This is the continuing saga of me trying to figure out the popularity of gelatin recipes from the 1920s to the 1970s. Each month, I randomly pick a recipe from a jar filled with the good, the bad and the savory gelatin recipes to see which ones were worth it and which ones should stay … Continue reading The Gelatin Diaries: Coconut Mounds
Rose Marie is without a doubt most known for playing Sally Rogers on the Dick Van Dyke Show but in her long career, she was doing so much more from singing, acting to comedy. I just found out that she started her career at five years old in 1929 as a child singer called Baby … Continue reading Rose Marie’s Dream Cake
I did not grow up with this cake. As a kid the name thoroughly confused me, I never understood why someone would eat something called Harvey Wallbanger. Actually both my parents who became tweens in the early 1970s did not grow up with this cake either. They both hail from working class blue-collar families so … Continue reading The History of Harvey Wallbanger Cake
I first had a dump cake at a work potluck. I had never heard of it before but looking back I find that weird. If my mother had known about dump cakes, the recipe would have been one of her go tos. It was a low effort but a high reward recipe. Those were what … Continue reading The History of Dump Cake
I have been working my through a 1970s Thanksgiving menu from the Southern Living: The Holiday Cookbook. The last part of the menu of course is dessert. Unlike the dessert part of the 1963 Thanksgiving menu I did last year which consisted of mincemeat pie, hard sauce and coffee, this one was just simply a … Continue reading 1970s Thanksgiving Menu: The Dessert
Nancy Wilson was a singer who had a long career that started in the 1950s. She had a huge catalog of songs from her over 70 albums which includes the songs "(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am", "Tell Me the Truth" and "Guess Who I Saw Today" Though most known for her singing, she … Continue reading Nancy Wilson’s Sour Cream Fudge Cake
August is my birthday month so I decided I would make a vintage cake in honor. I was originally going to make a two layer frosted cake so I set out to find the perfect recipes. Though those plans changed while I was looking through a newly purchased vintage recipe box, I found this simple … Continue reading Gelatin Diaries: Raspberry Angel Cake Dessert
Unlike some of the recipes I write histories about, this is a dessert that my mother did make quite a bit in mine and my siblings early childhood. That really is not surprising as my mother grew up in the sixties and seventies so this would have been a very familiar and easy recipe to … Continue reading The History of Pineapple Upside Down Cake
So next up on this trip into the world of fondue is the chocolate fondue. While the cheese fondue has its origins from the Swiss, chocolate fondue is not quite but kind of Swiss and a much newer creation. It was the paired effort of Konrad Egli, the owner of New York's Chalet Suisse restaurant, … Continue reading Chocolate Fondue
This is another recipe that I did not grow up with. I think it was because by the time the eighties and nineties came around, box cake mixes were such a part of life and made baking a cake just as easy as this recipe. Unbeknownst to me, I had made this cake (but under … Continue reading The History of Wacky Cake
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