Vintage Home Cooking

Black and white images of women in vintage kitchens, preparing meals and desserts, evoking nostalgia for 1940s and 1950s domestic life.

1950S Housewife Testing Roast Beef In Oven To See If It Is Done Cooking

1940s WAITRESS MAID CARRYING TRAY FOOD SERVICE SMILING LOOKING AT CAMERA

1950S Housewife Testing Roast Beef In Oven To See If It Is Done Cooking

Young woman preparing cake in domestic kitchen

Poll photo collection. Advertising photography. Housewife in model kitchen busy making a cake .. June 1, 1953

Vintage Photograph. A woman using a standing mixer in kitchen while smiling.

Woman with refrigerator and mixer in kitchen (EV004107_H)

Checking on dinner (EV007939_H)

Vintage Photograph. Young housewife in kitchen frying bacon.

Woman cooking on stove (EV003862_H)

Vintage mother-daughter kitchen moment with classic 1950s home cooking ambiance

How To Bake A Cake -- Lovely Marguerite Chapman, Columbia actress who will soon be seen opposite Robert Young in the Technicolor outdoor drama, "Relentless," demonstrates how to bake a cake - for the first time.Tongue Must Be Out - One of the most important things to remember is the position of the tongue, which must be slightly extended and upturned. Otherwise the eggs won't break right. June 04, 1953. (Photo by Ned Scott, Columbia Pictures).

Vintage Photograph. Woman in kitchen making pie. Frame 2.

Vintage baking: woman with a cheerful smile preparing a savory dish in a classic oven

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

Poll photo collection. Restaurant Wivex located in the Facade building of Park Tivoli. Chefs at work in the kitchen of restaurant Wivex. March 1954. Denmark, Copenhagen

Vintage photograph. Woman in kitchen placing cookies in pan

1940s practical tips. A young woman at home looks happy when licking the glue side of a label to put on the glass jar of the jam she has made herself. She is in the kitchen dressed in an apron and has her hair set up in a typical way. The year is 1940 and the world war II is going on. Food and other necessities are rationed, therefore an own supply of food was neccesary. Photo Kristoffersson 158-1

Making Biscuits

Two teenage girls preparing food in the kitchen

Baby boy leaning against a cabinet and eating cookies

About to ***** for two United States she ***** tomorrow (Tuesday) actress Elizabeth Allan finds time to prepare a real in the bar-cum-kitchen of her London home. She bought the bar from an old public house, and it's still used for the refreshment of tests. But behind it are an electric cooker and the usual kitchen utensils. Miss Allan, star of commercial television's 'Going Shopping with Elizabeth Allan', is going to the United States for about three weeks to exchange ideas with American TV fash

Vintage Photograph. Young boy hungrily takes a bite of cereal in kitchen.

Wife of Jo Webster cooking lunch. Tehama County, California 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Tehama County

Couple together in the kitchen baking a cake (EV007246_H)

Poll photo collection. Family pictures. Nell Langlais bakes apple fritters in a pan with oil. 1933

Vintage photograph. Young boy smiling eating toast

Young woman picking beans (EV003587_H)

Vintage photograph. man in chef uniform mixing bowl

Anefo photo collection. Household fair in RAI Amsterdam opened Baumuller food processor. April 5, 1962. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

1930S 1940S Happy Family Eating Dinner At Home

1960S Baby Seated On Checkered Tablecloth Wearing Chef'S Hat Mixing Eggs Milk & Flour With Spoon In Large Bowl

Vintage photograph. Man in chef uniform tasting spoon

Anefo photo collection. Opening restaurant at the Hotel Pont d'Avignon in Amsterdam. Johnny Kraaykamp eats chicken. November 11, 1959. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Vintage Photograph. Boy spreading jam on cracker

Misc. Food - Gen. Eating Scenes. January 13, 1950.

1950S Apple Bobbing Pumpkins Party Jack-O'-Lantern

Portrait of a woman chef tasting food with a spoon

1940S Army Woman With Lunch Tray With A Glass Of Milk And Sandwich

01/01/1930. Artisanal cheese preparation in a cheese factory from the 1930s.

Chugging it down (EV003904_H)

Portrait of a young woman holding a tea cup

Vintage Photograph. Young boy smells the cooked turkey in the kitchen with a large smile on his face.

Anefo photo collection. Bing Crosby and Pieter van Vollenhoven at the American Express Pro-am Golf Tournament 1975. Bing Crosby eats an ice cream. August 6, 1975. Hilversum, Noord-Holland

Humorous birdseye view of nurse holding vase with flowers and bed pan with bottle of champagne

Young woman pouring tea into a cup

1930s MIDDLE-AGED MAN WEARING PINCE-NEZ EYEGLASSES PINSTRIPED SUIT LOOKING AT CAMERA SITTING AT DINING TABLE EATING BOWL OF SOUP

Vintage Photograph. Shrimp Casserole with Rice

1950S Smiling Boy On Ladder Stacking Up Large Towering Pile Of Toasted Bread

Vintage photograph. man in chef uniform with arms crossed

Close-up of a girl holding a piece of bread

Man with an apron tasting food in front of an oven in a kitchen (EV005348_H)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 1936. Members at the Democratic National Convention dinner eat in unison.

The coke Ruth Rudolvsson during electrification work in Storå.

1950S Boy Eating Jelly Toast Sitting On Ladder Stacking Up Tall Pile Of Toast From Toaster

Couple in a restaurant having an argument over food (EV004845_H)

A toast to good health (EV007781_H)

Portrait of woman drinking and eating in restaurant (EV003366_H)

Anefo photo collection. Aktiegroep Nice animal breakfast with minister Braks (agriculture); Minister Braks eat "free-range egg". April 4, 1980

Bakery boy Bakery

Anefo photo collection. Cooking Rika Jansen at home. April 2, 1965

1950s SMILING MAN WEARING SUIT AND TIE HOLDING UP A BOTTLE OF BEER AND POURING IT INTO A GLASS - f1813 HAR001 HARS EXPRESSIONS B&W SUIT AND TIE CHEERFUL BEVERAGE AND EXCITEMENT LOW ANGLE ENTHUSIASTIC UP ANTICIPATION SMILES JOYFUL STYLISH LOOKING FORWARD EAGER MID-ADULT MID-ADULT MAN BLACK AND WHITE CAUCASIAN ETHNICITY HAR001 OLD FASHIONED

General's Favorite.....We don't know what is in the jar being opened here by Mme. De Gaulle, but we are assured that it is one of the General's favorite delicacies. February 28, 1943. (Photo by T. Ramage, International News Photos)

A little dab on the nose will do ya' as a young woman eats ice cream from a cone (EV004964_H)

Older woman enjoying dessert

Fat butcher holding a meat cleaver in a butcher's store with a wooden ambience

Enjoying A Cup Of Tea

1960S Woman Looking At Supermarket Baked Goods

EUROPE, Belgium, Brussels Black Mussels and Frites. (MR)

Woman hot drink

Senior woman eating caramel custard in a restaurant

Food: Miss Legendre and Cheese Fondue, Toni Frissell, Antoinette Frissell Bacon, Antoinette Frissell

Mr. Roughley with a good oyster. Oysters poached from foreshores and polluted areas of the Harbor are being hawked around Sydney hotels according to Fisheries inspectors. Fisheries Superintendent T. C. Roughley ***** warning to people buying bottled oysters hawked in hotels. These oysters, he said, were probably stolen from polluted areas and might be tainted. Removing oysters from Harbor fore-shores is prohibited because there is a danger that they may be contaminated. August 17, 1947.

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