I first had a dump cake at a work potluck. I had never heard of it before and looking back I find that wierd. This recipe is definitely something that if my mother had known about it would have made for her three children. It was a low effort but high reward recipe and those … Continue reading The History of Dump Cake
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The History of Pineapple Upside Down Cake
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
The Gelatin Diaries: Orange-Pineapple Bavarian Cream
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: Orange-Pineapple Bavarian Cream