From a publication in 1955, brought by Gold Medal flour comes this quick coffee cake, that pulls together in a snap. It's a lovely texture. Soft and the raisins add to it. Now then, the recipe calls for apples then doesn't actually call for the, in the ingredients. Oops. Using apples we had grown this… Continue reading Vintage Baking: Apple-Raisin Coffee Cake
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Zojirushi Bread Machine: Raisin Bread
When I am shopping and I see raisin bread on the shelf, I have this moment of wish fullness every time. I want a loaf of raisin bread that tastes amazing. That isn't dry. Or a dessert in disguise. But the bread never tastes how I wish it did. It's often so very dry and… Continue reading Zojirushi Bread Machine: Raisin Bread
Vintage Baking: Lemon Cake Pudding
I came across this vintage recipe from 1955, from when people still made desserts from scratch, with no processed items to "speed" it up. No pudding mixes here. It's a simple dessert, a chemistry experiment if you will. Lemon Cake Pudding Ingredients: ¼ cup all-purpose flour 1 cup granulated sugar ¼ tsp fine sea salt… Continue reading Vintage Baking: Lemon Cake Pudding
Hidden Jam Muffins
I was looking at old recipes and came across this one, dated from 1961. PET was a brand of milk back then, and is still in business, but now only makes canned evaporated milk. Back then dry milk was much more of a thing in recipes. Fresh milk wasn't ultra pasteurized then, and had a… Continue reading Hidden Jam Muffins
Depression Era Gingerbread Cake
While this wasn't exactly the recipe my Mom would have baked for us, she loved baking a soft gingerbread cake quite often. This dates from the Great Depression Era, but due to it containing butter and an egg, it would have come from kitchens on farms, that could provide these fresh ingredients. That it also… Continue reading Depression Era Gingerbread Cake