ай бұрын

I love the pickle ham roll-ups. We ate them in Atlanta, so not just a Midwestern thing

@WLM596 7 ай бұрын

I just commented the same.

@Coastalanne54 7 ай бұрын

Omg the memories.

@merriemisfit8406 7 ай бұрын

Have I tried any of these? Well, back in the day, who didn't roll salami and cream cheese around a garlicky dill pickle spear, grab the pint of carob Häagen-Dazs out of the fridge, and call it breakfast? Hmm?? Oh ... 🤭... was that only me?

@Cbug7997 7 ай бұрын

My mom always made those bacon-wrapped water chestnuts!

@MizzBrill 2 ай бұрын

Port wine cheese brings me way back LOL - It always meant company was coming!

@smolmom 7 ай бұрын

My mother in law made these with sliced beef, chive and onion cream cheese and gherkin pickles at my wedding.

@brockreynolds870 6 ай бұрын

So, I guess the Rumaki turned out good!! When you were basting them, I was worried that the sugar in the BBQ sauce would cause them to burn before the bacon was cooked through, but it looks just fine! I would have been scared, and cooked them halfway, then took them out and dunked them. I think I would mix a tablespoon of soy sauce in with that BBQ sauce, too.