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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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
Pantry Staples: Pizza Potatoes
Making batches of scalloped potato mix the other day was so I could try out this vintage recipe. Because it was so very late 1960's going after the teen audience (the Boomers were always pandered to for sure, even when young, by advertisers). And it does taste all pizza like. It's just one carb for… Continue reading Pantry Staples: Pizza Potatoes
Potato and Kale Chowder
This was a recipe I saw online, that was dated to 1956. Potato City Country Hotel was a real place in Pennsylvania. That opened in 1949 and had a long life until it was torn down in 2018 for....a state police building. How boring. Progress right? The recipe looked to me almost like a leftover… Continue reading Potato and Kale Chowder
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